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The LSAT is scored out of 180. Scores fall on a scaled range from 120 at the bottom to 180 at the top, so 180 is the maximum and 120 is the minimum. Your scaled score comes from converting your raw score, the number of questions you answer correctly, using your test form's conversion table.
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.
The LSAT is scored out of 180, meaning 180 is the highest score you can receive and 120 is the lowest. Every official result is a whole number somewhere in that 120 to 180 band, reported alongside a percentile. Unlike a test graded out of 100 as a percentage, the LSAT's number is a scaled score, not a share of questions answered correctly.
The LSAT uses a fixed 120 to 180 scale so that scores stay comparable across different test forms and dates, which a raw percentage could not guarantee. LSAC converts each form's raw scores with an equated conversion table, absorbing small differences in difficulty into the curve. This is why your reported score is out of 180 rather than out of the number of questions on the test.
A common mistake is assuming the LSAT is scored out of 100 or reported as a percentage, when it actually runs from 120 to 180. Another is thinking the bottom of the scale is zero, though the lowest possible score is 120, not 0. The scaled score also is not the count of questions you answered correctly; that count is your raw score.
A good LSAT score, on the 120 to 180 scale that the test uses, is one that meets or exceeds the medians at your target law schools. There is no universal cutoff, so the benchmark is each school's 50th percentile. Compare your score to your target schools' published 25th-50th-75th percentile figures.
The average LSAT score across all test-takers is in the low 150s, near the middle of the 120 to 180 scale that the exam is scored on. The mean drifts slightly each testing year. For the current number, see the low-to-mid 150s (LSAC does not publish a single headline average; the median falls near 152 on the percentile tables) and weigh it against your target schools' medians.
The LSAT is scored out of 180 by converting your raw score, the number of questions answered correctly, into a scaled 120 to 180 result using your form's conversion table, with no penalty for wrong answers. Since August 2024 the scored sections are two Logical Reasoning sections and one Reading Comprehension section, plus one unscored variable section.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026