How to Fill Out and Submit the LSAT Accommodations Request Form

To request disability accommodations on the LSAT, you complete the LSAT Accommodations Request Form through your JD Services account: an online Candidate Form where you describe your disability and the modifications you need, plus a Qualified Professional Form that your evaluator fills out, uploaded with supporting documentation before the accommodation deadline for your test date. Everything is submitted electronically. Paper submissions are not accepted.¹

Know Which Category You’re Requesting

LSAC sorts accommodations into three tiers, and the tier controls how much documentation you’ll need.

Category 1 covers non-extended-time requests: a separate testing room, specific assistive technology, extra breaks.
Category 2 covers up to 50 percent extended time (up to 100 percent for severe visual impairments), human readers, and scribes.
Category 3 covers “exceptional needs”: more than 50 percent extended time (or more than 100 percent for severe visual impairments), paper-and-pencil format, stop-and-start breaks over 60 minutes, testing spread across multiple days, or modality exception requests.

Category 3 draws the closest scrutiny. The qualified professional must give an objective, evidence-based rationale, grounded in your history and clinical findings, for why the exceptional accommodation is necessary.²

Documentation to Gather First

Before opening the forms, pull together your supporting records. For a Category 1 request, you can submit any one of the following: proof of identical or equivalent accommodations in a prior academic setting, a completed Qualified Professional Form, a signed letter on official letterhead from your qualified professional verifying your diagnosis, or a clinical assessment indicating your diagnosis. Categories 2 and 3 require more: in addition to documenting the disability, your professional must give a reasonable explanation (Category 2) or an objective, evidence-based rationale (Category 3) for the specific accommodations you’re asking for.²

A “qualified professional” is someone licensed or properly credentialed with expertise in the disability at issue. A general practitioner diagnosing a specific learning disability likely won’t meet the bar. LSAC expects the evaluator’s specialty to match the condition.³

Recency matters, and the rules differ by condition. For ADHD, psychological, or learning disabilities, the evaluation must have been conducted within five years of your accommodation request. For noncognitive disabilities (physical or medical conditions), the evaluation must have been conducted after you turned 13.³

If you received accommodations on the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, DAT, MCAT, or GED, get the approval letter from that testing organization. Federal regulation requires testing entities to give “considerable weight” to prior accommodations on an IEP, Section 504 plan, or similar standardized test, and this documentation can satisfy much of what LSAC requires.⁴

You May Not Need to File at All

If LSAC previously approved you for accommodations on an earlier LSAT, you are automatically approved for the same or substantially similar accommodations without filing a new request or submitting fresh documentation. Three exceptions apply:⁵

Paper-and-pencil and modality exceptions are classified as Category 3 starting with the August 2025 administration, so you must submit a new request even if you had them before.
Accommodations granted for a temporary condition, like a broken bone, do not renew automatically.
If your last LSAT registration was more than five years ago, LSAC may no longer have your file. You’ll need to provide documentation of the prior approval and the specific accommodations you received.

If your approval was on a different standardized test (SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, DAT, MCAT, or GED), you can receive identical or equivalent accommodations on the LSAT by submitting a letter from the test sponsor specifying what was approved.⁵

Filling Out the Candidate Form

When you request accommodations through JD Services, the Candidate Form is built into Step 2 of the online process. You complete it directly, with no separate PDF to download.²

The form asks you to identify the specific accommodations you want (extra time, separate room, assistive technology, and so on) and to write a statement of need explaining why those modifications are necessary given your disability. Be concrete. Link each accommodation to a functional limitation. Something like: “I need 50 percent extended time because my processing speed is significantly below average due to ADHD, as documented by Dr. [Name]’s neuropsychological evaluation.” Vague statements like “I need more time because tests are hard” are a common reason requests get flagged as insufficient.

If you prefer to work offline, you can download the Candidate Form as a PDF from LSAC’s document library and upload it later. The PDF must be completed in Adobe Acrobat. Forms saved through Mac’s Preview mode are not accepted.⁶

Filling Out the Qualified Professional Form

Your evaluating professional completes a separate form that serves as the clinical validation of your request. They enter their name, title, license or certification number, and contact information for verification. They then provide your diagnosis, the diagnostic code if available, the date they examined you, and a written explanation of why the requested accommodations are necessary based on objective testing or clinical observation.⁷ The diagnostic code field is marked “if available,” so a clinician who doesn’t routinely use DSM-5 or ICD codes isn’t a problem.

For Category 3 requests, the rationale needs to go further than confirming a diagnosis. The professional must explain, with reference to your history and objective evidence, why the exceptional accommodation is specifically required. Most Category 3 denials happen here: the documentation establishes the disability but doesn’t make the case for the exceptional level of accommodation.²

Uploading and Submitting

Sign into JD Services and go to the LSAT Accommodations section. The system walks you through the request in steps, with the Candidate Form built into Step 2. You then upload the Qualified Professional Form, any prior accommodation letters, clinical evaluations, and anything else that supports the request.

Accepted file formats are JPG, GIF, PNG, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTM, HTML, and TXT.⁸ Label each file clearly. “Smith_Qualified_Professional_Form.pdf” is far more useful to a reviewer than “scan003.pdf.” After each upload, check the status to confirm the file transferred. Then confirm the accuracy of the submission.

Deadlines

Each LSAT administration has its own accommodation request deadline, and anything submitted after that date will not be considered. For most administrations, the accommodation deadline falls on the same day as the registration deadline. For context: the April 2026 LSAT has an accommodation deadline of February 26, 2026, and the June 2026 administration has a deadline of April 21, 2026.⁹ Check the deadlines page for your specific test date.

File early. LSAC reviews requests in order of upcoming test dates, so a last-minute submission for a later test may sit behind a backlog of nearer requests.¹

What Happens After You Submit

LSAC does not publish a guaranteed turnaround time. It states that it reviews requests “as quickly as possible” and warns that requests for future administrations may face delays when earlier test dates have pending deadlines. Submitting early gives you room for back-and-forth if LSAC needs additional documentation.¹

When a decision is made, LSAC posts a letter to your JD Services account. If the request isn’t approved in full, the letter explains why. Common reasons documentation falls short:³

No evidence of disability was submitted.
The professional who completed the form lacks credentials or expertise for the specific disability.
The statement of need fails to connect the disability to the specific accommodations requested.
The evaluation is outdated: more than five years old for ADHD, psychological, or learning disabilities, or conducted before age 13 for physical or medical conditions.
Documents are illegible or not in English.
A Category 3 request lacks objective, evidence-based justification for accommodations beyond the standard tiers.

Appealing a Denial

If your request is denied or only partially approved, the window is tight. You must notify LSAC of your intent to appeal within two business days of the decision letter being posted. You then have five calendar days from the posting date to submit additional documentation.¹⁰

LSAC aims to issue the appeal result within one week of submission. A late appeal is still possible, but LSAC may move your registration to the next test administration at no extra cost so there’s time to process it. One limit: if your request was denied because you stated you don’t have a disability and simply prefer a different testing environment, that denial can’t be appealed. Accommodations are available only for disability-related needs.¹⁰

Two Things Worth Knowing

Nursing mothers requesting extended or additional breaks for lactation needs do not use JD Services. The request goes in writing to nursingmothersrequest@LSAC.org with supporting documentation from a medical professional, and it must be received by the deadline tied to your test registration. LSAC reviews these case by case.¹¹

And if the reason you’re hesitating is that law schools will see a flag on your score: they won’t. LSAC does not annotate or flag score reports for test-takers who received accommodations, including extended time, and does not notify law schools that a candidate requested or tested with accommodations.¹

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Law School Admission Council. LSAT Accommodations
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Law School Admission Council. Documentation Requirements
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Law School Admission Council. Reasons Documentation Is Deemed Insufficient by LSAC
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eCFR. 28 CFR 36.309
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LawHub. Policy on Prior Testing Accommodations
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Law School Admission Council. LSAT Accommodations Request Form
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Law School Admission Council. LSAT Accommodations Request Form
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Law School Admission Council. How to Request Accommodations on the LSAT
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Law School Admission Council. LSAT Dates, Deadlines, and Score Release Dates
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Law School Admission Council. Appeal Procedures for Accommodation Requests Made by Registration
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Law School Admission Council. Nursing Mothers