An official GMAT® score report consists of multiple parts and is received after two weeks of the test:

• Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) Score (on a scale from 0 to 6) and an equivalent percentile
• Integrated Reasoning Score (on a scale from 1to 8) and an equivalent percentile
• Verbal Scaled Score (on a scale from 6 to 51) and an equivalent percentile
• Quantitative Scaled Score (on a scale from 6 to 51) and an equivalent percentile
• Total Scaled Score (on a scale from 200 to 800) and an equivalent percentile

The total score depends only on the Verbal and Quantitative scores. The AWA score and the Integrated Reasoning scores are independent and have no impact on the total scaled score.

• Total number of questions answered
• The number of questions answered correctly
• Level of difficulty of the questions correctly answered

Although the Verbal and Quantitative sections are both scored on the same scale (from 6 to 51), the percentile associated with an individual score in the verbal section may be different from the percentile associated with the same score in the Quantitative section. For example, a Verbal scaled score of 46 places a student in the 99th percentile for that section. A Quantitative scaled score of 46, however, only places the student in the 57th percentile for that section. Most of the schools look at only the overall score. A few may have a minimum for each segment.

Each essay is given two independent ratings. One by an independent evaluator who will evaluate the ideas of the student and the other by a computer programme referred to as an E-Rater which will also evaluate the language, structure, spellings, punctuation and grammatical errors. The response for each rating ranges from 0 – 6. If the two ratings differ by more than one point the rating of the second human rater is accepted. The final score is the average of the two ratings received for both the essays.