Turn your Quant, Verbal and Data Insights scores into a total on the 205–805 scale, with your official GMAC percentile and the equivalent score on the retired 200–800 scale.
Scale 60–90 · mean 78
Scale 60–90 · mean 79
Scale 60–90 · mean 75 · equally weighted
Totals are derived from GMAC's published 205–805 scaling relationship. The live exam applies small adaptive adjustments, so treat this as accurate to within roughly one 10-point step of an official report.
of 805 · 246 section points
Section percentiles
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Unlike the retired exam, whose 200–800 total came out of a proprietary algorithm nobody outside GMAC could reproduce, the current total is a published linear mapping you can work out by hand.
Note your three section scores
Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and Data Insights are each reported on a 60–90 scale in 1-point increments. All three carry equal weight toward your total.
Add the three sections together
A candidate scoring Quant 82, Verbal 80 and Data Insights 78 has a section sum of 240.
Subtract 180 from the sum
180 is the floor, three sections at 60 each. 240 − 180 = 60. This is your position above the minimum.
Multiply by 20/3, then add 205
60 × 20/3 = 400, and 400 + 205 = 605. Every scaled section point is worth roughly 6.7 total-score points, which is why the weakest section is usually the cheapest place to gain.
Round to the nearest valid total
Totals move in 10-point steps and always end in a 5, so 605 is already valid. Three 60s give the 205 floor, three 85s give 705, three 90s give the 805 ceiling.
A useful sanity check on the formula: applying it to GMAC's published section means — Quant 78.06, Verbal 79.34, Data Insights 75.03 — returns 554.5, within half a point of the published mean total of 554.67.
The practical consequence. Every scaled section point is worth the same ~6.7 total points no matter which section it comes from, but the three percentile curves are very different. That makes your weakest section, not your strongest, almost always the cheapest place to buy total points.
Every valid total from 205 to 805, with the share of test takers you outperformed and the corresponding score on the retired 200–800 exam. Percentiles come from GMAC's concordance tables published July 2025, covering exams taken between July 2020 and June 2025.
| Total score | Percentile | Old GMAT (200–800) |
|---|---|---|
| 805 | 100% | 790–800 |
| 795 | 100% | 790 |
| 785 | 100% | 780–790 |
| 775 | 100% | 780 |
| 765 | 99.9% | 780 |
| 755 | 99.9% | 770–780 |
| 745 | 99.7% | 770 |
| 735 | 99.5% | 760–770 |
| 725 | 99.1% | 760 |
| 715 | 98.8% | 750–760 |
| 705 | 98% | 750 |
| 695 | 97.4% | 740–750 |
| 685 | 95.8% | 730–740 |
| 675 | 94.8% | 720–730 |
| 665 | 92.1% | 710–720 |
| 655 | 90.5% | 700–710 |
| 645 | 86.7% | 690–700 |
| 635 | 81.9% | 680–690 |
| 625 | 79.2% | 680 |
| 615 | 76.4% | 650–680 |
| 605 | 70.3% | 650 |
| 595 | 67.1% | 640–650 |
| 585 | 60.6% | 620–640 |
| 575 | 57.4% | 610–620 |
| 565 | 50.9% | 600–610 |
| 555 | 47.8% | 580–600 |
| 545 | 41.9% | 570–580 |
| 535 | 39.2% | 560–570 |
| 525 | 34% | 550–560 |
| 515 | 31.5% | 530–550 |
| 505 | 27.1% | 530 |
| 495 | 25.1% | 500–530 |
| 485 | 21.3% | 490–500 |
| 475 | 19.7% | 470–490 |
| 465 | 16.6% | 460–470 |
| 455 | 15.2% | 450–460 |
| 445 | 12.7% | 440–450 |
| 435 | 11.6% | 410–440 |
| 425 | 9.6% | 400–410 |
| 415 | 8.7% | 380–400 |
| 405 | 7.1% | 370–380 |
| 395 | 6.4% | 350–370 |
| 385 | 5.2% | 350 |
| 375 | 4.7% | 320–350 |
| 365 | 3.8% | 310–320 |
| 355 | 3.4% | 300–310 |
| 345 | 2.7% | 280–300 |
| 335 | 2.4% | 250–280 |
| 325 | 1.9% | 250 |
| 315 | 1.7% | 240–250 |
| 305 | 1.3% | 230–240 |
| 295 | 1.1% | 220–230 |
| 285 | 0.8% | 210–220 |
| 275 | 0.7% | 210 |
| 265 | 0.5% | 210 |
| 255 | 0.4% | 200–210 |
| 245 | 0.3% | 200 |
| 235 | 0.3% | 200 |
| 225 | 0.2% | 200 |
| 215 | 0.2% | 200 |
| 205 | 0.1% | 200 |
Highlighted rows are the totals most often used as admissions benchmarks. GMAC refreshes percentiles annually in the third quarter, so your scaled score stays fixed while its percentile can shift slightly year to year.
The two scales cannot be converted arithmetically. GMAC linked them by percentile, which is why the gap widens as you climb — roughly 45 points at the median, closer to 55 at the top. Subtracting a fixed number does not work.
| Old GMAT | Current scale | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| 760 | 715 | 98.8% |
| 750 | 705 | 98.0% |
| 740 | 695 | 97.4% |
| 730 | 685 | 95.8% |
| 720 | 675 | 94.8% |
| 710 | 665 | 92.1% |
| 700 | 645–655 | 86.7–90.5% |
| 690 | 635–645 | 81.9–86.7% |
| 680 | 615–635 | 76.4–81.9% |
| 650 | 595–615 | 67.1–76.4% |
| 600 | 555–565 | 47.8–50.9% |
| 550 | 515–525 | 31.5–34.0% |
Why this matters for your applications. Many published class profiles and ranking tables still quote medians on the old scale. A school reporting a 730 median is asking for a 685 today. Read your total against an old-scale median without converting and a genuinely competitive score will look 45 points weaker than it is — which is how candidates talk themselves into retakes they don't need.
Where one old score maps to a range, that reflects differing bin sizes between the two scales rather than any ambiguity in GMAC's data.
All three sections share the same 60–90 scale, but their percentile curves are not alike. A 78 in Quant is the 50th percentile; the same 78 in Verbal is the 38th. Knowing which curve you're standing on tells you where an extra point buys the most.
Mean 78.06 · standard deviation 6.35
Widest spread of the three. The middle of the range is sparse, so mid-70s scores sit lower in percentile terms than most people expect.
| Score | Percentile |
|---|
Mean 79.34 · standard deviation 4.75
The tightest distribution on the exam. A single scaled point moves your percentile more here than anywhere else.
| Score | Percentile |
|---|
Mean 75.03 · standard deviation 6.03
The lowest mean of the three, and the section most candidates under-prepare. It carries exactly the same weight as Quant and Verbal.
| Score | Percentile |
|---|
Section percentiles reflect GMAC's 2020–2025 data release, approximately 531,400 exams per section.
A good score is the one that stops an admissions committee asking questions about your academic readiness. In practice that means landing at or above your target programme's median — after converting that median to the current scale, if the school still publishes it on the old one.
Two things worth internalising before you book a retake. The scale compresses badly at the top: going from 655 to 705 moves you from the 91st to the 98th percentile, while the identical 50-point gain from 505 to 555 moves you from the 27th to the 48th. Points get dramatically more expensive as you climb.
And the standard error of measurement on the total is roughly 30–40 points. A 645 and a 665 are not meaningfully different performances. If your plan is to retake for 20 points, the exam cannot reliably tell the difference between the two outcomes.
Your three section scores — Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and Data Insights — are summed and mapped linearly onto the 205–805 scale using Total = (Q + V + DI − 180) × 20/3 + 205, rounded to the nearest valid 10-point step. All three sections are weighted equally, so one scaled section point is worth about 6.7 total-score points. GMAC's live exam applies small adaptive adjustments, so treat any calculator result as accurate to within roughly one 10-point step of your official report.
The total score runs from 205 to 805 in 10-point increments, and every valid total ends in a 5. Each of the three sections is scored 60 to 90 in 1-point increments. If you see a GMAT score ending in 0, it is from the retired 200–800 exam, which GMAC stopped offering on 31 January 2024.
Nothing — it is the exam. GMAC launched the Focus Edition in late 2023, retired the classic four-section GMAT on 31 January 2024, then dropped the 'Focus Edition' label in July 2024 because it had become the only version available. If you are registering for the GMAT today, you are taking what was briefly called the Focus Edition. Any study material that still mentions the Analytical Writing Assessment, a separate Integrated Reasoning score, or Sentence Correction is describing an exam that no longer exists.
The mean total is 554.67, which sits at roughly the 48th percentile. A 645 is the 86.7th percentile and is the closest equivalent to the old 700 — competitive at most top-25 programmes. A 685 is the 95.8th percentile and is competitive everywhere, including M7 schools. Below 605 you will generally need clear offsetting strengths elsewhere in the application.
A 645 is the 86.7th percentile, meaning you outperformed roughly 87% of test takers. It maps to a 690–700 on the retired 200–800 scale, which is why it is often described as the new 700.
805, achieved with a perfect 90 on all three sections. On the retired exam the maximum was 800. In practice anything from 735 upward already sits at the 100th percentile, so the difference between a 735 and an 805 has no percentile meaning for admissions.
Use GMAC's official concordance, reproduced in the chart on this page. The mapping is percentile-based rather than arithmetic, so subtracting a fixed number of points does not work. A 645 equals roughly a 700 classic, a 685 about a 730, and a 705 about a 750. The gap widens as you move up the scale — around 45 points at the median but closer to 55 at the top.
Many published class profiles and rankings still quote medians on the old 200–800 scale. If a school reports a 730 median, the current-scale equivalent is 685. Comparing your total directly against an old-scale median will make a competitive score look far weaker than it is — a mistake that pushes candidates into unnecessary retakes.
Yes, and this is the change most candidates underestimate. On the retired exam, Integrated Reasoning sat on its own 1–8 scale and did not affect the 200–800 total at all. Data Insights replaced it and now contributes a full third of your total. A weak Data Insights score drags your total down exactly as hard as a weak Quant score.
Usually your weakest, because every scaled section point is worth the same 6.7 total-score points regardless of which section it comes from — but the percentile curves differ sharply. Verbal has the tightest distribution, with a standard deviation of just 4.75, so small Verbal gains move your section percentile fastest. Data Insights has the lowest mean, so it often has the most headroom.
Five years from your test date — not the date the score posts, and not the date you send it. The five-year rule applies identically to scores from the retired 200–800 exam, so a classic score from 2023 remains reportable into 2028. Your scaled score stays fixed, but the percentile attached to it shifts slightly when GMAC refreshes the tables each year.
Up to five times in a rolling 12-month period and eight times in total, with a 16-day gap between attempts. Worth knowing before you book a retake: the standard error of measurement on the total is roughly 30–40 points, so a 645 and a 665 are not meaningfully different performances. Retaking to chase a 20-point gain rarely justifies the slot.
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