以下引自mba.com 2006-3-15
http://www.mba.com/mba/TaketheGMAT/TheEssentials/GMATScoresandReports/UnderstandingYourGMATScoresin2006.htm

Understanding Your GMAT® Scores

The Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) yields four scores: Verbal, Quantitative, Total, and Analytical Writing Assessment. Each of these scores is reported on a fixed scale and will appear on the official GMAT® score reports that you and your designated score recipients (programs) receive.

Score reports include all your GMAT® scores from tests taken in the last five (5) years. The contact and demographic information that was required for you to register for the test will also appear on your score report. You can download a sample score report to understand how your GMAT® scores compare with all other GMAT test takers from the past three (3) years.

The digital photograph you provided at the test center will be sent with your score report to the score recipients you select, if those recipients have asked to receive such information. In addition, if you provided the following background information during registration or on the day of the test, it may also appear on your score report: telephone number; undergraduate institution, grade point average (GPA), major, and date of graduation; intended graduate study; and the highest level of education attained. This information is self-reported and will be marked as such.

Total GMAT® scores range from 200 to 800. Two-thirds of test takers score between 400 and 600.

The Verbal and Quantitative scores range from 0 to 60. Scores below 9 and above 44 for the Verbal section or below 7 and above 50 for the Quantitative section are rare. Both scores are on a fixed scale and can be compared across all GMAT® test administrations. The Verbal and Quantitative scores measure different things and cannot be compared to each other.

If you do not finish each multiple-choice section of the test, your score will depend on the number of questions answered within each section.

The Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) score is an average of the ratings given to the Analysis of an Issue and the Analysis of an Argument sections.

Each response is given two independent ratings. Once both essays have been scored, the scores are averaged to provide an overall score. Scores for the AWA can range from 0 to 6 in half-point intervals.

Writing scores are computed separately from the multiple-choice scores and have no effect on the Verbal, Quantitative, or Total scores.

Each of your essays in the AWA section will be given two independent ratings, one of which may be performed by an automated essay scoring engine. The automated essay scoring engine is an electronic system that evaluates more than 50 structural and linguistic features, including organization of ideas, syntactic variety, and topical analysis.

If the two ratings differ by more than one point, another evaluation by an expert reader is required to resolve the discrepancy and determine the final score.

College and university faculty members trained as readers for the AWA will consider:

• the overall quality of your ideas about the issue and argument presented;
  
• your overall ability to organize, develop, and express those ideas;
  
• the relevant supporting reasons and examples you used; and
  
• 
  
  your ability to control the elements of standard written English.

In considering the elements of standard written English, readers are trained to be sensitive and fair in evaluating the responses of examinees whose first language is not English.  

If you have reason to believe that your scores for the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) portion of the GMAT® test are not accurate, you may request that your essays be rescored.

就是基本没错啦，因为有一些是测试题，不计分。