Your essay is next sent through the e-rater, which is described on the GRE website as “a computerized program developed by ETS that is capable of identifying essay features related to writing proficiency.” The e-rater program likely grades essays on quantifiable metrics like level of vocabulary difficulty, sentence structure, length of essay (word count and number of paragraphs), and so on. Instead, you’ll be graded on the overall quality of your essays.
The scale used for essay scoring is holistic, which means you won’t automatically get points off after a certain number of errors. Each essay (analyze an issue and analyze an argument) is first graded by a trained human grader on a scale of 1-6. The GRE essay scoring process is a little complicated because it involves both human and computer graders. In this article, we’ll explain the details of the GRE essay scoring process and the rubrics used by the human graders to derive your two essay scores.įeature image credit: Seems Legit – panel 3 of 6/used under CC BY-SA 4.0/Cropped and resized from original.
But how does a human grade the essay? Is the computer grader trustworthy? Your GRE Writing score is a kind of cyborg measurement that averages together both human and machine ratings and melds them into an Analytical Writing score on a scale of 0-6.
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