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Scores

Your exam results inform your next steps towards business school and serve as an important factor during the admissions process.

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Your GMAT Total Score is based on your performance on all 3 sections of the exam, with each section weighted equally. Your score is also valid for five years, giving you the flexibility to send your score to schools when you are ready! 

IMPORTANT: Comparing your current GMAT score directly to your score on the GMAT Exam (10th Edition) is not an accurate comparison. Learn more at Understanding Your Score.

Scoring Breakdown 

The GMAT Total Score scale ranges from 205 to 805, and all Total Score values end in a 5. Section scores range from 60 to 90.

Total Score

  • Score range: 205-805
  • Score intervals: 10
  • Standard error of measurement: 30-40 points

Quantitative Reasoning Score

  • Score range: 60-90
  • Score intervals: 1
  • Standard error of measurement: 3 points

Verbal Reasoning Score

  • Score range: 60-90
  • Score intervals: 1
  • Standard error of measurement: 3 points

Data Insights Score

  • Score range: 60-90
  • Score intervals: 1
  • Standard error of measurement: 3 points

Your Unofficial Score

Immediately after completing the exam, your unofficial scores for the Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Data Insights, as well as your Total Score are displayed on-screen. You are not allowed to record, save, screenshot, or print your unofficial score. You will receive an email notification when your Official Score Report is available in your mba.com account.

Visit Official Score Reports for more information.

Score Penalty for Unanswered Questions

There is a penalty for not completing each section of the exam. If you do not finish in the allotted time, your score will be penalized reflecting the number of questions unanswered. Your GMAT exam score will be the best reflection of your performance when all questions are managed to be answered within the time limit.

Privacy Information Specific to Your Score and Score Reports

GMAT exam scores and personally identifiable information will be released only at your specific request, except as otherwise set forth in our policies and procedures as required by law, and as necessary to detect or prevent unlawful activity or to cooperate in a judicial or governmental proceeding

Top Questions About Scores

Your GMAT score is a measure of your problem-solving, critical thinking, and data literacy skills. The GMAT total score scale ranges from 205 to 805. Each of the three section scores contribute equally to your total score.

Your GMAT score helps business schools evaluate your academic readiness for an MBA or business master’s program because is an indicator of preparedness for the rigors of graduate business school. Taking the GMAT is also a clear sign to admissions committees that you take your education and future business career seriously. 

GMAT scores are calculated based on:

  • The characteristics (e.g. difficulty) of the questions you answer correctly.
  • The characteristics (e.g. difficulty) of the questions you answer incorrectly.
  • The number of questions you leave unanswered.

Myths you may have heard related to GMAT scoring: 

  • My score will be negatively impacted if I take longer to answer a question.
  • My score will be worse if I get the first or second question of a section wrong.
  • If I change a question from correct to incorrect during the Question Review & Edit part of the section, that will be weighted more heavily than getting it incorrect with the initial response.
  • If I am running out of time in a section, it is better to leave the question blank than guess an answer.
  • Certain question types are weighted more heavily than other question types.

Yes, but only if you are submitting a score from a previous test year. GMAT percentiles are updated annually. While your GMAT scaled score will not change, your percentile ranking my change over time. However, percentiles rarely shift dramatically year over year, and GMAT scores are only valid for five years. Additionally, schools have ample access to past and updated percentile information. 

No. Schools only receive basic personal information (your name, address, email, etc.) that you provided when you registered for the exam, the date and delivery format of your exam, and your score information. The school score report includes your total score and section scores, and the percentile for each. You can view a sample school score report here. 

There is no formal print out of your unofficial or official score. While you may consider printing individual pages of your score report from your mba.com My Account view, note that this is not considered an Official Score Report and should not be sent to schools.

Once you submit your score via mba.com, it will be sent to the schools/programs you selected within 8 hours.

Only the schools/programs that you send your score to will be able to see your score report.
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