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GAT (Qudurat) study plan

GAT (Qudurat) · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

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.

Week 2

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.

Week 3

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.

Week 4

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.

Week 5

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.

Week 6

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.

Week 7

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.

Week 8

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.