LSAT
The LSAT no longer has logic games: what the test looks like now
In short
Analytical Reasoning — the "logic games" section — was removed from the LSAT in August 2024 and replaced by a second Logical Reasoning section. The current test is four 35-minute sections: two scored Logical Reasoning sections, one scored Reading Comprehension section, and one unscored variable section that can be either type.
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What changed
For decades the LSAT contained an Analytical Reasoning section, universally known as "logic games": ordering, grouping and matching puzzles built around a set of constraints. It is gone. Since the August 2024 administration, that section has been replaced by a second Logical Reasoning section.
If you are working from a book, a course or a tutor's plan that still drills logic games, that material is preparing you for a test that is no longer administered.
The current structure
LSAC describes the multiple-choice test as "four 35-minute sections of multiple-choice questions". Three are scored and one is an unscored variable section used to trial new questions. The variable section "can be any one of the question types — Reading Comprehension or Logical Reasoning — and can occur at any point in the test", and you are not told which one it is.
| Section | Scored | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Logical Reasoning | Yes | 35 minutes |
| Logical Reasoning | Yes | 35 minutes |
| Reading Comprehension | Yes | 35 minutes |
| Variable (either type) | No | 35 minutes |
There is a 10-minute intermission after the second section. LSAT Argumentative Writing is separate: it is taken on its own, is not scored, and gives you 50 minutes in total — 15 minutes of prewriting analysis and 35 minutes of writing.
One thing LSAC does not publish
LSAC publishes the number of sections and the time per section, but not the number of questions in each section, and not a total. Figures like "about 25 questions per Logical Reasoning section" circulate widely, and they are approximately right in practice, but they are not published by LSAC and we do not present them as though they were. This is why our timed LSAT practice states its own question count as our editorial choice rather than as the exam's rule.
What it means for preparation
The practical consequence of the change is weighting. Logical Reasoning now accounts for two of the three scored sections rather than one of three. Roughly two thirds of your scored questions are single short arguments followed by a single question.
That makes a small number of skills disproportionately valuable:
- Finding the conclusion, reliably and quickly, including when it is not the last sentence.
- Naming the gap between the evidence and the conclusion, which is what assumption, flaw, strengthen and weaken questions all probe from different angles.
- Reading the question stem first, because the same stimulus supports very different correct answers depending on what is asked.
Reading Comprehension is unchanged in form, including Comparative Reading, where two shorter passages take different positions on one topic.
Scoring
Your score is based on the number of questions you answered correctly across the three scored sections — LSAC calls this the raw score — converted to the 120–180 scale. There is no deduction for wrong answers, so unlike the Bocconi test, you should never leave an LSAT question blank. The raw-to-scale conversion is produced for each form and is not published in advance, which is why no honest practice tool can hand you a reliable 120–180 number.