GAMSAT 2016 (2017 entry)

Action potential was one of them that it's simple but only once you figure it out. Otherwise it looks awful.

But literally all the topics we are told come up the most in GAMSAT: not one of them came up. pKa, pKb, stereoisomers, rate law, Ksp, ****ing 0 questions. 4 essays instead of 5 and no authors included for any. Feel like they changed a lot this year. Not too happy overall.


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Action potential was one of them that it's simple but only once you figure it out. Otherwise it looks awful.

But literally all the topics we are told come up the most in GAMSAT: not one of them came up. pKa, pKb, stereoisomers, rate law, Ksp, ****ing 0 questions. 4 essays instead of 5 and no authors included for any. Feel like they changed a lot this year. Not too happy overall.


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A lot of them were quite like the action potential question in my opinion!

Didn't think the essays were too bad to be honest, although the Task A quotes were quite ambiguously linked.

That was my main question actually, the science questions were literally nothing like the practice papers; is that the case every year (those who've sat it before)? It feels like no revision beforehand whatsoever would have been useful, except the obvious stuff like nomenclature. What a weird exam, not sure at all what to make of it.

How was your S1? I think its horrible!!!!!! I'm really afraid that I won't get 50.....

For S3 i think it's quite manageable. It's much easier than the practice paper, I'm pretty sure I score more than 80 percent on this one. But if I fail S1 or S2, then Im still screw.....

Agreed, all the graph questions were manageable if you just stopped for 30 seconds and really took it in.

But absolutely 100% agree with your comment that S3 was massively different from all of the prep material, including official Acer, Gold Standard etc. Can't be a coincidence surely... It definitely felt like they were trying to mix things up. Having 4 quotes instead of 5, however subtle a change that maybe, makes it seem quite likely to me.


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Agreed, all the graph questions were manageable if you just stopped for 30 seconds and really took it in.

But absolutely 100% agree with your comment that S3 was massively different from all of the prep material, including official Acer, Gold Standard etc. Can't be a coincidence surely... It definitely felt like they were trying to mix things up. Having 4 quotes instead of 5, however subtle a change that maybe, makes it seem quite likely to me.



Didn't find S1 too bad, though it wasn't the easiest either. Definitely different to you with S3 though I'm no way near as confident, I'd roughly estimate at about 65-70% possibly... This year though that could correlate to any kind of GAMSAT. I was happy with my S2, for B I know nearly everyone would have talked about medicine but I'm ex army so talked about that. Bit of uniqueness to hopefully help me. And A was fine, no problems. 2.5 pages for each. So with an ok S1 and a good S2 I'm hoping my S3 will not be the worst 😳

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I didn't finish section 2 essay A. Didn't even write my antithesis just quickly skipped to the conclusion 😭😭😭 I don't know what to do but can't be put through that again

By any chance were you in Liverpool?


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The mad dash for the toilet at the start of s2 was pretty comical in Liverpool, the guy was livid 😁

Action potential was one of them that it's simple but only once you figure it out. Otherwise it looks awful.

But literally all the topics we are told come up the most in GAMSAT: not one of them came up. pKa, pKb, stereoisomers, rate law, Ksp, ****ing 0 questions. 4 essays instead of 5 and no authors included for any. Feel like they changed a lot this year. Not too happy overall.


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Section 1 was tougher than the mocks I thought. It was really quite manageable in the mocks.

The essay section was quite interesting compared to previous years.

Section 3 really was hard, but I was expecting that being an arts grad.


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Was it just me, or was Section 3 really different?

The 25-30 % of the paper that always always comes up didn't! Like the genetics questions, the electricity questions, stereochemistry, and about a million other things.

Plus those essay topics were pretty tricky to get passionate about. Was hoping for a real issue with some complexity not just "oh times sure are changing".

Kind of get the feeling they are gearing the paper more toward science grads as opposed arts grads, which maybe isn't a bad thing? Seems like the nature of the exam changed.

Oh well, there is always March!

I didn't finish section 2 essay A. Didn't even write my antithesis just quickly skipped to the conclusion 😭😭😭 I don't know what to do but can't be put through that again

I was furious about this. Compared to the March exam, this one was so much more heavy with organic chemistry and the biology didn't really require much knowledge.



I'm a Law grad and I really struggled with Section 1. I've just never been good at reading and verbal reasoning.

Section 2 was pretty fun. It was meh in March and the mock questions aren't exactly fun either. I basically spent much of Part A moaning about the Tories though so I'm hoping the marker isn't a Conservative voter.



I found it hard but less science-y if that makes sense. I was uber prepared for acids/bases and reaction rates and stuff.



I changed my essay style this time round. Part A was much more in keeping with my background and sounded like the mock court cases we used to write arguments for.

Part B, I was literally smiling and all optimistic through it haha.

In March there was barely any organic and this time too much!