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How to Write a Creative Essay for GAMSAT Section 2

Essays are the bane of so many GAMSAT Students, and it can often feel hard to differentiate yourself from the rest of the pack. We've put together these slides to help you learn how to set yourself apart and grab the attention of your readers: https://gradready.com.au/posts/gamsat-preparation-courses/writing-the-creative-gamsat-essay

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How to Write a Creative Essay for GAMSAT Section 2

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  1. How to Write a Creative Essay for GAMSAT Section 2

  2. How to Write a Creative Essay for GAMSAT Section 2 • Generally, many students who are sitting the GAMSAT® Exam have a very strong background in science, and so the “reflective” essay is a scary proposition that causes a great deal of stress. • The second essay of the GAMSAT® Exam, often referred to as the “reflective” essay, ought to be thought of as the creative essay. • Different from the argumentative essay you should pen for the initial writing task, the creative essay is much broader in the type of writing permissible.

  3. How to Write a Creative Essay for GAMSAT Section 2 • When we discuss the “reflective” essay in the GAMSAT® Exam, many students believe that this is entirely restricted to a personal reflective account. We want to emphasise that this is not the case. • The second essay on the GAMSAT® Exam task can be written creatively, and can take many forms, including: personal reflection, historical account, fictional story, poetry and the like. • Similarly, there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ structure, you may choose to have a beginning, middle and end, or you might even want to drop the reader into the middle of a story.

  4. How to Write a Creative Essay for GAMSAT Section 2 • We will now look at some examples quotes and discuss how we may address them. • Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” ― Mae West • The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke • “Man is the cruellest animal.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche • “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.” ― Douglas Preston

  5. How to Write a Creative Essay for GAMSAT Section 2 • Initially, you need to identify the theme. Similarly to the argumentative writing task, you still need to address your creative writing to a theme. • For the above quotes, the overall theme is arguably ‘evil’ – then there are multiple sub-themes such as ‘inner evil’, ‘humans are by nature, evil’, ‘neutrality’, and ‘unfamiliarity’ (that I have identified). • When you write your creative essay, you need to be penning within one of the themes that you identify; however, please don’t think you need to repeat any of the quotes, nor do you have to restrict to the specific theme an individual quote is positioned in, you may discuss an overall (or ‘bigger picture’) theme identified (I.e. ‘evil’ here).

  6. How to Write a Creative Essay for GAMSAT Section 2 • What to write? Here are some bullet point ideas: • Personal reflection of a time that you triumphed over evil. • Fictional story of a character being burdened by the evil of the hegemonic socio-political system • Poem addressing the nature of man, and the evil within • Historical (though made up) account of a German soldier forced to commit atrocities in World War 2 • You need to design a piece of creative writing that will really grip the reader – whether it’s controversial, well-written, or really deeply addresses characters’ emotions.

  7. Further Materials • GAMSAT Section 2 Essays: How to Prepare • Free GAMSAT Preparation Materials • 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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