<p>Hello everyone. So I was talking to my friend and he said the LSAT is biological. In other words is there an innate score that one gets on the LSAT? That I won't be able to get a 178 on the LSAT even with practice? Or will practice be sufficient for me to get a high LSAT score?</p>
<p>That’s absurd. Some people can practice and improve their score by double digits. Practice is neither necessary nor sufficient to get a high LSAT score. If you take a diagnostic LSAT and get a 140, a 178 is probably out of reach. If your diagnostic score is a 170, it’s also possible you may top out below 178 no matter how hard you study. But there are people who start at something like 165 and hit 178. To an extent, the test is learnable. You won’t know what you’ll max out at without actually practicing and taking the real thing (which often tends to be lower than people’s practice scores).</p>
<p>Ahh okay thank you!</p>
<p>YaleAlumnus, thanks again for the answer! I had another question though. I scored a 140 LSAT, but that was without practice or knowledge what the LSAT was about. In other words, I daydreamed while taking the test and was thinking about what I will be eating for lunch because I did not know how important the initial diagnostic test was.</p>
<p>My question is, is it possible to boost a 140 to a 170 - is it heard of? I have a year to study for the LSAT, and am beginning to understand what exactly is on the test. Right now I am scoring perfect on the logic puzzle sections with being timed, but other than that no.</p>
<p>If you’re getting all of the logic games correct right now, it appears that you definitely have an ability to learn the test and/or figure out logical connections. That seems like a positive sign for further improvement on the other sections. Hard to really say how much more you can improve. If you really want to go to law school, just keeping studying in the year that you have and see where you end up. It seems like almost everyone will hit their max (well) within a year.</p>
<p>Thank you so much YaleAlumnus :). Yes I will study my ass off for the year and see where I end up.</p>