Post-UMAT 2018 Debrief Thread

[Lear]

Is anyone else too drained to do schoolwork/assignments tonight?

Have a legal studies test tomorrow. Got no choice :/

 

[Lukadyne]

Hey UMATters!

Congratulations are in order for every one of us!

First time UMAT for me in Sydney AM today. Quite the experience. I think I am one of the only folk who did the test sequentially from 1-134. Time management was pretty much where I wanted it with only 10 questions left at 15 mins, shot from the hip a few times to shade some boxes. Being seated right in front of a clock helped I'm sure.

I honestly am not going to even begin speculating as to where I will fall. That's in the hands of the Exam Gods now... However if I get anything like my prac tests I will be happy. Now it's time to sit back, relax and catch up on 15 hours of Neuroscience!

Best of luck to all who did it today!

 

[Ruffle]

In regards to S3- were there many questions in which mapping could be used? Also were there many "this is to that" questions?
ME seems to have noticed a trend in recent years where the number of questions that could be solved with the former method were in decline; whereas the latter style of question was becoming more numerous.
Also, were there many cartoon-like S2 questions?

 

[Trinhcent]

In regards to S3- were there many questions in which mapping could be used? Also were there many "this is to that" questions?
ME seems to have noticed a trend in recent years where the number of questions that could be solved with the former method were in decline; whereas the latter style of question was becoming more numerous.
Also, were there many cartoon-like S2 questions?

fair amount of positional questions this year, more so than ones that could be mapped.

 

[keksdee]

No this to that from what I remember, many positionals, mapping did work for some pick the middles. Got like 3-4 X-type questions, more than I expected, but none of them were difficult at all.

 

[Lear]

In regards to S3- were there many questions in which mapping could be used? Also were there many "this is to that" questions?
ME seems to have noticed a trend in recent years where the number of questions that could be solved with the former method were in decline; whereas the latter style of question was becoming more numerous.
Also, were there many cartoon-like S2 questions?

No this to that

Mapping was usable but it wasn't as easy. I dont know how to explain this but we weren't given polygons directly. It's not like previous years where you got, say, a pentagon and an object moved around it. Instead it seemed that there were random objects (hats, boats etc) which had a specific amount of spaces within them in which the smaller objects/colours moved around. For example, there was a basketball divided up into 5 sections which had the colour black moving in a specific pattern and we had to pick the middle. Mapping was still, however, still able to be used. You see one could allow each specific section of the basketball to be one side of a pentagon and still map it on a pentagon according to where the black was on the basketball. In turn typical memorised patterns could still be used. However, it simply required another step.

There were a few Cartoon questions but I think only 3-4

 

[Ruffle]

Cool as.

Also a bit of a weird question, but were the clocks in your venues clearly visible from all parts of the room, and do you think you did/would have benefited from bringing a wristwatch in? Why/why not?

 

[entirety]

In regards to S3- were there many questions in which mapping could be used? Also were there many "this is to that" questions?
ME seems to have noticed a trend in recent years where the number of questions that could be solved with the former method were in decline; whereas the latter style of question was becoming more numerous.
Also, were there many cartoon-like S2 questions?

If not mapping then what do we use? I used mapping but it wasnt as easy as I'd thought it would be. I agree with lear, there were hats, balls, weird flowers etc not necessarily shapes. Actually, there was quite a bit of questions which seemed to focus more on the colour/pattern movement rather than a shape. There were also a lot of grid questions. I would say grid, next in the sequence and pick the middle were the most common. And wdym by this to that?

And section 2 had a few cartoons. Maybe 3-4?

 

[Lear]

Cool as.

Also a bit of a weird question, but were the clocks in your venues clearly visible from all parts of the room, and do you think you did/would have benefited from bringing a wristwatch in? Why/why not?

Did not look at my wristwatch what so ever. There were literally 100 digital clocks littered everywhere in the room. In your face and all that.
I think it was due to the place being a race course so there were many many TVs everywhere in the mezzanine area. I mean there were literally strips of 5-15 TVs on the wall all in a row. And all of these had digital time on it.

 

[Logic]

Heres one that will prepare you for med reflecting on your experience in the UMAT would you change anything you did in preparation?

 

[Ruffle]

And wdym by this to that?

E.g. a picture of a pineapple with an arrow pointing to a picture of an apple, then a picture of a rainbow pointing to... (A: a bow)
If you didn't notice that type of question then they probably weren't in the exam. Thanks for your reply btw!

 

[entirety]

E.g. a picture of a pineapple with an arrow pointing to a picture of an apple, then a picture of a rainbow pointing to... (A: a bow)
If you didn't notice that type of question then they probably weren't in the exam. Thanks for your reply btw!

No there wasn't however, there were these "key" questions, where they'd give you an image and then several other changed images around it, and the changed images would have a key e.g a white circle and a black circle. Then, for one of them they'd give you the keys but not the changed shape and you'd have to find it. I guess that's a kind of "this to that"

 

[Trinhcent]

hey guys, when do you reckon it would be safe to discuss specific questions?

 

[Lear]

I think it should be quite safe now. If a person in USA is dedicated enough to be browsing this forum for questions probably deserve it anyway

 

[Trinhcent]

I got this cartoon as a s2 question with the exception that it was black and white :

I cant remember the exact question stem so maybe someone can help me out but I ended up tossing between his comfort zone being a place for him to get away from any anxieties or discomforts, or him feeling rejected and lonely. What did people pick for this question?

 

[Lear]

I got anxieties and discomforts. He is facing away from the crowd and generally feels more safe by himself away from the rest of the social people

 

[keksdee]

I noticed S3 had a type of easier question which was rare on ME but I had maybe 4 of this type:

You had one single shape like a hat with 4 distinct sections, and had to pick the middle. The colours would simply "move down" the sections of the hat e.g. if hat 1 went white grey stripes black (top to bottom), hat 2 might go spots (new pattern), then white, grey, stripes (the first 3 colours of hat 1) and black would disappear. I was surprised because I saw quite a few of these questions - they seemed almost like giveaway questions because they were immediately obvious.

 

[Dr.Potato]

Waiting is a painful process

 

[Tyrion]

I got this cartoon as a s2 question with the exception that it was black and white :

I cant remember the exact question stem so maybe someone can help me out but I ended up tossing between his comfort zone being a place for him to get away from any anxieties or discomforts, or him feeling rejected and lonely. What did people pick for this question?

wtf???? it was black and white so i thought it was shaded dark suggesting he was rejected and lonely. now that its coloured its obviously anxieties and discomfort...................
smh

 

[Tyrion]

Did anyone else find section 1 to be really difficult even though it was your strongest section in prepping? I’m shook.

yes.