GIKI Test study guide
GIKI Test · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The GIKI Test is the entrance assessment used by the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIK Institute) in Pakistan for candidates seeking undergraduate admission. The institution advertises a 2026 undergraduate intake under the banner "Apply for Undergrad Admissions 2026", and its admissions pages list bachelor's programmes across Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Management Sciences, Material Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Software Engineering. The GIKI Test study guide has 10 sections and about 3,166 words.
01Electrical Engineering: Circuits, Phasors and Thevenin Reasoning
The Electrical Engineering portion of the GIKI Test checks whether you can apply first- and second-year circuit theory quickly and without sign errors: Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws, series/parallel reduction, source transformation, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, RC/RL transients, single-phase AC with phasors and impedance, ideal op-amp basics, diode circuits, and combinational logic. KCL: currents into a node sum to zero; KVL: voltages around a closed loop sum to zero.
353 words, about 2 min02Computer Sciences and Engineering: Representation, Semantics and Complexity
The Computer Sciences and Engineering section tests the parts of computing that are provable on paper: number systems and two's complement, data representation, C-family expression semantics, arrays and pointers, algorithm tracing, asymptotic complexity, Boolean algebra, and light coverage of operating systems, databases and networks. Binary/hex conversion: group bits in fours for hex; decimal to binary by repeated division, remainders read upward.
314 words, about 2 min03Engineering Sciences: Statics, Energy and Fluid Fundamentals
This section probes the shared physics toolkit underlying every branch of engineering: rigid-body statics, Newtonian dynamics, work–energy, conservation of mass and energy, introductory thermodynamics, and fluid statics and continuity. Expect unit-consistent numerical questions rather than long derivations.
311 words, about 2 min04Mechanical Engineering: Stress, Strain and Thermodynamic Cycles
The Mechanical Engineering section concentrates on the first-two-years syllabus: statics and trusses, friction, particle kinematics and kinetics, stress and strain in axially loaded members, torsion and bending basics, thermodynamic cycles (Carnot, Otto, Rankine), and simple machine elements such as gears and bearings. Normal stress σ = F/A; engineering strain ε = ΔL/L; within the elastic limit σ = Eε.
328 words, about 2 min05Materials Science and Engineering: Structure–Property Links
The Materials Science and Engineering section tests structure–property relationships: crystal structures and Miller indices, defects, diffusion, phase diagrams, and the mechanical behaviour of metals, ceramics and polymers. BCC: 2 atoms/cell, coordination number 8, APF 0.68.
300 words, about 2 min06Chemical Engineering: Balances, Limiting Reactants and Duty
Chemical Engineering questions stick to the sophomore toolkit: unit conversion, stoichiometry and limiting reactants, material and energy balances, ideal-gas behaviour, phase equilibrium basics, reaction rate and conversion, and simple unit operations such as distillation and heat exchange. The mole is the accounting unit.
319 words, about 2 min07Civil Engineering: Beams, Sections and Effective Stress
The Civil Engineering section applies statics to structures: shear and bending moment behaviour, simple beam design, properties of concrete and steel, soil mechanics fundamentals, and elementary fluid flow and surveying. Simply supported beam with a uniformly distributed load w over span L: each reaction is wL/2; maximum moment wL²/8 at midspan; shear is linear and zero at midspan.
322 words, about 2 min08Management Sciences: Quantitative Aptitude and Decision Arithmetic
This section checks quantitative and analytical readiness for management study: percentages, ratios, profit and loss, break-even, simple and compound interest, time value of money, basic statistics, and data interpretation from tables and charts. The mathematics is school-level; the difficulty is speed and reading precision.
324 words, about 2 min09Basic Sciences: Mechanics, Equilibrium and Chemical Arithmetic
This section covers the physics, chemistry and mathematics all engineering disciplines draw on: kinematics and mechanics, electricity and magnetism, waves, atomic structure and bonding, stoichiometry, chemical equilibrium, and the algebra, trigonometry and calculus used to model them. Projectile motion separates into independent horizontal (constant velocity) and vertical (constant acceleration g) components.
311 words, about 2 min10Artificial Intelligence: Search, Bayes and Evaluation Metrics
The Artificial Intelligence section tests conceptual and quantitative fluency rather than coding: search strategies, propositional logic, probability and Bayes' rule, basic linear algebra and optimisation, supervised learning fundamentals, and evaluation metrics. BFS is complete and optimal for unit costs but uses O(b^d) memory; DFS is memory-light but not optimal; uniform-cost search expands by lowest path cost.
284 words, about 1 min