Understanding your GMAC score report

by mba.com

Your GMAT exam score reports include all GMAT scores from tests taken in the last five (5) years.

In addition to your GMAT scores, your Official Score Report includes:

• Digital photograph taken at the test center
• Self-reported background information, such as telephone number, undergraduate institution, grade point average (GPA), and intended graduate study
• Percentile rank

 

Note: Your Total score is based on your Verbal and Quantitative scores; your Analytical Writing Assessment and Integrated Reasoning scores do not affect the Total score.

 

Your Total, Verbal, and Quantitative Scores

Total GMAT scores range from 200 to 800; two-thirds of test takers score between 400 and 600.

Verbal and Quantitative scores range from 0 to 60; scores below 9 and above 44 for the Verbal section and below 7 and above 50 for the Quantitative section are rare.

Verbal and Quantitative scores are on a fixed scale and can be compared across all GMAT test administrations, but because they measure different constructs, they cannot be compared to each other.

If you do not finish in the allotted time, your scores will be calculated based upon the number of questions answered as long as you worked on each section. Your score will decrease significantly with each unanswered question.

 

Your Analytical Writing Assessment Score

The Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) score is based on one Analysis of an Argument essay. Essays are scored independently twice and then averaged. Scores for the AWA range from 0 to 6 in half-point intervals.

Each essay receives two independent ratings, one of which may be performed by an automated essay-scoring engine, which evaluates more than 50 structural and linguistic features.

If the two ratings differ by more than one point, an expert reader provides a third evaluation to determine the final score.

Expert readers are trained college and university faculty members who consider the following:

• The overall quality of your ideas about the argument presented
• Your overall ability to organize, develop, and express those ideas
• The relevant supporting reasons and examples you used
• Your ability to control the elements of standard written English

Readers are trained to be sensitive and fair in evaluating the responses of examinees whose first language is not English.

If you believe that your AWA score is not accurate, you may request that your essay be rescored using the Essay Rescore Request Form.

 

Your Integrated Reasoning Score

Integrated Reasoning (IR) scores range from 1 to 8 in single-digit intervals; no partial credit is given.

Most Integrated Reasoning questions require more than one response. Because the questions are designed to measure how well you integrate data to solve complex problems, you must answer all responses to a question correctly to receive credit.

 

Your Official GMAT Score Report

Unofficial scores from the Verbal, Quantitative, and Integrated Reasoning sections of the GMAT exam, along with the Total score, are available immediately after you complete the test.

 

Online receipt: Within 20 calendar days of testing, you will receive an email with a instructions to access your Official Score Report online. You may view, download, or print your report.

 

Mail receipt: Approximately 20 calendar days after testing, you will receive your Official Score Report (it may take longer due to variances in delivery time). Your scores will be available to the programs that you selected to receive your scores while at the test center within 20 calendar days after testing. Schools that have chosen to receive only paper score reports will need more time to receive them by mail. If you choose to send additional score reports after completing the GMAT exam, those programs will receive your scores approximately seven calendar days after your score is reportable.

 

Compare Your Scores with a Previous Version of the GMAT Exam

If you have taken the previous version of the GMAT exam, your Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA), Quantitative, Verbal, and Total scores are directly comparable to the current exam.

 

A note about the Integrated Reasoning (IR) section: The IR section was introduced June 5, 2012. If you took the exam prior to that date but would like an IR score, you will have to retake the entire exam.  When you report your new scores, all exams you have taken within the past five years will be included on your score report, whether or not those exams included IR scores.

For more information about your GMAT exam scores, please read the GMAT Handbook (PDF).

 

Enhanced Score Report

For more information on your performance and a more complete overview of how you did on your exam, get your Enhanced Score Report (ESR). Your ESR gives you a detailed analysis of your performance—by question type, areas for focus, and pacing—so you can fine-tune your preparation and do even better next time around.