Next Steps

What do I do with my life after the GAMSAT?

well....

• Complete UCAS application
• Get a reference for my UCAS app
• Finish that bloody personal statement! (I'll do a post about personal statements as well)
• Finish my degree with a first (hopefully)
• Try and think of a dissertation topic.
• Enjoy my freedom from GAMSAT! YEY

If you have any questions about what you need to do and when you need to do it by for medicine or student finance crap just post a comment! 

The GAMSAT is Finished!!

ITS ALL DONE!!

Soooo I sat the GAMSAT in Bristol on Wednesday and here are a few comments and things I felt about the exam:

• I felt I did ten million times better on the Humanities section than I did in the Science section! The Humanities section seemed quite a bit easier than any of the past papers I'd looked at, but Section 1 went well!
• There was a really good topic on the first essay in Section 2 and I think I went a little bit to broad because I got so excited it was a good topic I just wanted to write everything I could in one go! So make sure you focus on being really strict on what you include in your essay!
• Section 3 was tough, it was a LOT of Chemistry, a lot of organic Chemistry! Not a lot of Physics and there honestly didn't seem to be that much Biology which I wasn't happy about :( 
• The hardest thing to deal with is the length of the exam, you break up for lunch after section 2 and you think "oohh thats fine only one more section to go!" But the science section is 3 hours in total! And it is SUCH a longtime to concentrate! It really is a lengthy exam!
• My brain felt like mush afterwards, all I wanted to do was go home and watch puppies and kittens on youtube, something that didnt involve a lot of thinking!

I'll post up a proper post with some tips for the exam in a day or two but right now I need to rest me brain and I'm back up to uni on Monday for final year and that means dissertation time! AAAAHH.

Soo it's Monday, the exam is Wednesday....

2 DAYS TO GO GANG!

I'm just spending today and half of tomorrow cramming as much as I can, HARDCORE REVISION STYLE. Only leaving my chair to pee and eat!

I'm leaving for Bristol tomorrow night as I live 3 hours away so I'll be hardcore revising in the car on the way up as well!

I'm just re-writing and re-reading all my chemistry, physics and examples I can use for the written section and hopefully they stick in ma brain.

Keep going and hopefully see some of you in Bristol on Wednesday!

10 DAYS

10 DAYS TO GO AAAHHHHH.

I don't have that much to write today other than the fact I'm stressing.

I've been essay writing this past week and trying to find historical examples I could use in essays, aaaand I will be doing another past paper this week and I will also be doing some crying.


KEEP GOING EVERYONE!!


My revision face

GAMSAT - Chemistry

I have nearly finished my revision for the Chemistry section of GAMSAT (I think)
I've been steadily making my way through a list of recommended topics and making sure I understand them.

Although since I've been going through the practice questions, the chemistry questions seem so much harder than what I have been revising! (cry)

Here is a list of the topics I have covered for Chemistry, and I haven't really done "proper" Chemistry since AS Level and I've basically forgotten it all and I HATE it :(

Atoms

• Periodic trends and the nature of atoms
• Understand common elements
• Balance equations

Bonding 

• Different types and properties of bonds
• Electronegativity and polarity of molecules 
• Effect of electron withdrawing groups
• Electron orbitals and quantum numbering 

Equilibrium 

• Le Chateliers principle
• Effect of heat, catalysts and concentration on rate of reaction

Gases

• Ideal gas laws 

Solutions 

• Apply Ksp values
• Understand how chemical properties effect solubility 

Colligative Properties

• Boiling point elevation and freezing point depression
• Raoults Law 
• Heat capacity and specific heat

Thermodynamics

• Laws of thermodynamics
• Gibbs free energy, entropy, enthalpy
• Predict wether a reaction will be spontaneous
• Will a reaction be exo/endo

Acids and Bases

• Pka values
• conjugate pairs
• Does a molecule act as a base or a pair depending on it's structure
• General acid base stuff!
• Oxidation and reduction 
• Apply E values

Organic Chemistry 

• IUPAC naming conventions
• Draw molecular structures from name 
• Isomers
• Chirality
• Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes
• Alcohols, Esters, Carboxylic Acids, Amines, Ketones, Aldehydes etc
• Properties and effects of major functional groups

GAMSAT Mock Exams and Practice Questions

For those of you who are sitting GAMSAT this year, follow these links and you will be able to download the official ACER past papers and practice questions for FREEEEE - sneaky ;)

http://www.slideshare.net/akspar/gamsat-practice-test-v015      This one is a good "warm up" GAMSAT, it's not as hard as the real ones but gives you an idea as to the type of questions you might face.


The following are the official ACER papers that you buy from their website, but here they are for no pennies! They take a few minutes to load!

http://papers.xtremepapers.com/GAMSAT/ACER%20GAMSAT%20Practice%20Questions.pdf

http://papers.xtremepapers.com/GAMSAT/ACER%20GAMSAT%20Sample%20Questions.pdf

http://papers.xtremepapers.com/GAMSAT/ACER%20GAMSAT%20Practice%20Test.pdf 

ENJOY!

Quantitative Reasoning - UKCAT

Just some example questions of quantitative reasoning for UKCAT practice!

I'll probably get sent to jail now for copyright infringement - OOPS