GAMSAT 2016 (2017 entry)

Same here! I think that if the option to select London was available when you booked the test, we should be ok.. Just over 2 weeks to go, eeeek!


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Anyone knows what is the latest time to get accepted in the admissions centre?

Sitting in London! Big relief

Good luck everyone taking GAMSAT this year.
My tips (or, what worked for me...):
Section 1. Rattle through this as quickly as you can, treat it like UKCAT (if you've done that) flag and come back to anything you can't get instantly or aren't sure of. You'll find you have loads of time left over and can relax on the more difficult ones without worrying about time.

Section 2: Can't really advise, I scraped through with the 55 I needed for Nottingham. I spent an additional 10-15 minutes (beyond the allotted reading time) writing an essay plan for both before starting. I found it quite challenging to crystallise the numerous ways you can approach each essay into a coherent whole and I don't think I'd've managed to keep a structured Intro; argument; counter argument; conclusion format without doing so. Write quickly.

Section 3: This isn't 'really' a science paper. The concepts involved might well be 1st year undergraduate biology/chemistry and A-level physics (something I read when I was prepping) BUT... you don't need to know about them, they're logic problems dressed in scientific terms.

My results. 71 overall [72:55:79]

Prep wise, I did UKCAT the year before last and got the Kaplan 'score higher...' book to prep for that. That sorted me for section 1 as I just applied the same techniques for reading the blocks of text, freeing up time to sit and ponder the non-text questions.

Section 2 I read a few example essays online to get a feel for the level of writing I was aiming for and picked up the tip about planning for a bit longer.

Section 3 I did barely any prep for (I did a fairly broad bio/chem BSc, albeit some 8 years ago now, and figured the basic knowledge was all in there somewhere already) I made sure I could remember the key equations in physics, V=IR, e=1/2mv^2 etc and that was it.

Plus general reading up on the format and gleaning what tips and insights I could from here from previous years so I knew what I was walking into

Practice? None.

It's on your ticket. So mine is 8:15. That's the arrival time. I'm going to try and get there before though. Maybe 8-ish.

I have no idea how I'm gonna get there so early. I don't even wake up until 10 these days.



Same!


This is one of those times I regret not knowing my way around London.

Alright, I will arrive later than that since I live far from the test centre, when did the exam start when you took it last time?

I haven't sat it before. This is my first time!

I just did a sample paper. I got 70% in Section 1 and 30 (well 29.something)% in Section 3.

I guess that means I'm screwed for Section 3.

Which paper was that, the purple one? As long as you excel in section 1 & 2 and scrape a pass in S3, you will be fine for unis which do not weigh S3 more...

This time next week I'm going to be crying myself to sleep

Those are good scores for S1. I scored 61 and I get 50-60% in that section.

How can you know that? Isn't the whole point of the GAMSAT scoring being secret that you can't convert from % to GAMSAT score or vice versa?


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How can you know that? Isn't the whole point of the GAMSAT scoring being secret that you can't convert from % to GAMSAT score or vice versa?


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