On the GMAT Score Card you will find 4 scores :Verbal, Quantitative, Total, and AWA. The score report includes not only your current test scores but also that of your previous two most recent scores from tests you have taken in the last five years.

Most business schools and colleges require that a candidate has a GMAT score that is not more than 5 years old. In some cases, they might require you to produce GMAT scores that are not more than 3 years old.

Scores on the Objective Sections : Verbal, Quantitative and Total

Total GMAT scores range from 200 to 800. Two-thirds of test takers score between 400 and 600.
The GMAT score report also includes your Verbal and Quantitative scores in a range of 0 to 60. Scores below 9 and above 44 for the Verbal section or below 7 and above 50 for the Quantitative section are rare. Both scores are on a fixed scale.Against each of these scores: Verbal, Quantitative and Total, the report also mentions a percentile value..

Analytical Writing Assessment Score

The score presented is an average of the scores in the two writing assesment exercises - issue analysis and argument analysis.AWA scores are computed separately from the scores for the multiple-choice sections of the test and have no effect on the scores of the multiple choice part. Scores for the AWA section range from 0 to 6 in half-point intervals.

Each of your essays in the AWA section will be given two, independent ratings, one of which may be performed by what GMAC and ETS call as the E-rater. E-rater is a computer system that evaluates your essay on more than 50 structural and linguistic features. If the ratings given by the two independent sources differ by more than one point, another evaluation by an professional reader is done to resolve the inconsistency and determine the final score.

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