Luiss Test Practice Material: What You Get, When, and How to Prepare Before It Arrives

Search any student forum for Luiss test samples and you will find applicants asking strangers to send them practice material. The reason is how Luiss distributes it: the official mocks arrive after you apply. The months when preparation matters most come with nothing official to practise on. Here is how the material flows, what it is like, and how to prepare without waiting for it.

What Luiss provides, and when

From Luiss's pages and consistent applicant reports:

• After you register for the test, Luiss has provided a preparation kit. Recent applicants describe around five mock tests plus notes on the content areas.
• Test instructions (platform login, system check, camera setup) arrive separately, close to your test date. Recent applicants describe receiving them days, sometimes hours, before the test window, with a mandatory system check the evening before.
• Luiss also publishes free preparation resources and events on its orientation pages. For 2027/28, Luiss says the schedule of preparation activities will be published by September 2026.

The structural problem: if your preparation starts when the kit arrives, it starts weeks before a test you sit once per session.

How the official mocks compare to the real test

From applicants who took both, across recent sessions:

• Several described the real test as very similar to the kit's mocks. One found the mocks slightly harder than the real thing.
• Others found the real test harder in specific areas, reading questions in particular, while consistently describing the maths as easier than feared. One applicant: "the only part you don't need to worry about".
• One applicant who sat both tests called the Luiss Test "really similar to the Bocconi test". That matches the overlap in question families; see our comparison.
• The test is described as long rather than hard. 50 questions in 75 minutes is a pacing challenge before it is a difficulty challenge.

The official mocks are a good calibration tool. Do them under timed conditions when they arrive. But five tests is a measurement, not a preparation.

A preparation plan that does not wait

Months out: build the skills. The question families (logic and deductions, problem solving, numerical reasoning over charts and tables, verbal reasoning, school-level maths) are stable across cycles. Work untimed first, family by family, until the patterns are familiar.

Weeks out: build the pacing. Switch to full-length 75-minute mocks under the real +1 / -0.25 / 0 scheme. You are training decision-making as much as knowledge: answer or leave blank, move on or persist. Aim for consistent scores in your target zone (what that zone should be) across several consecutive mocks.

When the kit arrives: use it to calibrate. Sit each official mock under exact test conditions. If those scores match your practice scores, your preparation is calibrated. If they do not, you have found the gap while there is still time.

Test week: treat logistics as part of the test. Complete the system check as soon as it is available. Test your camera setup; applicants report room scans and camera checks by proctors. Leave slack in your schedule rather than booking the last possible slot. Applicants who hit technical problems mid-test consistently report the same advice: email Luiss support immediately, and do not panic; problems are common and handled.

The one-attempt logic

Everything above follows from one rule: one attempt per session, ranked purely on score. There is no diagnostic first attempt. The diagnostics have to happen in practice, before the day that counts.