UMAT Discussion Thread 2016

[Swagadaktal]

can i get some advice?
I am doing well on medentry umat exams --> 90% percentiles usually
but the acer ones i am not doing as well :/
AND I DON'T KNOW WHY,
like the questions are easier yet for some reason i am doing worse. I think I might be better at hard questions because it forces me to think more but easier ones make me overconfident and i make stupid mistakes.
I got 93/134 (ACER EXAM 3)  which isn't terribly bad but like I really need to break the 100 mark barrier if I wanna have a good umat score.
any advice? how do you guys stop making stupid mistakes?
also anyone know what 93/134 would translate tooo? like atleast a 70 percentile? 
people said exam 3 of acer was the harder of the few but i aint sure :/

Um MTSE said before that a 90+ mark will yield you a 90+ percentile (or more I think) so if you performed like that on the day you're fine man!
I'm going to do ACER exam 3 a bit later this week so I'll respond more then in terms of difficulty - how are you going in other acer exams? feel free to pm me if you wanna share it there - coz ive done those exams so i can speak to you with reference you know?

I think an important distinction to make is the difference between ACER and MedEntry - the questions vary slightly. Medentry is a business afterall - so it's designed to reward the student who uses it frequently. I.E do more drills and you'll do better in MedEntry questions - but not necessarily in ACER questions you know?
SO I'd recommend spending time looking through acer type questions (they're very similar to medentry but there's also a discernible difference that you need to recognise) -- but you shouldn't be freaking out you're gonna be amazing and we are both gon be doctors together and be bffs in monash med <3

[Maz]

Um MTSE said before that a 90+ mark will yield you a 90+ percentile (or more I think) so if you performed like that on the day you're fine man!
I'm going to do ACER exam 3 a bit later this week so I'll respond more then in terms of difficulty - how are you going in other acer exams? feel free to pm me if you wanna share it there - coz ive done those exams so i can speak to you with reference you know?

I think an important distinction to make is the difference between ACER and MedEntry - the questions vary slightly. Medentry is a business afterall - so it's designed to reward the student who uses it frequently. I.E do more drills and you'll do better in MedEntry questions - but not necessarily in ACER questions you know?
SO I'd recommend spending time looking through acer type questions (they're very similar to medentry but there's also a discernible difference that you need to recognise) -- but you shouldn't be freaking out you're gonna be amazing and we are both gon be doctors together and be bffs in monash med <3

Can I please be your bff too? 

[Swagadaktal]

Can I please be your bff too? 

omg ofc you can human

[The Usual Student]

Um MTSE said before that a 90+ mark will yield you a 90+ percentile (or more I think) so if you performed like that on the day you're fine man!
I'm going to do ACER exam 3 a bit later this week so I'll respond more then in terms of difficulty - how are you going in other acer exams? feel free to pm me if you wanna share it there - coz ive done those exams so i can speak to you with reference you know?

I think an important distinction to make is the difference between ACER and MedEntry - the questions vary slightly. Medentry is a business afterall - so it's designed to reward the student who uses it frequently. I.E do more drills and you'll do better in MedEntry questions - but not necessarily in ACER questions you know?
SO I'd recommend spending time looking through acer type questions (they're very similar to medentry but there's also a discernible difference that you need to recognise) -- but you shouldn't be freaking out you're gonna be amazing and we are both gon be doctors together and be bffs in monash med <3

thanks man,
needed to read that after feeling shit after acer,
hmmm did she say that? well then that is good as then! I don't think that is applicable to this exam though since acer ones are easier then normal umat and i think 90+ for normal umat will give you a 90 percentile.
But yeah i get what you are saying, I might need to review the acer one a bit more clearly. Too bad exam 3 doesn't have worked solutions.
Hahahah but cheers fam!

[Maz]

omg ofc you can human

YES! thankyou human! we could all be a trio 

[Maz]

is it just me or does the answer and method of the questions seem really simple when you go through the exam
afterward? However, for some reason, I just can't get it when doing the exam?

[Swagadaktal]

is it just me or does the answer and method of the questions seem really simple when you go through the exam
afterward? However, for some reason, I just can't get it when doing the exam?

LOL YES. Especially with section 2. I'm like sweating tossing up between 2 options when I'm doing it and then you look at answer and you're like "how the fk did I think that was the answer, it's clearly that"
other times im like "yea get fked" but most of the times its the former

[Maz]

LOL YES. Especially with section 2. I'm like sweating tossing up between 2 options when I'm doing it and then you look at answer and you're like "how the fk did I think that was the answer, it's clearly that"
other times im like "yea get fked" but most of the times its the former

section 3 is like my bane. I look at it for a while and can't generate anything. but then when I review it, it's just 'it moved once, then two spaces, then three spaces'. Then I hug my pillow for comfort

[A1P]

also anyone know what 93/134 would translate tooo? like atleast a 70 percentile?

A few rules of thumb to remember by based on 2015 results
- 90%ile <= 180 Overall score
- 95%ile <= 190
- 98%ile <= 196-200 (out of ~300)

The questions are worth on average ~2 marks each, if Acer prac 3 is like actual 93/134 should give you between 90-95%ile.

[Maz]

Don't you love it when you drive to a library (20 mins away) to do a UMAT exam in peace, cos it's noisy at home, only to discover that they have Med-entry blocked due to security reasons? lol to me 
But why I wonder? what risk could umat study pose?

[pi]

what risk could umat study pose?

MedEntry? A financial risk of about $1000

[blacksanta62]

Hey guys, so I have read Medentry reviews from psyxwar and the like but they're from a while ago. Has Medentry improved their style of section 1 & 2 questions? I know that company papers will never be exactly like acers real UMAT but I just want to hear some reviews on the sections from last year and this year (if you've used them for prep )
Thanks

[mtse]

Hey guys, so I have read Medentry reviews from psyxwar and the like but they're from a while ago. Has Medentry improved their style of section 1 & 2 questions? I know that company papers will never be exactly like acers real UMAT but I just want to hear some reviews on the sections from last year and this year (if you've used them for prep )
Thanks

Actually after last year's UMAT (after numerous complaints) Medentry has updated their papers/materials for this year.
In my opinion, 70% of section 2 questions and 60% of Section 1 questions on Medentry reflected the standards and styles found in the real UMAT exam, while prior to the update, only <30% of Section 3 questions were similar to the real UMAT.
I can't say anything about the questions available now (most are still the same - they've just added newer questions into the "new 2016 practice exams"). From what I've seen they've only really improved section 3.

The other important thing to note is that I've only sat one UMAT exam (thank god...) and my memory of it vs what may actually come up this year (and in the future) may differ quite a lot.

For those completing the UMAT in the future, I do suggest perhaps looking at companies other than Medentry and Medstart, and actually asking how the company obtains/creates their questions. Many rely on word of mouth which means the content available is not necessarily accurate, while I have heard that some companies have in fact obtained to access past ACER papers (I don't know how/when etc) and developed their course based on those, which in my opinion would be much more worth your time and money (especially because they don't cost freaking >$1000  )

[TwinNerd]

any tips in regards to dealing with stress on the day of the umat exam.... there's a lot riding on my umat percentile:(

[pi]

any tips in regards to dealing with stress on the day of the umat exam.... there's a lot riding on my umat percentile:(

How have you dealt with stress in every other exam in your life? It shouldn't change. I wouldn't be trying new methods of relieving stress now, imagine if you started stressing over if those anti-stress mechanisms were working, would be a vicious cycle of disaster haha