[cactus_farmer]

BIOLOGY;

Energy and Living Cells
The Cell
Glycolysis, Krebs Cycle and Oxidative Phosphorylation
Life and Muscular Systems
Endocrine and Nervous Systems
Homeostasis
The Immune System
Cardiac Cycle
Reproduction and Development
Inheritance and Selection

Have a good look at negative feedback wherever it comes up - e.g. in Endocrine system

Familiarise yourself with graphical representations of the heartbeat.. the pqrst complex and what parts of the heart are doing what during the various stages

Look at oxygen dissociation curves and understand what they mean and how they shift in response to different internal and external environments

CHEMISTRY;

Atomic Structure
Stoichiometry
Bonding and Structure
Phases
Gas Laws
Energetics
Kinetics
Equilibrium (Acids and Bases)
Titration
Redox
The Periodic Table

Reactions
Functional Groups
Alkanes
Alkenes
Alcohol
Aldehydes
Ketones
Carboxylic acids
Acyl halides
Acid anhydride
Amides
Esters
Ethers
Phenols
Amines
Aromatics

With particular regard to isomerism wherever it crops up, and representations of molecules, like Haworth structures and chair conformations.

PHYSICS;


Vectors & Kinematics
vectors and scalars, displacement, velocity, acceleration, linear motion, projectile motion.
Electric Fields
potential, field strength, Capacitance, combining capacitors, energy stored in a capacitor.
Lenses
convex, focal length, concave, magnification.


Additional Core Topics

Mechanics
moments, Newton's law of motion, friction and equilibrium
Work, Energy & Momentum
power, work, mechanical energy, kinetic and potential energy, conservation of momentum, internal energy, Ideal gases
Elastic properties of solids
Hooke's law, elasticity, stress, Young's modulus, strain
Current electricity
resistors in parallel and series, resistance, Ohm's law, current and drift velocity, emf and voltage
Magnetic Fields
field strength, force on a moving charge, fields due to currents
Waves
oscillations, resonance, wave measurements, supersition and interference, simple harmonic motion.
Refractive index
The photoelectric effect, work constant of metals
Radioactive decay
rate of decay and half life, emissions, stable and unstable nuclei
Sound
decibels, intensity, sound level


Other Topics

The above list has deliberately excluded some key year 12 topics, that are not commonly covered in the GAMSAT. These include:

quantum duality
particle accelerators
astrophysics





The above list was taken directly from the GAMSAT wiki.

If I learn all of these topics, will that be enough to do well?

Also, I noticed most of these topics were A-level, and not 1st year university science standard... - I thought the GAMSAT tested up to 1st year university biology and chemistry.

What 1st year university topics need we study?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

[cactus_farmer]

bump... can anyone help with this?

Also, do you think now that calculators are disallowed that there will be much trigonometry (as in SOH CAH TOA) - or will we need to be able to do it without calculators?

[purplefrog]

While the topics may seem like A-level standard bear in mind that spiral learning happens at university. So you revisit A-level topics and look at them in a more comprehensive, often molecular, level.

And chances are, if its on the TSR wiki, it generally is very reliable as other grad students and applicants will have reviewed the list and added to it.

While not a grad myself but having my girlfriend and few close friends applying via that route, the more you learn and the more comprehensive understand you have of biology and chemistry, the more suited you'll be for the GAMSAT (makes sense, I know). Apparently the Physics in there can be advanced, but proportionally, there is less of it in the test.

[cactus_farmer]

It wasn't the TSR wiki, it was the GAMSAT wiki. Is there a TSR GAMSAT wiki?

Is it mainly A-level or 1st year university standard for the science?

It makes a HUGE difference knowing this. If it is A-level I can read my A-level revision guides for chem bio and physics.

If it is 1st year university, I have to learn five 400+ page textbooks!!

[cactus_farmer]

Bump.

Can anyone (who has taken the exam or otherwise knows the syllabus) take a glance at this list of topics and see if anything is missing/unnecessary?

[MJK91]

I would also like to know this, have only got from now til September to cram!

[nearlybled2death]

GAMSAT is above all a reasoning test. Whilst being familiar with the above will give you an advantage in terms of just knowing the answers rather than needing to reason them out do not get too hung up on learning everything!

[MJK91]

(Original post by nearlybled2death)
GAMSAT is above all a reasoning test. Whilst being familiar with the above will give you an advantage in terms of just knowing the answers rather than needing to reason them out do not get too hung up on learning everything!

But likewise wouldn't we fail miserably without knowing the above? You have to know the basic knowledge before you can apply it.

[cactus_farmer]

Surely you need knowledge as well as reasoning?

The UKCAT is the pure reasoning test.

Being able to apply these principals is required, but I'd really like to know if the topics listed in the OP are exhaustive, or has stuff been left out? O is there unnecessary stuff in that list?