A 335 is above the reported average in every graduate field ETS tracks. From here the score stops being the thing your application has to argue.
There is a point where more GRE stops buying anything, and a 335 is past it. Every graduate field ETS reports an average for sits well below your score, which means admissions committees will spend their time on your research, your letters and your statement instead.
As good as the GRE realistically gets. A 335 clears every published field average, so the score is not what any committee will discuss.
No discipline in the ETS tables averages as high as a 335. Physical Sciences comes closest at 314, and it is still well short.
A field average is a blunt instrument: it blends elite departments with open-enrolment ones. Use it to see whether your score is in the conversation, then look up the two or three programmes you actually care about.
The total is a convenience, not a measurement. ETS scores Verbal and Quant separately and never publishes a combined percentile — a point our GRE percentile calculator makes at length.
Near the ceiling the distinction softens — every route to a 335 puts both sections between about the 67th and 99th percentile.
Split evenly, a 335 is 167/168, which ETS puts at the 98th percentile for Verbal and the 81th 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.
Check for one thing before deciding: a weak section in the discipline you are applying to. That is the only version of this that justifies another sitting.
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 percentilesSend it, apply early, and let the 167/168 split guide which programmes you emphasise rather than whether you apply at all.
The total is mostly an administrative convenience. What varies — and what gets read — is the section score, which at a 335 can sit anywhere from the 67th to the 99th percentile.
ETS publishes no combined percentile. What it does publish, for an even 167/168 split, is the 98th percentile on Verbal and the 81th on Quant.
Yes. There is no field in the ETS data where a 335 sits below the average admitted score.
The range runs 165/170 through 170/165. A balanced 335 is 167 Verbal with 168 Quant.