Wow you guys here all have EPIC UMAT scores... did yout guys do any prep courses or buy any certain books to improve how your performance? Any recommendations would be nice. 
My girlfriend invested in the medentry LMS.. She let me use it and I used it to go through a few 20 minute drills which helped me know what sorts of questions I would be facing. I can't personally say how the lecture prep was, but I think this is a good summation of how to approach the UMAT:
1. Skip the questions about which you have no idea.
Reasoning: the time you might waste on long questions rewriting a lot of thinking is better spent on other questions. If you skip all the crazy sounding or looking ones, you should end up with time at the end of the section to go back and try them, while ensuring you get the more straight forward questions.
2. Don't ever lose heart. If they seem hard to you, they most likely seem hard to everyone. Try your best, narrow the options down to as few a possible (usually two or three). This is so important for section 2. You can almost always narrow questions in section two down to 2 or 3 options. Don't let any section bring you down for the next; attempt every section with the ambition of achieving the best you can, regardless of how you think you went on the previous one.
3. On the day of the UMAT, only think of the positive. This is hard, but a positive mindset shall result in your best thinking during the exam. Don't alter your routine; if you have a bowl of cereal every morning, don't skip it on UMAT morning. If you need a coffee to wake up properly, have one. You won't crash in those three action filled hours if you do what you normally do. Work towards your peak because you know you can achieve it when you're feeling how you normally feel. It's this 'normal' feeling that you want to strive for. Only then can you reach your greatest potential.
4. The UMAT presents only one option into a health science career. Your ambition will carry you toward the career you want, be it finding a place in the first year you try, transferring a year later, or a post-grad placement. Your post high school options are almost endless, and hopefully this knowledge should help you relax as in point 3.
A few quick tips:
Know what you're up against. Try a practice UMAT to see how it is structured. Ask others about how they approached it.
Section 1 shall require working out. If writing things out helps you, go nuts and do all the working out you need in the space there is. If a question is looking like it shall take too long to get right, quickly move on.
Section 2 shall require you, most often, to empathise, not sympathise. Learn the difference; sympathy is FEELING how the other person feels, whereas empathy has more to do with recognising how the person feels, and reacting accordingly. Look up the dictionary definitions of emotions; some have very subtle definitions which are often ignored in common usage.
Section 3 can be studied for to the greatest extent; IQ tests and other tests involving patterns shall help enormously for this section. Try a lot of different ones and it shall help a lot in recognising these sequences and patterns.
Don't ever panic! Ensure you remain level headed and you'll do your best.
If you'd like any more help feel free to message me and I'd be happy to talk or meet up with you to talk about the topic; it's a difficult thing and I'd be happy to help where I can
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