GRE Subject Test Score[s]; reporting.

[Crucial BBQ]

I apologize if this question has already been asked, and Google was not much help.

 

When you take the GRE general test you are presented with your quant and verbal scores at the end of the test; giving you the ability to see your scores before you accept and send the scores/report. 

 

The subject tests are on paper, and are scantron...is the test scanned at the testing agency and do you get your raw score before you decide to accept the scores?  Or do you decide to accept the scores based solely on how well you think you did?  

 

Two of the programs I am considering applying to do not require a subject test but both strongly recommend one. I am considering taking a subject test but do not want to send my scores [to the four "free" recipients] on test day based on a feeling of having done well (or not sending them because I thought I bombed...but ended up doing okay).  

 

I suppose I could just wait until the scores are available to view online, then decide then, but then I'd lose the four free reports, right?

[TakeruK]

No, for the subject tests, you do not get any evaluation of your score before you decide to accept the score. The option to cancel your subject test score is more meant for you to "throw out" the test if you know for sure you did poorly (e.g. you severely underestimated the difficulty of the exam or otherwise know you screwed up).

 

Yes, you will lose the four free reports if you wait until you can see the score and then use ScoreSelect.

 

Fun fact: I took my General GRE exam before the "Revised" version and also before "ScoreSelect" and before they showed me my V and Q scores on the computer, they asked if I would like to accept my score. The message was very clear that I had the choice of canceling my scores (without seeing them) or accepting my test result (and then I would be presented with preliminary scores). 

[Vene]

When you take the GRE general test you are presented with your quant and verbal scores at the end of the test; giving you the ability to see your scores before you accept and send the scores/report. 

You do? I took it last year and I had to decide if I accepted the scores and if I wanted to submit them (without a fee) there. Otherwise I could accept the scores and send them later (for a fee). It was only after I selected where to send them that I got my Q and V scores.

[TakeruK]

You do? I took it last year and I had to decide if I accepted the scores and if I wanted to submit them (without a fee) there. Otherwise I could accept the scores and send them later (for a fee). It was only after I selected where to send them that I got my Q and V scores.

 

If this is the case, then this would be equivalent to my experience prior to both "Revised" and "ScoreSelect".

[Crucial BBQ]

You do? I took it last year and I had to decide if I accepted the scores and if I wanted to submit them (without a fee) there. Otherwise I could accept the scores and send them later (for a fee). It was only after I selected where to send them that I got my Q and V scores.

I have taken the GRE general test a total of three times since August of 2011 (was one of the first to do the new, revised, GRE).  Yes, you have to accept your test before you can see your scores but you do not have select and send your reports from the testing center to see your scores at the testing center.  I saw my scores at the testing center all three times but only had my scores sent from the testing center to my four free recipients a total of one time.