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Post by ojiveojive on Jul 27, 2008 18:24:17 GMT
Good Luck, Giggy.
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Post by Meadow on Jul 27, 2008 21:31:25 GMT
It's a shame you have to go though it all again Giggy, but I'm sure you'll do well.
Good luck.
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Post by peekay on Jul 28, 2008 11:36:22 GMT
Good luck again Giggy. ;D
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 29, 2008 15:06:17 GMT
Look at it like this- you've done it before; think of that as practice. You know what sort of thing to expect and you know you did damn well last time so you ought to breeze it! Good luck fella
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 29, 2008 18:03:08 GMT
Not feeling confident to be honest. I tried the official practice test on the UKCAT and did pretty badly, particularly the 2nd and 3rd sections. I have heard from a lot of people that the practice test on the website is nastier than what actually comes up in the real thing. I hope this is the case otherwise I don't stand a chance on the real test.
I can't comment on hwo the two compare as I didn't bother with the practice test last year and can't remember how the test felt last year as i've blocked it out of my mind. On the practice test this year however i made a lot of mistake on the 2nd and 3rd sections and was too slow in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd sections.
Oddly enough when I used the questions from a preparation book it was the 2nd and 3rd section where i did best (in that I got all the questions from section 2 right) whereas i did disasterously on section 1. Have heard that in the book though section 1 is made too hard and section 2 is made too easy. I have to admit I'm a bit confused now.
Either way I'm not looking forward to going to do this test tommorrow.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 30, 2008 15:13:57 GMT
They do make practice things harder, in order to make you work harder for the real thing! I seem to remember that I got D and E grades respectively for my Sociology and English A-levels, but got As on both for the real thing. It's probably something like that. Good luck again...
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 31, 2008 14:10:26 GMT
The practice test was much nastier then the real thing. my guess was it was just their way of upsetting people but Amber's suggestion makes more sense. As i said last ear lowest score you can get is 300, highest is 900, normal range is 500-700 with average being 600. This year i got: Verbal Reasoning: 730 Quantitative Reasoning: 780 Abstract Reasoning: 880 Decision Analysis: 750 The 1st and 4th sections are down slightly on last year, the 2nd and 3rd however are up quite a way so my average has gone up overall. Odd thing being that it was the 2nd and 3rd version which in the practice test I did absolutely abyssmally but here they were my better two. Now only concern is last year they cancelled out the 3rd section afterwards as somethnig went wrong with the scoring.I'm hopnig that doesn't happen again otherwise my average drops a fair amount. The non-cognitive section was thsi time divided into two parts. First one asked personaltiy questions about you while the second one gave ethical dilemmas where you had to answer questions about them and then decide what to do. There weren't right or wrong answers on either because each option had good and bad points. This year the two sections each said. Not quite as good as last year on this section but on the plus side they make me sound like Batman.
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Post by medibot on Jul 31, 2008 23:35:30 GMT
Well played Giggster. Nowt wrong with sounding like Batman Reckon you'll be sorted with those results. Btw, what are the abstract reasoning questions like? I'm intrigued.
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 1, 2008 15:24:20 GMT
Well done, Batman No reason to suggest that the same thing will happen with the results this year btw- it sounds like they screwed up part of the procedure and if it happens again there's no reason to suppose it'll be in the same section. You did well above normal range on all of them, anyway!
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 1, 2008 15:26:26 GMT
By the way, I got my exam result back today. I was only 2% away from getting a distinction- d'oh! Only one result left to go and that's my lousy stinking dissertation. However, my results have been getting better by 1% every time, so maybe next time I'll only be 1% off a distinction ;D
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Aug 1, 2008 18:59:43 GMT
Good luck with the dissertation. Abstract reasoning basically works like this: Set A all follow a rule, Set B follow another rule. You then have to decide whether test shapes fit with set A, Set B or neither. After 5 test shapes Sets A & B change and as a result have a new set of rules. There are 65 test shapes divided into 13 groups of 5 which are compared to a Set A and a Set B. On normal time you have 16 minutes for this. Due to having dyspraxia I get 20 minutes however. Verbal reasoning is answering questions about paragraphs of writing, basically say if a statement is true false or can't tell. Quantitative reasoning is maths questions relating to tables, charts, ect. Decision analysis is working out what is probably meant by symbols and codes. I actually enjoy doing the decision analysis. The non-cognitive section results are good providing they actually read it and think "WOW IT'S BATMAN!" To get that into their thoughts however if I have to do some form of personal statement for the course transfer application I will need to either start or finish (or start and finish) with "I'm Batman".
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Post by J Esaj PRA on Aug 1, 2008 19:25:43 GMT
So.... what's the answer to the question?
Looking at the image, I'd say the test shape belongs to Set A. All of the shapes in Set A can be constructed from circles, while the Set B shapes are constructed from triangles.
That seems a little bit obvious to me though, so maybe there's more to it?
I could make an argument for the test shape belonging to Set B - you could say Set B is all solid shapes, but Set A contains shapes with holes... Maybe I'm looking too hard!
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 1, 2008 20:01:27 GMT
Well I just looked at it and thought "A." No point reading too much into it if you only have sixteen minutes As long as you have a logical method of arriving at your solution!
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Post by coops on Aug 1, 2008 20:29:02 GMT
I'm with Jase for his first reason, set A.
It's along the lines I was thinking anyway.
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Post by amberaleman on Aug 1, 2008 20:32:41 GMT
Gets my vote too!
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