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The highest LSAT score you can get is 180, the top of the 120 to 180 scale. To earn a 180 you generally need to answer every scored question correctly or miss only a small number, depending on your form's curve. Very few test-takers reach it: 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.
The top score you can earn on the LSAT is 180, the highest point on the 120 to 180 scale. No score above 180 exists, and every reported score is a whole number within that range. Your scaled score results from converting your raw score, the number of questions you answer correctly, so 180 marks the ceiling of that conversion on any test form.
Scoring a 180 takes near-flawless accuracy across the scored Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension questions, since the top of the scale leaves little room for error. On most forms the curve permits a small number of misses for a 180, but the exact allowance is set per form through LSAC's equating. Consistent perfect or near-perfect practice tests are the realistic path to a 180.
Not always. On many LSAT forms you can miss a question or two and still convert to a 180, because the curve accounts for slight differences in difficulty between forms. Some harder forms are more forgiving and some easier forms require a clean raw score. The only way to know a specific form's allowance is its conversion table, printed with each released official test.
A good LSAT score depends on your goals, not the maximum of 180. On the 120 to 180 scale, the practical target is meeting or clearing your target schools' medians, which admissions weigh heavily. Pull your target schools' published 25th-50th-75th percentile figures and treat matching or beating those medians as a good result for you.
Across all test-takers the average LSAT score sits in the low 150s, near the middle of the 120 to 180 scale and far below the 180 maximum. That average nudges up or down slightly by testing year. Confirm the current figure with the low-to-mid 150s (LSAC publishes no single headline average; the median sits near 152) before benchmarking yourself.
The LSAT is scored by tallying your correct answers into a raw score, then converting that raw score to a scaled 120 to 180 score via 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, alongside an unscored variable section.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026