Post-Graduate General Aptitude Test (PGAT)

Objectives

This test aims at:

identifying students' research skills, which might predict success in post-graduate studies.
making students aware of their mental skills in preparation for post-graduate studies.
providing a fresh standard by which post-graduate students can be selected.

It is taken for granted that the well-renowned world universities use similar tests, e.g., GRE, to sort out the applicants for post-graduate studies

Components and Duration

This test has a 2.5- hour duration and is presented in Arabic for university graduates. It has three parts: the verbal (linguistic), the quantitative (mathematical), and the logical (inductive-spatial). It mainly focuses on:

Reading comprehension
Discriminating the logical structure of linguistic expressions
Inductive capacity
Inference capacity
Capacity to cognize logical relations, spatial and non-spatial
Analytical capacity
Deductive capacity
Result interpretation capacity
Problem-solving capacity based on basic mathematical concepts.

Sections of the test

The questions relevant to the three parts of the test are alternately presented in all six sections .Each section is devoted 25 minutes. All questions are multiple-choice type.

Test Times

The test is presented 3 times a year, the times are listed in the following website.

Target group: senior university students and university graduates

Some universities and colleges require the test for admission to its graduate programs, in addition to other procedures that vary from one educational institution to another. Applicants to such institutions must take the test, including university graduates.

Some programs that require the test:

Graduate study programs in Saudi universities
University level military programs
External scholarships for post-university programs
Internal and external diploma programs

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