Graduate medicine - medical school entry 2017 gamsat/ukcat exam

Hi there i'm currently a 2nd year physiology student at liverpool uni, i want to apply to medicine next year when i'm in my third year but i have done some research and found out that i have to do GAMSAT /UKCAT. i have never done the GAMSAT and people say it is ridiculously hard, i really need help on how to prepare for it, i'm decent at my sciences but very week at English and section 1 of the gamsat. i have searched around what the exam consists of and what it requires but i don't know how to get started and prepare for it. i really want to achieve a score of at least 65 which would give a reasonable chance of getting an interview. If any of you have already been through this process/ currently starting to think about it please let me know as i really need help and it would be much appreciated if any help is provided. I have bought the Griffith's review but there is only a limited resource contained within it, should i buy the gold standard book, i have heard people say it is not worth the investment etc...

Similar to this i was also looking to do the UKCAT exam this summer and i have done it before and really struggled with the VERBAL REASONING section & quantitative if any one could advise me on how to improve these section will also be much appreciated. i want to get a score of above 700+ to even stand chance of applying somewhere decent.

ALL your help would be much appreciated.

Reply 1

tryingtolearn95

Helloooo
First of all, good luck with all your revision. Griffiths review is good but outdated for me personally.
I sat the exam in Septemeber 2016 and i bought the gold standard and went on the intensive gamsat gradmed course.
Honestly, I did not use the gold standard at all - i used the materials given to me on the gradmed course.
I am selling all the material they gave me plus a few essays of my own - this is all 2016 material. Please check out my listing on ebay or forward to someone who you know needs these... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/282486730224?

GRADMED teachers have basically sat these exams and remembered the questions year after year and made these books with questions coming straight out of gamsat exams. Do I think you need to go on the Gradmed course in London? No. The full prep course costs £2650 while the intense course costs £1265. I paid for the intensive course. I cannot fault the teachers at all and I appreciated that learning environment but they basically taught from these books. The questions we did in class were mainly from the booklets pictured and then they told us to do the questions in the books at home. I went because I knew I needed these books and no one was selling the most updated versions.Definitely worth paying less and getting the books and all notes. These books have been well looked after and are basically like new. You may find the odd pencil mark where i've circled an answer or made a note of something - I will do my best to remove as much of the pencil markings of answers as I can (i will leave the notes i've made if i think they will be useful) Section 1 essay writing I found very hard - my top tip for this is www.ted.com, the news and practice! Write out essays and keep up to date as much as you can. I will also include a print out of my essays that I wrote out on common topics that crop up in the exam. FREE DELIVERY UK MAINLAND ONLY - Books are in Birmingham if you want to collect