<p>You definitely receive the unofficial results immediately.</p>
<p>Well, the last standardized tests I've taken were the SATs and AP exams and you have to wait forever to get your results.</p>
<p>The GMAT is on a computer and the unofficial score pops on the screen after you indicate that you want the score to count (alternatively, you can indicate that you don't want this test to count, in which case you don't get to see the score).</p>
<p>I know it's a comp test, but what is the difference betwen "unofficial results" and the score your school gets sent?</p>
<p>Dude you have a good shot wherever you go....Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg</p>
<p>99.99% of the time, the unofficial scores become the official scores. It takes something weird like perhaps a computer glitch, proctoring issue or something along those lines for those scores not to become offical.</p>
<p>So how does the scoring work? AWA's are not factored into your score out of 800 at all?</p>
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<p>No. AWA is a separate score that ranges from 0-6. And most schools don't even look at it.</p>