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Post-UMAT 2018 Debrief Thread

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LMG! said:
“Believe you me” is an idiosyncratic speech pattern. It can be interpreted many ways, but tends to be quite a ‘strong’ or ‘authoritative’ way of saying something. It’s not a typo.

If anyone can remember more of the question, please let me know!
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The question was something like: In line 10, x lady says "believe you me" in order to:
A: be reassuring
B: be persuasive and definitive
Cannot remember other answer options or the actual order, but I think the two above were the closest to correct.
 
Crow said:
The question was something like: In line 10, x lady says "believe you me" in order to:
A: be reassuring
B: be persuasive and definitive
Cannot remember other answer options or the actual order, but I think the two above were the closest to correct.
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From traditional interpretation of that phrase, I’d definitely go B of those two options.
 
LMG! said:
This is a work in progress collation of any questions that can be remembered! Mostly this is useful for: a) identifying them in practice material, and b) working out which/how many were trial questions.

I’ll grab what I can from the thread, but feel free to PM me or post here if you remember more later on.

SECTION 1
Home/away
Plot of land/50 story building
Immunisations
Circuit question
Liquid mixing
Juggling balls
Quadtree
Snow aging air bubbles
Sleep disorders
Life expectancy
placebo and drug trial effectiveness
IQ of men and women for different ages
government supporters vs non supporters


SECTION 2
Herman (cartoon)
Mother speaking to colleague
Woman saying “thank you very much”
Guy and his wife who paid for research trip
2 fathers talking about reaction to recent birth
female doctor being given needle
couple winning lottery
doctor and dislocated hip patient
kindergartener and teacher interaction
mother and teenage daughter argument
woman talking to friend about boyfriend and marriage
father encouraging son to join baseball league
dude who calls ex to talk about saving someone life
the miscarriage website (insensitive comments)



SECTION 3
Next-in-sequence: thin black cross - thicker grey cross - thicker again black cross

TRIAL


Let me know if you think any are in the wrong spot.
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Sup guys, been watching this thread for a while and would like to give my two cents considering I sat the UMAT last year.

S1: Similar to last year, although I felt this year had a few more gimme marks which did not require as much thinking. Definitely less problem solving this year and the statistics seemed slightly easier.
S2: Was I the only person who found this section relatively straightforward (Much easier than last year), the passages were not too bad and majority of questions definitely had 2 options which could be easily ruled out. Maybe I missed something but this is quite unusual considering s2 is my worse section.
S3: Found it harder than last year. Definitely less questions which could be mapped but that being said it was not impossible; kinda bummed I think I didn't do as well as I'd like to in S3.

Overall I felt ACER designed the S3 this year to reduce the advantage one would get through medentry style S3 questions. That being said for those who sat the UMAT without any preparation, I'd find it hard to imagine them having much success with the S3 X-type questions. Also, a passage about the lecturer and his mother was from last year's UMAT :)
 
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From what I can remember LMG! with the believe you me question (others can fill in more)

Cara was talking to her coworker regarding something? And the coworker was giving her advice and finished it off in line 10 with the believe you me. Cara was quite assertive and aware of her emotions, and the passage says that she is the "closest to angry as Cara got" as she explained by she chose to do what she did and her emotions at the time. I'm sorry if this is vague, but I really can't remmeber the situation they were discussing rn
 
Trinhcent said:
From what I can remember LMG! with the believe you me question (others can fill in more)

Cara was talking to her coworker regarding something? And the coworker was giving her advice and finished it off in line 10 with the believe you me. Cara was quite assertive and aware of her emotions, and the passage says that she is the "closest to angry as Cara got" as she explained by she chose to do what she did and her emotions at the time. I'm sorry if this is vague, but I really can't remmeber the situation they were discussing rn
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What was her main concern?
I think I put coworker's assumptions
 
Lear said:
I didn't go to med school for this

Also what did you guys write for the questions about the lady who was getting an injection and the doctor was late
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I said that she felt professionally detached to personally involved (as first she is observing the equipment saying that she recognises the thickness and the uses of the needle based on the packaging and as a doctor, she has used that very same needle on her patients as well. But once the injection happens, she says it felt "much more than the pinch and pressure" and how she basically felt violated by the whole procedure.
 
tleb said:
That being said for those who sat the UMAT without any preparation, I'd find it hard to imagine them having much success with the S3 X-type questions.
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I don't even know what an X-type question is, but I can confirm that this statement is correct ;)
 
Trinhcent said:
I said that she felt professionally detached to personally involved (as first she is observing the equipment saying that she recognises the thickness and the uses of the needle based on the packaging and as a doctor, she has used that very same needle on her patients as well. But once the injection happens, she says it felt "much more than the pinch and pressure" and how she basically felt violated by the whole procedure.
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Yepp same coolios
 
The s3 this year moved away from questions which could traditionally be mapped and a lot more positional patterns.
 
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