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Your GRE Score

As soon as you complete the GRE, you will have the option of either canceling your scores (in which case neither you nor anyone else will ever know how you did on the test) or accepting your results. If you accept your test results, you will see your Verbal and Quantitative scaled scores immediately. However, you must wait a few weeks before receiving your results on the Analytical Writing Section by mail, as a real person actually grades the essays.

Scores you will see on your GRE score report:

Overall scaled GRE Verbal score (200-800 points)

Overall GRE Verbal and Quantitative Scores

Your performance on the Verbal and Quantitative sections results in two separate scaled scores ranging from a minimum of 200 to a maximum of 800 points, reported in 10 point increments.
Overall scaled GRE Quantitative score (200-800 points)

Overall GRE Verbal and Quantitative Scores

Your performance on the Verbal and Quantitative sections results in two separate scaled scores ranging from a minimum of 200 to a maximum of 800 points, reported in 10 point increments.
GRE percentile scores (1-99)

GRE Percentile Scores

Because the GRE is graded on a preset curve, you will also receive corresponding percentile scores for all three sections of the test. Your percentile score ranges from 1-99 and represents the percentage of all test takers who scored lower than you on that section of the test. For example, a scaled Verbal score of 670 corresponds to the 97th percentile, indicating that the test taker scored higher than 97 percent of all other test takers on that section of the test. On the other hand, a scaled Quantitative score of 670 corresponds to the 80th percentile, indicating that the test taker scored higher than 80 percent of all other test takers on that section.

You might have noticed that the same scaled scores on the Verbal and Quantitative sections do not correspond to the same percentile scores. That’s because test takers tend to score higher as a group on the GRE Quantitative section than on the Verbal section. As a result, a test taker who gets a scaled score of 700 on the Verbal section ranks in the 99th percentile, whereas a test taker who gets a scaled score of 700 on the Quantitative section ranks in the 89th percentile.
Scaled Analytical Writing score (1.0-6.0 points)

Analytical Writing Score

Your performance on the GRE Analytical Writing Section results in a scaled score ranging from 1.0-6.0 points, which is reported in 0.5 point increments (possible Analytical Writing scores are 4.0, 4.5, or 5.0 points, for example). This score is calculated and reported separately from your overall GRE score.

What your GRE score means to Graduate Schools

Although many factors (such as your undergraduate major, grade point average, and the college or university you attended) play a role in graduate school admissions decisions, your performance on the GRE is an important part of the admissions puzzle. In addition, many graduate programs rely on GRE scores when making decisions about how much financial aid to award accepted applicants.

However, graduate programs often vary widely in how they use GRE scores when making admission decisions. For example, if you are applying to a master’s degree program in English Literature or History, your score on the Verbal section of the GRE is likely to be more important than your score on the Quantitative section. On the other hand, if you are applying to a Ph.D. program in chemistry or engineering, your GRE Quantitative score will probably be more important.

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