ssat.vn – Many GRE candidates have questioned that “How much GRE score is required?”. Briefly, it depends on the requirements of each school. Why is that?

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Before talking about high or low GRE score, we need to find out about the general scale of the GRE certificate.

	LOWEST SCORE	HIGHEST SCORE
Verbal	130	170
Quantitative	130	170
Tổng cộng	260	340

From the above scoreboard, we can see that the GRE score will range from 260 to 340 points, and that score is aggregated from the two sections: Verbal (130 – 170 points) and Quantitative (130 – 170 points). GRE score is also affected by Analytical Writing with a score ranging from 0 – 6 points.

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In addition, students must become familiar with a percentage point scale. The percentile rank will show how much higher your score was than the percentage of test-takers on the same exam. For example, if A is among the 25% rated people, it means that A has a 25% higher score than other candidates. Here are the percentile scores for the Verbal and Quantitative sections:

Score	Verbal Percentile Score	Quantitative Perceltile Score
130	<1	<1
135	3	2
140	12	8
145	27	20
150	48	38
155	69	59
160	86	76
165	96	89
170	99	97

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How much GRE score is required?

How much GRE score is required depends on the academic background, the school, and the field in which the candidate wants to enter. Not all schools attach great importance to both Verbal and Quantitative sections, some of them only focus on Quantitative score and vice versa. For example, Physics Science does not need a high Verbal score, but rather they value candidates with high Quantitative scores. Here is a list of the average scores for some subjects:

FIELD	VERBAL AVERAGE SCORE	QUANTITATIVE AVERAGE SCORE
Humanities and Arts	156	150
Life Science	151	151
Physical Science	150	160
Social Science and Behavior	153	152
Other fields	151	150
Undetermined	148	154
Not provided (or not listed)	149	150

However, if we talk about ranking by level, the GRE score can be broken down like this:

	Quantitative	Verbal	Analytical Writing
Highest score	165 – 170	163 – 170	5.0 – 6.0
Competitive score	159 – 164	158 – 162	4.5
Full score	153 – 158	152 – 158	4.0
Below average score	Under 151	Under 152	Under 3.5

Hopefully, with the above diagram, you can answer the question of how much GRE score is required and choose your own score target to start practicing GRE.

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