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The highest LSAT score possible is 180, which sits at the top of the exam's fixed 120 to 180 scale. Every LSAT is reported somewhere in that 61-point range, and 180 is the ceiling no test-taker can exceed. Scoring a 180 is very rare. about 0.1 percent of test-takers
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 maximum possible LSAT score is 180, the fixed upper bound of the 120 to 180 scale LSAC has used for the modern exam. Scores are reported only in whole numbers within that band, so there is no 181 or half-point above 180. Your scaled score comes from converting your raw score, the count of correct answers, and 180 represents the top of that conversion for any form.
A 180 is achieved by only a tiny fraction of test-takers, placing it at the very top of the percentile distribution. The precise share changes slightly each testing year, but it consistently sits at a small percentage of all scores: about 0.1 percent of test-takers. Because it is so uncommon, no law school requires a 180 for admission.
The highest possible score does not change; 180 has been the ceiling of the 120 to 180 scale throughout the modern LSAT, including after the August 2024 format update that retired Logic Games. What can shift slightly form to form is how many correct answers a 180 requires, because LSAC equates each test. The scale itself, and therefore the maximum, stays fixed.
A good LSAT score is defined by your target schools rather than the top of the scale. On the 120 to 180 range, aim to meet or beat each target school's median, since that comparison drives admissions. Consult about 196 ABA-approved law schools to set the score you should be working toward.
The average LSAT score for all test-takers is in the low 150s, roughly the midpoint of the 120 to 180 scale and well below the 180 ceiling. The mean shifts modestly each testing year. For the current figure, check the low-to-mid 150s (LSAC does not publish a single headline average; the median falls near 152 on the percentile tables) before comparing your own result to it.
LSAT scoring counts your correct answers into a raw score, then converts that raw score to a scaled result between 120 and 180 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