LSAT guides
Straight answers about the current LSAT
The test changed in 2024 and is changing again in 2026, and a lot of what is written about it online describes a version nobody sits anymore. Every factual claim in these guides is sourced to LSAC and linked, and where LSAC does not publish something, we say so instead of estimating.
The sections, and the score
Longer pieces on the three things that decide a score.
How does LSAT Logical Reasoning work?
LSAT Logical Reasoning: what the section actually rewards
Logical Reasoning is now two of the three scored sections on the LSAT. What the question families ask for, why arguments are the whole game, and how to practise the part that transfers.
What is on the LSAT Reading Comprehension section?
LSAT Reading Comprehension: four sets, and the one most people misplay
What is actually in an LSAT Reading Comprehension section — four sets, five to eight questions each, and the comparative pair — plus why it is the section that resists improvement longest.
How is the LSAT scored?
How the LSAT is scored: raw score, equating, and the band nobody mentions
From questions answered correctly to a number between 120 and 180 — what equating does, why there is no guessing penalty, and what the score band means when you are deciding whether to retake.
Specific questions
One question each, answered directly.
How long is the LSAT?
How long is the LSAT?
Four 35-minute sections, 140 minutes of testing, one 10-minute intermission — plus the separate 50-minute writing component that most timing answers leave out.
Is there still Logic Games on the LSAT?
What happened to Logic Games on the LSAT?
Analytical Reasoning — Logic Games — was removed from the LSAT with the August 2024 test. What replaced it, and what that means for anyone studying from older material.
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What is a good LSAT score?
What is a good LSAT score?
The scale runs 120 to 180. Why "good" only means anything relative to the schools you are applying to, and why the measurement error in the test should shape the target you set.
Do I have to do the LSAT writing sample?
LSAT Argumentative Writing: unscored, and still required
A 50-minute writing component taken separately from the multiple-choice test — 15 minutes of prewriting, 35 minutes of essay. It is not scored, but your LSAT score will not be released without it.
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Is the LSAT still remote in 2026?
Is the LSAT still remote? LSAC's own materials currently conflict
LSAC has announced a move to in-center testing starting with the August 2026 LSAT, while its FAQ still describes a choice between remote and in-person. Both sources, side by side, and what it means if you are registering now.
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Why these pages cite everything
Analytical Reasoning came off the LSAT in August 2024, and LSAC has announced a change to how the test is delivered starting in August 2026. Prep material written from memory is confidently wrong about both. Where LSAC publishes a number we quote it and link it; where LSAC does not — per-section question counts, per-form conversion tables — we leave a visible gap rather than filling it with a plausible figure.