The New LSAT Interface for August 2026: Every Change Explained

If you are taking the LSAT in August 2026 or later, the screen you test on will not look like the one in older prep videos and tutorials. On June 18, 2026, LSAC announced that the new testing interface for the 2026-2027 cycle is finalized, and every official practice test in LawHub has already been updated to match it. The changes are real but manageable: nothing about the questions, timing, or scoring is different, and you have everything you need to make the new format feel routine before test day.

Here is every confirmed change, what it means for how you work through a section, and how to practice in the new interface starting today.

What changed, at a glance

Feature	Previous interface	New interface (August 2026 onward)
Highlighting	Not available on all parts of a question	Highlighting and underlining across the stimulus, question stem, and answer choices
Question navigation bar	Showed about 10 questions at a time	Shows every question in the section, with separators marking each Reading Comprehension passage
Flagged questions	Reviewed mainly through a separate screen	Flags visible directly in the question bar, plus a review box that filters answered, incomplete, and flagged questions
Clearing your work on a question	Undo selections and eliminations manually	Reset Response button clears selections and eliminations in one click
Select and eliminate controls	Radio buttons let you select or eliminate each choice from one control	Combined radio buttons are gone; selecting and eliminating are separate actions
Official practice tests	Older interface	All roughly 60 Official LSAT PrepTests in LawHub updated to the new interface

Everything in this table comes from LSAC’s official announcements: the finalized interface post from June 18, 2026 and the LawHub overview of the August 2026 changes.

Highlighting now works everywhere, and it works differently

The headline improvement: highlighting and underlining are now available across all test content, including the stimulus, the question stem, and, for the first time, the answer choices. If your process involves marking the conclusion in a Logical Reasoning stimulus or tagging the key phrase that separates two tempting answers, you can now do that directly on the screen.

One caution from LSAC itself: highlighting operates differently than it did in the previous interface. They have not published a detailed side-by-side, which is exactly why you should not let test day be the first time you use it. Spend a few practice sessions rebuilding your annotation habits in the new format, especially if highlighting the passage is a core part of your Reading Comprehension approach.

The question bar shows the whole section

The old navigation bar displayed about 10 questions at a time. The new one shows every question in the section at once, and in Reading Comprehension it adds separators so you can see exactly which questions belong to each passage.

This is a genuine pacing upgrade. Knowing you have seven questions left across two passages, without clicking anything, changes how you decide whether to push through a hard question or bank the easier ones first. Flagged questions now show directly in the bar as well, and a review box lets you filter to answered, incomplete, or flagged questions and jump straight to any of them. If your timing strategy involves a triage pass, the new interface makes that noticeably cheaper to execute.

Reset Response: one click clears the question

Each question set now includes a Reset Response button that clears your answer selection and your eliminations in one click. When you have talked yourself into a mess on a question and want to restart your reasoning cleanly, it is a nice tool.

Use it deliberately, though. It wipes your eliminations along with your selection, so if you have already ruled out three answers and only want to reconsider your pick, resetting throws away work you would rather keep.

The one downgrade: no more combined select-and-eliminate buttons

The previous interface gave each answer choice side-by-side radio buttons, so selecting an answer and crossing others out lived in one control. LSAC has acknowledged that the new platform cannot support that combined control, so selecting and eliminating are now separate actions.

Elimination itself is still there, and it still matters: process of elimination is the backbone of Logical Reasoning work. But the physical habit is different, and if you have taken official practice tests in the old interface, your hands have the old motion memorized. That is worth several practice sessions to overwrite.

What is not changing

LSAC has been explicit that the content of the LSAT is not changing, only the interface. Same sections, same question types, same timing, same scoring. If you have been studying with a structured plan, nothing about your content preparation is wasted.

The bigger logistical change arriving at the same time is separate from the interface: starting with the August 2026 administration, the LSAT is in person at test centers, with limited exceptions. Dates, deadlines, and the details of that change are in our 2026-2027 LSAT test dates guide.

How to practice the new interface before test day

The good news is that there is no reason to be surprised by any of this. Two resources cover it completely:

1. Official PrepTests in LawHub. LSAC updated all roughly 60 Official LSAT PrepTests to the new interface. These are the gold standard for full-length dress rehearsals, and there is a limited supply of them, so most people save fresh official tests for timed, test-conditions practice.
2. Original practice questions in a replica interface. Our free LSAT practice bank runs in a faithful replica of the interface the LSAT uses from August 2026, with more than 2,400 original questions, full-length practice tests, and a question-type drill builder. We are not affiliated with LSAC, and none of it is recycled from official tests, which means you can burn through volume here while your official PrepTests stay fresh for rehearsal.

A sensible split: do your daily drilling and skill work on original questions in the new format, and schedule your official PrepTests as full timed rehearsals in LawHub. Both now look and behave like the screen you will see on test day.

If you are testing in August 2026, the window is August 5 to 8, which leaves a few weeks from the time of writing. Prioritize at least two full-length tests in the new interface before test day, one early to surface any interface habits you need to fix, and one in the final week as a clean rehearsal. If you are targeting a later administration, you have plenty of runway: build the new interface into your practice from the start and it will never register as a change at all.