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Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: Dravoid on February 22, 2015, 02:33:09 pm

Title: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
Post by: Dravoid on February 22, 2015, 02:33:09 pm

Hi guys,
I'm about to start studying Commerce, planning on majoring in Actuarial Studies. I got a 35 in Spesh and a 37 in Methods, and due to my low marks, I'm not able to get into Accelerated Maths 1 (which leads to Accelerated Maths 2). Because of this, I am required to take the Advanced Placement Test in a week. There hasn't been much information online about the test, so I was just wondering what the test is like?
Cheers

Title: Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
Post by: notveryasian on February 22, 2015, 02:53:54 pm

Guy I spoke to in AM1 last year said that the APT tested his knowledge of Specialist Maths, mostly vectors/complex numbers.

Title: Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
Post by: Dravoid on February 23, 2015, 08:12:20 pm

Awesome! Cheers, did he say anything about the difficulty of the test?

Title: Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
Post by: kazak on February 24, 2015, 11:17:25 am

I had to do it to get into AM (barely any info on it) and from memory I wouldn't say it was any harder than a Spesh Exam 1 paper. Just try to remember the topics from specialist, my test tested me on most of those (that I can remember) and you should be OK. You get tested for your knowledge on six areas and you have to pass a certain amount to get in, I'm not quite sure what the criteria is so just be good at everything.

Good Luck.

Title: Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
Post by: Special At Specialist on February 24, 2015, 02:20:17 pm

I'm doing actuarial studies too :)

You weren't by any chance the guy in my group at orientation day today, were you?

Title: Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
Post by: Dravoid on February 25, 2015, 06:25:16 pm

Thanks for all the replies!
Uhh possiblyyy?