“Mock Exams”…[yawn]….

Nice cash grab.

But how useful are they really?

People sometimes ask if we do mock exams at PassGAMSAT. 

What they’re referring to is the pretend GAMSATs the industrial-chicken-farm GAMSAT prep companies run where they get people in a room for a ‘simulated’ exam.

And as if only to highlight their futility… they’re usually run right before the GAMSAT. 

We don’t do them.

Why?

Well, other than being absolutely useless and even detrimental to your study, you’ve got to look below the thin shiny exterior to the empty pointless middle. 

You’ve got to ask yourself, what’s the point of them? What are they really there for?

Reassurance? Perhaps.

But reassurance of what? Being on the right track…?

Let’s explore this a little, my Grasshopper.

Let’s say it’s 2 weeks before the GAMSAT and you’ve forked out a few hundred bucks (or whatever they cost) to sit a mock exam or, it’s been jammed into a bigger program to fluff it up and make it look ‘worth the money’…

And let’s say you got a low score on said mock exam. An unexpectedly low score as often happens.

What now?

Well, for one thing – panic.

With less than 2 weeks there isn’t much time to do anything about the low score. So you’ve left up the proverbial creek without a paddle.

(I’ll talk about how to prevent this in a second because this late before the GAMAST is not the time to be identifying low scores.)

On the other hand, let’s say you get a high score. 

Wooo.

Does that change how you prepare for the last 2 weeks? 

I sure hope not. 

Because that imitation test is zero indication of how you’ll actually perform on the real exam. 

It’s a guesstimate, at best. At worst, it’s a mockery of the actual exam. (That must be why they call it a mock exam! We shall henceforth refer to them as ‘Mockery Exams’)

Back to it…

Granted, the feedback you get on what to focus on next might be good. But you could have figured that out at home by doing a practice paper for a couple-a-bucks.

Perhaps people do the mockery exams to compare themselves to others?

But why?

How will that change your preparation? 

It won’t.

It’s just feeding your insecurities. And it won’t make any difference to your prep.

Mockery exams are really just another example of the copycat gimmicks used by the industrial-chicken-farms to bring in the moola. To bamboozle and impress with no real substance.

One of them does is, so they all do.

Instead…

After seeing what works and what doesn’t, and having helped thousands over the many years I’ve been doing this…

Here’s what you should be doing instead of mockery exams, in my not-so-humble opinion…

Instead of waiting until a couple of weeks before the GAMSAT, we track progress with our students regularly. Part of our process involves regular check-ups to make sure you’re on the right track.

If you’re missing something, we pick it up early so you have time to address it.

Practice exams are often a part of a good prep approach, but not a one-off left to right before the exam. 

So the big question now is…

If we’re leaving it too late to test progress, only to have a big cash windfall event that looks pretty on Instagram but doesn’t add any real value to our students – are we really looking after the best interests of our clients?

Me thinks not.

This is why we have our Bootcamp. We’ve seen what’s going on out there, out in the GAMSAT wilderness, and this is your oasis.

If you’re looking for mockery exams, it’s not for you. There won’t be any.

Instead, the Bootcamp is my system to getting you ready for every aspect of the GAMSAT so that you can get in this time.

Here’s the link to join the bootcamp.