LSAT Scoring, Score Scale, and Percentiles: What Your Number Actually Means

LSAC's 2026-27 calendar: when each score is released

LSAC's dates page, retrieved September 24, 2026, lists eight administrations for the 2026-2027 testing year in the United States, Canada and U.S. territories, with the score release date for each. Every score release on the page falls 18 days after the last test day: September 30 for a test that ended on September 12, and December 2 for one that ended on November 14.

The page gives a registration deadline, a date scheduling opens and a date the Argumentative Writing sample opens for every administration. For most administrations the registration deadline is also the last day to request disability-related accommodations, so a candidate who needs them cannot wait for the scheduling window. The Puerto Rico administration in February 2027 has its own dates.

• September 2026: tests September 9-12; register by July 28; scores September 30
• October 2026: tests October 7-10; register by August 27; scores October 28
• November 2026: tests November 11-14; register by October 1; scores December 2
• January 2027: tests January 13-16; register by December 1; scores February 3
• February 2027: tests February 12-13; register by December 29; scores March 3
• February 2027, Puerto Rico: tests February 18-20; register by January 5; scores March 10
• April 2027: tests April 8-10; register by February 25; scores April 28
• June 2027: tests June 9-12; register by April 29; scores June 30

LSAC's percentile table at every fifth score, 2023 to 2026

LSAC publishes one table for the 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 testing years combined. Its percentile is the share of scores below the given score, so it is a count of lower scores and not a top-percent figure. The list below reads that table at every fifth score, to the tenth of a percent. The full table runs from 120 to 180 in single points.

Two readings matter most. The gain from 160 to 170 moves a score from 71.1% to 94.5% below it, which is 23.4 points, while the gain from 150 to 160 moves it from 36.6% to 71.1%, 34.5 points.

• 180: 99.8% of scores below
• 175: 98.7% below
• 170: 94.5% below
• 165: 85.2% below
• 160: 71.1% below
• 155: 54.0% below
• 150: 36.6% below
• 145: 21.5% below
• 140: 11.0% below
• 135: 5.0% below
• 130: 2.2% below
• 125: 1.0% below
• 120: 0.0% below

How the LSAT score scale works

Forms vary slightly. Raw correct-answer counts are converted onto the fixed 120–180 scale using a conversion table specific to that test form, which corrects for very small differences in difficulty between forms so that a given scaled score means the same thing across administrations.

Because the conversion is form-specific, two test takers who answer the same raw number of questions correctly on different test dates will not necessarily receive the identical scaled score. Only the scaled score, not the raw count, should be compared across administrations.

What counts as a 'good' score depends on your target schools

There is no single good score independent of where you're applying. A score at or above a school's published median gives you a stronger position in that school's admissions index; the same score can be below median at a more selective school and well above median at a less selective one.

Use each target school's own ABA Standard 509 disclosure for its actual LSAT median and 25th/75th percentile range, not a general percentile chart, when deciding whether your score is competitive for that specific school.

How raw scores become the 120 to 180 scale

LSAC says your score is based on the number of questions you answered correctly, your raw score, and that all questions are weighted exactly the same. What matters is the total number right, not which questions, and there is no deduction for wrong answers. LSAC converts the raw score to the LSAT scale so scores from different administrations can be compared, and the scale runs from 120, the lowest possible score, to 180, the highest.

Your score report includes a percentile rank for each score. LSAC defines it as the percentage of test takers whose scores were lower than yours during the previous three testing years, and it updates percentiles for all reported scores every year by the end of July.

Score release, preview, cancellation and audit

Scores are released on the date tied to your test date, provided you have an approved writing sample on file and no holds on your account, and they are posted to your JD Services account with an email notice. LSAC's Score Preview lets you see your score before deciding whether to keep it. It costs $46 if you sign up before the first day of testing for that administration and $87 after testing has begun, and you have six calendar days from release to cancel or keep the score or it goes to schools.

Without Score Preview you may cancel within six calendar days of your test date. LSAC also offers an optional Score Audit for $150, or $75 if you have been preapproved for a fee waiver, and says the chance of a scoring error on a computerized test is extremely small.