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A raw score is the straightforward count of questions you get right on a test. On the LSAT, your raw score equals your correct answers across the scored sections, with no penalty for wrong ones. That raw total is then scaled to the 120 to 180 score law schools see, so you mostly meet your raw score while practicing.
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.
A raw score is your unadjusted count of correct answers, while a scaled LSAT score is that raw total converted to the 120 to 180 range through a form-specific table. The raw score can swing based on how hard a particular test is, but the scaling step removes that difference so scaled scores stay comparable. Law schools read only the scaled score and its percentile, never the underlying raw count.
You mostly encounter your raw score while preparing, because official practice tests report how many questions you got right and include a conversion table to estimate the scaled result. On the real LSAT, LSAC handles the conversion behind the scenes and your official report shows only the scaled score and percentile. Tracking your practice raw scores over time is one of the clearest ways to measure progress.
Many test-takers assume harder-looking tests will tank their score, but the curve gives back a little room on tougher forms, so a slightly lower raw total can still convert to the same scaled score. Others believe leaving questions blank is safer than guessing, which is false because wrong answers cost nothing. The raw score also never appears on the report law schools receive.
A good LSAT score is one that clears the medians at the law schools you want most, on the 120 to 180 scale. Rather than chasing a universal number, compare your score to each target school's 50th percentile and aim to beat it. Pull your target schools' published 25th-50th-75th percentile figures for your benchmark.
Averaged over all test-takers, the LSAT score comes in around the low 150s, close to the middle of the 120 to 180 scale, and it shifts modestly each year. Because the distribution is roughly symmetric, that average also sits near the median. Confirm the latest value with the low-to-mid 150s (LSAC publishes no single headline average; the median sits near 152).
LSAT scoring first adds up your correct answers into a raw score, then maps that raw score to the reported 120 to 180 scaled score using your test form's conversion table, with no penalty for misses. Since August 2024 the scored sections are two Logical Reasoning and one Reading Comprehension, alongside one unscored variable section.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026