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GAMSAT Exam Overview

The GAMSAT Exam is a difficult hurdle we must overcome to achieve the dream of attending medical school. We've put together these slides to provide you with an overview of the GAMSAT Exam Sections and how to overcome each one. For more information, read our detailed article here: https://gradready.com.au/posts/gamsat-preparation-courses/gamsat-exam-overview

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GAMSAT Exam Overview

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  1. GAMSAT Exam Overview

  2. GAMSAT Exam Section One • For GAMSAT Exam Section One, titled “Reasoning in Humanities and Social Sciences” you are given 100 minutes to complete 62 multiple choice questions. • This section is designed to assess your reading comprehension and your ability to apply your understanding to a multiple choice environment. • Section One is a mixed bag. Some passages are straightforward in their content, presenting a simple story or image. Other passages are extremely abstract, or are excerpts of ancient poems written with difficult language. Other questions are reasonably easy to interpret, however as the grading of the GAMSAT Exam is based on ranking so it is the difficult questions which will really define your rank.

  3. GAMSAT Exam Section Two • GAMSAT Exam Section Two is titled “Written Communication” and involves two 30-minute writing tasks. • For this section, you are provided with two sets of prompts that relate to a common theme, from which you must create a response. Sometimes they are two clearly defined issues, one being political, one being personal, however other years the distinction is not as clear. • For section two, it is a fine line between abiding by the standard rules of essay writing and moving out of the norm to make yourself stand out.

  4. GAMSAT Exam Section Three • GAMSAT Exam Section Three, the biggest and baddest section of them all - “Reasoning in Biological and Physical Sciences”, includes 75 MCQs in 150 minutes. • The GAMSAT Exam website advises that first year tertiary levels of biology and chemistry is assumed, along with year 12 level of physics. • Section three is built upon long, complex passages in which you must work to unpack the relevant information and solve the presented problem. Section three is also double weighted, making it the most important section in the GAMSAT Exam.

  5. Further Materials • GAMSAT Section 1: How to prepare • GAMSAT Section 2 Essays: How to Prepare • GAMSAT Biology: How to prepare • GAMSAT Chemistry: How to Prepare • GAMSAT Physics: How to Prepare • Don’t forget to sign up for our GAMSAT Free Trial, which includes 50 MCQs from our Intelligent MCQ Bank, access to our week-by-week study guide for each section, and a wealth of our GAMSAT resources: https://gradready.com.au/gamsat-preparation-courses/free-gamsat-trial

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