LSAT Score Calculator, Raw Score to 120 to 180

The formula

• Scaled score ≈ 120 + 60 × (correct ÷ total scored questions), mapped through the official LSAT conversion curve
• No guessing penalty: raw score = number of questions answered correctly
• Percentile is estimated from LSAC's published score percentile tables

A worked example

Answer 89 of 101 scored questions correctly: the estimator gives about 174, roughly the 99th percentile and competitive at any law school in the country. Answer 75 correctly instead and you land around 166, about the 91st percentile, strong for the top 25.

More about the LSAT Score Calculator

Why the curve is brutal at the top

The LSAT conversion is steepest where it matters most. Between 150 and 160, each scaled point costs you roughly 2 raw questions; between 170 and 175, each point costs about 1.5 raw questions, and there are fewer easy points left to grab.

That is why top scorers obsess over their worst section: going from −8 to −4 on Reading Comprehension can be worth 3 to 4 scaled points, while squeezing the same improvement from an already-strong section is much harder.

Turning a target score into a study plan

Pick your target scaled score, then use the calculator in reverse: try different "correct" values until the output matches your target. That gives you your raw target, e.g. "I need 82 right for a 171".

Break that raw target across sections using your practice-test splits. If you are at −10 on Logical Reasoning and −4 on Reading Comprehension, the fastest path to 82 is usually cutting the LR misses in half, not polishing RC to perfection.

A worked conversion, step by step

Suppose you finish a practice test with 75 questions correct out of 101 scored questions. The calculator’s approximation gives 120 plus 60 times 75 divided by 101, which is about 164.6, an estimated scaled score of 165. Push the raw score to 85 of 101 and the same maths gives about 170.5, an estimate of 170 or 171. Ten extra correct answers, in other words, separate a strong score from an elite one, and the calculator lets you see that gap as a study target instead of a mystery.

Averaged out, each scored question is worth about 60 divided by 101, roughly 0.59 scaled points. But that average hides the curve’s real shape: the conversion is not a straight line, so the questions you gain near the top of the scale are worth more than the questions you gain in the middle. That is why two students can each improve by five raw questions and see different scaled rewards, the one already scoring near 165 converts those questions into more points.

Use the worked example in reverse when you set a goal. Aiming at 160 means finding about 67 correct answers, since 120 plus 60 times 67 divided by 101 comes to roughly 159.8. If your last three practice tests averaged 61 correct, your real task is six more questions, a number you can hunt section by section, rather than the vague instruction to score eight points higher.

Reading your score the way admissions readers do

Law schools do not read your LSAT in isolation; they read it against their own medians and against your GPA. The numbers already on this page frame the landscape: the overall median sits near 152, a 160 is strong for most schools, 165 competes for the top 25, and 170-plus enters top 14 territory. Your estimate tells you which conversations are realistic today and which become realistic with one more band of improvement, often a smaller distance than students fear.

Percentiles sharpen that picture. Because the scale compresses at the top, the jump from 165 to 170 moves you past far more of the test taking population than the jump from 150 to 155, even though both are five points. When you compare your estimate with a school’s published class profile, compare percentile to percentile where you can; it stops a five point gap near the top from looking deceptively small.

Also remember what schools never see: your raw score. Admissions files carry the scaled score and percentile, so the 75-of-101 detail is purely your planning tool. That frees you to be brutally honest with it. An inflated practice count helps nobody, the scaled estimate it produces will meet reality on test day, and the study plan built on honesty is the one that survives contact with the real exam.

Practice test mistakes that distort your estimate

The most damaging input error is counting the experimental section. Every real LSAT includes one unscored section, and practice tests mimic it, but its questions must not enter your correct count or your total. Including a strong experimental section flatters the estimate; including a weak one sinks it. Enter only the scored sections, two Logical Reasoning and one Reading Comprehension, with a total near 101, exactly as the calculator expects.

Old practice tests cause a subtler distortion. Tests from before June 2024 contain the Analytical Reasoning section that no longer exists, and their raw totals and conversion tables describe a different exam. An estimate built on a logic games era test can be off in either direction. Practise with current format material when the estimate will drive decisions, and treat older tests as question banks rather than score predictors.

Conditions matter as much as content. A test taken untimed, with pauses, or across two sittings produces a raw score the real exam would rarely grant you, and the calculator faithfully converts that fantasy into a fantasy scaled score. Sit practice tests in one timed block, enter the result immediately, and log it next to the date. Three honest scores under real conditions predict your outcome better than ten gentle ones.

Splitting your raw target across the three sections

A total like 67 correct becomes actionable only when it is divided. Suppose your recent tests average 24 correct in Reading Comprehension out of roughly 27 questions, but only 21 and 22 in the two Logical Reasoning sections, which carry roughly 25 questions each. Your total is 67, already at the 160 line, and the profile tells you the risk: one bad Logical Reasoning section on test day drops you under it, because half your score rides on your least consistent skill.

Now suppose instead you need those 67 from a base of 61. The split view stops you wasting effort where you are already strong: polishing Reading Comprehension from 24 to 26 wins two questions at high effort, while repairing a repeatable Logical Reasoning flaw, parallel reasoning under time pressure, for instance, can win four across the two sections. Same target, completely different study week, and the difference only appears when raw goals are set per section instead of as one lump.

Log every practice test as three numbers, not one. Over five or six tests the section log reveals your stable scores, your volatile scores and your trend in each area, and the calculator’s total converts that log into a scaled forecast you can trust. Admissions strategy, which schools are realistic, whether a retake is worth scheduling, should rest on that settled picture, never on your best single afternoon.

How to use the LSAT Score Calculator

1. Enter your practice test's total number of scored questions (usually 99 to 102; 101 is typical).
2. Enter how many of those questions you answered correctly.
3. Hit Calculate to get your 120 to 180 scaled score, estimated percentile and admissions band.