UMAT Section 1: Logic Games Test-Run

TRY THE FREE UMAT SECTION 1 LOGIC-GAMES TEST-RUNS HERE!

There are 2 Logic Games Test-Run:
1. Logic Games Test-Run #1
2. Logic Games Test-Run #2
Note:   Treat this like an actual UMAT Test.
P/S:   Good luck and all the best!

UMAT 2010 REGISTRATION

ANNOUNCEMENT UMAT REGISTRATION OPEN APRIL 2010

Key important points:
1.   UMAT2010 Test: Wednesday 28th July 2010
2.   UMAT REGISTRATION OPEN NOW!
3.   Registration ENDS: Friday 4th June 2010.
4.   UMAT2010 Information Booklet [AVAILABLE NOW!]

FIRST TIME HERE? INTRODUCTION

Posted on March - 13th - 2010

"...what gives. This was meant to be a paid-package-sure-succeed UMAT program - after all, I paid alot of money. Well not being the type of loser who gives up I decided to spend more time in pursuing the success of the UMAT test whilst studying at the same time. (For all of students, repeating Year 12 if possible is a good option; not to be ruled out, more on this later)..."

UMAT SECTION 1: LOGIC GAMES BREAKDOWN ANSWERS 1/2

Posted by xlol On 10:22 AM 3 comments


PART 1 OF LOGIC GAME: Basketball Teams


Choosing six out of eight people to play basketball, and breaking up the six players into two teams of three players each. The unusual twist on this ‘`grouping game of distribution” (meaning that it’s a game in which you’re putting the entities into subgroups), is that each player on a team plays opposite a specific player on the other team. Here are the key issues that you should anticipate the questions will be based on:


- Which players are chosen and which ones sit on the bench?

- Which players can or must play together?

- Which players cannot play together?

- Which players can and cannot play opposite each other?


The Initial Setup


If you were the coach for this situation in real life, how might you use pencil and paper to keep track of it all? Here’s a simple, intuitive way:

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UMAT SECTION 1: LOGIC GAMES TEST-RUN

Posted by xlol On 1:58 AM 17 comments


The ACER UMAT Information Booklet specifies the 44 questions in Section 1 is given 65 minutes to finish. Doing the math that's about 1.48 minutes per question. Here I present you 12 challenging questions. Stop the casual reading about right now, for this I bring you a mini-UMAT test for Section 1. That's right, treat this like the real UMAT because you may struggle to finish on time. Set your timer to 18 minutes.


Okay, take a cup of water, an empty A4 paper for scribbling. Sit down and make sure your comfortable. Time yourself and let me know how you went in the comment section below. As per usual, answers will be provided there but this time, why not discuss you're answers rather than just giving me the answers. By discussing it you allow people to see how you think around a question.


Finished reading? Okay, get ready. Here we go! READ MORE to START THE TEST.
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UMAT 2010 REGISTRATION

Posted by xlol On 1:20 PM 0 comments


UMAT2010 WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY 28TH JULY 2010

"Registrations for UMAT2010 will open online at the UMAT website in April 2010. Your complete registration must be recieved at the UMAT Office at ACER no later than 5p.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) on Friday 4 June 2010.



UMAT REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:

VISIT REGISTRATION WEBSITE



Late registrations will be accepted up to 5p.m. AEST Friday 18 June, on payment of a late fee of AUD$55 in addition to the registration fee. The online registration system will close at 5p.m. AEST on Friday 18 June. It will NOT be possible to register for UMAT2010 after this date.


- VISIT ACER UMAT2010 HOMEPAGE


Here are some useful links off ACER's website for you to check out!


- UMAT2010 Information Booklet [AVAILABLE NOW]

- UMAT2010 Quick Reference Guide

- UMAT: Preparing For UMAT

- UMAT2009 Information Booklet

- Purchase ACER UMAT Practice Test 1 + 2

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GOING AWAY OH WHAT TO SAY~

Posted by xlol On 11:06 AM 0 comments


What IS up!! To my male and female readers of this blog!



Just letting you know from April 1st - 5th [Thursday to Monday] I will be out of action. Right after this post I won't be using having any connection to the internet world because I'll be going camping this coming Easter break. It's good to relax and let your mind rest so I'd encourage you all to do something light this weekend and enjoy the time. Might I add I'll try to come up with a post daily, but things happen - life + relationships and all that, you guys should know!



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SECTION 2 QUESTIONS - PRIORITISE

Posted by xlol On 10:51 AM 10 comments


Question: 1


You are a young general practitioner working in a coastal town. Many of your patients are holiday-makers, who use your services only when on holiday. A young man who lives on the coast and has been a patient of yours for a couple of years, makes an urgent appointment to see you. He has a severe stomach upset and requires medication. He brings with him to the consultation two of his friends, both holiday-makers who have the same symptoms of stomach upset. The two friends have no appointment to see you. You have a full list of patients, all of which have made appointments. What do you do?


Choices:

a) You consult the patient who has made the appointment and then tell his friends that you have a waiting room full of patients. The best you can do is to try and fit them in at the end of the day.

b) As they have all come in to see you together, you say nothing about the other patients who are waiting to see you. You examine your regular patient first and then examine his friends briefly and give them each a prescription for their condition.

c) You tell the patients friends to speak to the receptionist, who does all the bookings, to ask her to fit them in as soon as possible and tell them that they may have to wait a while.

d) You tell the friends to see another doctor as you are really fully booked and cannot inconvenience your regular patients for patients who see you when they are on holiday.

e) You tell your receptionist to tell the youngsters that they should seek help from another doctor as you are too busy.


Question: 2


You are a hospital physiotherapist treating a football player who has had a knee reconstruction.You have to see this gentleman on a daily basis to put him through a schedule of routine exercises, which will aid his recovery. Every time you come to see him he has visitors from his football team who distract your patient from concentrating on his movements with loud comments and jeers. What should you do?


Choices:

a) You politely ask the visitors to leave the room while you are attending to the patient.

b) You politely explain to the visitors that it is obvious that the patient is distracted from his exercises while they are present and to please either wait outside or not disturb him.

c) You ignore the rowdy visitors and try your best to work with your patient.

d) You joke along with the man’s friends, realising that your patient is not getting the most out of his physiotherapy, but at least he is being kept in good spirits.

e) You tell the patient to ask his friends to leave while you are treating him.
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TRUE BREAKDOWN 4-STEP METHOD FOR LOGICAL THINKING

Posted by xlol On 10:33 AM 1 comments


HERE IS HOW TO APPROACH LOGICAL THINKING:


1) Preview the question stem.

2) Read the stimulus.

3) Try to pre-phrase an answer.

4) Choose an answer.


1. Preview the Question Stem


Previewing the stem is a great way to focus your reading of the stimulus, so that you know exactly what you're looking for.


2. Read the Stimulus


With the question stem in mind, read the stimulus, paraphrasing as you go. Remember to read actively and critically, pinpointing evidence and conclusion.


3. Try to Pre-phrase an Answer


Sometimes, if you've read the stimulus critically enough, you'll know the answer without even looking at the choices.


4. Choose an Answer


If you were able to pre-phrase an answer, skim the choices looking for something that sounds like what you have in mind. If you couldn't think of anything, read and evaluate each choice, throwing out the ones that are outside the scope of the argument. After settling on an answer, you may wish to briefly double-check the question stem to make sure that you're indeed answering the question that was asked. Now let’s try this approach on a genuine Logical Reasoning item:


A study of twenty overweight men reveled that each man experienced significant with loss after adding SlimDown, an artificial food supplement, to his daily diet. For three months, each man consumed one Slim Down portion every morning after exercising, and then followed his normal diet for the rest of the day. Clearly, anyone who consumes one portion of SlimDown every day for at least three months will lose weight and will look and feel his or her best.

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UMAT SECTION 1: FORMAL LOGIC

Posted by xlol On 12:23 AM 0 comments


Formal Logic Questions


Tom will go to the movies only when his wife is out of town. He'll go to a matinee alone, but will see a movie at night only if accompanied, by Cruise and Katie.


This simple stimulus is made up of a couple of formal logic statements, each fraught with its own implications. Be on the lookout for Logical Reasoning stimuli that contain sentences that can be boiled down to such hard and fast rules. When you come across examples of these, you can apply the following principles of formal logic to help you arrive at the correct answer.


The Contrapositive


For any if/then statement - or a statement that can be translated into if/then form - the contrapositive of the statement will result in an equally valid second statement.


The contrapositive can be formed by reversing and negating the terms of any if/then statement. The general model goes like this:


If X, then Y.


The contrapositive of this statement is;


If not Y, then not X.
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DONATION & THANKS FOR READING

Posted by xlol On 4:50 PM 3 comments


UMATSUCCESS project is a community effort to continue producing student content for UMAT understanding online for FREE. This website provides informative teaching guides and sample UMAT questions. Now I understand when something is free, we tend to be so happy about it we lose sight of the reason why it was free in the first place, which I've mentioned HERE!
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SECTION 2 COMMUNICATION QUESTIONS

Posted by xlol On 10:41 AM 3 comments


I thought I'll add a bit of UMAT Section 2 questions to help complete the UMAT Section 1 Test-Run previously. These questions should be simple and easy with the solutions at the end of all the questions. There's a total of 8 questions SO SCROLL SLOWLY WHEN REACH QUESTION 8 otherwise you may see the answers from question 1 onwards. We'll start talking about Logic Games and similar attributes later this week.


Question: 1


You are a nurse working on a general ward. One of your patients, a middle-aged man in a shared room, requires regular oral administration of medication, as instructed by his doctor. You have privately been informed by one of the other patients, that as soon as you leave the room the man spits out the pills you have given him. What should you tell him?


Choices:

a) You inform the patient that you will tell the doctor that he spits out the tablets he should be taking.

b) You confront the patient with the information you have and explain carefully to him that it is in his best interest to take the medication prescribed by his doctor.

c) The next time you have given the patient his medication you unobtrusively observe his actions. If the allegations made are true you speak to him concerning the need to follow his treatment plan carefully and that it is in his best interest to follow the doctor’s orders.

d) You tell the patient that you suspect that he is not taking his medication and that you shall have to report him to the doctor, as this may have very serious repercussions for his recovery.

e) You explain to the patient the importance of taking the prescribed medication and then decide to stay with the patient until you have seen him swallow all the tablets prescribed and give instructions to the other nursing staff to do the same.
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UMAT SECTION 1 TEST-RUN

Posted by xlol On 5:42 PM 2 comments


Here are some questions for UMAT Section 1. They portray important reading skills necessary to do well in UMAT. The answers are available right underneath the answer selections, SO SCROLL DOWN SLOWLY if you feel you'd like to assess your Section 1 qualities. And if you appreciate this post, please share it to friends who are sitting the UMAT.


1) Determine the Main Idea


You should recognize key words in a sentence, main ideas in a paragraph or passage. Key words are important or essential words that determine meaning of a sentence. These are often nouns or verbs. The main ideas sometimes occur in the paragraph's topic sentence; it is often implicit. The other ideas provide support or evidence for this main idea.


Example -


Teachers and librarians need to be aware of the emotional, intellectual, and physical changes that young adults experience, and they need to give serious thought to how they can best accommodate such changes. Growing bodies need movement and exercise, but not just in ways that emphasize competition. Because they are adjusting to their new bodies and whole host of new intellectual and emotional challenges, teenagers are especially self-conscious and need the reassurance that comes from achieving success and knowing that their accomplishments are admired by others. However the typical teenage lifestyle is already filled with so much competition that it would be wise to plan activities in which there are more winners than losers, such as publishing newsletters with many student-written book reviews, displaying student artwork, and sponsoring science fiction, fantasy, or other special interest book discussion clubs. A variety of small clubs can provide multiple opportunities for leadership as well as practice in successful group dynamics. Making friends is extremely important to teenagers, and many shy students need the security of some kind of organization, with a supportive adult barely visible in the background.

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