UMAT 2015 Debrief

[cosine]

No one really knows if they're scored or not, the hearsay is that they aren't but no one can say for sure.

Pi you said you have OCD? Man that lower case 'd' in the title is actually killing me.. I kid you not... Please change it xD

[moonbear129]

Just out of curiosity, What on earth did you have to do for that Team home and away question?
I was only able to briefly skim through it, and ended up guessing the entire question

omg i got that question too
it was so weird, had to guess them! hope it was a trial question haha

[Deshouka]

Didnt any1 get questions that was exactly same concept as the GAT one?

[AllG_]

Didnt any1 get questions that was exactly same concept as the GAT one?

It definitely felt like I was doing the GAT! Did anyone feel like the s1 questions were considerably different to the s1 questions you would expect? There were only like 2 reading comprehension questions and no truth lie ones

[Krakyn]

You guys are making me wonder what trial questions (if any) I got in my booklet

[tashhhaaa]

Didnt any1 get questions that was exactly same concept as the GAT one?

Yeah, was it about fish or something in S1?

[warya]

did not get any questions about fish ^ 

[Deshouka]

Yeah, was it about fish or something in S1?

Yeah lol and also the one about the cells turning on and off
The fish one was apparently a trial question -_-  it was like one of the few where I had a clue on what I was doing
Oh well

[yangsta999]

Yeah lol and also the one about the cells turning on and off
The fish one was apparently a trial question -_-  it was like one of the few where I had a clue on what I was doing
Oh well

I also got both those questions. Spent time on them and they weren't bad. Other than the one part in the fish question where you had to start with 800 fish because halving and taking 1/3s and 2/3s multiple times and then being expected to come up with a reasonable fraction /32 or something was just a nasty waste of time. Fml if they were both trials since they both contained 3-4 questions each and I could've used that time to finish most of the last 10 I didn't get to read (the ones that would actually count)

[tashhhaaa]

I also got both those questions. Spent time on them and they weren't bad. Other than the one part in the fish question where you had to start with 800 fish because halving and taking 1/3s and 2/3s multiple times and then being expected to come up with a reasonable fraction /32 or something was just a nasty waste of time. Fml if they were both trials since they both contained 3-4 questions each and I could've used that time to finish most of the last 10 I didn't get to read (the ones that would actually count)

I honestly had no idea how to solve it I just guessed

Did you get a question about a polygon? Apparently that was a trial as well...
and the leap year one

[paper-back]

I honestly had no idea how to solve it I just guessed

Did you get a question about a polygon? Apparently that was a trial as well...
and the leap year one

I got the leap year one, had no clue what was happening on that one

[pi]

I also got both those questions. Spent time on them and they weren't bad. Other than the one part in the fish question where you had to start with 800 fish because halving and taking 1/3s and 2/3s multiple times and then being expected to come up with a reasonable fraction /32 or something was just a nasty waste of time. Fml if they were both trials since they both contained 3-4 questions each and I could've used that time to finish most of the last 10 I didn't get to read (the ones that would actually count)

Out of interest, why did you sit the UMAT?

[tashhhaaa]

I got the leap year one, had no clue what was happening on that one

same, tbh I had no clue in any of the S1 and S3 questions lol (but the trial questions were especially horrible)

[yangsta999]

Out of interest, why did you sit the UMAT?

My original intent at the beginning of this year was to take a gap year and re-apply to Monash but the parents didn't allow that. I sat it again anyway to see if it would have been worthwhile or not, and out of curiosity to find out how much of a difference some umat study could make (especially to S3 which had been my weakest)

[jjm]

I chose 4 i think as well.....what did you guys say for the fruit fly question?...I thought S1 was great, S2 alright and S3 had some tricky ones in it...definitely the hardest of the three sections this year.