Are you taking the GMAT soon or have you recently taken it? If so, you might be wondering, how long does it take to get GMAT scores? It’s important to know when you’ll get your GMAT scores so that you can plan how early you’ll need to take the test in order to get your scores sent in time for school application deadlines.

In this guide, I’ll be explaining how long it will take to get your GMAT scores, when schools school receive your GMAT score reports, and how to use this information to plan for your GMAT test.

How Long Does It Take to Get GMAT Scores?

Your GMAT score consists of five parts: verbal, quantitative, total score, integrated reasoning, and analytical writing. You will receive your integrated reasoning, verbal, quantitative, and total scores on your unofficial score report. You will receive all five of your scores when you receive your official score report.

For more information about GMAT scores, check our our guide to the GMAT score range.

Unofficial GMAT Score Reporting

As soon as you finish the GMAT, you will receive your GMAT unofficial score. After you complete your test, the computer screen will show your unofficial verbal, unofficial quantitative, and unofficial integrated reasoning scores, as well as your unofficial total score. You will also see your unofficial percentile ranking for each section. Check out this sample unofficial score report from MBA.com.

Source: MBA.com

As you can see, on your unofficial score report, you receive your scaled scores for four sections, including the total score, which is scored according to your quantitative and verbal scores. Your analytical writing section will be scored by human graders, so it’s not included in your official score.

What is an unofficial score? Well, every student who takes the GMAT takes a slightly different version of the test, depending on where and when they take it. Your GMAT score and percentile for each section is compared with other students who are taking the same test. Sometimes, you may take a slightly more difficult or slightly easier version of the test. The unofficial score gives a snapshot of how you performed based to other test takers.

However, the unofficial score doesn’t take into account whether your version of the test was slightly easier or more difficult than a different version. Your official scores are double-checked against other test takers to ensure that every test is weighted according to its difficulty. It’s very rare, however, for there to be a difference between unofficial and official scores. If there’s any difference, it’s usually only a few points.

You have the option to cancel your GMAT score if you’re not happy with your performance. After viewing your unofficial score, you should decide whether or not you want to keep your scores. If you keep your scores, they will be sent to the schools you chose on your GMAT registration. If you decide to cancel, your scores will not be sent to any schools. Only you will know if you cancel your scores. You can cancel your score right after the exam at the test center for free, or within 72 hours of taking the exam (for $25).

Source: MBA.com

Official GMAT Score Reporting

Your official GMAT score report will be available within 20 days of taking your exam. Once your scores are available, you will receive an email from Pearson VUE with a unique link to view your scores. You can also view, download, and print your scores by visiting MBA.com.

Your official score report includes your final, official scores and percentile ranking for the verbal, quantitative and integrated reasoning sections. You will also see your final, official total score and your final, official analytical writing score. Remember, this is the first time you’ll be seeing your analytical writing score.

Source: MBA.com

How Long Does It Take Schools to Get GMAT Scores?

While you’re the only one who sees your unofficial scores, you’re not the only one who will get to see your GMAT official scores. You have the option of sending your official scores to schools before or after the exam.

Your GMAT exam fee includes sending your official GMAT score report to up to five schools. You need to select these schools at the test center before you start your exam. It’s a good idea to have a list of schools in mind that you want to send your scores to so that you can take advantage of this reporting on the date of your test. You don’t have to send any scores when you take the test, but it won’t be free if you send your scores at a later date. It costs $28 to send additional score reports.

Remember, if you cancel your scores, the schools you select won’t receive your score report.

The schools you select at the test center will receive your official score report within 20 calendar days of your exam (the same as you). It’s important to consider application deadlines when planning when to take your exam. Since it takes about three weeks to send your scores, you want to make sure you schedule your exam with plenty of time for your scores to arrive before the deadline.

If you choose to send additional schools your scores, or to send your score reports at a later time, a $28 fee per school will apply. You can’t do this until after you receive your official scores, so you’ll need to wait at least 20 days to send additional score reports.

Additional score reports will be sent about five business days after you place an order.

Your GMAT score is valid for five years and you can pay to send additional score reports for as long as your scores are valid. If you cancel your scores at the test center, but wish to reinstate them at a later date, a $50 fee applies. After it’s reinstated, your official score report will be sent to the school you selected at the test center for no additional fees. All additional score reports will still cost $28 per report.

GMAT Score Reporting: What Does It Mean For You?

It’s important to know when and how schools will receive your official score report. This will help you decide when to take the GMAT so that you meet all your application deadlines. For instance, if you want to apply to a school that has a deadline of December 1, you’ll want to take the GMAT at least 20 days before this so that the school will receive your scores on time.

If you’re unhappy with your scores or decide to cancel them, know that you have to wait at least 16 days to take the GMAT again. However, you’ll likely need more time to study if you want to improve your score so seriously consider whether you have enough time to fit in a test retake before your application deadline.

If you do decide to retake the exam, check out PrepScholar GMAT’s comprehensive online course. It’s the only online course that offers a 60 point score improvement guarantee!

Summary: How Long Does It Take to Get GMAT Scores?

You’ll get your unofficial verbal, quantitative, integrated reasoning, and total scores immediately after finishing the GMAT. You can decided whether you want to keep or cancel these scores.

Your official GMAT score report will be available within 20 calendar days after you take the test. The schools you chose at the test center will also receive your scores at this time. You can order additional score reports after you receive your official scores.

What’s Next?

Wondering how long you should study for the GMAT? Check out our step-by-step guide to planning your GMAT prep.

Still not sure when to take the exam? Learn more about choosing the best GMAT test date for you.

Trying to figure out how important the GMAT total score is? Learn all about it in our GMAT total score guide.

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Unlike a diamond, a GMAT score isn’t forever. But how long do GMAT scores last, exactly? After five years, GMAT scores are no longer valid for business school admission. After 10 years, you can’t even see them!

If you’re applying to a business program, you’ll need to send scores that are five or fewer years old. Read on to find out the exact policies around how long GMAT scores last and how these policies affect your test-taking schedule.

First, let’s take a closer look at the rules for GMAT score validity.

How Long Are GMAT Scores Valid?

GMAT scores are valid for five years from the date you took the test. You can sign into your account at MBA.com to see any GMAT scores that you accepted in the past five years.

If you want to see scores from a GMAT that you took more than five but fewer than 10 years ago, then you can gain access to them via a special score report request. You’d have to call customer service and pay a fee of $28. This hard copy score report is mostly available for your own benefit, since business schools won’t accept GMAT scores that are older than five years.

If you took the GMAT over a decade ago and want to see your scores just for old time’s sake, then hopefully, you wrote them down. Any GMAT scores that are 10 years or older scores are long gone. You wouldn’t be able to get ahold of them unless you kept your own personal record.

As you just read, you can access scores that are older than five years (but younger than 10), but business schools probably won’t accept them. How long are GMAT scores valid for business schools?

Will Business Schools Accept Old GMAT Scores?

Business schools consider GMAT scores to be valid for five years. This five-year mark typically starts five years prior to a school’s application deadline. Any scores older than that don’t fulfill application requirements.

Harvard Business School, for example, had a Round 1 admissions deadline of September 7 in 2016. To apply, students had to send scores from a GMAT taken after September 7, 2011.

Stanford Business School has a similar policy. To apply for its Round 1 September 21, 2016 deadline, students had to have taken the GMAT on or after September 21, 2011.

Most schools set the cutoff five years prior to their application deadline. If you’re not sure if your scores make the cut, you should contact the admissions office to learn more. They should be able to tell you the exact date from which GMAT scores are considered valid.

While most schools will accept GMAT scores that are five years old, a few only want scores from the “Next Generation GMAT,” the redesigned version that was introduced in 2012.

Columbia Business School, for example, says that scores are valid for five years, but then it adds this caveat: “Both the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) and Integrated Reasoning (IR) sections are required if you take the GMAT.”

Since the IR section was introduced in 2012, GMAT scores from 2011 wouldn’t be valid. Old GMAT scores only count if they come from a test taken in or after June 2012, as that was the first month that the GMAT contained Integrated Reasoning.

If you’re solely concerned with accessing your GMAT scores, then all you need to know is that they’ll stay in your MBA.com account for five years. If you’re using them to apply to business school, though, then you should contact admissions offices to make sure you know any school-specific policies.

In other words, don’t assume that there’s a one size fits all rule when it comes to GMAT score validity in business school admissions. Each school is different, and each can set its own rules. Make sure you know what they are before applying.

Now let’s say that you took the GMAT more than once in the past few years to improve your scores. Will business schools see all your scores from every time you sat for the GMAT?

Do Business Schools See All Your GMAT Scores?

When you take the GMAT, you have the option of keeping or canceling your scores. Right after you finish taking the exam, you’ll see your unofficial score report with your IR, Quantitative, Verbal, and total scores (everything but Analytical Writing Assessment). Based on these scores, you can decide whether to keep or cancel the test.

In past years, business schools could see that you canceled scores from a test sitting. As of 2015, though, canceled scores are no longer indicated on score reports. Even canceled scores from tests taken prior to 2015 will no longer appear on score reports.

You don’t have to worry about schools knowing how many times you took the GMAT. If you crashed and burned during your first try, no one has to know but you.

You also now have the option to reinstate canceled scores from any test taken on or after January 1, 2014 for a fee of $50. You can reinstate scores up to four years and 11 months from your test date. This reinstatement period is a month shy of five years to allow time for processing your request.

Now that you have a sense of the rules around GMAT scores, let’s consider what they mean for your planning. How do these policies around score validity, cancellation, and reinstatement affect your test taking schedule?  

How Do GMAT Score Policies Affect Your Schedule?

The five-year rule for GMAT scores doesn’t affect most people’s test taking schedule a great deal. Generally speaking, people start preparing for the GMAT when they decide to go to business school, so they don’t have to worry about their scores being too old.

There are three main scenarios when GMAT score policies might affect your plans. Read on to see if any of them apply to you.

Scenario #1: You’re Worried Your Scores Are Too Old

If you took the GMAT years ago and are unsure if your scores are still valid, then you should check with each business school that you’re applying to. That way, you can confirm that you’re meeting individual, school-specific application requirements.

Most schools will accept scores that you took five years prior to their Round 1, Round 2, or Round 3 application deadline. Others only want scores from the most recent version of the GMAT, which was first administered in June of 2012.

You could start by looking for this information on each school’s admission website. If you can’t find it there, then you should email or call up the admissions office and ask about its GMAT policy.

Scenario #2: You Want to Take the GMAT as an Undergraduate

If you’re an undergraduate thinking about taking the GMAT, you should consider whether you’ll be applying to business school within five years. Most applicants have at least two to three years of work experience on their resume before applying, so you might be cutting it close.

As long as you meet the five-year cutoff, taking the GMAT during or right after college can be beneficial. Since you’ll still be in academic mode, you may not have to study as much as you would if you waited until several years after graduation. Your math, verbal, and test-taking skills might be as sharp as they’ll ever be.

If your plans change in subsequent years, you can always take the GMAT again, as long as you are able to pay the $250 registration fee again or get a voucher that covers all or part of the cost.

Scenario #3: You Need to Reapply to Business Schools

Finally, this five-year rule for GMAT validity is useful if you don’t get into business schools the first time around and decide to try again the following year. You won’t have to take the test over again, because you can send the same results along with your new applications.

The only reason you would take the GMAT again is if you seek higher scores. Otherwise, your scores will be just as valid for the following year’s admissions as they were for the current year’s, as long as they haven’t passed the five-year mark.

Unless any of the above three scenarios apply to you, the five-year rule of GMAT score validity probably won’t affect your test taking plans all that much. As we finish up, let’s go over some key points you should remember regarding our original query, How long are GMAT scores valid?

How Long Do GMAT Scores Last? Final Thoughts

When asking ourselves, “how long do GMAT scores last?”, it’s useful to come at the question from two angles.

First, we can think about how long the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) holds onto GMAT scores. GMAC keeps GMAT scores for five years, and you can access them online or over the phone. The organization also allows you to request a special score report for GMAT scores between five and 10 years old.

The second angle we should consider is how long GMAT scores are valid for business schools. Like GMAC, most business schools accept scores up to five years old. This five-year cutoff typically starts five years from the application deadline.

Because each school sets its own rules, you need to check requirements on a school by school basis, especially if you’re worried about your scores being too old.

What about if you’re interested in taking the GMAT, but don’t have any concrete plans to apply to business school yet? In this case, you may opt to take the exam if you feel you could get an especially strong score.

As long as you apply within five years, your scores will meet the application requirement. There doesn’t seem to be any advantage to sending scores that are a year old compared to scores that are three years old.

This five-year rule can be useful for anyone who wants to take the GMAT early and then be free to focus on the rest of their business school applications. As long as you fulfill business school requirements, then you can feel confident sending off your GMAT score reports.

What’s Next?

When you take the GMAT, you’ll have to decide whether to keep or cancel your scores. But what makes a good GMAT score? Check out this guide to find out.

What’s a competitive GMAT percentile for business school? Consult this guide to see how GMAT section scores and total scores match up with percentiles.

Are you scoring at or above average on your practice tests? This article on average GMAT scores explains what scores you need to stand out from the pack.

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You’ve spent months getting ready to take the GMAT – studying after work or school, taking practice tests on the weekends, familiarizing yourself with the content and structure of the exam. You know your goal score and you know which schools you want to apply to. Test day is almost upon you! But you’re still not sure how to send GMAT scores to the schools you’re applying to.

In this guide, I’ll discuss the two methods for sending GMAT scores to the business programs of your choice. For each method, I’ll talk about what it is, how much it costs, and how to do it. Finally, I’ll talk about what score reports include and give some advice regarding how far in advance you need to send your GMAT scores to make sure they arrive on time for application deadlines.

How to Send GMAT Scores to Schools: 4 Free Reports

Part of your GMAT registration fee covers automatically sending your GMAT score report to up to five schools of your choosing. In this section, I’ll talk about when and how you choose which schools to send your score reports to, as well as when programs receive your score reports.

On test day, before you actually take the exam, you’ll have the option to decide up to five schools that you want to receive your test scores. You’ll select these schools online at the test center by looking up the school’s name and code. Follow these steps when sending your free score reports:

1. Before test day, decide on the five schools that you’re planning on sending your scores to.
2. At the test center before the test, select the schools you’re going to send your scores to. The test center will guide you through this process.
3. After your exam, if you decide to keep your scores, they will be automatically sent to the schools you selected when they’re available.

The five schools you pick to receive your GMAT scores will receive them within 20 days of your test date (the same time you’ll receive your official scores). Because you’ve selected these schools on test day, they’ll be automatically sent to each school’s admissions office – there’s no need to do anything after you complete your test.

I would suggest taking advantage of this feature to send all five score reports if you’re planning on applying to five or more business schools. Every additional score report you send will cost money, so it makes sense to take advantage of the free reporting.

It’ll also take more time and effort to send additional score reports after test day, as you’ll have to order more score reports and wait for them to be sent. Make sure you come into test day knowing which five schools you’ll select to send your scores so that you’re not wasting time or stressing about a big decision before the test.

If you’re worried about selecting schools to send your reports to because you don’t want to send a low score, don’t sweat it. You can always cancel your scores at the end of the test ifaren’t happy with your score. You also have the option to retake and resend your scores. Schools only really care about your highest score, anyways.

How to Send GMAT Scores to Schools: Additional Reports

If you’re applying to more than five business programs or if you weren’t sure which schools you wanted to send GMAT scores to on test day, you can always order additional score reports for a fee.

Each additional score report you send after test day costs $28 (even if you didn’t use all five of your free score reports on test day itself).

In order to send additional score reports, you can either login to your account on MBA.com or contact GMAC customer service over the phone. However, there is an extra $10 surcharge for ordering your score reports over the phone.

When ordering additional score reports, you need to have the name of the programs you’re applying to and provide a credit card for the $28 score reporting fee.

Additional score reports are sent out within seven days of the request being received. Unfortunately, there is no way to rush sending GMAT scores, so make sure you order your score reports with plenty of time before your application deadline.

You can order GMAT scores that are more than five years old by contacting GMAC customer service over the phone. Note that GMAC strongly discourages using older scores, as the format of the exam has changed in the last five years, and most business schools won’t accept older scores.

What’s on a GMAT Score Report?

What do business programs see when they get your GMAT score report? Let’s review what’s shown on a GMAT score report and what you can or cannot choose to hide.

An official GMAT score report consists of five parts:

• Total Scaled Score (on a scale from 200 to 800)
• Verbal Scaled Score (on a scale from 0 to 60)
• Quantitative Scaled Score (on a scale from 0 to 60)
• Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) Score (on a scale from 0 to 6)
• Integrated Reasoning Score (on a scale from 1 to 8)

The total score is a scaled combination of the verbal and quantitative scaled score. It reflects how well you did on the multiple-choice parts of the test. The AWA and Integrated Reasoning sections do NOT affect the total score.

Let’s take a look at a sample GMAT score report from GMAC.

Your score report will include all of your active GMAT scores. If you choose to cancel your scores on test day or 72 hours after test day, your scores won’t be reflected in your score report.

Notice that your score report also includes: your self-reported GPA and graduation date, undergraduate institution, and undergraduate major, among other information.

How Far in Advance Should You Send GMAT Scores?

Planning ahead helps ensure that your GMAT scores will arrive at your target business school programs well in advance of application deadlines.

You should aim to take the GMAT at least two months before your first application deadline, so that your scores arrive with plenty of time. Remember, initial scores take up to 20 days to be sent to schools.

If you’re sending additional score reports on a test you’ve already taken, you should give the scores at least two weeks to arrive at admissions offices.

In general, you’ll want to at least double the average time it takes score reports to be sent, just in case there are any delays. Doubling the average time it takes score reports to be sent ensures that your scores will arrive well ahead of your application deadlines.

What’s Next?

Not sure which GMAT score is important, or how the different numbers are calculated? Read our expert guide to find out what makes up a GMAT total score and why schools prioritize the out-of-800 score.

What’s a good GMAT score? Learn what score you should shoot for in our complete guide to GMAT scores.

Should you retake the GMAT? We walk you through the questions you need to ask yourself before taking the exam again.

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In this guide, I’ll cover everything you need to know about your GMAT score report: what’s on it, what it means, and how schools use it in their MBA admissions decisions. I’ll cover what’s actually on a GMAT score report, both official and unofficial, show you a GMAT official score report sample, and walk you through some of the most frequently asked questions about GMAT score reports.

What’s on a GMAT Score Report?

There are two basic types of GMAT score report. You receive your unofficial GMAT score report as soon as you finish the test.  Your unofficial GMAT score report includes your unofficial scores for each part of the test, except for the analytical writing assessment.

You’ll receive your GMAT official score report within 20 calendar days after you finish taking your exam. Your official score report includes your official scores for every part of the test.

Your GMAT score report also contains information about you as a test-taker, as well as scores from all the GMATs you have ever taken, with the exception of any scores you’ve canceled. Let’s take a look at the two different types of GMAT score reports.

Unofficial GMAT Score Report

You’ll get your unofficial GMAT score report as soon as you finish the test. It shows up on your computer screen before you exit the program.

Your unofficial GMAT score report will show your unofficial verbal, unofficial quantitative, and unofficial integrated reasoning scores, as well as your unofficial total score. You won’t get an unofficial AWA score, because your AWA essay needs to be read to get its score.

You’ll also get a preview of your percentile ranking. Your percentile ranking is super important for understanding how well you performed when compared to other people who took the GMAT. For instance, if your ranking is 76%, that means you did better than 76% of test-takers. The higher your percentile ranking, the higher the percentage of test-takers you did better than.

When you see your unofficial score, you’ll have an opportunity to cancel delivery of your GMAT official score report. If you feel like you didn’t perform very well, and you still have time to retake the GMAT, you may want to consider canceling your scores. You can cancel your scores at the test center for free, or you can wait up to 72 hours to cancel them for a fee. For more information about why and how you may cancel your GMAT scores, check out our guide on sending GMAT scores.

You’ll also receive a printout of your unofficial score report to take home with you after the exam. This printout will have additional information, like your ID number and your authentication code, which you’ll need to easily access your scores electronically once your official GMAT score report is available.

GMAT Official Score Report

As you can see in this GMAT official score report sample, your GMAT official score report has information about you as a test-taker, as well as your GMAT official scores. This report will be sent to the programs you’re applying to, so there’s more information on your profile that helps identify you, including your country of citizenship and your self-reported GPA, than on the unofficial report.

The first part of your GMAT official score report has information about where and when you took the GMAT. This information is important in case there’s any discrepancy with your test or with the test center, such as an inaccurately reported result. You can use this information when speaking with GMAC to help identify your exam session and clear up any issues. Discrepancies are extremely rare, so don’t worry too much about this information.

The next section of your score report has test-taker information, like your email address, date of birth, and GMAT ID. All of this information is automatically populated based on information that you gave GMAC when you registered for your test.

The third section includes optional test taker information. You can choose whether or not you want to report this information and you can choose what information you report. This section includes information about your undergraduate university or college, your graduation date, and your GPA. The section heading says that this is “self-reported,” which tells schools that you report this information yourself in case of any discrepancies.

Finally, as you can see from this GMAT official score report sample, your official GMAT score report has all of your official GMAT scores on it.

Your official GMAT score consists of five parts:

• Total Scaled Score (on a scale from 200 to 800)
• Verbal Scaled Score (on a scale from 0 to 60)
• Quantitative Scaled Score (on a scale from 0 to 60)
• Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) Score (on a scale from 0 to 6)
• Integrated Reasoning Score (on a scale from 1 to 8)

The total score is a scaled combination of the verbal and quantitative scaled score. It reflects how well you did on the quant and verbal sections of the GMAT. The AWA and Integrated Reasoning sections do NOT affect the total score.

Your score report will include all of your active GMAT scores. If you choose to cancel your scores on test day or 72 hours after test day, your scores won’t be reflected in your GMAT official score report.

All admissions committees will see exactly the same information you do when they view your official score report. That means that they’ll see all of your active GMAT scores, as well. But don’t worry about admissions committees seeing your old scores: they’ll only take into account your highest GMAT scores in their decision.

GMAT Score Report FAQ

In this section, I’ll go over some frequently asked questions about GMAT score reports, including how much they cost and how to send them.

#1: How Much Do GMAT Score Reports Cost?

Your GMAT registration fee covers sending your official GMAT score report to up to five schools for free. If you want to send your GMAT scores to more schools, it costs $28 per school. There’s no way to expedite your GMAT scores as this time, so make sure you pay attention to application deadlines so that you’re sending your scores with plenty of time.

#2: How Do You Send GMAT Scores?

Part of your GMAT registration fee covers automatically sending your score report to up to five schools of your choosing. These schools must be selected at the test center before your start your exam. You don’t have to send any scores at this time, but it won’t be free if you send your scores at a later date. Remember, if you cancel your scores, the schools you select won’t receive your report. It costs $28 to send additional score reports, which you can order by phone or online. For more information about sending your GMAT scores, check out our guide.

#3: Can You Order Another GMAT Score Report?

If you choose to send additional schools your scores, or to send your score reports at a later time, a $28 fee per school will apply. You’ll need to wait to do this until you receive your official score report. You can order more score reports online or by phone. There’s an additional $10 fee to order your GMAT score report by phone.

#4: How Long Does It Take For Schools to Get Your GMAT Scores?

Schools receive your official score report electronically within 20 calendar days of your exam (the same time you do). Additional score reports will be sent about five business days after you place an order. You can choose to send your additional score reports online, by fax, by phone, or through the mail. If you choose to send your GMAT score report by mail, you’ll have to pay an additional fee. If you choose to send your score reports online, by phone, or by fax, the school will receive them around five business days after you place the order. If you send the reports by mail, it’ll likely take longer, depending on shipping speeds.

#5: How Do Schools Use Your GMAT Score Report?

Admissions committees use your GMAT score report as an indicator of your academic preparedness for an MBA program. It shows schools how ready you are to take on the rigorous coursework in MBA classes. Schools want their students to succeed, so they look for applicants that are ready to handle the demands of their programs. Your undergraduate GPA and grades in any supplemental coursework you’ve taken also give programs information about your academic preparedness.

#6: What Does Your Percentile Score Mean?

Your percentile score tells how well you performed when compared to other people who took the GMAT. If your ranking is 64%, that means you did better than 64% of test-takers. The higher your percentile ranking, the higher the percentage of test-takers you did better than.

#7: Do Admissions Programs Really See Your Old GMAT Scores?

For the most part, yes. As I mentioned before, your official GMAT scores will show up on your official GMAT score report, except for any scores you’ve canceled. However, any scores that are over five years old won’t show up on your score report. You can pay to get scores that are between five and ten years old reinstated to your score report. Any scores that are more than ten years old are no longer valid.

Remember, schools will focus way more on your highest scores. It also always looks good to an admissions committee if they see that you’ve improved your GMAT scores overtime. Improving your scores shows you’re dedicated to your academic performance and willing to work hard to achieve your goals

What’s Next?

Carrier pigeon? Email? Snail mail? Wondering how to send your GMAT scores? Learn all about sending your official GMAT score report in our complete guide.

Now that you know what’s on your GMAT score report, dive into what your score actually means with our guide to your GMAT total score and learn how important your GMAT total score really is.

What even is a good GMAT score? In our guide to what makes a good GMAT score, we’ll break down what makes a strong GMAT score for different schools and tell you how to decide what’s a good GMAT score for your goals.

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