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Hi, I am new to this forum. I am a second yr science student at Monash. Planning to sit GAMSAT in 2013. Any one wants to study with me; may be 1-2 hours once a week or a fortnight. I have gathered some study material(GAMSAT Gold standard)

Hi, I am currently attending University of Melbourne as Bachelor of Science. (incoming freshman this year)
I was offered to both biomedicine and science, but i decided to choose science because i haven't confirmed my career pathway yet.
Becoming a medical doctor is one of my career options, so i still wish to try out for GAMSAT exam.

Thanks to this forum, I now have the general background as to what books are recommended/hows the GAMSAT really like, but i never got an information as to when its suitable for university students to study GAMSAT.

Generally, people say that "earlier u start, better the result"
But whens the suitable time for students to start studying for GAMSAT and what books would you recommend studying for GAMSAT?

Thanks for your assistance.
From. min051204

Hello Evelyn, consider this:

Go to gamsat-prep.com, sign up for a free account. When you login, click on Tests in the top Menu, scroll down and you will have a free sample GAMSAT with, of course, Section 1 (abbreviated version with free worked solutions). Try it, if you think that it is realistic (after all, you just tried some ACER questions so your own opinion would be quite valid) then you would have some options: (1) there are 5 more tests available online (full-length versions) and all come with worked solutions and a forum thread for each of the more than 900 MCQs for further clarifications or discussion of strategies if needed (no extra charge); and/or (2) there is a program called GAMSAT University which comes with 16 mini-tests to focus on graphs & tables, poetry, cartoons and verbal reasoning.

Frankly, if you are looking for realistic practice, there is ACER, the material that I described above and Des O'neill. Some students use Examkrackers Verbal but it is an MCAT book and though it may help to some degree, it's certainly not as specific as what I've mentioned above.

I'm sure you can see from my signature that I have a certain bias but as mentioned you can test out the free trial exam yourself to determine its usefulness.

btw, if it was months before the exam, then I would have also suggested some other free resources: www.gamsat-prep.com/GAMSAT-Free

Good luck!
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Hi,
I am taking GAMSAT soon in a few weeks time and have a real difficulty in the humanities section. Did the ACER questions and found them really tough! It seems that there are usually 2 answers for many of the questions. Was wondering if anyone can recommend some good practise papers for me to prep for section 1. I already have those in medprep but it just doesn't seem enough!
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Evelyn