The Ultimate ENGAA Guide E-Book

Madhivanan Elango

• Herausgeber: RAR Medical Services Ltd
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The Ultimate ENGAA Collection is your Complete Collection to achieving top scores on the Engineering Admissions Assessment.

Completely revised and updated for the 2022 admissions cycle, each copy of The Ultimate ENGAA Collection comes with a FREE 4-hour taught ENGAA Course.

The Ultimate ENGAA Collection includes:

THREE of our best selling ENGAA books in ONE volume Written by ENGAA Specialists who have scored in the top 10% of the ENGAA providing time-saving tips and strategies.
This book includes:

• The Ultimate ENGAA Guide – contains comprehensive information about the Engineering Admissions Assessment (ENGAA), including tips, techniques and strategies to save you time and maximise your scores. Covers each of the three sections in detail, and prepares you for all question types that you’ll face in the exam, and how to approach them successfully. Also includes 300 questions and fully worked solutions so you can practice your skills and understand how to improve.
• ENGAA Practice Papers – contains mock papers updated every year with fully worked solutions to help you improve your scores.
• ENGAA Worked Solutions – clear, thorough, and extensive solutions to all the past papers, written by experts, providing worked solutions and sample answers to ensure you can put your learning into practice.

About Us From the publishing division of the UK’s leading Oxbridge and Medical Admissions company, The Ultimate ENGAA Collection gives you the best and most fully comprehensive collection to your Engineering Admissions Assessment success. Hungry for more? Visit the Uni Admissions website for more application resources, admissions test strategies, and application support.

Leseprobe

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PreviousEditions:2020,2019,2018

ISBN978-1-913683-79-5

Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproducedortransmittedinanyformor

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byanyinformationretrievalsystemwithoutpriorwrittenpermissionofthe

publisher.Thispublicationmaynotbeusedinconjunctionwithortosupport

anycommercialundertakingwithoutthepriorwrittenpermissionofthe

publisher.

PublishedbyRARMedicalServicesLimited

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ThisbookisneithercreatednorendorsedbyENGAA.Theauthorsand

publisherarenotaffiliatedwithENGAA.Theinformationofferedinthisbook

ispurelyadvisoryandanyadvicegivenshouldbetakenwithinthiscontext.As

such,thepublishersandauthorsacceptnoliabilitywhatsoeverforthe

outcomeofanyapplicant’sENGAAperformance,theoutcomeofany

universityapplicationsorforanyotherloss.Althougheveryprecautionhas

beentakeninthepreparationofthisbook,thepublisherandauthorassume

noresponsibilityforerrorsoromissionsofanykind.Neitherisanyliability

assumedfordamagesresultingfromtheuseofinformationcontainedherein.

Thisdoesnotaffectyourstatutoryrights.

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WhatistheENGAA?

TheEngineeringAdmissionsAssessment(ENGAA)isatwo-hourwritten

examtakenbyprospectiveCambridgeEngineeringapplicants.

WhatdoestheENGAAconsistof?

WhyistheENGAAused?

CambridgeEngineeringapplicantstendtobeabrightbunchandusuallyhave

excellentgrades,withmanyachievingover90%inalltheirAlevelsubjects.

Thismeansthatcompetitionisfierce–theENGAA,therefore,isrequiredfor

universitiestodifferentiatebetweenthesetopcandidates.

WhendoIsitENGAA?

TheENGAAnormallytakesplaceinthefinalweekofOctoberorthefirst

weekofNovember.Asthedatevariesfromyeartoyear,itisbesttoconfirm

thisonthedepartment’ssiteforprospectivestudents:

https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/engineering#entry

requirements

SectionTimingSKILLSTESTEDQuestionsCalculator

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Minutes

1A:MathsandPhysics

1B:AdvancedMaths&

AdvancedPhysics

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Beforesimply‘guessing’,youshouldtrytoeliminateacoupleofanswersto

increaseyourchancesofgettingthequestioncorrect.Forexample,ifa

questionhas5optionsandyoumanagetoeliminate2options,yourchances

ofansweringthequestioncorrectlyincreasefrom20%to33%!

Avoidlosingeasymarksonotherquestionsbecauseofpoorexamtechnique;

ifyoudonotmanagetofinishtheexam,takethelast10secondstoguessthe

remainingquestionstoatleastgiveyourselfachanceofobtainingmoremarks.

Practice

Thisisthebestwayoffamiliarisingyourselfwiththestyleofquestionsandthe

timingforthissection.Withoutpractise,youareunlikelytobefamiliarwith

thestyleandvarietyofquestionsyouwillencounterintherealexamination.

Therefore,youwanttobecomfortablewithapproachingthestyleof

questions,byadequatelypractisingbeforeyousitthetest.

Bypractisingquestions,youarelesslikelytopanicduringyourreal

examination,whichwillincreaseyourlikelihoodofperformingwell.Initially,

workthroughthequestionsatyourownpace,andspendtimecarefully

readingthequestionsandlookingatanyadditionaldata.Asyouapproachthe

examdate,makesureyoupracticethequestionsunderexam

conditions.

PastPapers

TheformatoftheENGAAhaschangedfor2019,sopastpapersdonot

perfectlyreflecttheexamyouwillbesittingthisyear.Specimenpapersare

freelyavailableonlineatwww.uniadmissions.co.uk/ENGAA.Onceyou

haveworkedyourwaythroughthequestionsinthisbook,youarehighly

advisedtoattemptthem.

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Section1testsyouraptitudeinMathematicsandPhysics.Thequestionsare,

approximately,splitevenlybetweenGCSElevelandAlevel.Youmustanswer

40questionsin60minutes-therefore,thisisaverytime-pressuredsection.

Thequestionscanbequitedifficult,anditiseasytogetboggeddown.The

challengingnatureofthequestions,coupledwiththeintensetimepressureof

havingtodoonequestionevery90seconds,makesthisadifficultsection.

GapsinKnowledge

InadditiontoGCSElevelphysicsandmaths,youarealsoexpectedtohavea

firmcommandofA-leveltopics.Thiscanbeaproblemifyouhavenotstudied

thesetopicsatschoolyet.Asummaryofthespecificationisprovidedlaterin

thebook,butyouarehighlyadvisedtogothroughtheofficialENGAA

Specificationandensurethatyouhavecoveredallexaminabletopics.An

electroniccopyofthiscanbeobtainedfrom

www.uniadmissions.co.uk/ENGAA.

Thequestionsinthisbookwillhelphighlightanygapsinyourknowledgeor

areasofweaknessthatyoumayhave.Upondiscoveringthese,makesureyou

takesometimetorevisethesetopicsbeforecarryingon–thereislittletobe

gainedbyattemptingquestionswithhugegapsinyourknowledge.

Maths

MathematicalaptitudeisextremelyimportantfortheENGAA;manystudents

findthatimprovingtheirnumericalandalgebraicskillsusuallyresultsinnotable

improvementsintheirsection1and2scores.MathspervadestheENGAA–

so,ifyoufindyourselfconsistentlyrunningoutoftimeinpracticepapers,

spendingafewhoursonbrushingupyourbasicmathsskillsmaydowonders

foryou.

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Physics

Thesyllabusofassumedknowledge,forthephysicsandadvancedphysics

questions,canbefoundwithin

theofficialspecificationhere:

https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/publications/engaa_specifica

tion_2020.pdf

Multi-StepQuestions

MostENGAAphysicsquestionsrequiretwostepcalculations.Considerthe

followingexample:

Ametalballisreleasedfromtheroofofa20-metrebuilding.Assumingair

resistanceisnegligible,calculatethevelocityatwhichtheballhitstheground.

Youaregiventhatg10ms

-2

.

Whentheballhitstheground,allofitsgravitationalpotentialenergyhasbeen

convertedintokineticenergy.

𝐸𝑝𝐸𝑘⇒mgΔh

mv2

2

∴𝑣√2𝑔ℎ√2×10×20√40020𝑚𝑠

−1

Inthisexample,youwererequiredtonotonlyrecalltwoequations,butapply

andrearrangethemtofindanumericalanswer–allinunder60seconds.Note

that,ifyouwerecomfortablewithbasicNewtonianmechanics,youcouldhave

solvedthisusingasingleSUVATequation:

𝑣2𝑢2+2𝑎𝑠⇒𝑣√2×10×2020𝑚𝑠

−1

•5ms

-1

•10ms

-1

•15ms

-1

•20ms

-1

•25ms

-1