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Disability-Related Testing Accommodations

For the LSAT® and LSAT Argumentative WritingSM

Accommodations That May Be Available on the LSAT

Candidates are encouraged to review the Specifications of the LSAT and LSAT Argumentative WritingSM to determine their accommodation needs as applicable to the specific format and delivery of each part of the test.

Certain accommodations are best administered in a remote modality while others are best administered in a test center modality. Because of this, test takers who are approved for certain accommodations may be required to test using a particular modality absent exceptional circumstances (hardship) and/or an approved accommodation to test in a specific modality. Disability-related requests to test in a specific modality must be appropriately supported and made by the accommodation request deadline for the applicable LSAT administration. Requests based on exceptional circumstances (hardship) need to be made at least three (3) days prior to the test center scheduling deadline for your test date. If approved for a hardship exception, you will be required to test with the modality requested.

Personal Items Allowed for All Test Takers (No Accommodation Request Required)

Test takers are highly encouraged to familiarize themselves with the list of personal items that are permitted during LSAT and LSAT Argumentative Writing administrations without prior approval from LSAC.

Items Allowed for the LSAT Without Prior Approval

The list of items permitted during the LSAT without prior approval from LSAC can be found in the LSAC Candidate Agreement. Section 18a covers items that are permitted at test centers, while Section 18b covers items that are permitted while testing remotely.

You are also permitted to bring any of the Preapproved Items External link opens in new browser window listed on the Prometric website.

Items Allowed for LSAT Argumentative Writing Without Prior Approval

  • Soft foam earplugs (non-electronic, non-corded/banded, and generic foam earplugs) 
  • Beverage in a clear or transparent container. All labels must be removed from the container.
  • Medication/medical supplies (including non-tinted eyeglasses)
  • Diabetic testing or treatment supplies (Bluetooth-enabled medical devices must be pre-approved)
  • Tissues 

Use of scratch paper is not permitted during LSAT Argumentative Writing, unless requested and approved as a testing accommodation. (The LSAT Argumentative Writing interface includes a digital “scratch paper” section where test takers can type notes, instead of writing them on a physical piece of scratch paper.)

Testing Accommodations That May Be Available Upon Request

The following is a non-exhaustive list of testing accommodations that may be available on the LSAT or LSAT Argumentative Writing. The inclusion of a particular accommodation in the list below does not guarantee that you will receive this accommodation if requested. Each request is reviewed, and a decision whether to grant any testing accommodations is made, on a case-by-case basis in accordance with LSAC’s stated policies.

  • Extended testing time

  • Additional breaks between multiple-choice test sections

    Note: For the LSAT multiple-choice sections, the combination of testing time and breaks may not exceed eight (8) hours in one test day. In the event that the approved combination of test section time and break time would be greater than eight (8) hours, testing over two (2) days will be administratively approved and communicated prior to the test date.

  • Stop/start breaks (up to 60 minutes per 8-hour appointment)*
  • Use of braille writer, Braille Note, or braille display.
  • Tactile manipulatives (e.g., rubber graph board and tactile letters or pictures; magnetic board with magnetic letters or objects).
  • Use of a human reader
  • Use of an amanuensis/scribe
  • Permission to sit/stand during testing
  • Permission to walk and/or stretch
  • Permission to read/speak aloud
  • Food (permitted at workstation)

Candidates approved to receive permission to sit/stand during testing, to walk and/or stretch during testing, to read/speak aloud during the test, to have food at the workstation, to use diabetic supplies requiring pre-approval, to make use of a human reader, and/or to make use of an amanuensis/scribe as an accommodation will be required to take the test remotely. If you request any of these accommodations, please consider whether you will need any other accommodations given the remote test environment, and make those requests by the deadline associated with your test administration.

*Please Note: 

  1. For the multiple-choice LSAT, the combination of testing time and breaks, including the use of stop/start breaks, may not exceed 8 hours in one test day.
  2. Beginning with the August 2025 LSAT and LSAT Argumentative Writing, stop/start breaks will provide up to sixty (60) minutes of break time in any single test day. Test takers who have previously received stop/start breaks will be automatically approved for stop/start breaks up to 60 minutes per test session on any future test for which they register.  
  3. The use of stop/start breaks does not extend actual testing time. The test is paused and restarted, without a loss of, or gain of, testing time.

Alternative Testing Formats

Alternative formats that may be available as accommodations for test takers within the United States (including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands) and Canada include:

  • Unified English Braille (UEB) books
  • Multiple-choice paper-and-pencil format, regular print (9.5-point font)
  • Multiple-choice paper-and-pencil format, large print (18-point font by default, or higher upon request)
  • LSAT Argumentative Writing paper-and-pencil format, regular print (12-point font)
  • LSAT Argumentative Writing paper-and-pencil format, large print (18-point font by default, or higher upon request)

The following accommodations are only associated with a paper-based administration of the LSAT and are not applicable to the computer-based LSAT or LSAT Argumentative Writing:

  • Alternate non-Scantron answer sheet (multiple-choice sections of LSAT only)
  • Marking answer choices in the test book (multiple-choice sections of LSAT only)

Candidates approved to receive paper-and-pencil or braille tests as an accommodation for the LSAT will be required to test in a testing center. If you request a paper-and-pencil or braille test as an accommodation, please consider whether you will need other accommodations given the test center environment (including but not limited to a remote test modality) and make those requests by the accommodation request deadline associated with your test administration.

Beginning with the August 2025 LSAT administration, paper-and-pencil format tests (excluding braille) will be considered a Category 3 accommodation and are not subject to the automatic approval process. Therefore, any test taker who is seeking a paper-and-pencil format test (excluding braille) for the LSAT or LSAT Argumentative Writing, including those who were previously approved for a paper-and-pencil format on any LSAT prior to the August 2025 administration, must submit a new request in accordance with LSAC’s policies. If approved, the accommodation will thereafter automatically apply to subsequent LSAT administrations, unless approved due to a temporary condition.