GOAT



G.O.A.T. or Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test is a test that every vault dweller (or at least every inhabitant of Vault 101) has to take at the age of 16. It's meant to figure out what sort of a job the person is best suited for in the vault. It is a combination of written and oral exam. Its own proctors tend to doubt its effectiveness and some even will allow students to alter their GOATS or even allow them to skip the test with the Proctor making up a dummy GOAT proving they took it.

Game mechanics
In Fallout 3, as part of G.O.A.T., the game asks the player questions about how he might act in certain situations and based on the responses it determines the job the Vault 101 Dweller is best suited for based on that, advises which 3 skills he should tag.

The Questions
Here are the Questions, the answers, and what skill each counts towards tagging. (NOTE, these are EDUCATED GUESSES ONLY! until we can confirm which one counts as, we can not guarantee that these are what the answers actually count towards tagging)

Question 1 You are approached by a frenzied vault scientist who yells "I'm going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!" what do you do?
 * 1 "But doctor, wouldn't that cause a parabolic destabilization of the fission singularity?" - Science, possibly repair.
 * 2 "Up yours too, buddy!" - Speech?
 * 3 Say nothing, but grab a nearby pipe and hit the scientist in the head. For all you knew he was planning on blowing up the vault - Melee?
 * 4 Say nothing, but slip away before the scientist can continue his rant - Sneak?

Question 2 While working as an intern in the clinic, a patient with a strange infection on his foot stumbles through the door. The infection is spreading at an alarming rate, but the doctor has stepped out for a while.
 * 1 Amputate the foot before the infection spreeds - Melee?
 * 2 Scream for help - Speech?
 * 3 Medicate the infected area to the best of your abilities - Medicine
 * 4 Restrain the patient, and merely observe as the infection spreads - Science

Question 3  You discover a young boy lost in the lower levels of the vault. He's frightened and hungry, but also appears to be in possession of stolen property. What do you do?
 * 1 Give the boy a hug and tell him everything will be ok - Speech?
 * 2 Confiscate the property by force, and leave him there as punishment - Unarmed?
 * 3 Pick the boy's pocket to take the stolen property for yourself, and leave the boy to his fate - Sneak
 * 4 Lead the boy to safety, Then turn him over to the overseer - Unknown

Question 4 Congratulations! You made one of the vault 101 baseball teams! Which position do you prefer?
 * 1 Pitcher - Explosives
 * 2 Catcher - Unknown
 * 3 Designated Hitter Melee
 * 4 None, you wish the vault had a soccer team Unknown

Question 5 Your Grandmother invites you to tea, but you're surprised when she gives you a pistol and orders you to kill another vault resident. What do you do?
 * 1 Obey your elder and kill the vault resident with the pistol - Small Guns
 * 2 Offer your most prized possession in exchange for the vault resident's life - Barter
 * 3 Ask for a minigun instead. You don't want to miss do you? - Big Guns
 * 4 Throw the tea in your grandmother's face - Unknown

Question 6 Old Mr. Abernathy has locked himself in his quarters again, and you've been ordered to get him out. How do you proceed?
 * 1 Use a bobby pin to pick the lock on the door - Lockpicking
 * 2 Trade a vault hoodlum for his cherry bomb and blow open the lock - Explosives, Barter?
 * 3 Go to the armory, retreive a laser pistol, and blow the lock off - Energy Weapons
 * 4 Just walk away and let the old coot rot - Unknown

Question 7 Oh no! You've been exposed to radiation, and a mutated hand has grown out of your stomach! Whats the best course of treatment?
 * 1 Bullet to the brain - Small guns?
 * 2 Large Doses of anti-mutagen agent - Medicine
 * 3 Prayer, Maybe God will spare you in exchange for a life of pious devotion? - Unknown, perhaps Barter or Speech?
 * 4 Removal of the mutated tissue with a precision laser Energy Weapons

Question 8 A fellow Vault 101 resident is in possession of a Gronak the Barbarian comic book, issue number 1. You want it. Whats the best way to obtain it?
 * 1 Trade the comic book for one of your own valuable possessions - Barter
 * 2 Steal the comic book at gunpoint - Small guns? Big Guns?
 * 3 Sneak into the resident's quarters, and steal the comic book from his desk - Sneak
 * 4 Slip some knock out drops into the resident's Nuka Cola, and take the comic book when he's unconscious. - Medicine

Question 9 You decide it would be fun to play a prank on your father. You enter his private restroom when no one is looking, and....
 * 1 Loosen some bolts on the sink. When the sink is turned on, the room will flood. - repair
 * 2 Put a firecracker in the toilet. Thats sure to cause some chaos - Explosives
 * 3 Break into the locked medicine cabinet and replace his high blood pressure medication with sugar pills - Medicine and/or Lockpicking
 * 4 Manipulate the power wattage on his razor, so he'll get an electric shock next time he uses it Energy weapons and/or Science. Most likely the former.

Question 10 Who is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything including our lives? - This question appears to have no standing on your TAG skills, and appears to be on the G.O.A.T simply as propaganda
 * 1 The Overseer. - N/A
 * 2 The Overseer. - N/A
 * 3 The Overseer. - N/A
 * 4 The Overseer. - N/A

The Results
The results for each grouping of answers for the G.O.A.T. are as follows (It appears changing the answer to the Overseer question has no effect on the outcome, so only question numbers 1-9 are displayed.). Answers are numbered 1 through 4, with 1 being the top answer and 4 being the bottom.

Shift Supervisor

Pediatrist

Tattoo Artist

Vault Loyalty Inspector

Pip-Boy Programmer

Waste Management Specialist

Marriage Counselor

Fry Cook

Vault Chaplain

Laundry Cannon Operator

Foot man

Clinical Test Subject

Head of Vault Security


 * 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2 = Marriage Counselor (Barter, Explosives, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2 = Tattoo Artist (Explosives, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,4 = Tattoo Artist (Lockpick, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,3,4,4,2,2,2,1,3 = Vault Chaplain (Barter, Medicine, Unarmed)
 * 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3 = Fry Cook (Medicine, Melee Weapons, Sneak)
 * 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 = Shift Supervisor (Science, Sneak, Unarmed)

Related quests

 * Future Imperfect

Appearances
G.O.A.T. appears only in Fallout 3.