LSAT percentiles: what your score means

LSAT percentile table, 2023-2026 testing years

LSAC works out each percentile from all scores in the previous three testing years and updates the table every year by the end of July. Your score report shows the percentile for your score.

What’s the average LSAT score?

LSAC’s percentile page doesn’t give an average. Its table puts the 50th percentile at about 154: a 154 is higher than 50.4% of scores, and a 153 is higher than 46.9%.

When LSAC announced the end of logic games in October 2023, it said a study of more than 200,000 test sessions put the mean at about 150.8 and the median at 151. The newer table’s midpoint of 154 is a few points higher.

Scores at the top percentiles

• Top 20%: a 163 is higher than 80.1% of scores.
• Top 10%: a 168 is higher than 91.4%. A 167 just misses, at 89.5%.
• Top 5%: a 171 is higher than 95.8%.
• Top 1%: a 176 is higher than 99.1%.

Is your score good enough?

There’s no official cutoff and no minimum score set by LSAC. Each law school sets its own bar, so look up what the schools on your list say about the students they admit.

If your score is lower than you hoped, you have options. You can cancel within six calendar days of your test date, or use Score Preview to see your score before deciding. You can take the LSAT up to five times in the current reportable period, which goes back to July 2021, and seven times in your life. A canceled score still shows on your report as a cancellation, and it counts toward those limits.