Memory

[Limista]

What are some things you can do to improve memory for when you're juggling with several different bits of information at the same time in a section 1 type question?

I'm asking for things beyond the scope of tackling more UMAT questions.

Thanks 

[D27RII]

I hope no one answers this question haha!

You are on a wrong track there, the key to S1 is not to try and remember all that information, it is to compose it into material that you translate onto the page. The common way of achieving this is through note-taking and annotations. Rather than underlining or highlighting key points of information, simply rewrite or re-symbolise (you don't have to use words, better not to) all the information into something you can work with.

I would always annotate, scribble and write down something for my S1 questions, sometimes even draw venn diagrams, little event trees or scribble some mind-map style diagrams to link everything in the text. It sounds time consuming, but in all honesty it is efficient and saves a lot of time (that is otherwise wasted on useless thinking / excessive reading).

[datfatcat]

D27RII is correct, you should never never memorize anything during the test.  Drawing diagrams, tables or even some symbols would help!  I am not sure about rewriting though. I guess it may work for some.  Personally I prefer underlining the key words (questions and the passages). 

[Limista]

Okay thanks.

On that note - memorising stuff in section 1 wasn't really what I was getting at (probably due to my poor wording people misinterpreted what I was trying to ask).

But I've come up with a solution to my 'unique' problem lol anyway.

Yeah I'm aware about little scribbles and sidenotes for S1 questions to make sense of the information in the passage.

Thanks again! 

[gibsonaxxxs]

Also, you don't have to re-write anything with sidenotes - personally I never understood any passage in the UMAT. It's all about answering the question rather than understanding the material.

This is much faster - understand the question, locate your answer in the text, find your answer in the option and move on without being able to understand anything

[D27RII]

Also, you don't have to re-write anything with sidenotes - personally I never understood any passage in the UMAT. It's all about answering the question rather than understanding the material.

This is much faster - understand the question, locate your answer in the text, find your answer in the option and move on without being able to understand anything

haha not sure I can condone that! Sure this might work for those "get a generall feel of" questions, i.e. S2 and so on, but there are some questions in S1 that you simply cannot solve without understanding. Especially all the problem solving ones, you literally need to dissect the text and draw out everything to get the answer.

[gibsonaxxxs]

haha not sure I can condone that! Sure this might work for those "get a generall feel of" questions, i.e. S2 and so on, but there are some questions in S1 that you simply cannot solve without understanding. Especially all the problem solving ones, you literally need to dissect the text and draw out everything to get the answer.

Haha - trust me, it works Section 1 was my best section (way over the 100 percentile mark) so it definitely worked for me.

You have to be smart about the way you do it, though. If anyone wants more information feel free to PM me about the way I work it out - this takes way less time than sitting down to dissect the text. And with the UMAT being so fast-paced, and many people not finishing, it's imperative to save every second. Furthermore by doing it this way you're less likely to make mistakes by over-analysing and bringing in your own knowledge.