What Is a GMAT Score?
The Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) is a 3.5 hour, three-part, written and computer-based test that is designed to assess an applicant’s basic verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing skills. Business schools utilize GMAT scores as one way to judge the qualifications of applicants, ranking them in relation to other applicants. In addition, admissions officials consider GMAT scores to be excellent predictors of success during the first year of graduate school. Features The GMAT Score Report consists of four scores: an overall score between 200 to 800, a verbal test subscore between 0 to 60, a quantitative test subscore between 0 to 60, and an analytical writing test subscore between 0 to 6. Each of these raw scores is assigned a percentile ranking, which represents how the test taker performed compared to all test takers who took the test on that day as well as during the prior three years. The higher the percentile rating, the better the GMAT score, and the more competit
