Format & Scoring

Intro: Before you begin your exam, you will sit through a computer tutorial designed to help you become familiar with computerized testing. You can review this information for as long as you please.

Section 1 – AWA: For the Analytical Writing Assessment, you will be asked to compose two 30-minute essays. The first essay will ask you to analyze a given argument; the second will ask you to analyze a given issue.

Section 2 – Quant: You have 75 minutes to answer 37 multiple-choice quantitative questions that come in two formats. Problem Solving questions (approximately 22 out of the 37 questions) are multiple choice math questions that ask you to solve for a specific value.. Data Sufficiency questions (approximately 15 of the 37 questions) ask you to decide whether or not you are given sufficient information to answer a mathematical question.

Section 3 – Verbal: You have 75 minutes to answer 41 multiple-choice verbal questions in three formats. Sentence Correction questions ask you to choose the most grammatically accurate sentence. Critical Reasoning questions demand that you assess the logic of short arguments. Reading Comprehension involves reading short passages and answering questions based on that particular passage. Each verbal question type comprises approximately one-third of the Verbal section.

TEST FORMAT	# OF QUESTIONS	TIME
The Essays      Analysis of an Argument      Analysis of an Issue	1 1	30 min 30 min
“Optional” Break		8 min
Quantitative      Problem Solving (~22)      Data Sufficiency (~15)	37 ~22 ~15	75 min
“Optional” Break		8 min
Verbal      Sentence Correction      Critical Reasoning      Reading Comprehension	41 14-15 13-14 12-14	75 min
		3 hrs 26 min (+ break)

Your Score Report

Find your quantitative subscore on the horizontal axis and find your verbal subscore on the vertical axis; plot the resulting point on the chart. If the point lands on a solid line, your score is approximately equal to the score associated with the line. If the point does not land on a line, the overall score is some average of the scores your point falls near. Notice that there are many combinations of subscores that result in any particular overall score.