Post-UMAT 2018 Debrief Thread

[nts]

yea same idk why my friends saying 5250 lol

I thought the question was asking for the age of the bubbles in comparison to the top layer of snow. Wouldn't the air bubbles be older than the top layer of snow covering them?

 

[nts]

I might be crazy here, but I picked the 5250 answer for the snow air bubbles question. My reasoning was my interpretation of the text that an air bubble forms when the snow becomes compact, thus networks of air get closed off, which I assume(d?) leads to the air in the compact snow pushing up to the non compactef snow.

Hence, I picked the answer where the air bubble is either the same age or older than the surrounding snow, but never younger.

Did I just absolutely flop on this question or does my interpretation make any sense?

I used a similar reasoning and put 5250 as my answer. It would make sense that the air bubbles would be older than the newest layer of snow covering them.

 

[Tyrion]

there was a s3 q that was very sim. to one on the acer test 4 or 3.

 

[kiwikillaz]

there was a s3 q that was very sim. to one on the acer test 4 or 3.

what kind of question was it?

 

[kei]

I interpreted surrounding snow as the compacted snow surrounding the air bubbles, which is always older than the air bubbles... But it really depends by what acer means by ‘surrounding snow’ to know which of us interpreted it correctly.

 

[kei]

I would have chosen this as well if not for the fact the stimulus explicitly stated that there had to be a certain level of snowfall before air pockets became air bubbles - therefore air bubbles are always younger/the same age.

I think you just repeated what I said...? Unless you made a typo. (I said snow is always older than air bubbles i.e. air bubbles is always younger). Also there wasn’t an option that air bubbles are always younger OR same age... there was only a ‘always younger’ option.

 

[jiaxing]

Let's have a brief discussion of your strategy and time management: did you do sequentially or by sections, in what order, and did you finish in time or had to blind guess a number of (how many) questions at the end etc.

My strategy:
S2, then sequentially for S1 and S3.

Time management:
S2: 60 mins (incl. reading time)
S1 and S3: 130 mins.

I had to blind guess around 5-10 altogether.

S3 was my best performance. I blindly guessed maybe 1-2? The rest I got, but occasionally relied on the rules such as 3/2, 2/2/1 etc.

S2 was my second best performance. For S2, I made a few educated guesses. By educated I mean “hmm it could be A and B but A seems better.” For example, the cartoon question could be either the isolated option or the anxiety option but I went through with the anxiety reasoning and chose that one. Judging by the comments on this thread, all of the questions we have discussed here I got correct.

S1 was a decent performance. I wouldn’t say it was a great performance like my S3 but it wasn’t a crap performance either. For example, with the mixing P value and densities questions, I realised that if C goes on top of B but A is under B then we need to compare A and B as well and see which one is on the top/bottom. Judging by this thread, I got all the questions right discussed so far. But then again, I blind guessed around 10 at the end due to time.

Overall, I felt yesterday’s exam to be much easier than the ME exams. I’m cursing myself for panicking at the end when i didn’t really need to, but eh it’s done now.

Can anybody contribute their opinion on how they think I went?
I’ve estimated 90+ /134.

Thanking you in anticipation!!

 

[better_late_than_never]

anyone remember one that had options including dissonance and commaderie? it was about a procedure.

Something about a woman who needed to see a doctor for a procedure in the hospital she works in but another department. I chose dissonance. For the other question I think I chose the woman's tone went from professional confidence --> something else ( I was tossing up between this one and the option that had the word 'fear ' in it)

 

[Chrismm]

Something about a woman who needed to see a doctor for a procedure in the hospital she works in but another department. I chose dissonance. For the other question I think I chose the woman's tone went from professional confidence --> something else ( I was tossing up between this one and the option that had the word 'fear ' in it)

professional confidence to personal involvement

 

[nts]

Something about a woman who needed to see a doctor for a procedure in the hospital she works in but another department. I chose dissonance. For the other question I think I chose the woman's tone went from professional confidence --> something else ( I was tossing up between this one and the option that had the word 'fear ' in it)

I went with comraderie for that question and mild curiosity.

 

[MambaMent..]

I went with comraderie for that question and mild curiosity.

Yea I said comaraderie as well bc she was making connections with the procedures he was taking. She didn’t really speak negatively of her doctor tho which is why I didn’t pick dissonance

 

[enigma]

What did you guys get for the building question - for 3 blocks more how many floors etc?

 

[PimpOfRivia]

What did you guys get for the building question - for 3 blocks more how many floors etc?

I remember the question but not this multiple choice question in particular.

 

[MambaMent..]

What did you guys get for the building question - for 3 blocks more how many floors etc?

I think I said 10 or 30. I didn’t think it was 90 Cosby that would mean covering the whole grid

 

[enigma]

Does anyone know if it’s at all possible to get a decent score (~60-65) for section 1 if you had to blind guess about 10 at the end? I’m kicking myself because I panicked at the difficulty of the questions, thinking I was doing poorly but come to find everyone else was thinking the same thing and I shouldn’t have spent so much time stressing in the exam - might have been able to answer a few more q’s. Ughhhhh regrets so many regrets

I feel like many people found s1 hard so to get 60 the score may not be as high maybe. Don’t be disheartened as I’m sure many people had to do this too. It’s very easy to be put off by the types of questions and that’s what acer tries to do.

 

[nts]

Does anyone know if it’s at all possible to get a decent score (~60-65) for section 1 if you had to blind guess about 10 at the end? I’m kicking myself because I panicked at the difficulty of the questions, thinking I was doing poorly but come to find everyone else was thinking the same thing and I shouldn’t have spent so much time stressing in the exam - might have been able to answer a few more q’s. Ughhhhh regrets so many regrets

S1 is the one i'm the most uncertain of. Guessed a few like everyone else you should be fine.

 

[lillysayse]

I went with comraderie for that question and mild curiosity.

I didn't choose the curiosity one, chose the professional to personally involved. I think I got the comraderie one wrong though. Was tossing up between dissonance and that. Went with dissonance.

 

[MambaMent..]

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
Pregnant mother “believe you me”
Girl who could dislocate hip
2 fathers talking about reaction to recent birth
Female doctor being given needle
Couple winning lottery
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

Missing segment overlap (3rd and 2nd combine to make make first in each row)

2. White identical objects moving in and out of black cross

2 white stars moving around heptagon with black star increasingly from 1-5

4 or 5 x-shaped questions resembling ME qs

The diff dhading segment pick the middle questions (flower one, planet one, boat one and hat one?

4 bars of stars moving 1,2,3,4 to right (Acer practice q)

Next in series q with Bunch of straight black lines moving in a rectangular segment

B and W rectangular blocks moving around square

Pentagon with shapes on all 5 sides , two of which alternate between the same two spots

Maze type q with a triangle, white circle, and black and white shadings

Missing segment question with Grey circular shading

Missing segment q with pie like segments of black, white and grey

2 grey balls moving around a 12 sided shape?

Missing segment with three lines in each block with a circle on one end, one of which stays in same place, one flips 180 and another flips 90 clockwise in each row

2*4 grid with a shapes in each block moving and 2 smiley faces turning from white to black

 

[thegreatestever]

professional confidence to personal involvement

Wasn’t it professional dettachment to personal involvement?

 

[DrDrLMG!]

Does anyone know if it’s at all possible to get a decent score (~60-65) for section 1 if you had to blind guess about 10 at the end? I’m kicking myself because I panicked at the difficulty of the questions, thinking I was doing poorly but come to find everyone else was thinking the same thing and I shouldn’t have spent so much time stressing in the exam - might have been able to answer a few more q’s. Ughhhhh regrets so many regrets

I blind guessed 12-15 the first time I sat UMAT and still managed 58, so blind guessing 10 would mean a 60+ is definitely possible, but it would depend entirely on how accurate you were for the other 30+ questions. It would also be possible to get much less.