Truth be told, at times I have been accused of being too simplistic.
Here’s how one ruffled-up troll ex-spurtly judged the level of our Section 1 material:
“Their S1 practice content is just public domain rubbish with a bunch of comprehension questions after it. It’s roughly the equivalent of year 9 NAPLAN English and has zero bearing on the GAMSAT.”
So I had to take some time out to really reflect on this long and hard.
…Give it some serious thought, you know.
And eventually I had to admit: “Who’s Naplan?”
“Golly, he sounds smart. We need to get him on our team to help us create our materials!”
But then when I looked it up on the Googles and found out what it really means…
To be honest, I was hurt.
Because I specifically asked for Year 4 level and the damn team overshot the mark again.
Now we’re going to have to get those bloody Primary school kids back again to create our material. [Insert exasperated face-palm] With all the release forms and hoops we have to jump through to hire them the first time. Geez.
Year 9!
Really, how can they expect us to understand such a high level of literature?
We’re only a handful of monkeys over here at PassGAMSAT. (Well, monkeys with medical degrees and years of experience.)
Actually, that’s not true.
We did hire a Goldfish once.
But she was too clever for her own boots. Made us look bad. Showing off with her long-term memory and all. We had to get rid of her. So we promoted her. She’s head of the complaints department now.
Year 9… That’s way too high.
We may as well just scrap it all. Forget about all the people our material and approaches have helped. All the doctors they’ve created.
Like Dongxu.
He’s from China and really struggled with English and Section 1. He failed it a bunch of times.
In the end his score wasn’t *amazing* but if you knew what he was like in Section 1 before hand, then you’d know this was a minor miracle.
He’s studying medicine at UQ now and thanking us for the simplified approach.
Or David, who failed outright the previous year and used our simple “Year 9 Naplan” level approach and got himself an offer for not just the MD program, but also one for Dentistry.
Sounds like a great result to me.
I wish someone had simplified it that much for me back when I did this exam. I only got one offer.
(Interesting fact about David – he loved what we do so much he came back as a medical student and worked as one of our tutors for a while).
Or Molly who got into Melbourne on her first attempt.
She’s raving about our ‘simpleness’ right about now.
So I guess all these new medical students are just simpletons like the rest of our Monkey-and-a-Goldfish team.
But eventually I did figure out what the real problem was…
If only the troll had used it to study for the GAMSAT instead of his year 9 exams, maybe he’d have a different opinion. But who knows how these mouth-breathers think.
Anyway…
For all the ‘simpletons’ out there, like me, who don’t want to complicate the GAMSAT any more than it already is…
Who think the GAMSAT is difficult enough, and want straight forward, easy to apply – think, year 9 level easy – techniques and materials that work and can help them achieve great results in the GAMSAT…
(If you use them, and use them for the right exam, off course!)
Then click here to attend my live online training session all about Section 1.
You’re going to love it!
Chat soon,
Dr Tom
