2011 UMAT Question Thread

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Hmm in question 2 isn't C right coz it basically covers all 3 criteria climate, animal and plant conditions?
Yea 4 is very vague and the answer is like saying rule out B coz it definately wrong and C and D because its irrelevant and the 2 week period is unlikely to cause any change. Quite an assumption really...

[nacho]

guess we just suck at umat.
anyway i also have a Q
Tried mapping it out in my head, and did not see how the answer was achieved.
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btw, of ur questions,i dont see how q3 answer is C. unless they classify 'growth' as a behaviour?

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Honestly I would have picked D coz it seems like the outer shapes are rotating 90 degrees then the gaps are filled to produce a smooth shape but connecting them. I don't get the explanation as well...

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Ok compiled a whole list of hard questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answers: CCB

[nacho]

Hey,
is this question flawed?
attached

Q1. Is C? Maths: Donor loses ~7.5 hrs. Recipient gains 18 hrs.
                         18 : 7.5 =  36 : 15 =  12: 5 ~ 6 : 2.5 which is fairly close to option C

Q2. no idea lol.
Q3. i remember you askd a similar question before. look at the findings of the experiment, this should answer your question
     should be B. I can see why you put C, but you missed out on the fact that there had THREE conditions, which were: Reward, punishment and no-consequence. Option C would be correct if    there were only Punishment and no-consequence as reward has nothing to do with the effects of punishment.

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Hmm, for 1) Don't you think the ratio is closer to A? 6:2.5, you increase 0.5 of the right you get A but to get C you gotta decrease left by 1 and decrease right side by 0.5. Maybe my logic is flawed LOL

For 3) They all seem quite right to me especially D, like the experiment shows that all types of condition evokes children to undertake aggressive behaviour, so his kinda like trying to see which condition causes more or less aggressive behaviour? Like in a test condition, I would have no idea how to confirm the right answer between B and D.

For your question, I think C can possibly wrong for 2 reasons as it refers "self punishment" and not punishment in general and also it says OR so there isn't any definite answer for masochists

[nacho]

For your question, I think C can possibly wrong for 2 reasons as it refers "self punishment" and not punishment in general and also it says OR so there isn't any definite answer for masochists

Ah right, I did not read not pick up on the 'punish' and 'self-punish' part thanks

also,
just a request for when you post your questions, can you put the answers like really small font so that we can't see them? Otherwise i just read the passage and rememberyour answers and im like "yea this is it, so obvious" lol

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Answers:BDDD

In particular for the last question, I want to ask why can't it be B because FCC can have higher melting points if the atomic weight is different as with the logic to the answer D is similar. Most have lower if the atomic weight is similar. So its like the complement of each other. I don't think its wrong right?

[luken93]

1st question
B: The whole article talks about the "threats" posed by adolescents, it is highly persuasive in saying how bad we are, not if adults can tolerate us

2nd Question
2nd and 3rd sentence in the 3rd paragraph outline answers A and B, whereas C is the opposite to what they're saying

3rd Question
It sounds as though it is written by a parent, hence the "author's point of view" is going to be on the side of the parents, and against the children.
A: Adolescents are useless, annoying etc, not compassionate
B: "They threaten EXISTING arrangements"
C: Parents used to be good, these days though adolescents are useless
D: "dropping what they had yearned" - sympathetic to the parents

For the last question:
I agree with you, because "most are lower = some are higher", but I spose it's debatable as to whether "most" is a higher probability than "some"?

Hopefully this helps

[Andiio]

Anyone got an idea with this?

[Greatness]

E?

[nacho]

I think B Or C, can't come up with a definitive reason though..
is that question from the NIE book?

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@Luken thanks for answering the questions. That helped a lot
@Andiio I think B

[pi]

How are you guys getting an answer to that? I'm totally lost

Explanation please?

[Zien]

I'm also thinking B but I'm not convinced at my own answer. My train of thought is:

I begin eliminating A and C as there have been no indication from previous across/down patterns that they will occur (none have disappeared or has 2 dots in them regardless of the colour). I can't spot any distinctive pattern down the matrix. Looking at the patterns across: two whites becomes a grey (i.e. two dots of the same white colour changed colour to grey), a grey and a white becomes a black (i.e. different colours changed to black). Now I'm extrapolating that two greys become a white (i.e. two dots of the same grey colour changed colour to white).

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