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Your LSAT raw score is simply the number of questions you answer correctly, with no deduction for wrong answers. A raw-score calculator maps that count onto the scaled 120 to 180 score law schools see, using a conversion curve that adjusts for each test form's difficulty not published by LSAC as a fixed table (each form is equated separately).
By Ali Unar, JD candidate at Georgetown Law and founder of Lovare Institut. Last updated August 2026. Figures on this page were verified in August 2026 or point readers to the current source.
An LSAT raw score is the total number of questions you answered correctly, counted with no penalty for wrong answers or blanks. The current LSAT draws that raw score from two scored Logical Reasoning sections and one Reading Comprehension section not published by LSAC as a fixed number (it varies by form). Your raw score is the input a raw-score calculator converts.
A raw-score calculator maps your number correct onto the 120 to 180 scaled score using a conversion curve from a released LSAT. Because each form is equated separately, the same raw score can yield slightly different scaled scores across tests not published by LSAC as a fixed table (each form is equated separately). Good calculators note which released form's curve they apply.
Use a raw-score calculator to turn practice-test results into a scaled estimate you can track over time, not to predict your exact official score. Watch the trend across many practice tests rather than any single conversion not published by LSAC as a fixed table (each form is equated separately). Lovare offers a free LSAT score converter that performs this conversion and ties the estimate to school medians.
The LSAT is scored by counting your correct answers into a raw score, then converting that raw score to the 120 to 180 scale with a per-form equating curve, and wrong answers are never penalized. The scaled score, not the raw count, is what law schools see on your official report.
A good LSAT score is one at or above your target schools' medians. Above the low-150s national average is competitive for many programs, while the T14 expect high 160s to 170s each school's median LSAT (see its 509 report). Convert your practice raw scores and compare the estimates to those medians.
The average LSAT score is in the low 150s on the 120 to 180 scale the low-to-mid 150s (LSAC does not publish a single headline average; the median falls near 152 on the percentile tables). When you convert a practice raw score, comparing the estimate to this average shows roughly where you stand nationally before you measure yourself against specific school medians.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026