GAT-B Arts, Humanities and Social Science MCQ's Test Preparation for Pakistani Students

GAT (Graduate Assessment Test) helps the aspirants to appraise, analyze, securitize, understand the relationships as well as take to mean material for a perfect zone of study. GAT is compulsory test that is required by Higher Education Commission (HEC) for the admission in any postgraduate study program or PhD program in Pakistan.

GAT test is further categorized into four classes and one of them is the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The students whose field of study is arts, humanities or social science attempt this category of GAT test.

The test is comprises of three sections that includes verbal reasoning, Quantitative reasoning and Analytical reasoning. The verbal section contains 50% multiple choice questions, Quantitative section contains 30% multiple choice questions whereas the analytical section contains 20% multiple choices questions. Like the other categories, students also have to attempt the 100 multiple choices questions in this section and the time given to attempt the paper is 120 minutes (2 hours).

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The public distribution system, which provides food at low prices, is a subject of vital concern. There is a growing realization that though Ethiopia has enough food to feed its masses two square meals a day, the monster of starvation and food insecurity continues to haunt the poor in the country. Increasing the purchasing power of the poor through providing productive employment leading to rising income, and thus good standard of living is the ultimate objective of public policy. However, till then, there is a need to provide assured supply of food through a restructured, more efficient and decentralized public distribution system (PDS). Although the PDS is extensive - it is one of the largest such systems in the world - it has yet to reach the rural poor and the far off places. It remains an urban phenomenon, with the majority of the rural poor still out of its reach due to lack of economic and physical access. The poorest in the cities and the migrants are left out, for they generally do not possess ration cards. The allocation of PDS supplies in big cities is larger than in rural areas. In view of such deficiencies in the system, the PDS urgently needs to be streamlined. In addition, considering the large food grains production combined with food subsidy on one hand and the continuing slow starvation and dismal poverty of the rural population on the other, there is a strong case for making PDS target group oriented. The growing salaried class is provided job security., regular income, and percent insulation agaifl inflation. These gains of development have hot percolated down to the vast majority of our working population. If one compares only dearness allowance to the employees in public and private sector andlooks at its growth in the past few years, the rising food subsidy is insignificant to the point of inequity. The food subsidy is a kind of D.A. to the poor, the self-employed and those in the unorganized sector of the economy. However, what is most unfortunate is that out of the large budget of the so-called food subsidy, the major part of it is administrative cost and wastages. A small portion of the above budget goes to the real consumer and an even lesser portion to the poor who are in real need. It is true that subsidies should not become a permanent feature, except for the destitute, disabled widows and the old. It is also true that subsidies often create a psychology of dependence and hence is habit-forming, killing the general initiative of the people. By making PDS target group oriented, not only the poorest and neediest would be reached without additional cost, but it will actually cut overall costs incurred on large cities and for better off localities. When the food and food subsidy are limited the rural and urban poor should have the priority in the PDS supplies. The PDS should be closely linked with programs of employment generation and nutrition improvement.
Q:Which of the following is the main reason for insufficient supply of enough food to the poorest?

Question # 2

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Tame:

Question # 3

The Romans--for centuries is the masters of war and politics Europe,Northern Africa,and Asia Minor---have often been criticised for producing few original thinkers outside the realm of politics.This criticism while in many ways true,is not without its problems.it was after all the conquest of Greece that provided Rome with its greatest influx of educated subjects two of the great disasters in intellectual history---the murder of Archimedes and the burning of Alexandria's libarary ---both occurred under Rome's watch.Nevertheless,a city that was able to conquer so much of the known world could not have been devoid of the creativity that characterizes so many other ancient empires.Engineering is one endeavour in which the Romans showed themselves capable.Their aqueducts carried water hundreds of miles along the tops vast arcades.Roman roads built for the rapid deployment of troops,crisscross Europe and still from the basis of numerous modern highways that provide quick access between many major European and African cities,indeed a large number of these cities owe their prominence to Rome's economic and political influence.Many of those major cities lie far beyond rome's original's province,and Latin-derived languages are spoken in most Southern European nations.Again a result of military influence,the popularity of Latin and its offspring is difficult to overestimate.During the centuries of ignorance and violence that followed Rome's decline, the Latin language was the glue that held together the identity of an entire continent.While seldom spoken today,it is still studied widely if only so that such master of rhetoric as Cicero can be read in the original.It is Cicero and his like who are perhaps the most overlooked legacy of Rome.While far from being a democracy,Rome did leave behind useful political tool that serve the American republic today."Republic" itself is Latin for "the people's business" a notion cherished in democracies worldwide.Senators owe their name to Rome's class of elders; Representatives owe theirs to the Tributes who seized popular prerogatives from the Senatorial class.The veto was a Roman notion adopted by the historically aware framers of the Constitution,who often assumed pen names from the lexion of Latin life.These accomplishments,as monumental as any highway of coliseum,remain prominent features of the Western landscape.ii.According to the passage,ancient Roman roads?

Question # 4

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Sometimes, it is necessary for an author to know what is going on in the minds of his characters. this is called ....................

Question # 5

Choose the word/phrase related to given word/phrase
SANSKRIT: HINDI

Question # 6

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Fickle:

Question # 7

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Fallacious:

Question # 8

The study on Pseudomonas is so __________ that it leaves no part of life cycle of this notorious pathogen.

Question # 9

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Divine:

Question # 10

As the French archeologist expected, living conditions in the Ghandhara Civilization were ___________ worse than those of today.

Question # 11

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Bellicose:

Question # 12

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As the market becomes ..................... competitive, some companies will make larger profits.

Question # 13

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Indestructible:

Question # 14

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Everyone should ......................... himself against illness since medical care has now become expensive.

Question # 15

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They have some difficulty ................ all the employees, especially the smaller ones to confirm .................... the adopted scale of wages.

Question # 16

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Because of the moons ................ gravity, it has little or no substance.

Question # 17

Complete Sentence
The driver suddenly applied the brakes when he saw a ............. truck ahead of him.

Question # 18

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Ennui:

Question # 19 

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Those defenders of the tobacco industry who deny that there is a casual linkage between cigarette smoking and many diseases all but ........... the statistical evidence that very clearly demonstrates the connection.

Question # 20

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Hover:

Question # 21

DARN : NEEDLE

Question # 22

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Abandonment

Question # 23

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Miserly:

Question # 24

Power and possession have been central pursuits of modem civilization for a long time. They blocked out or distorted other features of the western renaissance (revival) which promised so much for humanity. What people have been and are still being taught to prize is money, success, and control over the lives of others, acquisition of more and more objects. Modern social, political, and economic systems, whether capitalist, fascist or communist, reject in their working the basic principle that the free and creative enfoldment of every man, woman and child is the true measure of the worth of any society. Such enfoldment requires understanding and imagination, integrity and compassion, cooperation among people and harmony between the human species and the rest of nature. Acquisitiveness and the pursuit of power have made the modern man an aggressor against everything that is non-human, an exploiter, and oppressor of those who are poor, meek, and unorganized, a pathological type which hates and distrusts the world and suffers from both acute loneliness and false pride. The need for a new renaissance is deeply felt by those sensitive and conscientious men and women who not only perceive the dimensions of the crisis of our age but who also realize that only through conscious and cooperative human effort may this crisis be met and probably even overcome.
Q:Which of the following best describes the behavior of modern man?

Question # 25

Alien

Question # 26

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Clarity:

Question # 27

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Temerity:

Question # 28

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Placate:

Question # 29 

Complete Sentence
That was an .............. addition of this book.

Question # 30

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Heed:

Question # 31

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Wean:

Question # 32

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Senile:

Question # 33

The final edition of the Love and cheating consists of six volumes; however, only a small ________ of its full volume has ever been published.

Question # 34

Choose the word/phrase related to given word/phrase
BOOK: READ

Question # 35

Complete Sentence
He is too dull ................. the problem.

Question # 36

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She was ...................... because all her plans had gone ...................

Question # 37

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Vehemence:

Question # 38

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I have no .................... motive in offering this advice; I seek no personal advantage.

Question # 39

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If you are trying to make a strong impression on your audience you cannot do so by being understated, tentative, for .........................

Question # 40

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Ponderous:

Question # 41

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Dilatory:

Question # 42

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Umbrage:

Question # 43

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Heterogeneous:

Question # 44

Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the --------------.

Question # 45

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Dapper:

Question # 46

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Slacken:

Question # 47

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Poltroon:

Question # 48 

Complete Sentence
................... is a person who dabbles in art and letters.

Question # 49

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Carping:

Question # 50

Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Tedious:

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GAT-General Verbal Important MCQ's

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1 Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Docile:
A. Smooth
B. Humble
C. Authoritative
D. Littoral
2 The board members, accustomed to the luxury of being chauffeured to corporate meetings in company limousines, were predictably __________ when they learned that this service had been ___________.
A. satisfied ... annulled
B. stymied ... extended
C. displeased ... upheld
D. disgruntled ... suspended
3 Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Unfeigned:
A. Original
B. Clear
C. Mortal
D. Modern
4 The new owners of the paper changed the --------------- completely.
A. Outlay
B. Layout
C. Outlet
D. Outlook
5 Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Apocalyptic:
A. High Sounding
B. Tree
C. Appealing
D. Poetic
6 Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Celibate:
A. Bachelor
B. Retired
C. Notable
D. Adorn
7 Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Minuscule:
A. Majuscule
B. Reticule
C. Minimal
D. Maximal
8 Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Cataclysm:
A. Peace
B. Deluge
C. Quibble
D. Conjecture
9 Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning
Queasy:
A. Queer
B. Squeamish
C. Easy
D. Difficult
10 CRAVAT : NECK
A. Artist : Smock
B. Bib : Dinner
C. Muzzle : Biting
D. Spats : Ankles

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