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6.
Round the resulting number to the nearest whole number by adding .5 and then dropping all digits to the
right of the decimal point. This number should equal the “verbal corrected raw score” figure on your
score
report.
The table below shows three examples of corrected raw score calculations based on 40 questions (total
number of omitted or multiple-marked questions, number correct, and number wrong):
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Step 1- Number omitted or multiple-marked……..
8
0
5
Step 2- Number correct…
20
25
30
Step 3- Number wrong….
12
15
5
Step 4- Number wrong in step 3 divided by 4……...
3
3.75
1.25
Step 5- Number in step 2 minus number in step 4
17
21.25
28.75
Step 6- Rounding- Add .5 to the number in step 5
17.5
21.75
29.25
Final raw score corrected for guessing: Drop all digits
17 21
29
Conversion of Corrected Raw Scores to Scaled Scores
Use the score conversion tables on pages 31 and 32 to find the scaled score associated with each of your
corrected raw scores. The equivalent scaled scores should match those on your score report.
Your Analytical Writing Scores
Analytical Writing Assessments are offered in this test preparation product for practice purposes only. When
calculating the GMAT® equivalent score on GMAT Paper Tests, the essay portion should be ignored. When
taking the GMAT®, the Analytical Writing Assessment results are reported on your official score report to
schools.
Essay Insight (SM), available through www.mba.com, lets you write two practice essays on actual AWA topics
and has them scored automatically by the same technology used to score the GMAT. Your scores are objective
and accurate, so you can practice to improve.
Rescoring Service
If there are any discrepancies between your self-scoring results and those on your score report, you may request
that ETS rescore your answer sheet by submitting the appropriate fee and the form for this purpose you’re your
GMAT Examinee Score Interpretation Guide. But first check your answer sheet from incomplete erasures or
light or partial marking, and check your calculations to be sure that they are accurate.
Caveats Regarding Raw Score Interpretation