LSAT Score Range: What 120–180 Means

Every LSAT score lands somewhere between 120 and 180, but the scores are far from evenly spread. To see where your own result sits, type your raw score into the LSAT Score Converter and it returns the scaled score and percentile.

LSAC publishes a percentile rank for every score, built from all tests taken in the 2023–2026 testing years. The gap between one score's percentile and the next tells you what share of scores sit inside each band. That is a large sample: LSAC gave 196,177 LSATs in the 2025–2026 testing year alone.

Scores bunch in the middle of the scale. 60.1% of scores fall between 140 and 159, and about half (50.1%) fall between 147 and 161. Only 11.0% sit below 140. Above 165 the numbers thin out fast: 14.8% of scores are 165 or higher, and only 5.5% are 170 or higher.

For the exact rank of any single score, see LSAT Percentiles.

120 is the lowest possible score. On LSAC's official April 2025 test, any raw score from 0 up to 15 correct answers converted to 120. In the 2023–2026 table, 0.7% of scores were exactly 120. LSAC makes no deduction for wrong answers, so a guess can never lower your raw score, and answering every question can only help.

180 is the highest possible score. On the same test, 76 or 77 correct out of 77 earned a 180, so a test taker could miss 1 question and still get a perfect score. Only 0.2% of scores in the current table are 180, and 1.3% reach 175 or higher.

A perfect score also ends your testing. Once you score 180 in the current reportable score period, LSAC does not let you retake the test. Other test forms can shift these cutoffs slightly, because each form has its own conversion table.

The reported score is out of 180. The raw score underneath is out of the number of scored questions: 77 on the April 2025 test, and about 77 to 79 on current forms according to LSAC's technical report TR 26-01. The unscored section and LSAT Argumentative Writing add nothing to either number.

That form had 78 possible raw scores but only 61 possible scaled scores, so one raw point does not always equal one scaled point. On the April 2025 form, 8 scaled scores could not be reached at all (121, 123, 124, 126, 128, 174, 177 and 179), while 10 scores above 120 were each reached by two different raw scores. The ends of the scale behave differently from the middle, where one more correct answer usually adds one point.

The LSAT Raw Score Conversion Chart lists every raw score from 0 to 77 with its scaled score and percentile, so you can read these gaps and repeats row by row.

Every ABA-approved law school files a Standard 509 report with the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile LSAT of its entering class. Across all 196 schools for fall 2025, the middle of those medians was 159 (our tally of the ABA reports). The table pairs each part of the range with that context.

These bands describe everyone who takes the test. Whether a score is good for you depends on the schools you apply to, which is covered in What Is a Good LSAT Score?.

LSAC has reported LSAT scores on the 120–180 scale since 1991. The numbers are a reporting scale, not a count of questions. Your raw score, the number of questions you answer correctly, is converted to the scale with a table built for your specific test form. LSAC weights every question exactly the same.

LSAC uses a statistical process called equating so that a given scaled score represents the same proficiency on every form. That is why the raw score needed for a particular score can move slightly from one test to the next. On the April 2025 test, a 160 took 56–57 correct answers.

When LSAC removed Logic Games after the June 2024 test, it kept the same 120–180 scale, so scores from before and after the change sit on one scale. For the full step-by-step process, see How Is the LSAT Scored?.

The average LSAT score was 152.66 in the 2024–2025 testing year, according to LSAC's technical report TR 26-01 (May 2026). Every yearly average from 2018–2019 to 2024–2025 sat between 150.94 and 152.66, so the middle of the scale has barely moved.

The middle score in LSAC's current 2023–2026 table is 153: 46.9% of scores are lower than 153 and 50.4% are lower than 154. That median is our calculation. LSAC does not publish one for this table.

The two figures count slightly different groups. LSAC's average counts each person once per testing year, with repeat scores averaged, while the percentile table counts every test taken, including canceled scores.

There is no single good range, because law schools set different bars. As a reference point, 71.1% of scores are lower than 160, and a 160 sits above the typical law school median of 159.

The bar rises quickly from there. For fall 2025, 91 of 196 ABA law schools had a median of 160 or higher, 48 had 165 or higher, and only 22 had 170 or higher. T14 medians ran 170–174, and the highest median at any school was 175.

A school's median is a middle point, not a cutoff: about half of its entering class scored below it.