Do Programs Ever Combine Your GMAT Scores?

Each B-school establishes its own policy for processing multiple GMAT scores. The most common policy is to average multiple scores. (Quantitative, Verbal, Combined Q/V, and Writing scores are each averaged separately.) A minority of schools will disregard all but your highest scores. (Again, Quantitative, Verbal, Combined Q/V, and Writing scores are each considered separately.) A few schools have adopted a hybrid approach, whereby they average scores from multiple tests unless there is a large enough discrepancy between scores—in which case they look only at your highest score. In any event, most B-schools disregard GMAT scores that are more than five years old.

If you have multiple scores or considering re-taking GMAT, check with your schools - that's all that really matters. Adcoms will provide you with their approach to multiple GMAT scores. Alternatively, you can post in the proper threads for each of the schools in the MBA Forum and I am sure you will get the info from the current admits.

ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THE QUESTION AND OF THIS ANALYSIS:
https://www.west.net/~stewart/gmat/

But if the business school posts that they consider the highest score in GMAT, do they take into account the other GMAT Scores as well ?

Does latest score have more weightage than the highest score ?

I took the GMAT twice. Oddly enough scored well on the verbal the first time and poorly on the quant. The seconds time, the sections were reversed. Scoring well on the quant and poorly on the verbal. Not sure if it was clearly answered earlier, curious if programs (in general) will take the best of each section? Thanks so much.

As far as i know most schools don't combine partial scores from different tests, but you can probably find that info on the school website, especially in the FAQ page.

Caminske wrote:I took the GMAT twice. Oddly enough scored well on the verbal the first time and poorly on the quant. The seconds time, the sections were reversed. Scoring well on the quant and poorly on the verbal. Not sure if it was clearly answered earlier, curious if programs (in general) will take the best of each section? Thanks so much.

The answer to this is probably 'no' but your situation is not really unfortunate because improving your Quant score outranks a decline in your Verbal, I would think. Once you've done well in the Verbal they can't take that away from you. A lesser mark on a subsequent test only means you were trying harder in the Quant section. That's a very unofficial way of looking at it but the good news is you improved your Quant score.