GAMSAT Chemistry Electromagnetic Spectrum

Re: GAMSAT Chemistry Electromagnetic Spectrum

The following table provides important information that is crucial for the GAMSAT. In previous years the GAMSAT has directly tested the knowledge of students. Students were required to identify the color of light that has the longest wavelength or has the highest frequency out of a selected few.

An easy way to remember: Colours of rainbow = ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). As you move across from red to violet, the wavelength decreases and the frequency increases.

Important equation to remember: v=c/λ

v (frequency) – number of wavelengths that pass a certain point in space per unit time
c (Speed of light)
λ (wavelength) – the distance between adjacent peaks in an oscillating field

Happy Studying 🙂

The Secret to GAMSAT Success – 4 techniques That Will Ensure Success

Re: The Secret to GAMSAT Success

Let’s face it. For most people, studying for the GAMSAT requires long hours of study on a consistent basis for several months. It is so easy to procrastinate and avoid studying until ‘tomorrow’. When you think to yourself “When should I start studying and preparing for the GAMSAT” the answer is NOW!

The 4 techniques that helped me focus on my goals and brought upon my success in the GAMSAT are:

1. Early Study
2. Meditation
3. Affirmations
4. Visualisation

Early study:
Make sure you start studying and practicing all GAMSAT-related material at least 3 months before the GAMSAT exam. Students should aim to study as early in the day as possible.

As soon as you wake up do the 5 following things:
1. Wash face with COLD water
2. Drink a glass of water
3. Eat a light breakfast – Low GI
4. Brush Teeth
5. Stretch to loosen up muscles and increase blood flow

Now it is time for Meditation (3 mins):
Meditation will reduce your stress levels, to begin each day with a kind of calm, clarity, and peace of mind that will allow you to stay focused on what is most important in your life. Starting your day off with meditation will allow you to focus on your goals and priorities.

Find a quiet comfortable place to sit. Sit upright on the ground with legs crossed. You can close your eyes, or you can look down at the ground. Start by focusing on your breath, taking slow, deep breaths. Remember to breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. Breath the surrounding air into your belly, not just your chest. Pace your breath: Breath in for 3 seconds and out for 3 seconds. During this process you will feel your thoughts and emotions settling down as you focus on your breath.

Be aware that as you attempt to quiet your mind, thoughts will still come in to pay a visit. Acknowledge them, then let them go, always returning your focus to your breath.
The aim of meditation is to clear your mind for the following exercises and allow you to have laser-focus on your priorities for the day.

Affirmations (3 mins):
As Mohummad Ali stated – “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”

When you actively design and write out affirmations to be in alignment with what you want to accomplish, and commit to repeating them daily (out loud) – they will immediately make an impression on your subconscious mind. The affirmations you read out will go to work to transform the way you think and feel so you can overcome your limiting beliefs and behaviors and replace them with those you need to succeed.

You should create your own or tweak the following affirmations to suit your own specific goals. The following affirmations are similar to what I used when preparing for the GAMSAT.

I will put 110% everyday when studying for the GAMSAT. Nothing comes easy in life. I will write essays everyday and receive feedback so that I can improve my skills to the fullest. I will read all the recommended GAMSAT books for S1 and learn all the required S3 GAMSAT content. I am going to be a GAMSAT machine. I will practice all GAMSAT practice questions available until I master them all. I will practice questions under timed conditions so that I can breeze through the exam on the day. I do not care how long it will take, I will continuously put in hard work and will eventually score high enough in the GAMSAT to become a Doctor.

If I do not pass the GAMSAT the first time, will I give up? NO! I will go back and study twice as hard and as twice as long as last time. I will make sacrifices. I will work my hardest to improve on my weakest points and I will eventually SUCCEED.

I will eventually get a high GAMSAT score, no matter how long it takes and I will breeze through the MMI interviews.

I will achieve my dream and become a Doctor.

Visualisation (3 mins):

Visualisation refers to the practice of seeking to generate positive results in your outer world by using your imagination to create mental images of specific behaviors and outcomes occurring in your life. It is the process of imagining exactly what you want to achieve, and then mentally rehearsing what you’ll need to do to achieve it.

Spend 3 minutes listening to some relaxing music. Close your eyes, sit-upright and take a deep breath in and out (holding each for 3 seconds). Visualize yourself preparing for the GAMSAT for many hours each day. You are laser focused and your number one priority is to succeed in the exam. Visualise yourself breezing through the questions in S1 and S3, and writing that perfect, flowing essay. Visualize yourself checking your GAMSAT results and receiving a great score. Imagine yourself breezing through the medical school interviews and then imagine yourself as a Doctor in many years from now. What will you specialize in? Where would you live? What will your day consist of? Will you have a loving wife and many children? Will you be one of the most influential Doctors in the world? How will your parents feel about your success? How will you feel saving lives of people in need? And most of all how would you feel when you look back at all the hard work you put in to achieve this dream of becoming a Doctor?

Hope this helps,

Matt.
AceGAMSAT

Section I Sample Unit 1

The passage below is an adaptation of an article published in The Guardian in 2012.

Seaweed. Marmite. No, egg whites. Or maybe grilled chicken. Actually, hang on, try a handful of unsalted nuts. No bread though. Bread is poison.

The craving ravings of pregnancy? The menu requirements of a capricious Islington four-year-old? No, it’s the food recommendations of the last month from Closer magazine, which urge us to step away from the carbs and into a happy bubble of seaweed-eating. A New You in which it’s possible to leave behind your sad, lonely bread habit and step into a revitalised Beach Body, achieved through the medium of wakame salads and yoga. I discovered this while on a bus one rainy Thursday afternoon. My inclination to get off and walk was minimal and some kind fellow-traveller had left a copy of the magazine behind. I opened it, and began flicking through. I had no idea who the featured celebrities were, so it was rather like reading someone’s banal telephone conversation. Almost all of the stories could be boiled down to 140 characters, so I began to tweet it with the hashtag #Closer. Kerry is a size 10–12 and so she had weight loss surgery. Now she’s “ecstatic with her new body” was a typical tweet. Taken together, they are a fabulous collection of absurdism.

There is a serious point in among the whimsy, though: stories are not actually about the celebrities. They can be categorised into roughly three groups: bodies, food and relationships. In bodies, we learn that the ideal size to be is an 8. Women who fall below that size are said to be “gaunt”, and are usually mourning the end of a relationship. A 10 is acceptable but usually prefaced with the word “curvy”. Women who are over that size will be dieting, and we will get a run-down of their meal plans, or indeed whether they’re eating at all. If they are over a size 12, then their “pals” are quoted, gleefully telling of how the woman in question cries every night over her size, or is disgusted with herself.

Bodies intersect neatly with food. Carbohydrates are generally considered a bad thing, and menu recommendations inevitably focus on grilled fish or chicken with vegetables or salad. Then there will be one food item which creeps in several times per issue, being hyped either by celebrities or by the magazine itself, the magic weight loss food which will attain you that desirable size 8 figure. It was seaweed in the first issue, Marmite in the next.

More worrying are the constant articles on “baby weight” – the obsession with the perfect and desirable body extends to pregnancy, and I’ve learned through reading these that there is such a thing as a maternity monokini, and also that people plan a birth outfit.
Once they’ve “flaunted” the bump (there’s a lot of flaunting in these mags), given birth while wearing that fabulous birth outfit, they must lose the baby weight. We’re told approvingly that one woman was back to a size 6 two weeks after the birth. Women who don’t lose the weight quickly will “admit” to losing it slowly, and again these horrible “pals” will be quoted saying that the woman in question is distraught by the weight and hint darkly at depression. With friends like that, eh?

Finally, we learn that babies are the pinnacle of any relationship. As soon as a woman celebrity gets a boyfriend, these “pals” are back to tell us that she’s desperate for a baby and feeling broody. She’ll almost certainly be “keen for marriage”, while her new amour is permitted, even encouraged, to relinquish the single childfree life. If a relationship breaks down, it’s somehow a failure on the part of the woman. The sentences “If she loses her looks she could lose everything” and “I have to look as glam as possible because there’s a new man in my life” are typical.

Celebrity news can be entertaining; I’m not scoffing at the lowbrow here and arguing that women should stick to reading Greek mythology in the original, but perhaps it’s time to consider quite how much Marmite and seaweed we can swallow along with the casually oppressive messages about our bodies, our relationships, and ultimately ourselves.

1. ‘Capricious’ (line 3) is closest in meaning to which of the following?

• A      Picky
• B      Fickle
• C      Allergy-prone
• D      Posh

2. What is the implication of the writer’s placement of inverted commas around the word “pals”?

• A      They do not actually exist
• B      They are not very loyal friends
• C      The quotes may have been sourced from the subject’s jealous ex-lovers
• D      It’s a slang word indicative of the type of language used in these types of magazines

3. Based on the information provided in the passage we can infer that marriage is portrayed by Closer magazine as:

• A      a signal of achievement
• B      a prerequisite of having children
• C      a moral obligation of loving couples
• D      a social stigma

4. What do the magazines described by the journalist suggest about relationships?

• A      Their stability is heavily linked to the appearance of the female partner
• B      They are luxuries reserved for the rich and famous
• C      They should take precedence over women’s careers
• D      The couple should share an interest in having babies

5. Which of the following presented in the passage is an example of subtext?

• A      Gourmet food
• B      Bodies, food and relationships
• C      Maternity Monokinis
• D      Greek mythology

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UK GAMSAT 2015

The UK GAMSAT will be held on the 9th of September 2015.

Registrations for the UK GAMSAT opened in late May 2015. The fee to sit GAMSAT UK 2015 is £237.50

Registrations will close at Midnight BST 31 July 2015. Late registrations will be accepted until Midnight BST 10 August 2015. A late fee of £60 in addition to the registration fee of £237.50 will be required for late registrations. No further registrations will be accepted after this date.

The UK test centres are located in Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, London and Sheffield.

For Candidates in Australia they will be able to sit the test at either Brisbane or Melbourne.

Candidate places at the overseas testing venues are limited and an overseas test levy of £100 applies, in addition to the registration fee.

Select the centre which would be most convenient for you. Register early as Places are limited.

Candidates who have a disability/health related disorder that might interfere with their ability to sit the test should apply for special testing conditions. This is done online via their account right after registration. All requests need to be submitted by no later than Midnight BST 10 August 2015.

After submitting the online form, candidates must also submit supporting documentation. The supporting documentation must be from a registered health practitioner and must give a clear diagnosis and information on the condition, indicate the impact of the condition in testing settings and include a statement as to what accommodations the health practitioner feels are appropriate for the candidate in testing settings.

All supporting documentation must be typed on the medical practitioner’s official letterhead and include the date and title, name, registration number, contact details, and signature of the medical practitioner. The documentation must be no more than one year old for health-related needs or disabilities other than learning disabilities, and no more than three years old for learning disabilities.

Applicants with learning disabilities should submit a copy of an appropriate educational psychologist’s report for consideration. If the report is more than three years old, it will still be accepted, as long as it is accompanied by a recent letter from a psychologist stating that the information in the report is still applicable to the candidate as they are today.

All reasonable efforts will be made to provide appropriate testing conditions for candidates’ needs.

Some examples of conditions and possible accommodations are provided below. These examples are in no way exhaustive and should be used for guidance only. As requests are assessed on a case by case basis; some allowances listed below may not be relevant to a candidate’s personal situation.

• Diabetes: permission to take blood glucose testing kit, insulin and food/drink into the test centre
• Hand/wrist/arm/shoulder injury: permission to mark answers in the test booklet and/or scribe provided for written section
• Hearing loss: candidate seated at the front of the room and written instructions provided
• Visual impairment: colour or larger print test papers provided

Last note:
Students should make sure they go through and understand all of the questions in SIII of the ACER practice papers. Some questions from the march 2015 GAMSAT exam were directly from the ACER practice material.

Medical Degrees in Australia

Current Australian medical schools and their basic qualifying medical degrees

Medicine is a strong sector for Australian higher education, with many of the country’s leading universities boasting a stronger ranking for medicine than in the overall World University Rankings.

The University of Melbourne is ranked 12th in the world for medicine and the University of Sydney is ranked 17th.

The University of NSW is ranked 29th in the world.

Monash University is ranked 33rd and University of Queensland is ranked 42nd.

Australian National University is ranked in the top 100 for medical schools around the world.