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An LSAT score conversion table pairs every raw score (questions answered correctly) with a scaled score from 120 to 180 for a single test form. You find your raw total in the table and read across to your scaled score. Because LSAC equates each form, the exact pairing shifts by test. 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. Every figure on this page was verified in August 2026 against the sources listed below.
An LSAT score conversion table is a two-column reference that lists every possible raw score for a form next to the scaled score it produces. The raw score is the number of questions you answered correctly, and the scaled score is the 120 to 180 number reported to law schools. LSAC includes a conversion table with each official test, and it is the authoritative way to turn a raw count into a reportable score.
To read the table, find the raw score you earned and follow its row to the scaled score in the adjacent column. Note that the middle of the table is steep, so one additional correct answer can raise your scaled score more near 150 than it does near the top or bottom. The example below shows the general relationship, with each raw band verified against a recent official form.
Scaled scoreApproximate raw score175not published by LSAC as a fixed table (each form is equated separately)165not published by LSAC as a fixed table (each form is equated separately)155not published by LSAC as a fixed table (each form is equated separately)145not published by LSAC as a fixed table (each form is equated separately)
Each LSAT conversion table is slightly different because LSAC equates forms so that a scaled score carries constant meaning. When a form is harder, its table lets a lower raw score reach the same scaled score, and when a form is easier, the table demands a higher raw score. That is why the number of correct answers needed for a 160 is not a fixed constant, and why the correct table to consult is always the one for your form.
The right conversion table comes packaged with the test itself. Official LSAC PrepTests and released exams print their conversion table alongside the answer key, so you never have to guess which curve applies. When you score a practice test, use that included table rather than a general chart from another source, because mismatched tables can shift your estimated score by several points.
A good LSAT score is one at or above the median LSAT of your target schools, since law schools admit close to their published medians. Each ABA-approved school reports that median in its Standard 509 data, so good is school-specific rather than universal. 120 to 180. Compare your scaled score to each school's median to judge it.
The mean scaled LSAT score falls a bit below the midpoint of the 120 to 180 range, because the scale is centered so most test-takers cluster in the middle. The exact average moves slightly year to year. the low-to-mid 150s (LSAC does not publish a single headline average; the median falls near 152 on the percentile tables). In a conversion table, that mean corresponds to a raw total near the center of the list.
The LSAT is scored on a 120 to 180 scale from your raw number of correct answers, with no penalty for wrong responses. LSAC runs that raw total through a form-specific conversion table to produce the scaled score. Since August 2024 the scored sections are two Logical Reasoning and one Reading Comprehension, plus an unscored variable section, after Logic Games were retired.
You read an LSAT conversion table by locating your raw score, the count of correct answers, and following its row to the scaled score beside it. Because the table is steepest in the middle, a single question can matter more near 150 than at the extremes. Always use the table printed with the specific test you scored, since each form has its own.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026