ACER Exams:

[lazaward]

Hi everyone,
I’ve already purchased medentry as a preparation course which comes with 10 full practice exams. I also have a whole stack of free exams that I found online. Is there still a need for me to buy all of the extra ACER papers? Thanks

[pha0015]

I'm doing umat this year too so I don't have much experience, but if you can afford it, go ahead and buy the Acer ones. Acer is the company that comes out with the official umat papers every year so their practice papers would be the real deal, although this is to just get a better idea of what will be on the actual paper, since you can't really prepare for umat.

Other companies try to emulate this, although I'm not sure how successful they are (UMAT prep course industry has a monopoly on all of us naive students). From reading through atarnotes, some people didn't do well in their umat even though they'd been getting high percentiles in courses such as Medentry. Conversely, others were able to achieve a higher percentile in umat after practicing with such prep courses.

If you just want to get a feel of what the actual papers are like, I think that after you register for umat, Acer gives you a free copy of one of their practice papers.

[peter.g15]

I'm doing umat this year too so I don't have much experience, but if you can afford it, go ahead and buy the Acer ones. Acer is the company that comes out with the official umat papers every year so their practice papers would be the real deal, although this is to just get a better idea of what will be on the actual paper, since you can't really prepare for umat.

If you just want to get a feel of what the actual papers are like, I think that after you register for umat, Acer gives you a free copy of one of their practice papers.

I've heard that their practice papers are not as difficult as the actual exam. I'm not sure if this is true, or whether it is just because of exam day nerves, but that's what I've heard. Despite that, I think that it can only do good for your umat preparation

[A1P]

I've heard that their practice papers are not as difficult as the actual exam. I'm not sure if this is true, or whether it is just because of exam day nerves,

I can show several examples of students scoring 125+ correct answers out of 134 in Practice paper 1. Then in the real test "only" 100-110 correct (which roughly correspond to 195-200 marks out of 300). That's 98-99th percentile so unlikely due to exam-day nerves.

One of whom is right here > https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=164702.msg884273#msg884273

[pha0015]

I've heard that their practice papers are not as difficult as the actual exam.

And to think I was so happy when I only lost 3 marks for section 2 of one of the acer practice papers...