Why The GAT Matters & How To Use It To Your Advantage

The Graduate Assessment Test (GAT) is a 2 hour assessment based on your knowledge ranging from verbal, quantitative and analytical. It is sometime called as local Graduate Record Examination (GRE), is a prerequisite test taken in order to get admission into any M Phil in almost all Pakistani universities. Moreover, it is required for the Higher Education Commission (HEC) scholarships. Naturally, students in the last semester/year of their graduation get worried about their GAT exams, as their future is dependent on how well they do in these papers.                                                                                        

There are a 100 multiple choice questions and a total of 120 minutes. Each question carries one mark and there is no negative marking. Furthermore, there are 40 question in the English section, 30 in the analytical and 30 in the mathematics section. This is for biological sciences. For other subjects, there might be a slight variation. For complete details, visit the National Testing Service (NTS) website.

The Verbal section usually comprises antonyms, synonyms, fill-in-the-blanks and reading comprehension questions. In mathematics, which is essentially high school level, the questions consist of basic geometry, sets, basic arithmetic and basic algebra. The analytical section mainly consists of logical puzzles and  few logical reasoning questions.