LSAT Score Calculator

What the LSAT Score Calculator Does

This calculator estimates your LSAT scaled score (the familiar 120-180 number) and your approximate percentile from a single input: the number of questions you answered correctly, your raw score. Recent LSAT administrations have about 75-76 scored questions, so the default total is set to 76, but you can change it to match the test or practice exam you took.

Estimate only — the College Board / LSAC release a new curve for every exam administration, so official cutoffs vary year to year. Use this as a guide, not a guarantee.

LSAC never publishes one permanent conversion table. Instead, every test is equated so that a 160 means the same thing whether the questions were easy or hard that day. The cutoffs therefore drift by a point or two each administration. This tool uses a representative recent curve with clearly labeled, assumed thresholds so you can see roughly where you stand while planning.

How Scoring Works

LSAT scoring has three stages:

1. Raw score. You get one point per correct answer. There is no penalty for wrong answers, so it always pays to guess on every question. Your raw score is simply the count of correct answers out of the total scored questions (about 75-76 on recent tests).
2. Scaled score. LSAC maps the raw score onto the 120-180 scale using that administration’s equating table. The calculator approximates this step by converting your raw score to a percent correct, then reading it off the representative curve below.
3. Percentile. Your scaled score is matched against LSAC’s three-year percentile tables, which report the share of test-takers who scored at or below each scaled score.

Scaled score = lookup(questions correct / total scored questions) on a representative recent curve, then percentile = lookup(scaled score).

Worked Example

Suppose you answered 65 out of 76 scored questions correctly:

• Percent correct = 65 / 76 = 85.5%
• On the representative curve, about 85.5% correct maps to a scaled score of roughly 170.
• A 170 sits near the 97th percentile on recent LSAC tables.

So missing about 11 questions still lands near a 170 on this representative scale. On a different administration the same 65 correct might convert to a 169 or 171 — that is exactly why this is an estimate.

Estimated Score Bands

These bands use the representative recent curve assumed by the calculator (≈76 scored questions). Treat the raw-correct figures as approximate, since each administration’s cutoffs differ.

Tips for Using the Estimate

• Guess on everything. With no wrong-answer penalty, leaving blanks only lowers your raw score.
• Adjust the total. If your practice test had a different number of scored questions, change the total field so the percent-correct math stays honest.
• Watch the bands, not the exact number. Because the real scale shifts, a one-point difference here is well within the noise. Focus on whether you are in the band you need.
• Confirm with official sources. Only your official LSAC score report reflects the actual scale used for your test. Use this tool for planning and practice scoring, then verify against LSAC.