Not sure what to study? Confused by how to improve your score? We give you minute by minute guide. Quick side note: we've created the world's leading online GRE prep program that adapts to you and your strengths and weaknesses. Score Percentiles for Verbal and Quant Score Here’s a general breakdown of some score percentile benchmarks for the Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning sections: For Analytical Writing, a 3.5 is the average score. The average (or 50th percentile) GRE score is a 150 on Verbal and a 152.6 on Quant (152 is a 47th percentile score and 153 is a 51st percentile score). For example, if I’m in the 25th percentile, I scored better than only 25% of students. A percentile ranking shows what percent of test-takers you scored better than. But if you want to know how a particular score stacks up against all other test-takers, you can check out the official GRE score percentiles. It’s hard to say with certainty what a “good” GRE score is in absolute terms, because there is so much variation in program expectations (more on that in the next section). You’ll be on your way to a good score for you in no time! In this guide we’ll go over what a good GRE score is in terms of the entire GRE test-taking population, what a good GRE score is for you, and how to set a goal score.
The short answer is, it depends! The long answer is this article. As with any test, if you’re taking the GRE, you probably want to know what a good score is.