Score Review for Analytical Writing

[I Just wanna be a PT]

Hello Everyone,

I just took my GRE and scored horribly on analytical writing. I was debating on requesting a score review. HAs anyone had success by doing so?

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[Frightened_Rabbit]

Hello Everyone,

I just took my GRE and scored horribly on analytical writing. I was debating on requesting a score review. HAs anyone had success by doing so?

What was your score? You could try, but I doubt it would increase your score by any more than .5 or so. Those scores are determined by two graders who have to be in agreement IIRC

 

[I Just wanna be a PT]

What was your score? You could try, but I doubt it would increase your score by any more than .5 or so. Those scores are determined by two graders who have to be in agreement IIRC

A 3.

 

[wushuPT]

The ETS website says "at least one trained rater" scores an essay and their e-rater (an automated scoring system) scores it after. If both scores are close, the score you received is the average of the two. If they aren't close, a second person grades it, and the score you received is the average of the two human scores.

I haven't done a score review before, but I did use their ScoreItNow! writing service that utilizes their e-rater to grade your practice essays. 2 of my practice essays were the same score as what I received on the actual GRE and the 3rd essay was 1 point below my actual score. If you feel pretty confident that you did better than a 3, I don't think it would hurt to do a score review. But from my experience, their e-rater seems to be a decent grader of your essays, so I'm not sure if you would see a significant improvement in your score if you do go through with it.