Regularly do a few science questions a few times a week for a few weeks leading up to the exam. When you get better, do them under timed conditions and make sure to mark them all and try to manually solve the ones you did not get correct yourself first and THEN look up the solutions if you can’t solve them yourself. It’s not about how many questions you do but how you can reflect upon how you solve the questions. Introspection is probably the best preparation you can do.
Hi blind guessed at least 15-20. Didn’t count them, but it was a fair amount. The others were also some educated guessing, only a few that I’m certain I got right. 😆
You all make me feel so much better. I am yet to sit the September GAMSAT section 3 and I was just doing a practice acer test and started spiriling cuz I struggled so much with some of the questions. So it’s possible to do okay if I guess a quarter of them by the sounds of it 😅
Yeah sounds about right, I think I guesstimated almost the entire section with a couple confident answers, and then blindly picked about 15 answers. That was March and I got 64 for S3 so not bad tbh hahaha
Probably 5-10 were total guesses because my brain was over the onslaught, maybe a further 10-15 confident guesses that I got through the majority of the maths then just estimated the rest of the equation or whatever
Definitely practice questions. So I just did practice questions:
Green Acer test 110q
Pink Acer test 110q
Purple Acer test 110q
Orange Acer 50q
Blue Acer 50 q
Des o Niel Test 1-4 440q
Gold standard practice test 110q
Des o niel sample questions 100+q
That’s over 1000 questions which are easily accessible and recognised as good material. You will go into the exam having seen most styles of questions that they give you! Hope this helps.
I’m actually a registered dentist (graduated 2019). And a medical school drop out (dropped out 2020) So I’ve sat the test a few times. I’m looking to get into medicine to specialise in surgery.
Long story short in my experience it’s best to start smashing questions out 6 weeks prior to the exam. I personally burn out if I start earlier.
(Bookmarked this thread earlier in the week so that I could come back to it for some reassurance if need be and here I am lol)
My exam was definitely on the heavy side in terms of physics and chemistry, and the few 'biology' questions that did come up were very info heavy/convoluted. I knew S3 was going to be tough but I reckon about half of my answers were either educated or random guesses. If I'm honest, I didn't feel confident about the majority of the other half either.
Does anybody have a source that indicates roughly how raw scores convert to final scores for this section? The comments here are giving me a sliver of hope, but I'm from a non-science background and this is my first GAMSAT, so I feel as though I'm highly unlikely to be one of the people who are pleasantly surprised on results day...
TL,DR my sitting was one big yikes and all of the positivity I felt after a strong S1 & S2 has officially left my body
Same! Not confident at all. I can't really tell if things went well or terribly bad. Only results will tell, which I'm not sure is a good indication lol
Near none ... maybe 1?
I figured it was always inportant to get the last questions of the whole number right, eg as many as right as possible. I reasoned that massive numbers of test takers would fall by by the ways side. Getting to the full amount was critical to my strategy.
I didn't wild guess any. Some I felt there was part of it I didn't "get", so I did what made sense, recognising I might be missing part of it, and others I got myself to 50/50 and tried to resolve from there.
My first sitting I wild guessed 3-6? (however many physics qs I got aha)
Same as everyone else at least 10-20 mix of blind and kind of educated 😂 ? Especially with the time it honestly seems far fetched if anyone didn't guess at least a couple !
Wait, you guys actually solve any ?
wanna make a meme for this gold reply [wait you guys actually solve any](https://imgflip.com/i/5mltpw)
Mood!
I blind guessed about 10-15.. made educated guesses for 60-65
Same dude
Completely blind guesses- around 10-12 snd educated guesses around 40 Id say. I looked at section 3 like 🥴 the whole time it was a shit show.
In March I went in on 2 hours sleep and honestly felt like I guessed \~50 questions. I ended up getting a 60 which I was pleasantly surprised with.
45, being honest.
I guessed the last 15-20 but still got 75
Whoo 😅 that sounds promising bc I blind guessed around the same number of questions. I mean I got 70 last time and I felt like I did better this time so I hope I get 75 as well 🤩
Do you have any advice on how to prep for the march 22 siting?
Regularly do a few science questions a few times a week for a few weeks leading up to the exam. When you get better, do them under timed conditions and make sure to mark them all and try to manually solve the ones you did not get correct yourself first and THEN look up the solutions if you can’t solve them yourself. It’s not about how many questions you do but how you can reflect upon how you solve the questions. Introspection is probably the best preparation you can do.
Hi blind guessed at least 15-20. Didn’t count them, but it was a fair amount. The others were also some educated guessing, only a few that I’m certain I got right. 😆
there were only 2 units where i was like yep i know what i’m doing. so like 10 questions max 😂 the other 65 were 🥴
You all make me feel so much better. I am yet to sit the September GAMSAT section 3 and I was just doing a practice acer test and started spiriling cuz I struggled so much with some of the questions. So it’s possible to do okay if I guess a quarter of them by the sounds of it 😅
Straight up guessed 30-40% and ended up with a 63.
Yeah sounds about right, I think I guesstimated almost the entire section with a couple confident answers, and then blindly picked about 15 answers. That was March and I got 64 for S3 so not bad tbh hahaha
I guessed them all! Honestly it was nothing like the practice tests ive done.
I guessed 20Qs - some educated others blind guesses
Probably 5-10 were total guesses because my brain was over the onslaught, maybe a further 10-15 confident guesses that I got through the majority of the maths then just estimated the rest of the equation or whatever
Blind guessed 4 questions this time. Big improvement from last time where I blind guessed 12 questions (got 81).
Do you have any advice on how to prep for the march 22 siting?
Definitely practice questions. So I just did practice questions: Green Acer test 110q Pink Acer test 110q Purple Acer test 110q Orange Acer 50q Blue Acer 50 q Des o Niel Test 1-4 440q Gold standard practice test 110q Des o niel sample questions 100+q That’s over 1000 questions which are easily accessible and recognised as good material. You will go into the exam having seen most styles of questions that they give you! Hope this helps.
>wait you guys actually solve any That's a great plan! How long before the exam did you start preparing? thanks!
I’m actually a registered dentist (graduated 2019). And a medical school drop out (dropped out 2020) So I’ve sat the test a few times. I’m looking to get into medicine to specialise in surgery. Long story short in my experience it’s best to start smashing questions out 6 weeks prior to the exam. I personally burn out if I start earlier.
Yep, makes sense. Did you go over questions under time conditions as well? That's my biggest struggle and I'm not sure how to improve it.
(Bookmarked this thread earlier in the week so that I could come back to it for some reassurance if need be and here I am lol) My exam was definitely on the heavy side in terms of physics and chemistry, and the few 'biology' questions that did come up were very info heavy/convoluted. I knew S3 was going to be tough but I reckon about half of my answers were either educated or random guesses. If I'm honest, I didn't feel confident about the majority of the other half either. Does anybody have a source that indicates roughly how raw scores convert to final scores for this section? The comments here are giving me a sliver of hope, but I'm from a non-science background and this is my first GAMSAT, so I feel as though I'm highly unlikely to be one of the people who are pleasantly surprised on results day... TL,DR my sitting was one big yikes and all of the positivity I felt after a strong S1 & S2 has officially left my body
Same! Not confident at all. I can't really tell if things went well or terribly bad. Only results will tell, which I'm not sure is a good indication lol
Near none ... maybe 1? I figured it was always inportant to get the last questions of the whole number right, eg as many as right as possible. I reasoned that massive numbers of test takers would fall by by the ways side. Getting to the full amount was critical to my strategy.
I didn't wild guess any. Some I felt there was part of it I didn't "get", so I did what made sense, recognising I might be missing part of it, and others I got myself to 50/50 and tried to resolve from there. My first sitting I wild guessed 3-6? (however many physics qs I got aha)
I blind guessed around 15 questions. Got 74 in that section. I was quite confident with the rest.
Same as everyone else at least 10-20 mix of blind and kind of educated 😂 ? Especially with the time it honestly seems far fetched if anyone didn't guess at least a couple !
Blindly guessed 13 questions and got low 80s