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GAMSAT Attempts and unusual backgrounds

  • 28-07-2009 1:20pm
    #1
    haemfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭


    Who here has done the GAMSAT the most amount of times? and also who here believes they come from the most unlikely background to be entering/ have entered medicine?


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  • #2
    chirpy81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭chirpy81


    coming from a LC in 99' of 360 points. I was crap at languages and maths ... well i got an A1 in ordinary level maths ...which is no great achievement, but i was good at the sciences. I wasn't as focused as i am now (im 27 now). Im wondering has anyone passed the gamsats with a similar leaving cert standard as myself!


  • #3
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    chirpy81 wrote: »
    coming from a LC in 99' of 360 points. I was crap at languages and maths ... well i got an A1 in ordinary level maths ...which is no great achievement, but i was good at the sciences.

    An A1 in Pass Maths is definitely not crap at maths!


  • #4
    chirpy81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭chirpy81


    nesf wrote: »
    An A1 in Pass Maths is definitely not crap at maths!


    ok i was probably alittle harsh there. I always get the impression that to do medicine you have to be brilliant at everything. e.g. i knew in school id never do well at languages because im just not interested enough, yet if i had the option like the A levels in the UK to just do sciences i knew i would do much better.


  • #5
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    chirpy81 wrote: »
    ok i was probably alittle harsh there. I always get the impression that to do medicine you have to be brilliant at everything.

    You don't, the maths contents of medicine is really just relatively trivial statistics that doesn't require any real ability in mathematics. An A1 standard in Pass Maths would be easily sufficient so long as you put in the work.


  • #6
    stoptalking
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭stoptalking


    chirpy81 wrote: »
    coming from a LC in 99' of 360 points. I was crap at languages and maths ... well i got an A1 in ordinary level maths ...which is no great achievement, but i was good at the sciences. I wasn't as focused as i am now (im 27 now). Im wondering has anyone passed the gamsats with a similar leaving cert standard as myself!


    I did the LC in 04' and got 360 aswell, was a waster in school... got a 57 in the GAMSAT but was disapointed..

    hope that helps...


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  • #7
    chirpy81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭chirpy81


    stoptalking wrote: »
    I did the LC in 04' and got 360 aswell, was a waster in school... got a 57 in the GAMSAT but was disapointed..

    hope that helps...
    thats good going, you would have been accepted with that.


  • #8
    slemons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭slemons


    There's very little maths in Gamsat. Well this year anyway. Who knows whats going to be on next year?


  • #9
    ImDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭ImDave


    Maths would be my major downfall but I wouldn't be worried about it from the perspective of studying grad med. It is interesting to note that the requirement in most of the uni's for undergrad medicine is only an OC3. And also, as slemons said, if the level of mathematics in grad med is anything similar to that of the GAMSAT, there is nothing to worry about. A calculator wasn't even required for the vast majority of problems involving numeracy.


  • #10
    MRon8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭MRon8


    Hi All,

    I am a 22 year old Commerce Graduate, who is just about to complete a Masters in Business Studies, but alas I cannot get a job! I am seriously thinking about sitting next years GAMSATS in Dublin, but I am unclear about a number of things and would like some advice if anyone is willing to help.

    First of all, I am wondering if I would be out of my depth in studying for the GAMSATs. I am a disciplined, dedicated studier and I would allocate 5 or 6 intense months of study to the exam but the problem is I have not studied Biology or Chemistry since my Junior Cert. I completed my LC in 2005 and I got 560 points, and an A2 in Physics so I would not be too worried about the Physics aspect of things. But would it be possible to bring my Chem & Bio up to an adequate level without a background in either? And if I was to attempt to tackle each of these subject areas, what would be the best way to start? Meticulous study of the recommended text books with one eye on exam papers or what?

    Also, I am fearful that if college fees are re-introduced would that spell an end to the days of the Government subsidising half the GEM fees? How are people who have taken out huge student debts to complete the course faring financially? Is the huge financial burden worthwhile?

    Thanks for Reading!
    M


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