Given the fact that we have already touched upon more important aspects of GMAT and business school education, this post on GMAT score range indeed comes quite late. But the old age adage goes, better late than never, and therefore, we are here with a discussion on the GMAT score range. Interestingly, we have already discussed the concept of GMAT percentile for admission to the business schools. Thing is that nobody talks in terms of percentile when it comes to business school applications. It is always the scaled score that is talked about.

There are three main sections in the GMAT exam, namely Quantitative Section, Verbal Section and the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA). The first two are scored in the range of 0 to 60, with most of the students getting between 9 and 44 in verbal and between 7 and 50 in quant. It is very rare for anybody to score below 9 or 7 and above 44 or 50 in Verbal and Quant respectively. Read more…

Arghhh…a question on probability! You know you are bad at it, you dreaded to even determine the probability of getting a question on probability in your GMAT quantitative aptitude section, at the precise time you were engaged in a race against time, to finish as many questions as possible in the math section and get high GMAT score.

You want to skip through that question but the Computer Adaptive Format of GMAT exam will not allow you to do so. It will not budge or move on to the next question until you have answered the current one and you are left with no other option to make a GUESS! Read more…