What Kinds of Questions are on the LSAT

The LSAT asks two kinds of multiple-choice questions: Logical Reasoning questions, which ask you to analyze, strengthen, weaken, or draw conclusions from short arguments, and Reading Comprehension questions about long passages. It also includes an unscored LSAT Writing prompt. Every question tests reading and reasoning skill, and none requires memorized legal or factual knowledge.

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.

What kinds of questions are on the LSAT?

The LSAT has two kinds of scored multiple-choice questions: Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. Logical Reasoning questions attach to short arguments and ask you to evaluate them, and they appear in two scored sections. Reading Comprehension questions attach to long passages and ask about meaning, structure, and inference. A separate LSAT Writing prompt rounds out the exam but is unscored.

What do Logical Reasoning questions ask?

Logical Reasoning questions ask you to work with a short argument in many ways: find its assumption, identify its flaw, strengthen or weaken it, or determine what must be true. These argument-based tasks make up two of the three scored LSAT sections. The list below shows the common Logical Reasoning question kinds.

• Assumption, both necessary and sufficient
• Strengthen and weaken
• Flaw in the reasoning
• Must be true and most strongly supported
• Method of reasoning and parallel reasoning
• Principle and paradox

What do Reading Comprehension questions ask?

Reading Comprehension questions follow dense passages drawn from law, science, the humanities, and social science. They ask about the main point, the author attitude, the function of a paragraph, and what can be inferred from the text. One passage set is a comparative pair, where two short passages are read together and compared.

What kinds of questions are not on the LSAT?

The LSAT includes no math, arithmetic, or science-content questions, and it no longer has Logic Games, which was retired in August 2024. It also does not test legal knowledge, current events, or vocabulary in isolation. Every scored question is either Logical Reasoning or Reading Comprehension, so preparation should center on those two kinds.

Frequently asked questions

What are the two main question types on the LSAT?

The two main LSAT question types are Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension, both multiple-choice. Logical Reasoning asks you to analyze short arguments, and it fills two of the three scored sections. Reading Comprehension asks about long passages. A separate, unscored LSAT Writing prompt is the only non-multiple-choice component, and it does not affect your score.

Are there trick questions on the LSAT?

The LSAT does not use trick questions in the gotcha sense, but it does include tempting wrong answers designed to catch imprecise reading. Correct answers follow strictly from the text, while wrong answers often overstate, add outside information, or reverse a relationship. Careful, literal reading rather than clever guessing is what defeats these traps.

Does the LSAT have essay questions?

The LSAT has one writing task, called LSAT Writing, where you build a short argument for one of two positions. It is not a scored multiple-choice question but a separate, unscored essay submitted online. Law schools receive the sample with your score report, so it still deserves real effort even though it does not change your number.

Are there still Logic Games questions on the LSAT?

No. Logic Games, formally Analytical Reasoning, was removed from the LSAT in August 2024 and replaced with a second scored Logical Reasoning section. Any practice materials that still contain Logic Games are outdated. The current LSAT asks only Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension questions in its scored sections.