2009 UMAT - How did it go? (4 Viewers)

[Revacious]

eh? I think we got different questions. My answers were all made up of 6s, 7s and 8s.

oh well my memory regarding these things is always fuzzy, maybe it was 676878, but the format of the answer was the same; ababcb

now that i think about it, that would allow you to conclude which letter was which, becasue there are different amounts of each letter, in this case, 3 b's 2 a's and a c.

 

[MarcusW]

I aim not to be pretentious, my friend. Merely, my function is to be understood in a world lost and confused in a sea of nihilsm brought on by the dread of the global collapse of civilisation. As they say, if you listen to the patient they will give you the diagnosis. Of course that is merely the realm of philosophy and medical dogma, which I would be delighted to discuss with you and all others if it was not in the context of this thread.
ATAR aim: 99.65+

friends...you...have?

 

[MarcusW]

he has to be trolling. no one can be that big a douche

so true. lol

 

[morphius]

^touche (3 posts above).

section 1 - rushed the last 12 or so questions, was all a blur. guessed last 5.

section 2 - ambiguous options that can be disputed, fkn annoying.

section 3 - middle of the sequence did my nut.

overall - not well.

 

[brunx]

S2 was extremely easy
The rest were much easier

Finally, a citizen of noteworthy intellect and class. I welcome you to this thread and I hope you find it to your taste. I beg of you that you join the mensa society, so that you may share your thoughts and opinions with similarly intelligent people. Blessed are we, the citizens who inherited our parents genetic material and take advantage of the hospitality they provide. It is so important to the survival of our civilisation (as it descends into a nihilistic sense of dread and self-pity) that we genetically priviledged citizens meet and socialise, not just for the mental stimulation, but also to share genetic material: enhancing the genetic status of tomorrow's gifted children.
ATAR aim: 99.75

 

[MarcusW]

Finally, a citizen of noteworthy intellect and class. I welcome you to this thread and I hope you find it to your taste. I beg of you that you join the mensa society, so that you may share your thoughts and opinions with similarly intelligent people. Blessed are we, the citizens who inherited our parents genetic material and take advantage of the hospitality they provide. It is so important to the survival of our civilisation (as it descends into a nihilistic sense of dread and self-pity) that we genetically priviledged citizens meet and socialise, not just for the mental stimulation, but also to share genetic material: enhancing the genetic status of tomorrow's gifted children.
ATAR aim: 99.75

you want to 'share his genetic material'?....u fucking weirdo...sperm + sperm = no baby. btw...why has ur target ATAR gone from 99.25 --> 99.65 ---> 99.75 ever since posting in this thread...trying to prove something?

 

[Tavleen]

yeah section 2 was harder than expected- too many similar answers
the other two were better except for the fact that i missed a q in section 3, so my answers below that are all wrong:mad1:
and it took so long to drive there-i got so bored and when i looked out the window i saw this man picking his nose like he was diggin for gold or something!

 

[Dosu]

does anyone else have an answer for the queues question about the time needed so that only one person max is in the line? i know it won't do much good discussing it now but i'm now genuinely curious

 

[kwokie]

Lol how come everyone seem to have manage to finsih except for me. Lol i left like 30 out overall....

 

[Timothy.Siu]

I did rough working out for the queue question and got 2 minutes.
It was like, How long does the customer have to be served if other people come at any time?

I think it's MAX 2 minutes because say someone comes in at 0 minutes, they leave at 2 minutes, but when they leave, if someone came in at 1 minute, then they would have started being served, and even if someone came in at 2 minutes, you'd still have 1 person in the queue regardless?

Does anyone get what I mean? HAHA.

but they said that customers being served ARE IN THE QUEUE.

the palindromic ones were the only ones i eliminated completely, but i couldnt justify why 656575 or whatever that one was the answer, other than 123456 is indistinguishable when reversed.

i got these, the first one was cant determine, and the ones with random numbers i just wrote the symbols backwards to test if it worked if theyu could determine them and took the cases if it was read left to right and the case if it was read right to left.

 

[brunx]

friends...you...have?

so true. lol

Citizens, please. What has our world come to when an intelligent person cannot speak his thoughts without being cut down by the swords of inceprantuity. Please, my fellow citizens. Desists from your wretched comments, they hurt. Yes, perhaps I have lived a sheltered childhood and do not understand the popular modes of communication. But a voice I do have. Let Antony speak, the Romans said- so they let him speak. I too am an Anthony. We are all Antonys. We all have a voice. You, my citizen, seem to me much like a Brutus.
And I do have friends. I make them.
ATAR aim: 99.9+

 

[ajaxandacme]

And that freaky -kinda -looking guy supervising J was kinda freaky -looking . . .

lol. totally agree.

omg. that announcer was annoying. totally lost my train of thought. just like shut up, if we wanna risk 5 years without sitting umat, then we'll do it.

i'm scared. its such a long wait until the results.

section 3 > section 1 = section 2

had some time to check over, but didn't check all of section 1 and 2. which i didn't really like. so much reading. so much ambiguity in section 2. i swear my brain was dying just waiting for the exam to start.

 

[jules.09]

Citizens, please. What has our world come to when an intelligent person cannot speak his thoughts without being cut down by the swords of inceprantuity. Please, my fellow citizens. Desists from your wretched comments, they hurt. Yes, perhaps I have lived a sheltered childhood and do not understand the popular modes of communication. But a voice I do have. Let Antony speak, the Romans said- so they let him speak. I too am an Anthony. We are all Antonys. We all have a voice. You, my citizen, seem to me much like a Brutus.
And I do have friends. I make them.
ATAR aim: 99.9+

Oh please, speaking your thoughts and being verbose are on completely different tangents. If anything, your replies are a mere parody of the colloquial mode of conversation everyone uses. I find them amusing. So, I'm hoping you're making serious points, but seriously don't sound douche-y by the same token (in reality).

Uhmm, Timothy Siu, sounds like you ripped this. You can really keep your head levelled under pressure!

 

[MarcusW]

Citizens, please. What has our world come to when an intelligent person cannot speak his thoughts without being cut down by the swords of inceprantuity. Please, my fellow citizens. Desists from your wretched comments, they hurt. Yes, perhaps I have lived a sheltered childhood and do not understand the popular modes of communication. But a voice I do have. Let Antony speak, the Romans said- so they let him speak. I too am an Anthony. We are all Antonys. We all have a voice. You, my citizen, seem to me much like a Brutus.
And I do have friends. I make them.
ATAR aim: 99.9+

make them....up? like u made up that word or w/e 'inceprantuity', not in any authorised dictionary i spose?

 

[brunx]

you want to 'share his genetic material'?....u fucking weirdo...sperm + sperm = no baby. btw...why has ur target ATAR gone from 99.25 --> 99.65 ---> 99.75 ever since posting in this thread...trying to prove something?

Please, my fellow citizen. Is that what your deduction was from my comment. I'm assuming you did the UMAT today in which case you would need to show a degree of non-verbal reasoning capabilities. I stress that I did not imply I wanted to have homosexual sex. Merely that he share his genetic material with similarly intelligent people. For the benefit of our society it would preferably be with a female, but if he is a homosexual there is no problem with that either. We live in a liberal society in which a man can have prolific bareback sex if he chooses. Despite knowing the risk of STIs such as AIDS he may still do this if he wishes. Like Antony, he is his own boss.
ATAR aim: 99.95

 

[brunx]

make them....up? like u made up that word or w/e 'inceprantuity', not in any authorised dictionary i spose?

I was quoting W B Yeats.

 

[Timothy.Siu]

Uhmm, Timothy Siu, sounds like you ripped this. You can really keep your head levelled under pressure!

haha thanks...
but those were like the only questions i got!!

 

[Dr_Fresh]

Well from the ACER website:

Please note the following:

• All questions have the same value, therefore by attempting as many questions as possible you stand the best chance of maximising your score.
• No marks are deducted for a wrong answer.
  They had better be.

• 
  
  they have the same value cuz they are all induvidual questions, but they are weighted differently. each question is given a difficulty rating and weighted according to this. give you an example. last year s3 of the umat was as easy as it can possibly get with only 2-3 discriminators. many many ppl got 28, 29 or 30 out of 30. the highest possible mark was 95 (raw). ppl who got 29 got 82 and ppl who got 28 got 76. there were no marks in between.
  also, if they only went by the number of questions you answered correctly, percentiles for each section would make much more sense. but only the raw marks are given. the percentile is given based on your total raw mark.

 

[jules.09]

haha thanks...
but those were like the only questions i got!!

Haha, as my friend says, "I made EDUCATED guesses throughout section 1". Which was what I attempted, the first section has so much background noise, compared to section 3, which was very uhmm, concise and un-wordy. Haha.

 

[astroe]

but they said that customers being served ARE IN THE QUEUE.

That means it has to be max 1 minute! D:

If you take 2 minutes per person, and someone comes at time = 0 seconds and at 1 second, then you have 2 people already; when it says not to have more than 1. D:

OHHH I GET IT.

2 MINUTES MAXIMUM.
i.e, not go over 2 minutes.
Right?

So kinda like it could be 1 minute consultation, 30 second consultation, whatever.
The other answers seemed absurd though, like 5 minutes minimum wtf?