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Going from your LSAT raw score to your reported LSAT score means running the number of questions you answered correctly through LSAC's conversion table for that test form. The raw total becomes a scaled score between 120 and 180, which is the only score law schools receive. Wrong answers carry no penalty, so raw score equals correct answers.
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.
To convert a raw score to an LSAT score, LSAC looks up your number of correct answers on the conversion table built for your specific test form and reads off the matching scaled score between 120 and 180. You never do this by hand on test day, and the raw number never appears on your report. The reported LSAT score is always the scaled value, which is what every law school and the ABA 509 reports use.
The same raw total can map to different scaled scores because LSAC equates each form, adjusting the conversion so a given scaled score reflects the same ability regardless of which test you took. When a form runs slightly harder, missing a few more questions still lands the same scaled score, and an easier form tightens that allowance. This equating protects fairness across the dozens of forms administered each year.
The raw total required for each scaled score varies by form, so treat any single conversion as approximate until you check a released test. The table shows the mapping structure from a target scaled score to the raw count it usually takes.
The current ranking is best read directly from the source. See the U.S. News Best Law Schools list for the up-to-date order, and each school's ABA Standard 509 report for its median LSAT, GPA, and acceptance rate.
Confirm any target against the conversion key printed with a recent official LSAT PrepTest, since the cutoffs move by a question or two each form.
Use your raw-to-score estimate to set a concrete practice goal: the number of correct answers per section that reliably lands your target scaled score. Track how many questions you miss on full practice tests and watch that number fall over time. Lovare's free scoring tool converts your practice raw counts into an estimated scaled range so you can see whether you are on pace for your goal.
A good LSAT score is relative to your goals: it is the score that meets or beats the median at the law schools you are targeting. Because schools weigh the LSAT heavily, landing above a school's 50th percentile materially improves your file. about 196 ABA-approved law schools sets your personal benchmark.
Across everyone who takes the LSAT, the average scaled score falls in the low 150s, near the middle of the 120 to 180 range. That mean drifts a little from year to year with the applicant pool. Check the low-to-mid 150s (LSAC does not publish a single headline average; the median falls near 152 on the percentile tables) for the current figure before comparing yourself to it.
LSAT scoring starts with your raw score, the total questions you answered correctly, which LSAC then converts to the reported 120 to 180 scaled score. There is no deduction for wrong answers. Since August 2024 the scored sections are two Logical Reasoning sections plus one Reading Comprehension section, with one additional unscored variable section that does not count.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026