Bahria Admission Test case studies
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The Bahria University Admission Test (BAT) is the entrance assessment used to screen applicants for undergraduate study at Bahria University, a federally chartered public sector university established by the Pakistan Navy in 2000. The university describes itself as offering 130+ programmes across three cities, with campuses in Islamabad (E-8 and H-11), Karachi (including the Institute of Professional Psychology), Lahore, and dedicated Health Sciences campuses in Islamabad and Karachi; its admissions pages report 21,000+ students enrolled and 58,000+ alumni. The Bahria Admission Test case studies are 5 cases and about 4,238 words.
1The Twenty-Minute Rewrite: Diagnosing a Personal Statement Under Pressure
A candidate sitting the Bahria admission test has twenty minutes left for the writing section: a 120–150 word answer to the prompt 'Why this programme?' Her draft reads: 'Having visited the shipyard twice with my father, marine engineering became my first choice. Unlike my cousin, who chose accountancy, my aim is to work on propulsion systems.
847 words, about 4 min2Two Aggregate Formulas, One Re-sit: The Bonus That Cannot Break a Subject Floor
A candidate has one sitting of marks, each out of 100: Mathematics 82, Physics 68, Chemistry 74, English 55. Two programmes publish different aggregate formulas.
710 words, about 4 min3Five Sessions, Four Rules: Testing a Claim That the Timetable Is Fixed
The student council is scheduling five sessions, one per day from Monday to Friday: Python (P), Quiz (Q), Robotics (R), Turbo (T) and Sports (S). Robotics is on Wednesday.
807 words, about 4 min4Two Lamps, One Supply, One Fuse: Is the Series Circuit Actually Safe?
A first-year student is given a 12 V bench supply, two filament lamps rated 6 V/3 W and 6 V/2 W, a box of fuses marked 0.1 A, 0.3 A, 0.5 A, 1 A and 2 A, and connecting wire. She must run both lamps from the 12 V supply and protect the circuit with exactly one fuse.
947 words, about 5 min5Reading a Titration: An Outlier, a Wet Burette and the Wrong End-point Colour
Three students standardise the same sodium hydroxide solution. Each pipettes 25.0 cm³ into a conical flask and titrates with hydrochloric acid labelled 0.100 mol/dm³.
927 words, about 5 min