After you have taken your test and received your score, what happens next? What
does your score mean? How will it be used?
Each institution that you designated to receive your score can interpret and use
your score as it sees fit. Some schools are concerned only about the verbal score,
other schools are concerned only about the math score, while other admission committees
are concerned about the writing score. Yet other schools are intersted on a combination
of the three. All of this is dependent on the school and program that you are applying
to.
ETS provides several
quides on how scores should be used and interpreted. There, you'll also
find the scoring guides for the analytical writing section; these are the guidelines
that are used by the essay readers to give you a score, so it might be a good idea
to look at those guides to see what exactly the essay readers expect.
