How to increase Section 1 score without endless practice questions
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Have you been ‘reading widely’ and doing lots of section 1 practice questions…
Yet your score isn’t improving and you’re still struggling with the long passages, poetry and timing?
Or maybe you’re just ignoring this section because there’s enough to do for S2 and S3 and you’re not even sure how to prepare for section 1?
I get it.
English is my second language.
I hated English class in high school.
So when I first saw section 1 I was like, “What is this?! I want to be a doctor not a poet!”
It was hard for me and although I got through GAMSAT and became a doctor, my typos and grammar are still pretty shocking at times.
And yet, here we are. I did it and am a doctor.
What does that tell ya?
You don’t have to be perfect to get a great score in Section 1. You also don’t have to be a poet.
So what do you need?
What I’ll tell you is this:
Over the years I’ve teamed up with some pretty incredible people and we’ve broken down the art of literature interpretation into a science you can apply like an equation to get the right answer every time even if you’re as bad at this stuff as I was (and you don’t have to be a literature genius or even like poetry to do it).
Now,
You can’t just mindlessly apply this stuff without thinking about it and expect to get anything other than a disappointing 48. You still have to think about it and do the work to learn how to use it.
No magic pills here, my friend.
But when you do what I’m going to show you here it means your section 1 study will actually be useful.
It means the time you invest in section 1 will pay off in increased marks, even with the time that’s left, because you’re developing skills that will be applicable on the day of the exam – unlike ‘reading widely’ which is utterly pointless more on that incoming emails.
(And practice questions don’t develop your skills, they test them. So if you don’t have the skills, no amount of testing, i.e. practice questions will change that.)
And what you’ll find is that when you do what I’ll show you here, and what we developed with our “Stephen Hawking” of section 1, even the most convoluted long fiction passages and cryptic poetry are easier to understand than ever before.
Case in point:
William H.
Will did the GAMSAT a number of times and his S1 score was ‘stuck’ in the 52-53 range.
Then he applied the techniques I’m going to share with you here (in fact, I’ll give you the exact details and instructions on how to do it with examples so that you can apply it to yourself) and his score increased by 12 points in this past September 2020 online GAMSAT.
So not only did he finally break through the low 50s ‘ceiling’ but he did it in the online version of the exam with no annotations while working full-time and doing a diploma.
If Will and I can do it, imagine what you can do?
That’s why I love this stuff.
And you’d be crazy to not learn and apply it. But it’s up to you.
Cheers,
Dr “Definitely not a poet” Tom