UMAT: Pick the Middle
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2014
- A general overview of a pattern recognition technique for 'Pick the Middle' questions found in Section 3 of UMAT
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an actual legend, Daniel Mills is probably better than all the other umat training sessions out there, these shortcuts are clear, concise and logical, making it easy to understand, A huge pat on the back to you sir.
I can't say thank-you enough for this video. I had been doing UMAT preparation for a few months and been getting no where with these pick the middle questions, and finally I am able to get almost full marks or even full marks with these questions! Thank-you :)
Thanks so much. Everything was explained so well and has really helped me out. I can't thank you enough for this :)
This is fantastic! I love all of these shortcuts. This is very helpful for someone commencing study 1 month out. Thank you
You're a life saver!! Thank you so so much
Appreciate this so much, im starting hsc year in 2 weeks!
I am forever in your debt, thank you so much :)
Far better than blowing hundreds of dollars on prep courses. Thank you very much.
Thanks heaps buddy! Wish I saw this prior to the night before the test :p
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thankyou sooo much man. u are helping like a god
this was so helpful thank you so much.
35:10
In regards to your final decision being made on the colour of the square; they don't always follow the 3-2 rule. Sometimes they follow the pattern: don't change colour, change colour, don't change colour, change colour
Yep in the last couple of years the 3-2 rule doesn't always follow an 'ABABA' sequence. As you said it can be ABBAA, though the impression I get is that it still follows the ABABA structure more often than the ABBAA. Given that, I think its best to work through any question where a component follows the 3-2 rule by assuming it follows an ABABA sequence, see if its compatible with the other components of the question, and only if its not then consider the possibility that it could be ABBAA.
Hello. For the hexagonal pattern: "Two steps, then one" it seems like the middle figure on the sequential diagram series shows the black dot in the bottom right. This does not seem, (to me) to correlate with the position that you indicate to be the middle on your final diagram. I don't understand.
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When we're using the 3-2 method, for example the question at 35:10 , how would we would if its alternating colour each time or if its alternate, stop, alternate, stop? thanks!
thank you
Hey man, great video! Just a simple question - there are a lot of patterns presented here, so is there a way to condense this into, suppose, a one page cheat sheet? Cheers!
thanks mate
The problem i have with these questions is that i often dont know which step to have as a starting point.
That's the idea behind the mapping method - you don't need to know where to begin, you just write down all the letters in the places that they occur, and from there its just a case of pattern recognition (looking at the configuration they form and seeing if they match any of the ones you know/the ones in this video)
Hey i was just wondering, for all pick the middle questions on UMAT, will the patterns always be going in a clockwise direction? Or will some patterns be moving anticlockwise???
Thanks for all this, god bless mate
Am I wrong for assuming initially, that for the question in 46:02, it be safe to assume the middle will be the one opposite the 3 grouped letters...
hi
for the octagon the 2 steps forward then 1 at 48.55 gives the exact same pattern as 3 steps forward
how does one distinguish them
also I didnt see a single 0 1 0 1 pattern in the video
is it because these are too uncommon and not worth the time
The short answer is that there's no way of distinguishing - if you map that in the exam it could be either the 2-forward-1-back or 3-steps-at-a-time. Therefore the correct answer could be the letter by itself (in the case of 3 steps at a time) or either of the ones furthest away from the one by itself (the two possibilities for the '2 steps then 1' movement). Therefore all you can rule out are the two remaining letters, which are the two closest to the letter by itself. From there, to work out which of those options is the correct answer, you'd need to look at other components of the question.
With the 0-1-0-1 movement (which I'm assuming means one where components alternate between moving one step and staying stationary), its probably common enough to give some thought to. Luckily it leads to a very simple configuration regardless of what shape it occurs in - two groups of two directly next to each other and a single letter adjacent to one of them.
Thanks so much. I'm in Yr 10 at the moment, should I get started with sample papers?
No worries - as for preparation, while it wouldn't hurt starting now you'll find your results will plateau out as you reach your peak, so even if you only started preparing this time next year that would still give you plenty of time to do so (I only started 4 or 5 months beforehand).
Hi there, at 42:20, your hexagon section, isn't the middle for 1,2,3,4 and two steps, then one pattern the same?
Awesome work picking up on that, I'll put a note in the video amending that
for 19.17, why couldnt the ans for the bottom one be B? since B is also adjacent to a double group, and opposite a double group
By opposite I mean directly opposite, i.e. in the square on the left in the bottom row at 19:17, E is directly opposite the double group (A and D), while the one on the right has the C opposite the double group (D and E). B is adjacent to the double group in both of those squares.
Really though, I love you :) bahahahhah thanks so much for this man
Why does your shortcut work for Square: same configuration different letters? I get the shortcut but what is the logic behind it? Thanks (Similarly for the Square: find the letter by itself and pick the opposite)
The idea is that there are two common movements that both lead to that same mapped configuration - one-step-at-a-time and 1-2-3-4. In the case of one-step-at-a-time, the middle is the letter opposite the group of two, whereas with 1-2-3-4 the middle is one of the letters adjacent to the group of two. Therefore if you have two mapped squares with that configuration (2 letters in one corner, 1 in each of the rest) but a different arrangement of letters (e.g. different letters making up the group of two), one of those squares will have likely been created by the one-step-at-a-time movement where the letter opposite is the middle, and the other will have been made by the 1-2-3-4 where one of the adjacent letters is the middle.
The only other movement that can lead to that configuration is two-forward-one-back, which results in one of the letters adjacent to the group of two being the middle. This doesn't happen too commonly (95% of the time it'll just be the situation described in the first paragraph), but in the 5% of cases where none of the options fit the once-opposite-one-adjacent shortcut shown in the video, go for the letter which is adjacent to the group of two in both squares.
Thank you so much. However I have one question somewhat unrelated with this video. Did you participate in a UMAT preparation course? If you did, do you recommend it?
When I did UMAT I got a package which included a workshop/course and a collection of online questions. You're unlikely to learn anything from a course that isn't in one of these videos, but I would recommend purchasing some online questions/resources, they're really quite useful for practicing your skills.
Just to clarify, at 44:20 - is the 1st configuration giving A, C and D or only D? Thanks
Sorry yep, after that edit it's just D
was the umat hard? and if ur comfortable what did u get?
Pretty hard, though I found the Pick the Middle questions and Section 3 stuff quite doable. I imagine they'd have been a lot tougher without preparation. 97th %ile
thank you! you are the reason i have a chance in hell of passing!
Haha, what a lovely compliment - you'll probably end up doing better than you think, most people do.
ha! i guess we will find out. out of curiosity, did you develop these techniques yourself, or were they passed down to you?
Douly Umer I had a bit of training to begin with in learning the basics of mapping, but the configurations and shortcuts are things I just worked out over time
Hi I was just wondering why it c couldn't be the middle for 53:56 as the pattern could be AECDB?
Just from experience, its more likely to be the pattern shown, but there's nothing wrong with your suggestion. In the real paper they'd be pretty careful to make sure there's only one possible solution.
When all these amazing videos become redundant because of UCAT 🙁
Never mind. I see the amendment. Whoops.
At 57:40 you said 7² - 13 = 32 *shakes head in shame* :P