GRE Score Calculator
Add up your GRE Verbal and Quantitative scores and see the percentile rank ETS puts on current score reports for each section, Analytical Writing included.
Enter your section scores to see your Verbal plus Quantitative total and where each score sits among everyone who has taken the GRE recently. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
How GRE scores work#
- Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning are each scored from 130 to 170, in one-point steps.
- Analytical Writing is scored from 0 to 6, in half-point steps.
- ETS reports the three separately. The 260-340 total is the sum universities and applicants use as shorthand; it does not appear on the score report.
What the percentile means#
A percentile rank is the share of test takers who scored lower than you. A Verbal score of 160 at the 82nd percentile means 82% of test takers scored below 160.
The ranks here are the ones on 2026-27 score reports. ETS bases them on everyone who took the GRE General Test between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2025 - about 790,000 people - and updates them every year, so the same score can sit at a different percentile next year.
The two main sections do not compare point for point. Quantitative scores run higher: the average is 157.6, against 151.4 for Verbal, and 11% of test takers get a perfect 170, which is why it is only the 89th percentile. A 165 is the 95th percentile in Verbal but the 67th in Quantitative.
Where the numbers come from#
The percentiles, averages and number of test takers are from ETS's GRE General Test Interpretive Data. Universities set their own requirements, and many look at the section scores rather than the total, so check each programme's admissions page.