How we score your GRE mock.
Transparency matters when a number shapes your prep. Here is exactly how Verbal and Quant are scored, why the percentile is exact but the scaled score is an estimate, and how the AWA essay is graded.
Auto-scored from the answer keys, the moment you finish.
Every Verbal and Quantitative question has a definitive answer key. We mark all-or-nothing for multi-answer and Sentence Equivalence, and accept equivalent forms for Numeric Entry, exactly per the official rules.
- Your first section of each measure is medium for everyone.
- How you do on it routes your second section to an easier, medium, or harder form.
- Your raw correct count maps to a scaled score, capped by the track you routed into — only the hard track can reach 170.
Exact percentiles, estimated scaled score.
The percentile for any scaled score is the exact official ETS figure. The scaled score itself is a reverse-engineered estimate, within about 2 points, because ETS does not publish its score-equating tables.
We tune the raw-to-scaled curve against published score distributions and keep the stated tolerance honest. When a number is an estimate, we say so.
An expert estimate against the official rubric.
Your Analyze-an-Issue essay is graded by our expert scoring engine against the official ETS 0–6 holistic rubric — position and task, development and support, focus and organization, language, and conventions. You get a score and specific, constructive feedback.
This is an expert estimate, clearly labelled. It does not replicate ETS's human-plus-e-rater scoring, and is meant to guide your practice, not predict your official score exactly.
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