GAT scores hit an all-time low
The National Institute of Educational Testing Service (NIETS) yesterday pointed out that scores in GAT 1 had hit a record low as it announced countrywide scores in the General Aptitude Test (GAT) and Professional and Academic Aptitude Test (PAT).
The lowest score for GAT 1, which requires analytical skills, stood at 2 out of 150 points, while 100,512 students earned less than 30 points.
NIETS director Sampan Panpruek said this information would be forwarded to the Office of the Basic Education Commission so it can improve its teaching methods to help boost students’ analytical skills.
Students who are interested in finding out where they went wrong have until Sunday to submit a request to NIETS and the correct answers will be available to them on November 17-18, he said, adding that results of the October 6-9 test were available at www.niets.or.th.
Sampan said NIETS had compared the latest tests to the ones held in December and found that the questions were tougher this time. While the highest average score for both GAT tests stood at 114.30 points, the highest average score in PAT stood at 127.31 points for PAT5 (teacher profession aptitude) and at 109.88 points for PAT6 (arts aptitude), he said.
The overall scores for both GAT 1 and 2 – taken by 323,912 students – stood at an average of 114.30 points (the lowest being 2 and the highest 297.50), though the scores of 70,548 students ranged between 30.01 and 60.00.
GAT 1 (150 points), which was taken by 323,030 students, had an average score of 65.23 points (with 2 the lowest and 150 the highest); while GAT 2 (150 points) with 323,829 students averaged at 49.07 points (with 2.5 the lowest and 150 the highest). Up to 221,245 students scored between 30.01 and 60.00 in GAT 2.
PAT was divided into seven tests, with each set at 300 points. The average score for PAT1 (maths) was 40.61 (5 lowest, 300 highest); PAT2 (science) was 86.20 (9 lowest, 234 highest); PAT3 (engineering) was 91.11 (16 lowest, 276 highest) and PAT4 (architecture) was 58.07 (3 lowest, 232 highest). The lowest score for PAT5 was 2 and the highest 242; while the lowest for PAT6 (arts) stood at 10 and highest at 212.50. Students taking PAT 7 were tested in their aptitude in six foreign languages.
