Section 1 Problem Solving Help

[Vivian101]

I'm having major difficulty with general problem solving questions.

At the moment I'm drawing tables (especially for those Logic questions) quickly, but after doing a few Medentry drills (Not too sure how else I can prepare for Problem Solving at the moment) I went WAY over time and got most questions wrong. Many of the Medentry questions don't need Venn Diagrams (I think?), and yeah what other sources of material are useful for Problem Solving?

Any tips/strategies? How would you usually approach a Problem solving question? How would you try to improve?

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LSAT logic questions are hard as and can be found online . There are also guides for it in regards to techniques in problem solving. Note these are very tough questions in regards to problem solving in comparison to the umat.

[Vivian101]

I'll look into them  .
Thanks!

[TheAspiringDoc]

LSAT logic questions are hard as and can be found online . There are also guides for it in regards to techniques in problem solving. Note these are very tough questions in regards to problem solving in comparison to the umat.

as in law school admission tests??

[Vivian101]

as in law school admission tests??

Yeah American law school admission tests.
I looked at a few practice exams for it, their SI is like Problem Solving in UMAT, and their SII and SIII is like Logical Reasoning in UMAT.
It looks pretty helpful 

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as in law school admission tests??

Yep. The logic questions are brutal but very good for practice. They really do improve your critical thinking and logical reasoning.

[Vivian101]

Are there any other tests that could help, for let's say Section 2? I heard some standard IQ tests have questions similar to Section 3. 

[Vivian101]

My advice would be to not emphasise or do too many of the riddle questions (eg. If Carl goes on the bus monday and thursday, but Ben doesn't go on wednesday, and Darren goes on the bus with Annabel, on which day does blah blah blah etc). These did NOT appear on the UMAT last year (and apparently appeared only infrequently other years). Section 1 seems to be far more science/experiment-centric, and some of the questions are VERY similar to the maths/science ones on the GAT. Having said that, the test could be completely different this year to previous years... 

Whelp time to do a few LSAT & GAT questions  . I think then that 2 sections of LSAT is beneficial for Logical reasoning (5 Options and all answers are close), and yeah I'm gonna have a shot at some GAT past papers.
Looking at GAT and feeling sympathy for Victorians, looks a bit harder than QCS, but our QCS is sorta the basis of our ATAR equivalent (based on how well the school does).

By the way, is Medentry's S1 in anyway similar to the actual UMAT? I heard that S2 is basically different.  Even their Section 3 is apparently a bit different?

[datfatcat]

Whelp time to do a few LSAT & GAT questions  . I think then that 2 sections of LSAT is beneficial for Logical reasoning (5 Options and all answers are close), and yeah I'm gonna have a shot at some GAT past papers.
Looking at GAT and feeling sympathy for Victorians, looks a bit harder than QCS, but our QCS is sorta the basis of our ATAR equivalent (based on how well the school does).

By the way, is Medentry's S1 in anyway similar to the actual UMAT? I heard that S2 is basically different.  Even their Section 3 is apparently a bit different?

You guys spend "too much" time on practice questions haha. I haven't looked into LSAT but GAT can be very different to UMAT. Not sure about last year exam (the one that abc12345j did) but in my year there wasn't any maths/science questions.  Doing GAT would not help me at all.

I don't know how much UMAT has changed. I heard S3 is quite different to Medentry, don't know when Medentry is going to update their questions.  I think Medentry S1 was good because I was able to use the techniques that I developed from doing the practice papers in the actual UMAT.