GAT General case studies
GAT General · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Graduate Assessment Test (General) - usually called GAT General - is a multiple-choice reasoning test administered in Pakistan and used mainly by universities as part of admission to MS/MPhil and other postgraduate programmes. Some employers and scholarship schemes also accept it as evidence of general academic aptitude. The GAT General case studies are 5 cases and about 2,301 words.
1Scheduling Five Seminars
Five students - Ayesha, Bilal, Chen, Danish and Emaan - must each give one seminar on a different weekday from Monday to Friday. The coordinator has fixed Chen on Wednesday because the visiting examiner is available only that day.
417 words, about 2 min2Mark-up, Discount and a Delivery Cost
A shop buys a machine for Rs 12,000. It marks the price up by 25% on cost.
434 words, about 2 min3The Parking Fine Argument
A city council is debating whether to triple the fine for illegal parking from Rs 500 to Rs 1,500. A councilor argues: 'In the neighbouring city, the fine was raised from Rs 500 to Rs 1,500 last year, and the number of parking tickets issued there fell by 40% in the following quarter.
495 words, about 2 min4Selecting Four Courses
A university is designing a minor and must choose exactly four of seven proposed courses: P, Q, R, S, T, U and V. The rules are: if P is chosen, Q must also be chosen; R and S cannot both be chosen; at least one of T and U must be chosen; and if V is chosen, R must be chosen.
477 words, about 2 min5Section Scores and Weighted Averages
A scholarship test has 100 questions: Section A has 40 questions and Section B has 60. Candidate X answered 75% of Section A correctly and 60% of the whole test correctly.
478 words, about 2 min