GRE SCORING SOFTWARE
Read the "Issue" and "Argument" scoring guides and the Analytical Writing Score Level Descriptions.ĭuring the scoring process, your essay responses on the Analytical Writing section will be reviewed by trained analysts using ETS essay-similarity-detection software and by experienced essay raters. The primary emphasis in scoring the Analytical Writing section is on your critical thinking and analytical writing skills rather than on grammar and mechanics. A single score is reported for the Analytical Writing measure. The final scores on the two essays are then averaged and rounded to the nearest half-point interval on the 0–6 score scale. If they disagree, a second human score is obtained, and the final score is the average of the two human scores. If the human and the e-rater engine scores closely agree, the average of the two scores is used as the final score. The essay is then scored by the e-rater ® scoring engine, a computerized program developed by ETS that is capable of identifying essay features related to writing proficiency. In holistic scoring, raters are trained to assign scores on the basis of the overall quality of an essay in response to the assigned task.
Thus, a given scaled score for a particular measure reflects the same level of performance regardless of which second section was selected and when the test was taken.įor the Analytical Writing section, each essay receives a score from at least one trained rater, using a 6-point holistic scale. The equating process accounts for minor variations in difficulty among the different test editions as well as the differences in difficulty introduced by the section-level adaptation. The raw score is converted to a scaled score through a process known as equating. The raw score is the number of questions you answered correctly. Within each section, all questions contribute equally to the final score.įor each of the two measures, a raw score is computed. This means the computer selects the second operational section of a measure based on your performance on the first section. The Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures are section-level adaptive. For the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures of the GRE General Test, the reported scores are based on the number of correct responses to all the questions included in the operational sections of the measure.
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