The Big TSA 2009 Thread

Oh God. I'm completely failing on the maths/problem solving questions in the TSA. The essay part looks easy in comparison, now.

Total opposite for me, I can do the mathsy questions but I'm not looking forward to writing the essay.

That doesn't surprise me, after seeing your A-Levels and chosen course on your profile. I'm envious of people who can do maths...

I'm just looking over my answers and attempting the mathsy questions again, and it seems that in quite a few of them I've just misread something or made a simple miscalculation. How stupid. My carelessness will be the death of me.

Last year 'those who by definition are academically very able' scored 'around 60' overall.

Most common score was 59.9 for problem solving and 65.0 for critical thinking. Average total score was 63.3

Hmm, I sat the TSA last year as well, but my score report didn't give the average total score. Any source for that? (And it is worth stressing that the 59.9 and 65.0 were 'most common scores' instead of arithmetic means.)

To those interested, the stats (exactly the same document as I got with my results) are also available here.

What sort of raw mark out of 50 do you think equates to the average standardized score?

How many PPE applicants have we got in the house?

I did the TSA last year when I applied to Cambridge and did "well" (got 72.5 in the crit. thinking and 57.5 in prob. solving, giving 64.0 overall), despite the fact I thought it went terribly so I'm not too worried about the first part this year. However, I'm really worried about the essay section- I just dont see how I'm going to have enough time to write the entire essay in 1hour.

Um. It's not even a hour, it's half.

I did the TSA last year when I applied to Cambridge and did "well" (got 72.5 in the crit. thinking and 57.5 in prob. solving, giving 64.0 overall), despite the fact I thought it went terribly so I'm not too worried about the first part this year. However, I'm really worried about the essay section- I just dont see how I'm going to have enough time to write the entire essay in 1hour.

Hey guys, I've been practicing for the test using m.diamonds' papers and now I'm scoring over 90/100
They are extremely helpful and they come along with essay questions and answers. If you really want to do some practice, that's definitely fantastic!

Is this some kind of advertising ploy?

Okay, so I've update the first post now with a list of applicants.

Sorry if I've gotten anything wrong, esp. on the college front, but just let me know...if you're not on the list it's probably because I don't know you course and college so just let me know and I'll add you to the list!