The Higher Education Commission (HEC) through its Education Testing Council has announced Higher Education Aptitude Test (HAT), which will be required for award of HEC scholarships and to get admissions in MS/MPhil programmes. Deadline for online registration is January 31. The test result will be valid for two years and its being organised for applicants who have already applied through official portal of the HEC or those who intend to apply for HEC scholarships in future and those interested in applying for admission to MS/ MPhil programs in public and private universities.
The aptitude test will be conducted in four different categories termed as HAT-1 for engineering and IT, HAT-2 for management science and business education, HAT-3 for art and humanities and social sciences and HAT-4 for agriculture and veterinary sciences, biological sciences, medical sciences and physical sciences.
The candidates will be marked from 100 percent grading system comprising 40 marks for quantitative reasoning, 30 marks for verbal reasoning and 30 marks for analytical reasoning.
In order to appear in HAT, the applicant has to register through www.etc.hec.gov.pk. The applicants have been advised to carefully select correct HAT category according to their qualifications. Also, they can choose their test centre from the list available on the official website.