Multichoice skills - using deductive logic

[Collin Li]

1) There is only one answer
2) Options A and B are essentially saying the same thing
3) Hence, any of those cannot be the answer, as then the other one would be correct too
4) Hence, the answer is C or D (or E)

I'm pretty sure UMAT coaching teaches these techniques too (I've never been), but make sure you make use of this deductive technique to maximise your probability of scoring.

Add more if you can think of any.

[enwiabe]

Note Coblin does not literally mean A or B is wrong. He means there are two options which for the purposes of the discussion will be called 'A' or 'B'.

Just thought I'd clear that up in case of confusion.

[Collin Li]

Ah yeah, that is an example: if A and B are essentially the same, then they will be not the answer.

[BA22]

There are times, speaking more UMAT than GAT, when A and B can be correct, but you must choose the better answer

[Collin Li]

Yeah, and this can be a disaster if you incorrectly identify A and B as being equivalent (covers your case and also if you're just wrong)

[ene]

Please do not provoke me to hunt you down and give you guys a roundhouse right to the face. (most likely afffecting your frontal lobe hence stuffing up your ability to be emotional)
THis GAT is unimportant for again the process of derivation from the GAT, is very much only influecned by the teachers guess and the performace on the sacs
So just shupt your face and stop worrying about getting you FAil on the GAT. Life goes onm after all. but leaves you behind

[Nick]

Ene this is your first warning- I have already had to delete one of your posts from the psych forum.

Please stop contributing posts which are unproductive and inappropriate.

[Fyrefly]

Ene this is your first warning- I have already had to delete one of your posts from the psych forum.

Please stop contributing posts which are unproductive and inappropriate.

Wait.. wait...

He's made a grand total of 2 posts, and both of them r rude and useless?

Haha...


As for using deductive logic... there's almost always at least 1 answer you can instantly eliminate as wrong (usually more).
Sometimes it's easier 2 work backwards using the answers 2 work it out as well.
If all else fails, make a pretty pattern on the multi-choice answer sheet

I always loved multi-choice questions the best thru high skool ...so much less thinking required when the answer's somewhere in front of u.

[Nick]

Three of his posts were deleted.

[Collin Li]

Please do not provoke me to hunt you down and give you guys a roundhouse right to the face. (most likely afffecting your frontal lobe hence stuffing up your ability to be emotional)
THis GAT is unimportant for again the process of derivation from the GAT, is very much only influecned by the teachers guess and the performace on the sacs
So just shupt your face and stop worrying about getting you FAil on the GAT. Life goes onm after all. but leaves you behind

Hey, everyone has their own individual preferences -- I'm merely offering them a way to maximise their score if they wish to. If you think it's a waste of time, then you can simply ignore it. However, there's no need to criticise others for their own personal choices, which are based on their own subjective preferences. If they care about the GAT more than you, then so be it -- what's the point in being so provoked about it?

In fact, I think it is a quite laid-back and "humourous" attempt to maximise your scoring, because you don't even need to pay great attention to the question. When you can pick the answer from multichoice by looking at the options, rather than looking at the question, then you've actually saved yourself a lot of effort. So this is also of benefit to those who don't really want to give the GAT a proper go and would rather use a bit of easy logic to turn the probabilities in your favour, so you score better than the chimpanzee who gets 25% of the paper right.

[Mao]

THis GAT is unimportant for again the process of derivation from the GAT, is very much only influecned by the teachers guess and the performace on the sacs

lol, epic phail

its used for many important purposes, ene, including statistical moderation of your GAT.

and the thing that have the least weightings on a derived exam score: your teacher's indicative grades. VCAA never trust them

[Pandemonium]

if you go monash apparently gat will help middlebanders.

[Mao]

if you go monash apparently gat will help middlebanders.

there are several unis using the GAT this year [as opposed to just monash last year]