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There are actually two different types of GRE Verbal scores: a scaled score (on a 0-800 scale) and a percentile rank (from 0% to 99%) — although only scaled scores are reported to the schools. One way to compare your performance on practice tests to that of other test takers is to calculate a raw score, which is simply the total number of questions you answer correctly, and then use a table to convert that number to a scaled score and percentile rank.
To gauge your performance on the 40 GRE Verbal practice questions at this site, keep track of your raw score for all four practice sets. Then use the following table to convert raw score to scaled score. You can also estimate your percentile rank using the same table.
[How to Interpret the Table]
NOTE: An actual GRE Verbal section consists of 30 questions. Use the below table only for the 40 Verbal practice questions at this site.
..raw score | scaled score | percentile rank 40 ---------- 800 --------- 99
39 ---------- 790 --------- 99
38 ---------- 780 --------- 98
37 ---------- 760 --------- 97
36 ---------- 740 --------- 96
35 ---------- 720 --------- 94
34 ---------- 700 --------- 92
33 ---------- 680 --------- 90
32 ---------- 660 --------- 88
31 ---------- 640 --------- 86
30 ---------- 620 --------- 84
29 ---------- 600 --------- 81
28 ---------- 580 --------- 77
27 ---------- 560 --------- 73
26 ---------- 540 --------- 68
25 ---------- 520 --------- 63
24 ---------- 510 --------- 57
23 ---------- 490 --------- 50
22 ---------- 470 --------- 44
21 ---------- 460 --------- 38
20 ---------- 440 --------- 33
19 ---------- 420 --------- 28
18 ---------- 400 --------- 24
17 ---------- 390 --------- 20
16 ---------- 370 --------- 17
15 ---------- 350 --------- 15
14 ---------- 330 --------- 13
13 ---------- 310 --------- 11
12 ---------- 290 --------- 9
11 ---------- 270 --------- 7
10 ---------- 250 --------- 5
9 ----------- 230 --------- 3
8 ----------- 220 --------- 2
6-7 --------- 210 --------- 1
0-5 --------- 200 --------- 0
How to Interpret the Table- Verbal scaled scores are based on a 200-800 scale. (There's nothing magic about this number range; it's just GRE testing tradition.)
- Percentile ranking (0% to 99%) shows how you performed relative to all others taking the GRE over a recent multi-year period. A percentile ranking of 60, for example, indicates that you scored higher than 60% of all other test takers (and lower than 40% of all other test takers). NOTE: Percentile rankings are not reported to the graduate schools.
- One additional correct response makes the biggest percentile difference near the middle of the performance "curve" (because it's a typical bell curve).
- If you missed 7 or fewer questions out of 40 questions, expect to rank in the top decile (10%) in GRE Verbal Reasoning.
- If you responded correctly to 23 questions out of 40 questions, expect to rank near the 50th percentile in GRE Verbal Reasoning.
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