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Science – The Future of Human Evolution (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Sep 10. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.’ – Marie Curie   ‘One must divide one’s time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me.’ – Albert Einstein   ‘Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.’ – Louis Pasteur   ‘Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of human intellectual...

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Religion – Science vs. Religion (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Aug 27. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘One religion is true to another.’ – Robert Burton   ‘Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.’ – Dennis Potter   ‘So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully to find someone to worship.’ – Fedor Dostoevsky   ‘My country is my world, and my religion is to do good.’ – Thomas Paine   ‘I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is...

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Punishment – Reintegration of Ex-offenders into the Community (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Aug 13. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.’ - Jeremy Bentham   ‘Hanging is too good for him, said Mr Cruelty.’ – John Bunyan   ‘Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.’ – Elizabeth Fry   ‘A Child, punishment by selfish parents, does not feel anger. It goes to its little private corner to weep.’ – Rose Tremain   ‘This is the first of punishments, that no guilty...

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Poverty – The Fallacy of Foreign Aid (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Jul 30. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘Make poverty history.’ - Anonymous   ‘Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.’ – James Baldwin   ‘Come away; poverty’s catching.’ – Aphra Behn   ‘Brother can you spare a dime?’ – Y. Harburg   ‘There’s nothing surer, the rich get rich and the poor get children.’ – Gus Kahn & Raymond B. Egan   Suggested Theme: Poverty (Section A) Time limit in the actual exam: 30 mins Chosen Quote: ‘Make...

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Money – How to become a millionaire (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Jul 16. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘The almighty dollar is the only object of worship.’ - Anonymous   ‘Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.’ – Francis Bacon   ‘We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?’ – Samuel Beckett   ‘Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.’ – Aphra Behn   ‘The love of money is the root of all evil.’ - Bible   Suggested Theme: Money (Section A) Time limit in the...

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Love – Is Love Worth It? (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Jul 02. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.’ – George Sanders   ‘A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination and instill a love of learning.’ – Brad Henry   ‘A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.’ – Elbert Hubbard   ‘It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.’ –Friedrich Nietzsche   ‘Love is the only...

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Knowledge – Knowledge is Power (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Jun 11. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide, in thy most need to go by thy side.’ - Anonymous   ‘The fox knows many things – the hedgehog one big one.’ – Archilochus   ‘Knowledge is power.’ – Francis Bacon   ‘I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.’ - Socrates   ‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.’ – Alfred, Lord Tennyson   Suggested Theme: Knowledge (Section B) Time limit in the actual exam: 30 mins Chosen Quote:...

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Friends – Friends vs Family (GAMSAT Essay Example)

May 21. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.’ – Helen Keller   ‘A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.’ – William Shakespeare   ‘Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.’ – Oscar...

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Equality – Can ‘Freedom’ and ‘Equality’ co-exist? (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Apr 30. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.’ – Martin Luther King   ‘Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on each can ever turn it into a fact.’ – Honre de Balzac   ‘There is no method by which men can be...

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Education – Life-long Continuing Education (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Apr 16. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing wroth knowing can be taught.’ – Oscar Wilde   ‘Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.’ – B.F Skinner   ‘In education there should be no class distinction.’ - Confucius   ‘The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.’ – Winston Churchill   ‘The aim of education is the knowledge not...

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Death – Finding a Purpose of Life by Becoming a Hero (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Mar 19. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.’ – William Shakespeare   ‘It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not importance, it lasts so short a time.’ – Samuel Johnson   ‘It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.’ – Woody Allen   ‘I have received two wonderful graces. First, I have been given time to...

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Courage – Courage to be Disliked for Authentic Happiness (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Feb 26. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes!’ – J.M. Barrie   ‘None but the brave deserves the fair.’ – John Dryden   ‘Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.’ – C.S Lewis   ‘As to moral courage, I have rarely met with two o’clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.’ – Napoleon I   ‘Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a...

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Ambition – Do you have what it takes to become someone? (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Jan 22. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.’ – Edmund Burke   ‘I had rather be right than be President.’ – Henry Clay   ‘All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind’ – Joseph Conrad   ‘He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.’ – Hugh Dalton   ‘There is always room at the top.’ – Daniel...

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Ageing – A Paradigm Shift in Ageing (GAMSAT Essay Example)

Jan 01. 2021

Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them. Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme, how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.   ‘I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over’ – Woody Allen   ‘With full-span lives having become the norm, people may need to learn how to be aged as they once had to learn how to be adult.’ – Ronald Blythe   ‘The man who works and is not bored is never old.’ – Pablo Casals   ‘Every man desires to live long: but no man would be old.’ – Jonathan...

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Introduction: GAMSAT Section 2 – Written Communication

Jan 01. 2021

The Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT) is undoubtedly one of the most challenging exams that any aspiring doctor will have to face in postgraduate medical or dental courses at the top universities in Australia, Ireland and the UK. GAMSAT evaluates the nature and extent of abilities and skills gained through prior experience and learning, including the mastery and use of basic science concepts and the acquisition of more general skills in problem-solving, critical thinking and writing.   GAMSAT consists of three components: Section 1: Reasoning in Humanities Section 2: Written Communication Section 3: Reasoning in Biological and Physical Sciences   Section 2, the written communication component of the GAMSAT, assesses the ability to organise and express one’s thoughts logically and effectively. It is a...

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