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GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 15 Feb 2023, 23:29
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GMAT Scoring Grid



GMAT Club has maintained a GMAT Scoring Table and a GMAT Scoring Grid since 2012 when PTK created the GMAT Score table.

GMAT Score Consists of 5 Scores:
  • Overall Score on a scale from 200 to 800 (GMAC now calls it Total Score)
  • Raw Quant Score on a scale from 6 to 51 (51 is getting more common, it is the max score and only 96th percentile)
  • Raw Verbal Score on a scale from 6 to 51 (anything over V45 is very rare. There is no V43 technically, it goes from V42 to V44)
  • AWA Score on a scale from 1 to 6
  • IR Score on a scale from 1 to 8


GMAT Scoring Grid - Locate Quant and Verbal Scores

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This GMAT Scoring Grid will help you calculate your Total GMAT Score based on Quant Score and Verbal Score. You can also locate percentiles that correspond to each of the raw scores. The total score percentiles are below. Note that sometimes the same combination of Q and V may result into a different Total Score just like sometimes different combination of Q and V can result into the same Total Score. For example Q49, V42 can be 750 and so can Q50, V41. The reason is that the Total Score and Sectional Raw Scores are calculated independently!

Average GMAT Scores (50th percentile)

    Average GMAT: 575
    Average Quant: 41
    Average Verbal: 28


How many mistakes can you make and still get Quant 51 or Verbal 51?
    A: 1-2 wrong answers would still give you a Q51. However, this does not mean you can get an 800 with any wrong. We have learned that from an ESR of a 790 scorer who got V50 with every single verbal answer correct yet Q51 with 1 DS wrong. GMAC recalculated their score to V51 Q51 after the request but still kept it at 790, so no cigar.


How many mistakes can you make and still get Quant 50?
    A: You can get away making as many as 8 mistakes in Quant (last 8 or middle 8) based on our GMAT prep reesearch. You will get Q49 if you make 10 mistakes.




Latest Published GMAC Percentiles



Updated: Dec 2021 (latest percentile update)

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Last edited by bb on 15 Feb 2023, 23:29, edited 13 times in total.
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2019, 13:59
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Hi, I scored 48 on Quant and 47 on Verbal, and according to this I should have gotten a 770, but got a 760. Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy with my score, but it this grid supposed to be a fast & hard rule?
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2019, 14:02
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Hi, I scored 48 on Quant and 47 on Verbal, and according to this I should have gotten a 770, but got a 760. Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy with my score, but it this grid supposed to be a fast & hard rule?


Congrats on your score! You will be posting a debrief? Maybe?
To answer your question, well.... it is a complicated answer since the total and sectional raw scores are calculated differently. Note that sometimes the same combination of Q and V may result into a different Total Score just like sometimes different combination of Q and V can result into the same Total Score. For example Q49, V42 can be 750 and so can Q50, V41. The reason is that the Total Score and Sectional Raw Scores are calculated independently!
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   20 Aug 2019, 00:33
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Hi ,I scored Q34, V47 but ended up with 530 in gmat official mock test 1, shouldn't the score be more than that!
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   05 Oct 2019, 09:31
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I guess best way to score good is get first 11 questions correct in each section.
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   05 Oct 2019, 13:30
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Hi All,

It does not appear that anyone addressed aditya96166's question from a couple of months ago - but the issue there is confusing PERCENTILES with SCALED SCORES. The two numbers that aditya96166 posted are the Percentiles from that Exam (which would lead to an Overall Score right around a 550). IF those were Scaled Scores, then the Overall Score would clearly have been a lot higher.

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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2021, 21:04
I got q50 v42 and 760
Is this not updated?

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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2021, 21:06
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I got q50 v42 and 760
Is this not updated?

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Note that sometimes the same combination of Q and V may result into a different Total Score just like sometimes a different combination of Q and V can result into the same Total Score. For example Q49, V42 can be 750 and so can Q50, V41. The reason is that the Total Score and Sectional Raw Scores are calculated independently!
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2021, 21:13
So we could say that this table is an approximation

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It’s not an approximation, it’s just rounded. Your actual Q and V used to compute the composite don’t have to be whole numbers. For example:

Q = 50.0 and V = 42.0 would be Q50 V42 750
Q = 50.4 and V = 42.3 would be Q50 V42 760

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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2021, 21:22
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So we could say that this table is an approximation

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So this table is NOT official. It was designed by PTK who spent his time researching and putting it together years ago :cool: :thumbsup: :inlove:
It does not perfectly match and has imperfections by all means but it is the most reliable and helpful tool we have and we are not afraid to use it :cool:
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2021, 21:32
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(anything over V45 is very rare. There is no V43 technically, it goes from V42 to V44)


Is there anywhere I can read more about this?

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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2021, 21:55
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(anything over V45 is very rare. There is no V43 technically, it goes from V42 to V44)


Is there anywhere I can read more about this?

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I don’t know.... This is just something we have observed over the years. So rather than having a manual for the product, we have series of observations that we are basing it on. Can I like studying planets except in this case it’s scores 😂
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   26 Feb 2021, 23:44
bb V45+ is kinda like extraterrestrial life. We know it exists in some corner of this universe, but we don't have enough proof of it just yet! :lol: :lol:


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(anything over V45 is very rare. There is no V43 technically, it goes from V42 to V44)


Is there anywhere I can read more about this?

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I don’t know.... This is just something we have observed over the years. So rather than having a manual for the product, we have series of observations that we are basing it on. Can I like studying planets except in this case it’s scores 😂
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   27 Feb 2021, 08:53
I also read in a Manhattan blog that V43 is not possible or does not exist. Score move from V42 to V44.

I also have read some debriefs in the past with scores more than V45, but that’s very rare. But i could say it happened and we have seen it.

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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   07 Mar 2021, 21:38
Are the official practice test percentiles and scores updated when those for the official exam are updated? My practice score seems to be inflated by 20 points. Per this thread there is some variability from the raw score to the final score. That could explain some things. Scored a Q51 V42 770. This would be a 750 on the real deal.

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Are the official practice test percentiles and scores updated when those for the official exam are updated? My practice score seems to be inflated by 20 points. Per this thread there is some variability from the raw score to the final score. That could explain some things. Scored a Q51 V42 770. This would be a 750 on the real deal.

Hi StudentIn2022,

I have seen Q51V42 770s on the actual GMAT, so... congrats on the excellent practice test score. :)

As for the variation you noticed, you may want to go through this post.
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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   08 Mar 2021, 01:21
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StudentIn2022 wrote:
Are the official practice test percentiles and scores updated when those for the official exam are updated? My practice score seems to be inflated by 20 points. Per this thread there is some variability from the raw score to the final score. That could explain some things. Scored a Q51 V42 770. This would be a 750 on the real deal.

Hi StudentIn2022,

I have seen Q51V42 770s on the actual GMAT, so... congrats on the excellent practice test score. :)

As for the variation you noticed, you may want to go through this post.


Thank you for the link! Yes, I have seen some q51 v42 on here, but most are from several years ago. I assumed the scores at the top had shifted a bit over the years.

Thanks, I hope I can repeat on the real thing :)

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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   23 Sep 2023, 12:43
Hello everyone,
I have a question. You are saying that there are 51 questions q & verbal. But some people say that there are 31 questions in quant. part. I am trying to understand why there is a difference. Could someone explain this?

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Re: GMAT Score Grid [#permalink] New post   23 Sep 2023, 19:08
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I have a question. You are saying that there are 51 questions q & verbal. But some people say that there are 31 questions in quant. part. I am trying to understand why there is a difference. Could someone explain this?

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Hi edanurtelci,

There are 31 questions in the quantitative section, and there are 36 questions in the verbal section. The minimum score in these sections is 6, and the maximum score is 51.
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