GAT™ Category A – Business and Engineering Students (Detailed)

Total No of Questions = 100

Time Allowed = 120 minutes

Segment Number of
Topics
% Weight Questions

Verbal Reasons (English) 35% 35

A: Vocabulary

A1: Prefixes, Suffixes 5% of 35% 2

A2: Analogies 10% of 35% 3

A3: Antonyms 5% of 35% 2

A4: Conceptual 5% of 35% 2

Sub-total for Vocabulary 25% of 35% 9

B: Grammar

B1: Tenses and Aspects 20% of 35% 7

B2: Part of Speech (Conjunctions, Nouns, Pronouns, 10% of 35% 3

Verb, Adverb, Adjectives, Articles, Prepositions)

B3: Conditionals 5% of 35% 2

B4: Functions 5% of 35% 2

Sub-total for Grammar 40% of 35% 14

C: Comprehension

C1: Inferencing 15% of 35% 5

C2: Linking Devices 6% of 35% 2

C3: Main Idea 5% of 35% 2

C4: Title 3% of 35% 1

C5: Topic Sentences 3% of 35% 1

C6: Type of Passage (Narrative, Descriptive, 3% of 35% 1

Expository, Scientific, Entertaining, Didactic, Rhetorical)
GAT™ Category A – Business and Engineering Students (Detailed)

Sub-total for Comprehension 35% of 35% 12

Quantitative Reasoning 35% 35

Arithmetic

Business Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, 33% of 35% 12

Consumer Mathematics,
Percentage Ratio and Proportion, Zakat,
Ushar and Inheritance

Algebra

Fundamental of Geometry, Practical Geometry, 33% of 35% 12

Areas and Volumes, Matrices and
Determinants, Basic Statistics, Arithmetic and
Geometric Sequences, Linear Graphs, Sets and Functions

Geometry

Introduction to Trigonometry, Projection of a side of a triangle, 17% of 35% 6

Chords of a circle, Tangent to a circle, Chords and Arcs,
Angles in a segment of a circle, Practical geometry circles,
Congruent Triangles, Parallelograms and Triangles,
Line Bisectors and Angle Bisectors

Data Processing

Basic Statistics and Probability 17% of 35% 5

Analytical Reasoning 30% 30

Deductive and inductive logic, Critical thinking and writing skills 100% of 30% 30

Grand Total All Segments 100% 100