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UMAT Question Thread!
Splash-Tackle-Flail:
--- Quote from: amandalin on July 27, 2015, 11:28:01 pm ---Hi guys! Could someone please explain the solution to this question to me in more depth? Would be greatly appreciated ^_^
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Try to look at it as if the shape is a long trail of blocks with the frontmost block (bottom one in first sequence) moving in a clockwise fashion, and with the other blocks attempting to follow the first block's movements. However they are affected by gravity so (say in 3rd sequence) they will simply fall down to the bottom if no support is underneath it. So therefore following the sequence you end up with D.
cosine:
Ill give it a go, not entirely sure though:
Because all options have the two grey slots, then our main focus for now will be those grey ones. Each grey slot moves 4 units in a clockwise direction:
C - A - E - D - B
Now also look at the white slot. If we follow our sequence you can see that it moves 5 units every move, and it supposedly starts at C exactly where the top grey slot is, and from there it moves clockwise direction 5 units and hence it confirms our answer as E in the middle.
Splash-Tackle-Flail:
--- Quote from: cosine on July 28, 2015, 02:13:32 pm ---Ill give it a go, not entirely sure though:
Because all options have the two grey slots, then our main focus for now will be those grey ones. Each grey slot moves 4 units in a clockwise direction:
C - A - E - D - B
Now also look at the white slot. If we follow our sequence you can see that it moves 5 units every move, and it supposedly starts at C exactly where the top grey slot is, and from there it moves clockwise direction 5 units and hence it confirms our answer as E in the middle.
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Wow thanks! on another note- how do you pick up patterns like this? As in especially given the amount of different movement and the fairly unconventional pattern (like usually it's only 2 units or 1 or something clockwise/anticlockwise)
cosine:
--- Quote from: Splash-Tackle-Flail on July 28, 2015, 02:43:52 pm ---Wow thanks! on another note- how do you pick up patterns like this? As in especially given the amount of different movement and the fairly unconventional pattern (like usually it's only 2 units or 1 or something clockwise/anticlockwise)
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I actually could not believe i did this.... If this came up on the UMAT, i would DEFINITELY leave it till the end, just to spend the extra few minutes if allowed to devise a formulaic movement. Just look for patterns, consider everything. It's not like I looked at and initially went - oh, the greys move! - I started off counting how many black slots there were in each picture, all of them have 8 except for one with 9, tried to devise a formula for it, didn't work. Moved on with another way to look at it. Don't get me wrong though, I fluked this so hard..
Splash-Tackle-Flail:
--- Quote from: cosine on July 28, 2015, 03:05:47 pm ---I actually could not believe i did this.... If this came up on the UMAT, i would DEFINITELY leave it till the end, just to spend the extra few minutes if allowed to devise a formulaic movement. Just look for patterns, consider everything. It's not like I looked at and initially went - oh, the greys move! - I started off counting how many black slots there were in each picture, all of them have 8 except for one with 9, tried to devise a formula for it, didn't work. Moved on with another way to look at it. Don't get me wrong though, I fluked this so hard..
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Well in this test it doesn't matter how you figure it out fluke or no, if you're answer is correct, you'll get the mark, and you got the mark in that one so what ever you do definitely works (y)
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