Focused on Law

The LSAT is the only standardized test designed specifically for law school admission. Because the test is designed to accurately measure skills critical to success in law school, and it predicts first-year law school performance more accurately than any single factor, the LSAT is a valuable tool for admission professionals to use in crafting their successful incoming classes, as part of a holistic admission process.

LSAT Logical Reasoning questions evaluate your ability to examine, analyze, and critically evaluate arguments as they occur in ordinary language.
LSAT Reading Comprehension questions measure your ability to read, with understanding and insight, examples of lengthy and complex materials similar to those commonly encountered in law school.
LSAT Analytical Reasoning questions assess your ability to consider a group of facts and rules, and, given those facts and rules, determine what could or must be true.

How the LSAT Is Used 

LSAT results help you and admission decision makers gain valuable insight as to law school readiness. Research consistently shows the LSAT is the best single predictor of law school success — and becomes an invaluable component of a holistic admission process.

The LSAT provides a way for schools to identify highly qualified candidates who might be overlooked on the basis of undergraduate institution, GPA, extracurricular activities, or other factors.

How the LSAT Is Designed

LSAC is committed to ensuring the LSAT is designed to assess the skills essential to success in law school. We conduct studies to ensure the LSAT is focused on the right skills. The law school faculty who participate in these studies consistently rate the skills assessed by the LSAT as those critical for success in law school.

How the LSAT Is Administered

The LSAT is administered via Prometric in two ways: remotely (online with a remote proctor) or in person (at a Prometric testing center). Both options are available for the vast majority of test takers, so each test taker can choose the option that works best for them.

Through our deep commitment to disability rights, LSAC continues to address the needs of all individuals with disabilities who require testing accommodations, regardless of which testing option they choose.

Learn more about Testing Accommodations

How the LSAT Is Structured

The LSAT is structured in two parts. 

The first part is a proctored multiple-choice test consisting of three, 35-minute scored sections of multiple-choice questions and one 35-minute unscored section. The scored sections are:

Logical reasoning
Reading comprehension
Analytical reasoning

The unscored section could be any one of these three sections.

The order in which sections appear on the actual test is random, so test takers will not know which section is scored and which section is not.

The purpose of the unscored section is to review the questions for appropriate content and fairness to all groups and backgrounds and ensure they are free from any form of bias and are fair to every group of test takers. Any question that shows any racial, ethnic, or gender bias in field testing is rejected and never used in the scored sections of the test.

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