dora_18 said:
ok i need some help....preferably from someone whos doing graduate medicine @ sydney....i want to do med postgrad but this GAMSAT exam just freaks me out...i mean when i was at a lecture for it this year the chick said that she has students transferring from chinese literature studies and arts as well as science related areas....how can you pass the scientific aspects of the course with a course like that? and what is the preparation for this course like...do u receive manuals or notes or anything or are you just expected to prepare for it yourself?....im doing health science this year...anyway id appreciate any replies!!! thanks
It doesn't matter which bachelors/undergraduate degree you study, what matters is your GPA and GAMSAT score to score you an interview and finally a place in one of the uni's that offer Graduate med.
You study for the science aspects of the GAMSAT i.e. Yr 12 Physics and First Yr Chem and Bio although rote learning isn't recommended or enough - There are gamsat prep courses and manuals out there on sale in GAMSAT forums such as ausmedstudent, yahoo gamsat and paging dr home. Most of the preparation for the humanities sections requires you to read comprehensively and write under 30-40min [is this right?] time limits. So you need to think fast and logically arrange your ideas into a cohesive argument in very limited time.
That's my 2c on the deal anyway. I plan on GAMSATing in my third year with B. Science/Arts as my undergraduate degree, there's plenty of sites esp international [UK] offering advice and detailing personal experience studying for and ultimately getting into Med.
tats why.. 
