The GRE score report also gives you the percentile rank for each of the above test scores.





Percentile scores are used to compare your scores with the scores of other test takers within a selected comparison group. Here, the percentile ranks indicate the percentage of test-takers who’ve receive a score below yours. For instance, if your score was reported to be in the 80th percentile, it would mean that you scored better than 80 percent of the test takers around the world.

These ranks are based on the GRE scores of those who tested earlier within a three year period. For those testing in 2016-17, the percentile ranks are calculated on the performance of those who were tested between July 1, 2012 and July 30, 2015.

GRE Score Percentiles for 2016 – 2017
Scaled Score	Verbal Reasoning Percentile Rank	Quantitative Reasoning Percentile Rank
170	99	97
169	99	97
168	98	95
167	98	93
166	97	91
165	95	89
164	94	87
163	92	85
162	90	82
161	88	79
160	85	76
159	82	73
158	80	70
157	75	67
156	72	63
155	68	59
154	64	55
153	60	51
152	55	47
151	51	43
150	47	39
149	42	35
148	38	31
147	34	27
146	30	24
145	26	20
144	23	17
143	19	14
142	17	12
141	14	10
140	11	8
139	9	6
138	7	4
137	6	3
136	4	2
135	3	1
134	2	1
133	1	1
132	1	-
131	1	-
130	-	-

Score Percentiles for Analytical Writing
Score	Percentile Rank
6.0	99
5.5	98
5.0	93
4.5	82
4.0	59
3.5	42
3.0	17
2.5	7
2.0	2
1.5	1
1.0	-
0.5	-
0.0	-

Source: ETS


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AWA section of GRE and GMAT. I have not found any chart which compares GRE's and GMAT's AWA section. Are these sections comparable? By looking at the percentile distribution GRE's essays are graded much tougher than GMAT's essay. Can somebody give me more information about the differences and similarities between these two AWAs.

I appreciate it!

https://www.mba.com/us/the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-scores/your-score-report/what-percentile-rankings-mean.aspx#tab5



For reference...top is GMAT; bottom is GRE.

-Brian
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Completely I share your opinion. In it something is also I think, what is it good idea.

I need 15th percentile in verbal and 75th percentile in Quant, how many questions do I need to do in order to achieve that? Thanks for your information chart

Do you mean how many questions do you need to get right in each section in order to achieve those percentiles?

No one can give you an exact answer to that question. The way that the exam is scored is the first section of each type (Quant and Verbal) is used to determine the difficulty level of the second scored section of each type.

So if you do well on the first Quant section and you get the hardest second section of Quant you may only need to get 50% of the questions right in that second section to get the 75th %ile. So that might mean that you get something like 28 out of 40 correct.

However if you miss more questions on the first section you will need to get just about everything right on the easier second section in order to get that same 75th %ile. So maybe you miss six or seven questions on the first section and then you need to get 19 of 20 right on the second section. So then you are getting 32 out of 40 for the same score.

And if you miss enough questions on the first section then the difficulty level of the second section will be low enough that you may not be able to attain the 75th %ile even if you get a perfect 20 out of 20 on the second section.

As to the 15th percentile on Verbal. Well this will not require you to get even half of the questions right. In fact, you could really figure out which type of question that you are best at - either Reading Comprehension or the "Vocab" questions and focus your attention there.

And do remember that there will be one additional unscored section. This means that you will get either an extra Quant section or an extra Verbal section so that you will get 3 of the 20 questions sections of that type and one of those three sections does not count. So when we speak of the number of questions you need to get right keep in mind that none of the questions you get in that unscored sections count.

For example your exam might go AWA essay #1, AWA essay #2, Quant 1, Verbal 1, Quant 2, Verbal 2, Quant 3. In this scenario both Verbal sections would count towards your score, but one of the quant sections does not count while the other two do. It is impossible to tell which section is the unscored one so you have to try you best on all five sections.

Hope that provides the beginning of an answer let me know if you have follow-up questions!
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Are those percentiles still the same now or do we know if that's shifted at all?

The above post was quite helpful for scoring.

Yes, GRE percentiles have been updated for 2018-19:

https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/gre_guide_table1a.pdf


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Thanks! Great stuff!

Thank you guys for the insight

Thanks for this.

I also wanted to understand what is the overall percentile for the combined scores? Say Q161 and V157 , a total of 318 would be what percentile?

Also , what would be the equivalent per centile in GMAT for that score
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See this post

https://greprepclub.com/forum/the-gre-a ... tml#p42367

Regards
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