GAT Questions and Discussion

[bs00998]

I just did a rough count. Counted 26 humanities questions. For me, the paper felt very maths and science heavy. But that could just be because I'm only doing one math subject this year........

I found the opposite! felt like there shouldve been more math/science (but thats also probably me doing 4 maths/sciences)

[captkirk]

I think I did way better in Year 11 than Year 12 for some reason.

I did completely opposite to you.
Last years GAT, I didn't do the best but this years one was super easy!!.

[Bri MT]

I felt that the multiple choice was harder, but the written responses were easier. I also found the humanties/art/english ones easiest despite being a math/science student.

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Lets say I do well in the writing and maths tasks -(maybe 40-45 score) but i skipped 8 humanities questions... and got like 30 for that section... will this drag down my other scores if i end up needing derived for english/math/science subjects?

[captkirk]

Incase any past or future student is curious or interested in what was in the GAT today (only including the writing tasks) (I know patriciarose did a perfect explanation but for the visual learners out there ⬇️⬇️)

Writing task 1
http://imgur.com/a/dhe0M

Writing task 2
http://imgur.com/a/YLzrr

[K888]

Incase any past or future student is curious or interested in what was in the GAT today (only including the writing tasks) (I know patriciarose did a perfect explanation but for the visual learners out there ⬇️⬇️)

Writing task 1
http://imgur.com/a/dhe0M

Writing task 2
http://imgur.com/a/YLzrr

Section 2 was perfect for working in club penguin! You couldn't have asked for better prompts

Section 1 seems fine too, but nothing will beat the 2015 one that featured data on how we'll all be eating insects in 2050

[TheAspiringDoc]

The second prompt on the second writing task was so related to unit 1 eng Lang lol. Language distinguishing humans from animals. I've written three assessment tasks at my school on that exact prompt!

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The second prompt on the second writing task was so related to unit 1 eng Lang lol. Language distinguishing humans from animals. I've written three assessment tasks at my school on that exact prompt!

AHHHAHAHAH MY whole writing task two was just EngLang material. Literally exactly an EngLang essay but shorter and more disorganised since I needed to work in the stimulus. Surely I get 45+ for that

[patriciarose]

Lets say I do well in the writing and maths tasks -(maybe 40-45 score) but i skipped 8 humanities questions... and got like 30 for that section... will this drag down my other scores if i end up needing derived for english/math/science subjects?

when you say skipped, please tell me you at least filled in a random bubble? (if not, please do that if this happens again in an exam with multiple choice questions! you don't get marked down for wrong answers and you have a 25% of getting a guess right!) i did that for several of the maths ones too. shouldn't impact on a subject that is totally unrelated to the question. if you do a humanities subject, though, and you think you did badly on the humanities sections, maybe don't skip the exam for the derived score omg. i don't think anyone knows exactly how they use the gat for calculations, but it shouldn't contribute to a science subject's score because they're totally unrelated and that wouldn't demonstrate your natural aptitude for that subject, which is really the whole point of the gat. (: so i'm sure you'll be fine haha.

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when you say skipped, please tell me you at least filled in a random bubble? (if not, please do that if this happens again in an exam with multiple choice questions! you don't get marked down for wrong answers and you have a 25% of getting a guess right!) i did that for several of the maths ones too. shouldn't impact on a subject that is totally unrelated to the question. if you do a humanities subject, though, and you think you did badly on the humanities sections, maybe don't skip the exam for the derived score omg. i don't think anyone knows exactly how they use the gat for calculations, but it shouldn't contribute to a science subject's score because they're totally unrelated and that wouldn't demonstrate your natural aptitude for that subject, which is really the whole point of the gat. (: so i'm sure you'll be fine haha.

Well I circled C for all the "skipped" questions and when I looked at the art at the end, the last 3 questions were very obviously not C...

[patriciarose]

Well I circled C for all the "skipped" questions and when I looked at the art at the end, the last 3 questions were very obviously not C...

i went for C for 69 but i'm awful at art so it's probably wrong, haha. and 70 was super odd so honestly i could see it being any of B, C or D. there were a couple of earlier C's as well, in unit twelve i think? idk. you might get luckier than you think! (:

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i went for C for 69 but i'm awful at art so it's probably wrong, haha. and 70 was super odd so honestly i could see it being any of B, C or D. there were a couple of earlier C's as well, in unit twelve i think? idk. you might get luckier than you think! (:

Yeah had a look again and it was not as clear cut as it seems. Hopefully!

[clarke54321]

I agree that the art section was quite ambiguous. Most of the time, that stuff is very dependent on one's own interpretation.

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I agree that the art section was quite ambiguous. Most of the time, that stuff is very dependent on one's own interpretation.

I guess it's 'what's most likely' or subtle cues that eliminate the rest of the options that they're trying to test. But the cues themselves are very subject to interpretation...

[osporth]

I found the art questions so confusing :/ I'm usually alright at interpreting art but I guess having not done it formally for 2 years caught up to me because I spent so long just like staring at the paintings not even knowing what was going on let alone the emotions and stuff. Maths and science bits were fine though, does Psychology count as a humanities or science subject for VCE?? It's my only 3/4 this year so its all that really matters and I'm worried I messed up the humanities which could be bad

I found the writing tasks really good though! I ended up writing 4.5 pages for the first one because I got suuuper into it and (imo) I thought it was pretty good. Task 2 I'm less sure of because I feel like I didn't really draw on my strengths enough but reading through it I felt like all my arguments made sense and had enough evidence. I could have focused more on the second prompt as I do Eng Lang and it's unit 1 content but I didn't feel very inspired to so it didnt cover a whole lot of it. I did manage to fit in club penguin though ;P