Identifying What the Passage Does NOT Say

Some of the trickiest LNAT questions test your ability to identify what a passage does not say, imply, or support. These questions reward precise, disciplined reading — the ability to distinguish between what is in the text and what your brain wants to add.

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Why These Questions Are Difficult

Human beings are natural meaning-makers. When we read a passage about a topic, we automatically draw on our background knowledge, make associations, and fill in gaps. This is useful in everyday life but dangerous on the LNAT.

LNAT questions of this type exploit three cognitive tendencies:

Tendency	Description	How it leads to errors
Gap-filling	Your brain adds information to make a passage "complete"	You may think the passage said something it did not
Prior knowledge intrusion	You know something is true, so you assume the passage says it	The passage may not contain the information at all
Plausibility bias	An answer option seems reasonable, so you accept it	"Reasonable" is not the same as "stated in the passage"

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