Your GMAT score is more than a number. It demonstrates your readiness for the academic demands of graduate business school, helps admissions teams evaluate your application, and may strengthen your candidacy for scholarships and other opportunities.
Use your scores, percentile rankings, and insights from your Official Score Report to understand your performance and make informed decisions about your next steps towards business school.
After completing the GMAT exam, you will receive a:
Your Total Score ranges from 205 to 805 and is based on your performance across all three sections of the exam. Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Data Insights are weighted equally in the calculation of your Total Score.
Because each section measures a different set of skills, review both your Total Score and your individual section results to understand your overall performance.
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 Exam (Focus Edition) range from 205 to 805. Your GMAT 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.
The GMAT Total Score ranges from 205 to 805 on the GMAT exam, while the previous edition of the GMAT, the GMAT (10th Edition) had a Total Score range of 200-800. Due to the differences in the Total Score scale and the score scale distribution between the latest edition and the GMAT (10th Edition), comparing total scores or section scores is not appropriate, accurate, or a meaningful comparison of performance.
If your relative competitiveness based on the latest edition of the GMAT exam needs to be compared to the GMAT Exam (10th Edition), it is more appropriate to compare percentile rankings rather than comparing total scores. Use the concordance table linked here to show Total Score distributions between the two versions of the exam by percentile (updated July 2025).
