FAQs

GAMSAT UK is a selection test competently designed and marked by ACER (the Australian Council for Educational Research) for medical schools in Australia, New Zealand and UK offering graduate-entry programs in medicine and health sciences to graduates of any discipline.

You will need to sit GAMSAT UK if you intend to apply for 2010 entry to one of the following 4-year graduate-entry medical/dental schools:

• St George’s, University of London
• The University of Nottingham at Derby
• The University of Wales Swansea
• Peninsula Dental School (please see Peninsula Dentistry entry)
• Keele University

or, to the 5-year degree at

• The Peninsula Medical School

All applicants must have completed, or be in the final year of a Bachelors degree. No preference is given to graduates with any particular Bachelors degree.

Registration can be done online with payment by credit card or alternatively you can complete an online ‘Provisional’ registration and pay by bank draft.

We suggest that you should study methodically. Don’t keep everything on hold for the last moment. At least a 4 months preparation is required for GAMSAT UK. Last minute cramming up techniques are not going to work for GAMSAT UK. Always remember that slow and steady wins the race.

There can never be a shotgun approach to preparing for any elimination test like GAMSAT UK. The amount of effort and the allocation of resources vary from person to person and are based on individual profiles. However, almost all successful preparation strategies have the following components:

• Building up the knowledge base: It must have been years since you studied Physics, Chemistry and/or Biology. The first obvious step would be to spend about a month scanning through all basics. GAMSAT does NOT test your knowledge, so spending too much time trying to pick up detailed understanding can be fatal to your preparation. Hence the universal advice: Never use MCAT preparation material to prepare for GAMSAT.
• Self evaluation: Once you have reclaimed your lost comfort level with all topics, hit the sample tests. Solve 5-6 full blown complete, GAMSAT like papers, or 20 sectional papers. This should help you identify your weakness profile.
• Revisiting the Basics: With this new found knowledge, pick up your text books and re-read through your troubled areas and strengthen your basics.
• Fine-tune your strategy: This is perhaps the most critical and also most neglected component. Let’s face it, a GAMSAT is much more than just a collection of 185 questions – GAMSAT means a cauldron like atmosphere, immense, albeit, self imposed mental pressure and a daylong marathon of question solving. Excelling in this exercise requires knowledge, but it is the test taking strategies that will differentiate between the good and the bad scores.
• Let us consider section 3. Do you solve questions as you go, or do you pick up specific questions and solve only them? Or, in Section 1, would you prefer to solve the Reading Comprehension questions first or Critical reasoning ones? These are minute strategies that will make or break your result, and hence you should spend about a month in identifying and improving your test taking strategies.

The first step to cracking GAMSAT is to believe that you CAN do it. Confidence and hard work is the key to success. If you are working/studying full time the best way to prepare for GAMSAT would be to start early, say almost a year before you actually plan to take GAMSAT. That way even if you put in 2 hours every day you would not lack behind in preparation. Remember regular practice leads to perfection.

GAMSAT as a whole tests your reasoning more than anything else. To crack GAMSAT you will need to be competent in all the three sections. If you are not from a science background you need to spend more time in that section. But always keep in mind you can’t neglect any section if you are serious about GAMSAT. You are to perform excellently overall to acquire that coveted seat in any of the top medical colleges.

We are a bunch of young and energetic Academicians, Entrepreneurs, Psychologists and Scholars. We have a cumulative teaching/mentoring experience of more than 3 decades and we have trained students for quite a few of the most competitive tests in this world like CAT, GMAT and GRE.

Prepgenie offers intelligent test preparation tools for a number of exams like GAMSAT, UMAT, LNAT, UKCAT etc. Our products for GAMSAT include both full length and sectional test papers. For detailed information please check out the GAMSAT products section of our website.

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No. We have not ever sat in GAMSAT. However, we have cumulatively spent thousands of man-hours analyzing, dissecting and understanding GAMSAT. We have poured over GAMSAT forums and other online communities, talked to successful as well as not-so-successful GAMSAT aspirants. We believe we have understood the ‘philosophy’ of GAMSAT and the free games and downloads will give you ample indication of our understanding of GAMSAT.

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Success depends on a number of factors including your performance on the D-day and your practice levels during the preparation phase.

This is the second year we are offering our products for sale. Along with launching our pilot products for GAMSAT last year, for the past two years we have been offering a large number of sample downloads and students have written to us about how satisfied they are with the standard and the variety in questions.

You can go through some of the comments we received in the testimonials page of our website.

About the qualification of the test creators… we are a team of Doctorates and Masters Degree holders who sit together and create each question very carefully. Check out the free sample download and you will get a fair idea of what you will get from us!

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ACER, and previous students – these are the two sources that helped us to analyze and understand GAMSAT. The three booklets are the only set of ACER released GAMSAT related content, and we spent thousands of man-hours understanding the underlying logic behind these questions. Each test paper is created by Subject Matter Experts (SME) who analyze the GAMSAT paper and determine the difficulty level after which question papers are created. The papers then undergo 4 rounds of review which includes self-review, technical review, language-review and final review. After the revisions are satisfactorily completed the papers are ready for use.

You may also appear for GAMSAT Australia, held by The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for entry into the graduate level medical and health science courses available in Universities in Australia, UK and Ireland. For more details, log onto http://www.gamsat.edu.au/

You can also sit for MCAT (The Medical College Admissions Test) conducted by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC). For more details, log onto www.aamc.org/mcat.

Section I: MCQs from passages dealing with a plethora of topics – anything from cartoon on climate crises to a journal extract. To answer MCQs correctly you need to read the passage, understand it well, analyze it and then form your assessment of what the author is trying to say. There is no fixed method to prepare for GAMSAT Section I. what can help is voracious reading and a good IQ.

Section III: Questions deal with the sciences: Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The questions are again in the multiple choice format and are passage based. Mugging up scientific theories and concepts is not the way to go as GAMSAT is looking for students who can keep pace with a constantly evolving scientific world.