What sort of scale is used to score the GMAT?
Your official GMAT score report, which youll receive by mail within a few weeks after the test, will consist of four separate scores: • A Quantitative Ability score (on a 060 scale) • A Verbal Ability score (on a 060 scale) • A combined Quantitative/Verbal score (on a 200800 scale) • An Analytical Writing score (on a 06 scale) On each scale a higher score indicates better performance. Lets focus on the first three scores, which are based entirely on the two GMAT multiple-choice sections: Quantitative Ability, which contains 37 questions, and Verbal Ability, which contains 41 questions. The 060 and the 200800 scaled scores do not simply reflect the number of questions you answered correctly. These scaled scores also account for the difficulty level of the questions you answered correctly, as well as the extent to which those questions cover disparate question types and skills. Its a complex calculation, of course. As for why the testing service employs the 060 and the 200800 scales, rat
