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When you finish taking the GRE, you\u2019ll be given an option to cancel your score. This may sound like a nice option\u2014if you <\/span>really <\/span><\/i>think you did terribly, it\u2019s not too late to pretend the whole thing never happened, right? Yes, you <\/span>can<\/span><\/i> cancel your GRE score. But cancelling your score is not always the best course of action.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are the upsides:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But there are downsides:<\/span><\/p>\n Now let\u2019s talk about reasons why you may or may not want to cancel your GRE score. The most likely one is that you think you did badly, and you don\u2019t want schools to see that score. You plan to take it again anyway, and you only want schools to see a higher score rather than both a higher score and a poor earlier attempt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While understandable, in many cases this is not a valid fear, as it\u2019s based on a misunderstanding of ETS\u2019s policies. ETS allows you to send only the scores you want to programs to which you\u2019re applying. It\u2019s called ScoreSelect, and here\u2019s what the ETS website<\/a> says about it:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The ScoreSelect\u00ae option lets you decide which test scores to send to the institutions you designate. On test day, as part of your four free score reports, you can send scores from your most recent test administration or from all administrations of the General Test taken in the last five years. After test day, you can send scores from your Most Recent, All or Any specific test administration(s) for a fee when ordering Additional Score Reports. Just remember, scores for a test administration must be reported in their entirety.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Let\u2019s unpack what this means, because it can be a little confusing. On test day, after you finish taking the test on the computer (this does not apply to a paper-based test, for which you of course cannot see your scores immediately), you\u2019ll see your Verbal and Quant scores. You will then be offered the option to send your scores to up to four schools for free, and you\u2019ll be given two options: to send <\/span>only the test score that you just got<\/b> or <\/span>all of your test scores from the last five years.<\/b> You can also decline to send your score to anyone and choose to do so later\u2014but later, you\u2019ll pay $27 per score report sent.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s the upside of waiting: You get more options. Instead of just sending only your most recent score or all of your scores from the last five years, you can <\/span>choose which test scores you want to send.<\/b> In sum, as long as you wait and pay for your score reports instead of sending them for free on test day, you can pick and choose which scores schools see. Given this option, there\u2019s little reason to cancel before you even know your score because there\u2019s no cost to finding out; you can simply not send it to your program(s) if it\u2019s bad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, there\u2019s a big caveat: Some programs do require that you send <\/span>all <\/span><\/i>GRE scores from all times you\u2019ve taken it. It\u2019s up to you to research the programs to which you\u2019re applying so that you know if this is the case. Under this condition, and I would say only under this condition, you might consider canceling your score if you <\/span>know <\/span><\/i>you performed very poorly\u2014as in, you got sick during the exam, or skipped a full half-section, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n As with everything else involving the GRE, I can\u2019t stress enough the importance of doing your homework by researching precisely what the programs to which you\u2019re applying require. If any of them requires that you send all of your scores, canceling may not be a terrible idea\u2014only if you\u2019re certain that it went very poorly. If none of them require that you send all of your scores, given the ScoreSelect option, there isn\u2019t a reason to cancel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0<\/strong>What You Do Not Need to Know for the GRE<\/a><\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget that you can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GRE courses absolutely free. We\u2019re not kidding! <\/i><\/b>Check out our upcoming courses here<\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Mary Richter is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Nashville, Tennessee. <\/i><\/b>Mary is one of those weirdos who loves taking standardized tests, and she has been teaching them for 15 years. When she’s not teaching the LSAT or GRE for ManhattanPrep, she’s writing novels under the last name Adkins. You can find them wherever you buy books. <\/span><\/i>Check out Mary\u2019s upcoming GRE prep offerings here!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you finish taking the GRE, you\u2019ll be given an option to cancel your score. This may sound like a nice option\u2014if you really think you did terribly, it\u2019s not too late to pretend the whole thing never happened, right? Yes, you can cancel your GRE score. But cancelling your score is not always the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1365060,133,793276,1363174],"yst_prominent_words":[1365050,1365049,1365037,1365044,1365042,1365057,1362627,1363043,1365043,1365041,1365059,1365051,1363077,1363762,1363159,1365055,1365058,1363219,1362628,1365056],"class_list":["post-12745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","tag-cancel-gre-score","tag-gre","tag-gre-canceling","tag-gre-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12748,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions\/12748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12745"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Good news about canceling your GRE score<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Bad news about canceling your GRE score<\/b><\/h3>\n
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So should you cancel your GRE score or not?<\/b><\/h3>\n
The takeaway on canceling your GRE score<\/b><\/h3>\n
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