How to Send GMAT Scores to Schools

To secure admission at top B-schools abroad, it is mandatory to submit GMAT score reports (if the university accepts the scores). In this article, we will help applicants understand the steps on how to send GMAT scores to schools abroad. Also understand GMAT score reports at additional costs for sending them to more colleges for admission.

Applicants who appear for the GMAT exam (or GMAT Focus/11th Edition) have the option of sending their GMAT scores for free to 5 universities or colleges upon registration. Those who wish to send additional GMAT score reports are free to do so, but they have to pay an additional charge for each report. There is a way of choosing the universities for sending GMAT score reports and we have discussed this in detail in the article.  

What is a GMAT Score Report?

A GMAT score report is basically your scorecard based on your performance. Each section's scores are discussed that is, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and Data Insights on GMAT's score report. Once you have taken the GMAT, you receive two GMAT scores: Unofficial and Official.

• Unofficial GMAT Score Report: Your unofficial GMAT score will be provided to you immediately after you have completed the test. It will include your Quantitative, Verbal, DI and Total GMAT scores.
• Official GMAT Score Report: Your official GMAT score will be made available to you within 3-5 days from the date of the exam (if you have taken the exam at the test centre), and within 7 days (if you have taken the exam at home). This will include your entire GMAT exam performance score and analysis. 

Performance summary charts in the GMAT (Focus) Official Score Report offer detailed insights into your exam performance:

• Performance by Section: Provide your Total Score, section scores, and percentile rankings for each section. This helps in understanding your overall performance breakdown.
• Performance by Program & School: Shows your Total Score percentile ranking compared to others who applied to the same programs in the past 5 years. This comparison is useful for evaluating competitiveness.
• Subsection Charts: Offer specifics on performance within Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Data Insights sections, detailing strengths and areas for improvement.
• Performance by Content Domain: Indicates your percentile ranking across different content domains within each section, aiding in identifying specific knowledge areas of strength or weakness.
• Performance by Question Type: Displays percentile rankings by question type, highlighting strengths and areas needing improvement in question-solving strategies.
• Performance by Fundamental Skills: Provides insights into your percentile ranking across fundamental skills within each section, helping pinpoint skill-specific performance.
• Time Management & Performance: Shows response times per question, including review periods, compared against average expectations. This helps assess time management strategies and their impact on performance.
• Summary of Question Review & Changes: Details review activities and how they influenced performance, guiding improvement strategies based on review effectiveness.

Sample GMAT Focus Score Report

This is how an official GMAT score report would look like:

(Source: mba.com)

How to Send GMAT Scores to Colleges?

Students must note the following process:

Sending GMAT Score on the day of the test:

• When you are at the test centre to take the GMAT, you will have the option to select up to five B-schools to send your scores to for free. You select the codes of the recipient colleges before you start your exam.
• The fee for sending your scores to 5 B-schools is included in your registration fee
• Once you have selected your college/ institution, you cannot change. Hence, you need to decide beforehand where you wish to send your GMAT score to.
• If you have taken your exam online (not at the test centre), you must send your scores within 48 hours once it is available on your mba.com account
• A lot of students taking the GMAT exam don’t utilize this opportunity because they don’t want to submit the GMAT score to the colleges without first considering if they are good enough or not. Therefore, it would wise to select the colleges before the exam only if you are confident you will get an amazing score.

Sending GMAT Score after the exam:

• If you have not chosen 5 B-schools on the day of the test, you will have to send an Additional Score Report on a chargeable basis
• Each Additional Score Report will attract a fee of USD 35.

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Step-by-Step Process of Sending GMAT Scores to Universities

So how does this process of sending scores actually work? Check out the step-by-step process of sending GMAT scores to universities abroad:

• Step 1 - Log on to the official GMAT account 
• Step 2 - Then click on the “Send GMAT Online Score” option
• Step 3 - Select any 5 programs or B-schools to send the GMAT scores for free
• Step 4 - Finally, select the “Send GMAT Online Score" after selecting the options to submit.

Once you select a college to share your scores with, they are simply permitted to view your record. The colleges have access to the online scores database and your scores become available to view once they decide to check them. So nothing is mailed to the schools immediately. The colleges don’t check the scores until you submit the complete college application. They will verify your score if they might consider admitting you.

So what is the best thing to do? Pick five schools for no charge at the testing centre. These should be the shortlisted colleges you wish to get into. If you retake the exam after some time, pick five different colleges. If you score higher, the new score will be considered valid. So once you send your college applications, you can use the GMAT scores to a maximum of 10 colleges.

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Process to Send GMAT Scores to Additional Colleges

In order to send additional GMAT score reports, applicants can:

• Log on to their official MBA.com account to request for Additional Score Reporting service.
• Call customer care and while on call request for sending additional GMAT score reports and pay while on call. 

This is the only and the easiest way to send additional GMAT score reports to universities abroad. 

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Cost of Sending Additional GMAT Score Reports

Here is the latest cost of sending additional GMAT Focus Edition score reports:

Once, applicants raise a request for an additional GMAT score report and pay for the reports, can expect around 20 days for GMAC to send these official GMAT scores to additional colleges. Also, it takes 7 calendar days to send GMAT additional score reports. Check out for more details at GMAT fees for more details.