GMAT* Percentile

Approximately two weeks after you take the Graduate Management Admission Test, you will receive your official score report. This score report will include four scores: Verbal, Quantitative, Analytical Writing Assessment, and Total. The Verbal and Quantitative scores are placed on a scale from 0 to 60. On the Verbal section, it is extremely rare to score either below 9 or above 44; on the Quantitative section, it is equally rare to score either below 7 or above 50. Remember that your raw score is adjusted slightly according to the difficulty of the test version. In other words, students who take an especially difficult version of the test will have their scores raised, while students who receive a relatively easy version of the exam will have their scores diminished. It is entirely possible, therefore, for you to answer every question on the test correctly and still receive less than a perfect score. The Analytical Writing Assessment score is the average of the scores given to the two essays. Each essay is scored by two professional graders on a scale of 0 to 6; if the two scores are within one point of each other, they are averaged to calculate the individual essay score. If the two scores are more than one point apart, a third reader is called in to assign a final score. Once scores have been assigned to the individual essays, these scores are averaged to produce the overall Analytical Writing Assessment score. The Total Score is placed on a range of 200 to 800. The majority of test-takers score between 400 and 600. The GMAT average, as one would expect, is approximately 500. Each of the four scores included on the official score report will be accompanied by a percentile ranking, indicating the percentage of test-takers who scored below you during the last three years. Your GMAT percentile ranks may change over time, as new scores become part of the three-year assessment period.

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