GAT (Qudurat) study plan
GAT (Qudurat) · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Verbal
Build a 150-item academic vocabulary deck drawn from your own reading and review 20 items daily with spaced repetition.
Annotate 12 reading passages to mark main idea, author tone, and the single sentence carrying the supporting evidence.
Complete 40 sentence-completion items untimed and write one sentence of reasoning for every chosen and rejected option.
Diagnose baseline verbal accuracy by question type and rank your error causes by frequency.
Your checkpoint
A baseline verbal diagnostic report showing accuracy per question type and the top three error causes.
Quantitative
Drill fraction, decimal, percentage, and ratio conversions across 60 no-calculator items until each is automatic.
Solve 40 proportion and percentage-change word problems, writing the unit conversion explicitly at each step.
Apply divisibility rules, prime factorization, and least-common-multiple / greatest-common-divisor shortcuts to 30 items.
Open a two-column error log that separates arithmetic slips from setup and translation mistakes.
Your checkpoint
A 30-question timed arithmetic set completed in 20 minutes at 85% accuracy or better, with a filled error log.
Verbal & Quantitative
Convert 25 analogy and sentence-equivalence items into an explicit written relationship before selecting any answer.
Solve 40 linear equations, inequalities, and two-variable systems and verify each solution by substitution.
Rewrite 15 algebra word problems as equations, then check each answer against the original question wording.
Re-solve from scratch every item missed in weeks 1 and 2 rather than rereading the old solution.
Your checkpoint
Two timed mini-sets (20 verbal items in 18 minutes, 20 quantitative items in 25 minutes) each scoring 70% or higher with full corrections.
Quantitative
Apply triangle, circle, and quadrilateral area, perimeter, and angle rules to 35 self-contained figure descriptions.
Read tables, bar charts, line graphs, and pie charts to answer 30 data-interpretation items without misreading units or scales.
Solve 25 rate, work, and mixture problems using one consistent setup template you can reuse under time pressure.
Sit a 40-question quantitative section in 50 minutes and log every guess with the reason for guessing.
Your checkpoint
A timed 40-question quantitative section scored at 65% or better with every geometry and data error reworked in writing.
Verbal
Infer author purpose, unstated assumption, and tone across 20 harder passages, justifying each inference in one written line.
Eliminate distractors on 50 items by naming the exact flaw (too broad, reversed logic, out of scope) in every rejected option.
Raise reading speed to roughly 200 words per minute while holding main-idea accuracy above 80%.
Reattempt every verbal item missed in weeks 1 and 3 and confirm the reasoning, not just the letter, is now correct.
Your checkpoint
A 30-item verbal set finished in 25 minutes at 75% accuracy with written distractor analysis for all wrong options.
Verbal & Quantitative
Complete three alternating verbal and quantitative timed sets to practise switching between reading and calculation modes.
Reduce average quantitative time to 75 seconds per item without letting accuracy fall below 70%.
Reduce average verbal time to 45 seconds per item while keeping inference questions above 70% correct.
Consolidate the error log into the five recurring failure patterns that account for most of your lost marks.
Your checkpoint
A consolidated error log naming five failure patterns, each paired with one specific corrective drill and a scheduled review date.
Quantitative & Verbal
Re-drill your two weakest quantitative subtopics until you reach ten consecutive correct answers on each.
Re-drill your two weakest verbal subtopics to the same ten-in-a-row standard, writing the rule you applied.
Apply a fixed time-allocation rule across two half-length mixed sections and record where you overran.
Rehearse a deliberate skip-and-return strategy on a 25-item mixed set, marking and revisiting every deferred item.
Your checkpoint
A weakness-closure sheet showing ten consecutive correct answers on each of the four targeted subtopics, dated and signed off.
Verbal & Quantitative
Complete two full-length timed simulations under exam conditions, including the scheduled breaks and no phone access.
Re-solve every simulation error from a blank page and confirm each is now correct without prompts.
Reconstruct from memory a one-page formula and strategy sheet covering quantitative rules and verbal elimination steps.
Rehearse a test-day routine covering timing checkpoints, your guessing rule, and the final ten-minute review pass.
Your checkpoint
Two scored full simulations plus a verified one-page strategy sheet and a written test-day checklist.
Milestones
Week 2: Baseline is established in both domains: verbal accuracy recorded by question type, arithmetic timed set at 85% or better, and the error log in active use.
Week 4: Quantitative timed section at 65% or better and verbal practice at 70% or better, with every missed item reworked and dated in the error log.
Week 6: Both sections at 75% or better under full timing, per-item averages at 75 seconds quantitative and 45 seconds verbal, and the five failure patterns named.
Week 8: Two full simulations completed with scores trending upward, all errors re-solved clean, and the strategy sheet reproduced from memory without notes.