Your LSAT (or LSAT-Flex) score is based on the number of questions you answered correctly — your “raw score.” All test questions are weighted exactly the same. The total number of questions you get right is what matters for your score, not which particular questions you get right or wrong. There is no deduction for incorrect answers.
To make it easier to compare scores earned across different LSAT administrations, your “raw score” is converted to an LSAT scale. This is the score you receive in your score report. The LSAT scale ranges from 120 to 180, with 120 being the lowest possible score and 180 being the highest possible score.
Your LSAT Score Report
Your LSAT Score Report includes:
- Your current score.
- Results of all reportable tests — up to 12 — including absences and cancellations for standard LSAT takers and cancellations only for LSAT-Flex takers due to challenges related to COVID-19. An LSAT (or LSAT-Flex) result is reportable for up to five testing years after the testing year in which the score is earned. For information about how many times a test taker may sit for the LSAT, please see Limits on Repeating the LSAT. LSAT testing years run from July 1 through June 30.
- Your percentile rank, which reflects the percentage of test takers whose scores were lower than yours during the previous three testing years. A percentile rank is reported for each of your scores. Note that percentiles for all reported scores will be updated every year by the end of July.
- Your score band.
This is important. LSAT scores earned prior to June 2019 are not considered valid for law school admission and are not included in your score report. However, if you would like a copy of your nonreportable LSAT scores for your personal records, you can order an Official Candidate LSAT Score Report.
Frequently Asked Questions
All test takers will receive their scores on the score release date associated with their test date, provided they have an approved writing sample on file and do not have any holds on their account. Your LSAT score will be posted to the LSAT Status page of your LSAC JD Account. You will receive an email when your score is available.
If you are a first-time test taker, you must complete LSAT Argumentative Writing, and have it approved, before your score can be released. To help meet this requirement, LSAT Argumentative Writing is available in test takers’ LSAC accounts eight days prior to each test administration. Your writing sample must be processed and approved before it can be added to your LSAC file. Please note that processing can take up to three weeks from the date you complete LSAT Argumentative Writing, depending on volume and any flagged issues. We strongly recommend you complete LSAT Argumentative Writing as early as it becomes available for your test administration so that your score can be released on time.
If you previously took LSAT Writing during the current reportable score period (i.e., as early as June 2019), your previous writing sample is still valid, and you do not need to complete LSAT Argumentative Writing.