How Many Questions Are on the LSAT?

The current LSAT has about 100 multiple-choice questions across four 35-minute sections, but only roughly 75 to 80 of them count toward your score. The rest belong to one unscored experimental section that you cannot identify on test day. Two scored Logical Reasoning sections (24 to 26 questions each) plus one scored Reading Comprehension section (26 to 28 questions) make up your score.

How many questions are on the LSAT?

The current LSAT has about 100 multiple-choice questions in total, spread across four 35-minute sections. Of those, roughly 75 to 80 actually count toward your score.

That split is the number that matters. Your score comes from three scored sections: two Logical Reasoning sections and one Reading Comprehension section. The fourth section is experimental, and it looks exactly like a scored section. Treat every section as if it counts, because three of the four do.

These are ranges, not exact counts, because the number of questions varies slightly from one test form to the next. Any page that gives you a single exact total for every LSAT is oversimplifying. The ranges above are what you should plan around as of October 2026.

How many Logical Reasoning questions are on the LSAT?

Logical Reasoning is the biggest part of the test. You will see two scored Logical Reasoning sections, each with 24 to 26 questions, for a combined 48 to 52 scored questions. That is roughly two-thirds of your scored questions, which is why Logical Reasoning deserves the largest share of your study time.

Each Logical Reasoning question gives you a short argument, usually under 100 words, and asks you to do something with it: find the flaw, strengthen it, weaken it, identify an assumption, or draw an inference. The Logical Reasoning question types each test a different move, and the fastest way to improve is to learn the moves one type at a time rather than grinding mixed sections.

If the experimental section on your test happens to be Logical Reasoning, you will see three Logical Reasoning sections in total. You will know one of them is unscored, but you will not know which one. That is by design.

How many Reading Comprehension questions are on the LSAT?

Reading Comprehension has one scored section with 26 to 28 questions. The section has four passages: three single passages and one comparative reading set made up of two shorter passages on the same topic. Each passage or set comes with 5 to 8 questions.

Passages cover law, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. The questions ask for main points, author attitudes, details, inferences, and how parts of a passage relate to each other. If the experimental section on your test is Reading Comprehension, you will see two Reading Comprehension sections instead of one, and again, you will not know which one counts.

What is the experimental section?

The experimental section is an extra, unscored section that LSAC uses to test new questions before they appear on future exams. Your answers there help LSAC judge whether a question is fair and at the right difficulty level. Your experimental answers never reach your score report.

Three things about it catch students off guard:

• It can appear in any position. It might be the first section, the last, or anywhere in between. There is no pattern to spot.
• It feels exactly like a scored section. The questions are real LSAT-style questions at real difficulty. A section that feels unusually hard is not necessarily the experimental one.
• Guessing which section it is can cost you points. If you ease off on a section you think is experimental and you are wrong, you just gave away scored questions. The only safe policy is full effort on all four sections.

The one safe deduction: if you see three Logical Reasoning sections, one of them is experimental. If you see two Reading Comprehension sections, one of them is. That tells you the type, never the position.

How long is the LSAT, and how much time per question?

The multiple-choice portion runs about 2 hours and 20 minutes of testing time: four 35-minute sections with a 10-minute break after the second section. With check-in and instructions, plan on roughly 3 to 3.5 hours at the test center or in your testing session.

Per-question pacing falls out of the section math. A 35-minute section with 24 to 26 Logical Reasoning questions gives you roughly 80 to 90 seconds per question. A Reading Comprehension section with 26 to 28 questions across four passages works out to about 8 to 9 minutes per passage set, reading included. These are planning targets, not rules for every question. Easy questions should take less, hard ones more, and banking time early is how you afford the hard ones late.

Does the LSAT penalize wrong answers?

No. There is no penalty for a wrong answer on the LSAT, and blank answers score the same as wrong ones: zero. That means you should answer every question, even if you are guessing on the last few as time runs out. A guess has a roughly 1-in-5 chance of being right. A blank has no chance.

This also shapes how you should use your final minute in a section. If you have unanswered questions, fill them in before time expires rather than leaving them blank while you polish one hard question. One extra correct guess is worth the same as one extra solved question.

How do question counts turn into a score?

Your raw score is simply the number of scored questions you answered correctly. LSAC then converts that raw score to a scaled score from 120 to 180 through a process called equating, which adjusts for small differences in difficulty between test forms. There is no fixed number of correct answers that always equals a given scaled score, because the conversion depends on the form you took.

That is why two students with the same number of correct answers on different test dates can receive slightly different scaled scores, and why comparing raw counts across forms is misleading. What you can control is the count itself: more correct answers on scored sections is the only lever that matters.

If you want to know where you stand now, the honest way is a timed practice test, not a conversion chart. See how many practice tests to take and how to review each one so the count actually moves.

Why older answers to this question are wrong

Many pages still describe the pre-August 2024 LSAT, which included a Logic Games (Analytical Reasoning) section and a different section mix. Logic Games was removed in August 2024 and does not appear on the current test in any form. If a page tells you the LSAT has a Logic Games section, or totals roughly 100 scored questions, it is describing an old test. The current test has about 100 questions total but only roughly 75 to 80 scored ones.

Also watch for pages that quote an exact total like 101 or 99 questions. Those numbers come from specific past test forms, not from a fixed test design. The test is built to ranges, and your form will land somewhere inside them.