A 319 is above every field average ETS publishes. This page is about which programmes that actually opens, and where the split matters most.
A 319 does the job. The reason this page keeps going is that the total hides the thing committees actually read — your two section scores, which ETS reports separately and percentiles separately.
Good, with one thing to check. A 319 beats every published field average; whether it beats your field's expectation on the section they care about depends on your split.
No discipline in the ETS tables averages as high as a 319. Physical Sciences comes closest at 314, and it is still well short.
Treat those averages as orientation, not thresholds. They are means across everyone who reported a score in that discipline, which mixes together programmes with very different expectations.
Here is the thing most pages about a 319 get wrong: it is not one score. ETS reports Verbal and Quant separately, publishes a percentile for each, and publishes nothing at all for the sum. A committee reads the two halves.
At a 319 the spread is enormous: depending on how the points are distributed, one of your sections could sit anywhere from the 21th to the 99th percentile. That is the range a single total is hiding.
Split evenly, a 319 is 160/159, which ETS puts at the 84th percentile for Verbal and the 47th for Quant. That gap is not an error; the Quant distribution is simply far more crowded at the high end.
There is little here worth chasing. The score clears every field average, and the realistic upside is a few points nobody reading your file would weigh differently.
There is a single scenario worth the trouble — your field reads one section closely and that section is behind. Otherwise the score is finished.
Verify the shape before you stop thinking about the test. The GRE percentile calculator turns your two scaled scores into the two percentiles a committee will see.
Check your section percentilesOnly retake if your weaker section is below your field's average. The total is already doing its job.
Comfortably. Every graduate field ETS publishes an average for reports a total below 319.
The range runs 149/170 through 170/149. A balanced 319 is 160 Verbal with 159 Quant.
Usually no. The upside is small and programmes see your attempts; the exception is a weak section in a field that reads that section closely.
Above the 313 engineering average, yes. The number that matters more there is your Quant score on its own, against 163.