LUMS SSE test!

[Zishi]

Hello,

Just wanted to know if anyone here is appearing for LUMS SSE test on February 11, how are they preparing for the English section of the test? If you're using a SAT book for it, then which one?

-Thanks

 

[Glaedr93]

I think Barrons should be sufficient.

I'm not preparing for it though. I don't need to.

 

[Feelguud77]

The SSE test has NO english section whatsoever -___-'......LCAT has english.

 

[OakMoon!]

The SSE test has NO english section whatsoever -___-'......LCAT has english.

Scroll down on this link!
http://sse.lums.edu.pk/adm_applyingtosse.htm

 

[Feelguud77]

σ___σ...........Ο__Ο
Oh boy oh boy oh boy, how deed i miss zis! What is verbal and paragraph writing?!

 

[Octahedral]

what is verbal writing?

 

[OakMoon!]

It's not verbal writing. It's Verbal english test + a paragraph writing test. Verbal test is basically an english section containing questions regarding vocabulary and other stuff like sentence completion, grammar e.t.c

 

[Glaedr93]

So... how'd it go guys?

 

[toxicdevil]

How did it go??
Its was the worst test I had given!
No lights in the hall, the clock was very very far away.
5 questions in biology were repeated and 4-5 in chemistry were repeated.
The answer sheet had space for less mcqs than the actual number of questions.
In one question the mcq had 2 similar options.
The instructions had spelling mistakes and it made you wonder if the mcq option in the English section was really wrong or perhaps there was a spelling mistake.

 

[OakMoon!]

How did it go??
Its was the worst test I had given!
No lights in the hall, the clock was very very far away.
5 questions in biology were repeated and 4-5 in chemistry were repeated.
The answer sheet had space for less mcqs than the actual number of questions.
In one question the mcq had 2 similar options.
The instructions had spelling mistakes and it made you wonder if the mcq option in the English section was really wrong or perhaps there was a spelling mistake.

I believe that's how messed up our internal examinations are. But we can't do anything about it. I spotted two mistakes in the Chemistry section. One was the isoelectronic question (two answers in the options) and second was the Mr/p question that had no right option.
Secondly, only a few people had 42 questions in Chem. I only had 38 (as in the answer sheet) in my booklet. Weird! :S
The first 3 sections were well made, couldn't find a problem in them. Instructions only distracted you.

In the end, it wasn't that bad. If you are intending on giving more entry tests in Pakistan, you'll find even worse situations. Did you give the NSTC test last year? If no, then you don't know how worse test conditions can get here.
Plus, the actual test was well made except for a few mistakes I mentioned above. The questions were challenging and the sections were well designed, starting with the easier questions and ending with the difficult ones.

 

[Glaedr93]

A couple of questions in the verbal section were really awkwardly worded.

 

[OakMoon!]

A couple of questions in the verbal section were really awkwardly worded.

Awkward doesn't mean they were wrong.

 

[smj]

One of the biology questions also had a spelling error: the one about how sucrose moves fom the leaf to the phloem.
It had Active Transplant as an option instead of Active Transport. Or was it just my question paper?

 

[creative22]

One of the Most difficult papers in my entire life
very less chances of getting into lums through SSE

while L-cat paper went much much much better

 

[worriedman]

Hey guys check this out. THe LCAT paper was apparently leaked, and its apparently uploaded over here. So many quesions reappered. :O http://bit.ly/xsAMCd

 

[alixx]

worried man is the lums going to take any stand?
I talked to asif parasha the head of smartprep... he told he has backed out :/

 

[alixx]

Hey guys check this out. THe LCAT paper was apparently leaked, and its apparently uploaded over here. So many quesions reappered. :O http://bit.ly/xsAMCd[/quote] just i am alot tensed if the deserving students get rejected.... leeds took almost 20 000 from each kid not every one can afford that. just pray for some miricle... dont think lums is going to do anything... they admire their standards

 

[alixx]

Hey guys check this out. THe LCAT paper was apparently leaked, and its apparently uploaded over here. So many quesions reappered. :O http://bit.ly/xsAMCd

just i am alot tensed if the deserving students get rejected.... leeds took almost 20 000 from each kid not every one can afford that. just pray for some miricle... dont think lums is going to do anything... they admire their standards

 

[worriedman]

I wrote to LUMS and they are delibrately sidelining this issue. They said that only 5-6 questions reappeared. They don't want to admit their mistake and conduct a retest. We have to spread the word as far as possible.

 

[worriedman]

I wrote to LUMS and they are delibrately sidelining this issue. They said that only 5-6 questions reappeared. They don't want to admit their mistake and conduct a retest. We have to spread the word as far as possible.