GAMSAT preparation · all three sections
Most GAMSAT preparation is sold by the kilogram: a thousand questions, a shelf of textbooks, a course priced like a holiday. Very little of it raises a score. This is the part that does.
What is the pKa of HA?
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton
Men have become the tools of their tools.Henry David Thoreau
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.Jonathan Swift
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.William Blackstone
Tradition is the democracy of the dead.G. K. Chesterton
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.John Stuart Mill
To love at all is to be vulnerable.C. S. Lewis
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Visibility is a trap.Michel Foucault
The medium is the message.Marshall McLuhan
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.Samuel Beckett
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
No man is an island, entire of itself.John Donne
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.Susan Sontag
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.Blaise Pascal
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King Jr
Where to start
Almost every question asks one of four things, and the wrong answers fail in predictable ways. Knowing which four saves you the second read.
55 stimuliOpen →Four quotes, thirty minutes. What you end up writing is largely settled by whether you named the disagreement in the first two.
223 themesOpen →First-year science wrapped in unfamiliar stimulus. Nearly everything you need is printed on the page; the difficulty lies in reading it quickly.
67 stimuliOpen →The exam
A minority of schools weight all three equally, so check the ones you are applying to. For most people the doubling should decide how the hours get spent.
Method
It means refusing work that does not pay. Four ideas run through everything on this site.
You cannot revise your way to a Section I score, and memorising will not carry you through Section III. Both reward a small set of moves performed quickly under pressure.
Every question here runs against a clock: about 1 min 37 s for Section I, 2 min for Section III. Working slower rehearses a pace you will not have on the day.
A percentage tells you nothing you can act on. The reason a particular wrong answer tempted you does, so every item explains all four options rather than just the key.
Real ACER papers are the best resource in existence and there are very few of them. Spending one in week one, before you have any technique, wastes it.
The plan
Built around the weighting rather than the calendar. Week by week, what to do and what to leave out.
Every guide, the plan and a sample of each section are free and always will be. If you want the whole bank and the worked explanations, that is A$9 for three months.