LSAT Scoring Scale

Podcast Highlight:
This week’s podcast discusses the LSAT scoring scale. We’ll hear from experts Dave Killoran, CEO of PowerScore Test Preparation; Andrew Brody, Vice President of Content Development at The Princeton Review; and Glen Stohr, Senior Manager of Product Development for the LSAT with Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions.
Dave Killoran begins by delineating the differences between an LSAT “raw score” and “percentile score,” noting that the former is based purely on the number of actual questions a student got correct on a single test, while the latter pits a student’s raw score against the last three years of LSAT scores as archived by LSAC. Killoran also discusses the LSAT scale conversion chart, which provides test takers with the score they are most familiar with—a number from 120 to 180. Killoran closes by putting to rest a common LSAT misconception: Students often think that their score is based off their performance as compared