GAMSAT Exam Strategy
Our Strategy course draws together the key skills underpinning the sciences. This is accompanied by a 140 page book, providing an invaluable resource. The course covers the following topics:
- Dealing With Number
- Rearranging and combining equations
- Units as a guide to spotting answers
- Importance of standard form and roots
- Using logs both natural and log10
- Estimation in questions
- Volume and area
- The Importance of Graphical Data
- How to read and interpret graphs
- Gradients and intersections
- Log graphs
- Graphs in Biology
- Graphs in Chemistry
- Graphs in Physics
- Unusual graphs (often the most difficult for candidates)
- Functional Groups in Biological Molecules
- The type of functional groups we see
- Spotting common features in molecules and extending these ideas
- Important bonds such as the peptide bond and their form and function
- Dealing with polymers
- Spotting Transformation in Biology and Chemistry
- The importance of carbon counting
- Looking for landmarks in molecules
- Getting a backbone
- Deducing the unusual, unapproachable and unknown
- Spotting theory disguised as something else
- Visualising in Three Dimensions
- Spotting chemical environments
- Seeing in 3D
- Optical isomerism and other stereochemistry
- Representations of sugars
- What to expect on the day
- General rules of the exam
- How to make a first pass of information
- Rapid selection techniques when time presses
- The importance of narrowing down the field