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LSAT score conversion turns your raw score, the count of correct answers, into the scaled 120 to 180 score reported to law schools. LSAC applies a conversion table unique to each test form, equating for difficulty so a scaled score means the same thing across sittings. see the linked source (see the linked source)
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.
LSAT score conversion is the step that translates your raw score, the plain count of questions you answered correctly, into the scaled score from 120 to 180 that law schools actually see. No points are subtracted for wrong answers, so your raw score is simply your correct-answer total. Conversion matters because two test-takers with the same raw score on different forms can receive the same scaled score even though their tests differed slightly in difficulty.
LSAC prints a conversion table with every LSAT form that pairs each possible raw total with one scaled score. Roughly speaking, a mid-range raw total lands near the middle of the scale and a near-perfect raw total approaches 180, but the precise cutoffs are set per form. The table below lays out that structure with bands to confirm against a released official test.
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.
Read these bands as approximate, then verify exact cutoffs on the conversion key of a recent official LSAT PrepTest, because each form is equated separately.
The LSAT reports on a fixed 120 to 180 scale so scores stay comparable no matter which form you took or when you took it. Equating and conversion are what make that possible, because they absorb the small difficulty differences between forms into the curve rather than into your score. This is also why percentiles, not the raw number of questions, describe how you performed against other test-takers.
To estimate your converted score, take full-length official practice tests under timed conditions and apply the conversion table printed with each one to your raw total. Repeat across several tests to see a realistic scaled range rather than a single lucky or unlucky result. Lovare's free LSAT score converter does this automatically when you enter your practice raw counts, giving you an estimated scaled band.
A good LSAT score is defined by your target schools rather than a single cutoff. On the 120 to 180 scale, a score at or above a school's median meaningfully helps your chances, since law schools weigh the LSAT heavily. Look up your target schools' published 25th-50th-75th percentile figures to set your own goal.
The mean LSAT score for all test-takers sits in the low 150s, roughly the midpoint of the 120 to 180 scale, and it moves slightly year to year. The median is close to the mean. For the current figure, see the low-to-mid 150s (LSAC does not publish a single headline average; the median falls near 152 on the percentile tables), then judge your score relative to it.
LSAT scoring converts your raw score, the number of correct answers, into a scaled 120 to 180 score through a form-specific conversion table, with no penalty for wrong answers. Since August 2024 the scored content is two Logical Reasoning sections and one Reading Comprehension section, plus one unscored variable section used to pretest future questions.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026