Section 1 prep: Inducing strokes, insulting lazy people, and more
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Your Naughty Narrator may have induced more strokes with his email last Friday afternoon than the new KFC Popcorn Chicken.
(Seriously, how good are those things!)
=> Learn How To Score 70+ In Section 1 Without Thousands Of Practice Questions Or ‘Reading Widely’
It’s funny,
Everytime I say that ‘reading widely’ is a complete and utter waste of time for Section 1 (and section 2 as well, for that matter) and that you may as well stick your head in a bucket rather than ‘read widely….’
Half of the people who hear it have a mini-stroke and leave in a juvenile huff.
While the other half are like,
“Hell yeah! What does reading widely even mean?”
Here’s a good example from my webinar last week:
“Dr. Tom, would like some advice here, “reading widely” does it mean reading newspapers, magazines, journals, watching the news, different types of texts? what if it feels overwhelming… whats the best way to prepare for section 1 and 2?”
It gets better…
Of those that are left,
When I then say that just going endless practice questions for section 1 is a close second in the “pointless time-wasting activities for section 1” category (after ‘reading widely’, of course) half of the remaining people are like,
“Oh no he didn’t! He did not just insult my GAMSAT religion! Practice questions are everything to me.” And these guys and gals stop listening at that point and usually leave in a juvenile huff too, only to continue doing endless practice questions and getting absolutely nowhere with their section 1.
While the other half are like,
“Hell yeah, Dr. Tom! I did lots of practice questions and it made a minimal difference and now I’m still struggling with the long passages, convoluted language, and finishing on time”
And these people, in my not-so-humble opinion, the clever ones.
They are the ones who are actually thinking about this, who are engaging their own reasoning brain to think through what they’re actually doing so that they get the most out of their study and get a high score.
They’re not just mindlessly following what they read or heard somewhere.
And thus, dare I say…
They are the brave ones because they are going against the Forum Flexors (flexin’ about their skills like a forum member should) and the GAMSAT Hobbyists (who seem to know a lot but GAMSAT but are still not med students after years of attempts) and instead, these brave soles, decide to think for themselves, bucking the trends of the masses who will never become doctors.
(Fun fact: 80% of people who sit in March 2021 will never get in. Chances are most of these people are doing the above two ‘techniques’)
So these clever ones, who may not be the best at GAMSAT or section 1 but are not too lazy to think for themselves, they’re the ones who end up increasing their scores or getting a high one on their first GAMSAT sitting because they eventually find an effective way to prepare for this exam. They either do this by themselves or do it much more quickly and effectively by getting help.
At least that’s what I’ve found after doing this for over 14 years and working with thousands of people in that time.
The #1 secret to getting a high score on GAMSAT, and in section 1, is and always will be:
THINKING.
Thinking about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.
So for the thinkers reading this,
If you want to know how to effectively prepare for section 1 (without mindlessly doing endless questions or insulting your own intelligence by ‘reading widely)…
And would like the step-by-step instructions on how to analyze and understand the long passages, poetry, dry difficult language, and do it all quickly within the time restrictions…
So that you can develop the skills and abilities being tested in this exam…
Then this will rock your freakin’ world.
To Your Success,
Dr “Thinking is not for everyone” Tom