LSAT Score Conversion

Troy

7 years ago

Normally the LSAT has about one-hundred scored questions; however, recent LSAT Flex tests have had about seventy-five questions. All questions are equally weighted, and there is no penalty for guessing.

Your raw score is the number of these questions that you answer correctly. Your scaled score is derived from your raw score. All scaled scores are between 120 and 180.

Converting raw scores to scaled scores gives slightly different results for different administrations of the test. However, you can basically ignore these differences, because all conversion yield about the same results. For example, on the November 2018 Non-Flex LSAT & May 2020 Flex LSAT, these raw scores convert into these scaled scores:

Choose a raw score range to see its corresponding scaled score and percentile rank.

Raw Score:	Scaled Score:	Percentile (Est.):
0 – 15	120	0%
16	121	0%
17	123	0%
18	125	0%
19	127	1%
20	129	1%
21	131	2%
22	132	3%
23	134	5%
24	135	6%
25	136	7%
26	138	9%
27	139	11%
28	140	13%
29	141	15%
30	142	18%
31	143	20%
32	144	23%
33	145	27%
34/35	146	30%

Raw Score	Scaled Score	Percentile (Est.)
36	147	33%
37	148	36%
38	149	40%
39 – 40	150	44%
41	151	48%
42	152	52%
43 – 44	153	55%
45	154	60%
46 – 47	155	63%
48	156	67%
49 – 50	157	70%
51	158	74%
52 – 53	159	77%

Raw Score:	Scaled Score:	Percentile (Est.):
54	160	80%
55 – 56	161	83%
57	162	85%
58 – 59	163	87%
60	164	90%
61	165	91%
63	166	93%
64	167	94%
65	168	96%
66	169	97%
68	171	98%
69	172	98%
70	173	98%
71	174	99%
72	175	99%
73	177	99%
74	179	99.9%
75 – 76	180	99.9%

Non-flex scoring:

Raw Score:
0-29
30-52
53-72
73-100

Choose a raw score range to see its corresponding scaled score and percentile rank.

Raw Score	Scaled Score	Percentile (Est.)
0 – 17	120	0%
18	122	0%
19	123	0%
20	124	0%
21	125	0%
22	126	1%
23	127	1%
24	128	1%
25	129	1%
26	130	2%
27	131	2%
28	132	3%
29	133	4%

Raw Score:	Scaled Score:	Percentile (Est.):
30	134	5%
31 – 32	135	6%
33	136	7%
34	137	8%
35 – 36	138	9%
37	139	11%
38 – 39	140	13%
40	141	15%
41 – 42	142	18%
43 – 44	143	20%
45	144	23%
46 – 47	145	27%
48 – 49	146	30%
50 – 51	147	33%
52	148	36%

Raw Score	Scaled Score	Percentile (Est.)
53 – 54	149	40%
55 – 56	150	44%
57- 58	151	48%
59	152	52%
60 – 61	153	55%
62 – 63	154	60%
64 – 65	155	63%
66 – 67	156	67%
68 – 69	157	70%
70	158	74%
71 – 72	159	77%

Raw Score:	Scaled Score:	Percentile (Est.):
73 – 74	160	80%
75 – 76	161	83%
77 – 78	162	85%
79	163	87%
80 – 81	164	90%
82	165	91%
83 – 84	166	93%
85	167	94%
86 – 87	168	96%
88	169	97%
89	170	97%
90	171	98%
91	172	98%
92	173	98%
93	174	99%
94	175	99%
95	177	99%
96	178	99%
97	179	99.9 %
98 – 100	180	99.9 %

One takeaway: you are basically never more than one or two right answers away from a one-point increase in your LSAT score. Working with the Best LSAT Tutor can get you such increases very rapidly. String a couple of these increases together, and you can quickly improve your LSAT score by five or ten points. Really get dedicated and you can improve your score by twenty points or more!

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