After receiving your Official Score Report, you may be tempted to focus on your Total Score. However, it will be just as important to review your percentile ranking as you look to understand your results.
Understanding Your Score
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Percentile Rankings
What are Percentile Rankings?
Percentile rankings indicate what percentage of test takers you performed better than. For example, a percentile ranking of 75% means that you performed better than 75% of other test takers, and 25% of test takers performed better than you.
Interpreting Your Percentile Ranking
Total Score Percentile
Total Scores for the GMAT Focus Edition range from 205 to 805. Your GMAT Focus Edition Total Score is composed of the Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Data Insights sections of the exam. The contribution of each section score to Total Score is equally weighted across sections.
Score Concordance
The GMAT Focus Edition’s Total Score ranges from 205 to 805, while the previous edition of the GMAT Exam has a Total Score range of 200-800. Because the GMAT Focus Edition Total Score scale AND the score scale distribution are different from the previous edition of the GMAT Exam, comparing total scores or section scores from the previous version of the exam to the GMAT™ Focus Edition is not appropriate, accurate, or a meaningful comparison of performance.
If your relative competitiveness based on the GMAT Focus Edition needs to be compared to the previous edition of the GMAT Exam, it’s more appropriate to compare percentile rankings rather than comparing total scores. Use the concordance table below to show score distributions between the two versions of the exam by percentile (updated January 2024).