GAT (Qudurat) case studies
GAT (Qudurat) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The General Aptitude Test (GAT), known in Arabic as اختبار القدرات العامة (Qudurat), is an aptitude examination used in Saudi Arabia to measure the reasoning skills that underlie academic study rather than memorised subject content. It is most often associated with university admission and with selection decisions made by Saudi institutions, and candidates usually sit it in the final years of secondary school or shortly before applying. The GAT (Qudurat) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,517 words.
1Quantitative - Choosing a parcel carrier: fixed fee versus volume growth
A Riyadh online store ships 960 parcels a month and expects that figure to hold for the first three months of a twelve-month planning period. From month four, a marketing campaign is expected to lift volume to 1,200 parcels a month for the remaining nine months.
699 words, about 3 min2Verbal - Later start times: what three schools can and cannot prove
A district changed the first bell at two of its three high schools, moving it from 7:15 to 8:30. School A adopted the later start and also began a free breakfast program in the same year.
685 words, about 3 min3Quantitative - Two products, three ingredients: the bottleneck problem
A home bakery in Jeddah makes two products from the same three ingredients. A box of date cookies uses 1.5 kg of dates, 0.4 kg of flour and 0.3 kg of butter, and earns 35 SAR of profit.
727 words, about 4 min4Verbal - An advertisement that uses the word 'every'
A training institute's advertisement reads: "Every graduate of our six-month program who passes the final assessment receives a job offer within 90 days." An auditor checks the 200 people who graduated last year. Of these, 150 passed the assessment, and 96 of those 150 had a written job offer dated within 90 days of graduating.
701 words, about 4 min5Quantitative - Ranking schools by mean score
Four secondary schools entered candidates for a national aptitude test. School W entered 40 candidates with a mean score of 78.
705 words, about 4 min