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managing skipped questions on umat?
« on: July 25, 2015, 12:08:49 pm »
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SO currently I've been doing the prac papers online so skipped questions are easy to identify , but in the real exam it'll be on paper so what should i do? i can't mark it on my answer sheet cus i don't know if you're allowed + if it interferes with their computed marking, and i don't really like the idea of marking it on my question sheet because i'll have to flip through all the pages to find the one i skipped HELLLPPPP D:

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Re: managing skipped questions on umat?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2015, 12:12:02 pm »
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SO currently I've been doing the prac papers online so skipped questions are easy to identify , but in the real exam it'll be on paper so what should i do? i can't mark it on my answer sheet cus i don't know if you're allowed + if it interferes with their computed marking, and i don't really like the idea of marking it on my question sheet because i'll have to flip through all the pages to find the one i skipped HELLLPPPP D:
Haven't done the UMAT, but highlighters work quite well.  Get a really bold bright colour (e.g. pink) and dash a big circle round the question number - it stands out heaps so you can flip through the pages quite quickly and still find it.  Once you've done it, get another colour (e.g. blue) and 'cross out' the highlighting so it also stands out that you've now done that question, and you only address the fully pink highlights.
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Re: managing skipped questions on umat?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2015, 12:14:02 pm »
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 Unfortunately we aren't allowed highlighters in the exam- only pencils :( but thanks for the suggestion!!

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Re: managing skipped questions on umat?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2015, 12:20:11 pm »
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Unfortunately we aren't allowed highlighters in the exam- only pencils :( but thanks for the suggestion!!
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Well then, try a really big asterisk at the bottom of each double page that needs coming back to (e.g. bottom right of the right page only) so you flick through looking just at the bottom right corner of the right hand page.  Then boldly circle each individual question.
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Re: managing skipped questions on umat?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2015, 12:49:15 pm »
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What I did was write the question number lightly on the answer page. This saved a lot of flicking through pages and you can rub it out so no harm done
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Re: managing skipped questions on umat?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2015, 12:51:35 pm »
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SO currently I've been doing the prac papers online so skipped questions are easy to identify , but in the real exam it'll be on paper so what should i do? i can't mark it on my answer sheet cus i don't know if you're allowed + if it interferes with their computed marking, and i don't really like the idea of marking it on my question sheet because i'll have to flip through all the pages to find the one i skipped HELLLPPPP D:

Never skip a question!

Here's what I do: if I'm finding a question too tedious, I just guess it and write the number of that question on the front of my exam. That way, I have answered all the questions (and can avoid the disaster of leaving a question out or filling in answers numerically wrong) and I have a clear guide of which questions I should go back to if I have time.

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Re: managing skipped questions on umat?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2015, 01:52:44 pm »
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THANKS GUYS!!!!