LSAT Score Calculator

Your raw score is simply the number of questions you answered correctly — between 76 and 79 scored questions on modern tests, with no penalty for wrong answers, so never leave a blank. Your scaled score is the 120–180 number law schools actually see, produced by running your raw score through that specific test's conversion chart. The chart exists because no two test forms are exactly equally hard: a 165 is supposed to mean the same thing whether your test form was slightly harder or slightly easier.

On the modern-format tests released to date (PrepTests 101–159), a 170 allows between 6 and 10 wrong answers depending on the test's chart — about 8 on a typical recent test. That's roughly 90% accuracy across 76–79 scored questions. It's a big number to hear, but it's the same skill applied about 77 times, not 77 different skills.

Across PrepTests 101–159, a 165 allows 11–16 wrong answers (about 14 on a typical recent test) and a 160 allows 17–22 (about 20). Notice the spacing: the five points from 160 to 165 cost you roughly six fewer misses, and 165 to 170 costs another six. Every point gets more expensive as you climb — which is exactly why targeted prep beats more prep.

Every LSAT has four sections, but only three are scored: two Logical Reasoning and one Reading Comprehension. The fourth is an unscored experimental section — an extra LR or RC that LSAC uses to pretest questions for future exams. It's never labeled and you can't reliably identify it during the test, so the only sane strategy is to treat all four sections like they count.

There's no curve in the grading-on-a-curve sense — your score never depends on how the people tested alongside you perform. Each test's conversion chart is fixed in advance through a statistical process called equating, which adjusts for that form's difficulty. On recent tests the charts have been fairly forgiving at the top: every released modern test lets you miss at least one question and still score 180, and the difference between the most and least forgiving recent chart is only a few questions at any given score.

Your percentile is the percentage of test takers who scored below you, based on LSAC's official table pooling the 2022–2025 testing years. A 160 puts you above about 73% of test takers, a 165 above about 87%, and a 170 above about 95%. The median LSAT score is roughly 153 — so a score that feels middling on the 120–180 scale can still be well above most of the field.

Every single test form gets its own chart, built by LSAC before anyone sits the exam — so the chart doesn't change after the fact, but it does differ from test to test. The differences are real but modest: across all 59 released modern tests, hitting a 170 means missing no more than 6 to 10 questions depending on the form. That per-test variation is why this calculator lets you pick the exact PrepTest you took instead of averaging everything together.

No. Starting with the August 2026 administration, LSAC is returning the LSAT to in-person test centers, but the scoring machinery is untouched: the same 120–180 scale, the same per-form equating, the same percentile tables. Where you sit changes; how your raw score becomes a scaled score doesn't.