What is a Good GRE Score?

There is no official minimum score. In theory, any score above 550 for verbal and 700 for Quantitative can be considered acceptable. An examinee can miss one or more questions on a multiple-choice section and still receive a perfect score of 800. Similiarly, even if no question is answered correctly, 200 is the lowest possible score. In case you get a lower score, but the rest of your application offers good competitive features (professional career, secondary studies, etc.), you should not waste time working on your GRE. There is also no point in retaking GRE to go from 550 to 570 (verbal).

Both the verbal and quantitative sections on GRE can earn you between 200-800 points. The writing section can get you somewhere from a 0-6. Most universities do not consider the writing GRE score as much as the verbal and quantitative scores for admittance.

Scaled score percentiles

The percentiles of the current test are as follows:

Scaled score	Verbal Reasoning %	Quantitative Reasoning %
800	99	94
780	99	89
760	99	85
740	99	80
720	98	75
700	97	71
680	96	66
660	94	62
640	92	57
620	89	52
600	86	48
580	82	44
560	77	39
540	72	35
520	67	31
500	62	28
480	57	24
460	52	21
440	46	18
420	40	16
400	35	13
380	29	11
360	24	9
340	19	7
320	13	6
300	8	4
280	5	3
260	2	2
240	1	1
220	0	0
200	0	0
mean	457	586

Analytical Writing score	Writing %
6	98
5.5	92
5	81
4.5	63
4	41
3.5	23
3	10
2.5	3
2	1
1.5	0
1	0
0.5	0
mean	3.9