GMAT Score Chart 2027: Percentiles and Old GMAT Conversion

The exam has three sections, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and Data Insights, each scored from 60 to 90. Your total runs from 205 to 805 in steps of 10 and always ends in 5, so it can never be confused with a score from the old exam (GMAC, 2026).

The three sections count equally towards the total (mba.com, 2026). That makes the sum of your section scores, between 180 and 270, the number that drives your total. GMAC does not publish the exact conversion, but reported scores follow a steady pattern: every 3 section points add 20 to the total. The chart below uses that pattern for its section columns.

For each total: its percentile, the smallest section sum that reaches it, one even split of that sum, and the old GMAT scores at the same percentile.

Percentiles and old GMAT equivalents are from GMAC's Total Score Concordance Table, published August 2026 (GMAC, 2026). Section sums and splits are OnePrep's calculation from the pattern above; any split with the same sum gives the same total.

Section percentiles are where the three sections stop looking alike. The same score can sit at very different percentiles, because fewer test takers reach the top of some sections than others.

Quant and Verbal figures are GMAC's August 2026 concordance tables (GMAC Quant, GMAC Verbal, 2026). GMAC publishes no Data Insights concordance table, since Data Insights has no old GMAT section to compare against, so the Data Insights column is approximate, based on GMAC's previous percentile release and rounded to whole numbers. Your official score report shows the exact current figure.

The total counts points, not percentiles. A Verbal 85 (92.6th percentile) and a Data Insights 85 (about the 98th) add exactly the same 85 to your section sum.

You cannot compare the two scales number for number. GMAC says comparing total or section scores across the editions "is not appropriate, accurate, or a meaningful comparison of performance", and recommends comparing percentiles instead (mba.com, 2026). Its concordance table does exactly that. Here is where the old scores applicants still quote land today:

Equivalents are from GMAC's Total Score Concordance Table, August 2026 (GMAC, 2026). A range means several current totals share the same old-scale percentile band. If a school's class profile still quotes an old-scale average, convert it here before setting your target.

GMAC updates its percentile tables every year in the third quarter (GMAC, 2026). The current tables, published in August 2026, are based on test takers between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2026. The same total can therefore sit at a slightly different percentile from one year to the next, even though the score itself never changes.

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