GAMSAT Preparation with the Correct Focus

GAMSAT is one of the very few international examinations which seeks to analyse the interested candidates’ understanding and reasoning capabilities. Whether the questions are from the humanities section or from the sciences section, the basic idea behind all the questions is to judge your ability to reason and understand written and sometimes graphically presented information. Hence, GAMSAT preparation will mainly include honing your reasoning skills and also the proper utilisation of knowledge acquired over the years in your academic pursuit. We can safely claim that last minute mugging up of information is useless in the case of GAMSAT. Though it is not necessary for you to have science background to sit for GAMSAT, some knowledge in basic sciences can always come handy. Often you will come across non-science background students enrolling themselves for short tertiary level science course in order to gear-up for their GAMSAT preparations.

The key to cracking GAMSAT is very simple and it it PRACTICE, PRACTICE and PRACTICE. The more reasoning based questions you solve the more closer you go to your goal of pursuing a career in medicine. You will have to look for suitable sources from where you can get access to such questions that are specifically designed to cater to the needs of GAMSAT aspirants. The questions from Section I of GAMSAT are mostly passage based questions along with some poem based questions and cartoons based questions. When you look for suitable GAMSAT preparation materials, be sure to avail of only those materials which include questions based on all these types. While preparing for Section II you will have to sharpen your creative writing skills. Here it must be mentioned that the Written Communication section has been incorporated in GAMSAT to gauge your ability to create and explicate on given topics. In fact, special attention is given to the cause of the non-English-speaking candidates and the given topics are such that these students do not suffer the disadvantage of not knowing the language properly. A good idea for preparing for Section II is to practice essays on socio-cultural issues and essays.

GAMSAT preparation for Section III will involve quite a few aspects of reasoning and subject based knowledge. Here too the questions are based on passages, diagrammatic representations and graphs. While preparing for this section you should be aware of the concepts in basic sciences. Practice questions that will test your ability to recognise common knowledge in novel contexts, interpret data and analyse them and form a line of reasoning that will help you to evaluate the given information correctly and they form your answers correctly The level of knowledge required to attempt this section successfully corresponds to Year 12 in Physics and for Biology and Chemistry it corresponds to the first year of university studies.

Once you have prepared yourself following the above mentioned criteria your scope for cracking GAMSAT examination will surely increase. If your GAMSAT preparation is focused in the correct direction then there is no stopping you from achieving your goal of having a career in medicines.