GMAT Percentiles
May 16, 2025
Knowing your GMAT score percentile is essential to fully understanding the admissions process. Why remain in the dark about why you might or might not get accepted into the school of your dreams? Equip yourself with data, with tools, and with information. This article will assist you towards achieving your academic aspirations and goals.
Determining your GMAT score percentile is an important tool when assessing your odds of admission to your top-choice school. Admissions committees work heavily with percentiles, as they are tools of organization, high performance, and a convenient way to categorize prospective students. If you look at their benefits, you will find it paramount to determine your percentiles.
This article presents charts to determine your percentile for all sections of the exam. Take a look at the following percentiles tables. You must know your GMAT score to most effectively determine yours. Have you taken a free practice test already? We offer a highly realistic one at Manhattan Review. Knowing your score is nearly half the battle, raising it with hard work and determination is the rest.
GMAT Total Score Percentiles
Most GMAT percentiles are published by total score. Many schools will release percentiles based on this, as opposed to a section-by-section breakdown. The following is the most accurate percentile ranking based on total scores you will find. Included are percentiles for the current GMAT Focus edition and for the previous GMAT 10th edition it replaced in February 2024. Please note that we stop at the 49% percentile (Focus edition)/47% percentile (10th edition) scores, as we want to focus on high scorers and elite MBA admission. Can you find your own ranking below?
| Percentile | Total GMAT Score (Focus Edition) | Percentile | Total GMAT Score (10th Edition) |
| 100% | 735-805 | 99% | 760-800 |
| 99% | 715-725 | 98% | 750 |
| 98% | 695-705 | 97% | 740 |
| 96% | 685 | 95% | 730 |
| 95% | 675 | 93% | 720 |
| 93% | 665 | 89% | 710 |
| 91% | 655 | 86% | 700 |
| 88% | 645 | 84% | 690 |
| 83% | 635 | 78% | 680 |
| 81% | 625 | 76% | 670 |
| 78% | 615 | 72% | 660 |
| 72% | 605 | 68% | 650 |
| 69% | 595 | 61% | 640 |
| 62% | 585 | 59% | 630 |
| 59% | 575 | 55% | 620 |
| 52% | 565 | 51% | 610 |
| 49% | 555 | 47% | 600 |
GMAT Section Score Percentiles
This chart shows the percentile rankings for the scores on each of the GMAT's three sections: Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Data Insights. Some schools will publish percentile data based on specific GMAT sections, especially if a school has a particular focus on the skills tested.
| Quant Percentile | Quant Score | Verbal Percentile | Verbal Score | Data Insights Percentile | Data Insights Score |
| 100% | 90 | 100% | 90 | 100% | 89-90 |
| 97% | 89 | 99% | 88-89 | 99% | 86-88 |
| 95% | 88 | 98% | 87 | 98% | 85 |
| 94% | 87 | 97% | 86 | 97% | 84 |
| 91% | 86 | 94% | 85 | 96% | 83 |
| 88% | 85 | 90% | 84 | 93% | 82 |
| 85% | 84 | 84% | 83 | 89% | 81 |
| 81% | 83 | 76% | 82 | 84% | 80 |
| 76% | 82 | 67% | 81 | 77% | 79 |
| 70% | 81 | 57% | 80 | 70% | 78 |
| 64% | 80 | 48% | 79 | 63% | 77 |
| 57% | 79 | 39% | 78 | 54% | 76 |
| 50% | 78 | 31% | 77 | 48% | 75 |
| 43% | 77 | 23% | 38 | 42% | 74 |
In the end, the strategy for raising your GMAT percentile is easy—practice, practice, practice. When your overall GMAT score improves, so does your percentile ranking. Assessing your percentile throughout your course of study is a valuable tool, particularly if you are regularly taking mock exams. However, try not to focus so much on your percentage and ranking, but instead strive to learn and implement effective test day strategies that will naturally take care of those concerns. Your percentile correlates with your academic capabilities, which are always far greater when met with hard work and determination.