UMAT 2018: Results & Discussion

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All you need to show to get in is your admission ticket and identification. You can definitely go by yourself if you want! 

You can write on the question booklet, but just not during the reading time

sweet! thanks

[Apricot]

Are we allowed to take food inside our bag into the exam hall so we can eat it while we wait for everyone to come in, providing we put it away along with our bags at their "allocated space to put bags away"? Also, where exactly do they make us put our bags away?

[Lear]

Good luck to all sitting the UMAT tomorrow!
Try to stay calm and remember you don’t need to get every single question right to get 100th percentile. Be smart with your time

[sarangiya]

Best of luck everyone

[Quantum44]

Does anyone know how acer 'scrambles' the questions? If everyone gets a different variant of the exam, are we given randomised questions from a pool of different ones, or just the same questions in a different order?

There are 134 questions on each person’s exam, however ACER creates a larger pool of questions, some of which will only be given to certain people. Of course, all the questions are in a scrambled order as well to prevent cheating off other people.

[userrrname]

There are 134 questions on each person’s exam, however ACER creates a larger pool of questions, some of which will only be given to certain people. Of course, all the questions are in a scrambled order as well to prevent cheating off other people.

Are these other questions given to people randomly? And do they count as part of you scores?

[Quantum44]

Are these other questions given to people randomly? And do they count as part of you scores?

Yeah they’re given randomly, I’m sure ACER don’t profile you and tell the people at the venue which test takers to receive which papers, they should have a large enough sample size to work with for each optional question.

I’m not sure as to whether these optional questions are in fact test questions which don’t count towards your score as well, but in the end it doesn’t really matter, you just have to keep that in the back of your mind so you don’t end up wasting too much time on a particularly perplexing problem.

[userrrname]

Yeah they’re given randomly, I’m sure ACER don’t profile you and tell the people at the venue which test takers to receive which papers, they should have a large enough sample size to work with for each optional question.

I’m not sure as to whether these optional questions are in fact test questions which don’t count towards your score as well, but in the end it doesn’t really matter, you just have to keep that in the back of your mind so you don’t end up wasting too much time on a particularly perplexing problem.

Oh alright, that makes sense. Provides some comfort knowing that maybe that one question you didn't answer may not even count. But it would be pretty annoying to actually answer some of those questions and not real questions.. anyway good luck to all!

[Zaljc]

Just finished the UMAT, who else guessed?

[Joseph41]

Just finished the UMAT, who else guessed?

Congrats! How'd you go?

[Zaljc]

Congrats! How'd you go?

Better than Medentry, maybe equal to ACER’s fourth exam. I don’t know, I feel like UMAT is 40% luck and 60% knowledge and skills

It was okay overall. But I’m hoping that I didn’t stuff section 1 up because I found that the hardest as it was time consuming to read

[Zaljc]

Btw, will they give us an exact date when results will be released? Like how long do we have to wait until they tell us the release date?

[Lear]

They don’t give an exact date. But it is usually September

[lazaward]

Didanyone else find it quite accurate to both medentry and acer? I only finished 2 out of my 8 practice exams in time but I finished the actual exam with 15mins to spare. The only thing was that there were so many S1 problem solving questions but I feel like since those questions tend to be quite difficult and the UMAT is based on percentiles it’ll account for that?

[lazaward]

Didn’t anyone else find it quite accurate to both medentry and acer? I only finished 2 out of my 8 practice exams in time but I finished the actual exam with 15mins to spare. The only thing was that there were so many S1 problem solving questions but I feel like since those questions tend to be quite difficult and the UMAT is based on percentiles it’ll account for that?