My UPCAT Experience

I didn't take a picture of my test permit. Heh :p

Being one of the first batch of UPCAT takers, I woke up at around 4:30 in the morning, prepared myself and departed the house at 5:30 AM. It was only a 30-minute trip to UP Manila because luckily, there was no traffic. Yaaay~

It was weird that I didn't feel nervous or anything before, during, and after taking the UPCAT. I'm not expecting to pass, but I took it as a challenge! Besides, passing the UPCAT is a bragging right. And I took it also to familiarize myself in a college entrance examination. I have two more to go! I just took USTET yesterday. But I'm not here to blog about that.

Getting back to UPCAT, I impatiently waited with my fellow UPCAT takers, AM batch infront of the College of Medicine. I have no one to talk to, so I just texted and texted. When we got to the hall where we'll take the test, it took so long before we started because the proctors were having a difficulty counting us. So before the test, I was annoyed and not nervous. At all. Plus, my seatmate was very erm.. move-y. I was so annoyed at her. =____= 

When the instruction manual was given, I was holding back my laugh because they may think that I'm crazy or something. I can't stand seeing Mario Maurer with braces in the sample test permit. He was even named "Hans Tristan Anderson Yu Sykora" and has a fanpage of his own on Facebook! Visit: http://www.facebook.com/UPCAT2013

Finally, the test booklet was given. The first thing we took was Language Proficiency. I'm not bragging, but I found it pretty easy. Few deep words were only given and the look for the error part wasn't that complicated and the errors were easy to distinguish. 

After Language Proficiency, we took Science. It's not that easy but it's not that hard. They focused more on Biology and Chemistry but few Physics questions were given. Erm.. I don't know what to say anymore. Haha! After Science, we were asked to stand and stretch for a couple of minutes. I, being lazy, didn't stand but ate my food instead. *oink*

In Math, there were no trigonometric functions given (yay!) and the formulas in solving for volume, area and such were given. Well, to some. This is the only test where I skipped a couple of numbers because I really had no idea how I would answer those questions with functions. 

Reading comprehension was so boring. I suggest you, future UPCAT taker, to read the questions regarding the reading selection and just scan for the answer. It saves a lot of time! After taking that, I just ate my food again: Sky Flakes and M&M's. 

For the first time in the UPCAT history, an on-the-spot essay writing was given. Our batch were asked to write about something we do often, whether in English or Filipino. We were lucky enough to have an easy question and kind of serious, because some found their topics weird and hilarious. I was preparing for a topic from a current event (I read PNoy's SONA the night before UPCAT) and I was surprised how their questions turned out to be, like "Tell a lie about yourself and prove it." Heh, weird.

After the test, I went home by myself. It was super boring!!! Ugh, but I was glad that UPCAT's over. :)

P.S. I took UPCAT last August 4. Super late entry! Haha!