GRE to GMAT Score Conversion

This post was updated in 2024 for the new GMAT.

Have you just taken the GRE and do you wonder what you would get on the GMAT? Did you apply to a b-school with a GRE score and do you want to see how you stack up against the GMAT competition? In both cases, you will definitely want to know the GRE to GMAT score conversion. Check the chart below when weighing GRE scores vs. GMAT scores.

Table of Contents

• Comparing GRE and GMAT Scores
• GRE to GMAT Classic Conversion Chart
• GRE to New GMAT Conversion Chart
• Average Test Scores for Top 20 MBA Programs

Comparing GRE and GMAT Scores

Some might quip that comparing GRE and GMAT scores is like comparing apples and oranges. Is a perfect GMAT score equivalent to a perfect GRE score? Isn’t the math section on the GMAT more difficult than the one on the GRE? Though such questions do show that the comparison is not perfect—perhaps an oranges to tangerines one—this is still a “close-enough” approximation. For those who just took the GRE and are considering taking the GMAT, or vice versa, figuring out exactly how you’ll do on one test can be very difficult. To confound our attempts at conversion even more is the fact that not all of us have the same skill set. For instance, you may be strong at vocabulary, but not so strong at grammar. This imbalance will work against you on the GMAT. Likewise, you might have scored 90% on the GRE quant, but since the quant competition for the GMAT is much stiffer you will in likelihood not score 90% on the GMAT quant section.

With the launch in 2023 of the new shorter GMAT test the already tricky task of comparing GRE and GMAT scores became harder. In fact, GMAC (the GMAT test makers) argue the tests are so different that it’s impossible to compare them.

How to Use These Charts

Business schools know very well about the asymmetries cited above. Moreover, we don’t know how business schools compare GRE to GMAT scores internally. So why publish conversion charts at all? We believe that when you are applying to MBA programs it’s helpful to have as much information as possible – and that learning to critically read data is an important business skill. You should read these conversion charts in tandem with our average test scores chart. And you should always put your test scores in conversation with the rest of your application materials. Choosing whether to take the GMAT or GRE (or both) can be difficult: reading these charts together and taking GRE and GMAT diagnostic tests can help make your decision easier.

GRE to GMAT Classic Conversion Chart

This chart was built using data from the ETS GRE to GMAT conversion tool. It converts GRE scores to the classic 200-800 score range GMAT long test. It was designed to help test takers predict their performance on the GMAT Verbal and Quantitative sections using their GRE Verbal and Quant scores.

GRE to New GMAT Conversion Chart

ETS does not have a similar tool to compare the GRE to the new, shorter GMAT. For this chart we combined the GRE to GMAT Classic tool and GMAC’s Classic to New GMAT conversion data. This provides a rough estimation of what a GRE to New GMAT conversion would look like.

Average Test Scores for Top 20 MBA Programs

This chart was compiled from data about each program’s incoming class of 2025. New GMAT scores are not currently being reported by programs; the scores seen here reflect our conversions using GMAC data.

 
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