GAMSAT UK in your first year.

[Peanuts11]

Ok guys, so as many of us in Biomed/Science at Melbourne are planning on doing GAMSATUK in our first year. Some of us have noticed that according to ACER:


'Gamsat can be undertaken in either your penultimate or ultimate year of study'.

However, according to stonecold and a few others, one cannot clearly define when their final year of study will be. Personally, I think this wouldn't hold up if you were caught and the penalty may be exclusion from all future GAMSATs and your score revoked. So I think it's pretty important for those of us sitting it to determine whether we legally can or cannot.

Now, I'm not making this thread because I enjoy stating the obvious. Here's my look on things, officially in the GAMSAT UK booklet it states:

"GAMSAT is appropriate for any student who
has completed an undergraduate honours degree
or who will be in the penultimate or final year of
study for an honours degree at the time of sitting
the test, or, in the case of applicants to Peninsula
Medical School, who believes he/she has achieved
an appropriate level of intellectual maturity and
subject knowledge to meet the demands of the test.
GAMSAT is designed to assess the capacity to
undertake high level intellectual studies in a medical
or dental course. It is offered once a year only."

Tomato Sauce: http://gamsat.acer.edu.au/files/GAMSAT-UK-Info-Booklet.pdf

Well, I guess I suddenly believe I have the intellectual maturity and subject knowledge to fulfil my dream of going to the Peninsula medical school

Can anyone else weigh in on this so we can accurately determine whether we can or can't do this?

 Especially anyone studying law (looks at Nina) who is probably more familiar with interpreting words etc etc. Is the term 'appropriate' steadfast even?

Let's go team AN!

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[Russ]

Plenty of people do this, you won't be caught. It's expensive though and imo isn't really worth it given you get 2-3 attempts anyway

If you want me to counter your justification, if you use the score to apply to a medical school that isn't Peninsula then that obviously excludes you.

[Edmund]

I doubt you'll have problems doing it in your first year. But I think in the application form it asked for your graduation year and there won't be an option if you were in your first year of study. You can probably select a fake grad year since no one checks.

[Peanuts11]

Plenty of people do this, you won't be caught. It's expensive though and imo isn't really worth it given you get 2-3 attempts anyway

If you want me to counter your justification, if you use the score to apply to a medical school that isn't Peninsula then that obviously excludes you.

Well should a legal issue arise, I will apply to Peninsula medical school as well?

[Peanuts11]

For anyone interested in this matter, I think from memory panicmode, thelimz and a few others are. I have sent the following e-mail and am awaiting reply:

Hi,

I'm a first year University of Melbourne Biomedicine student who is planning on studying post-graduate medicine in either the UK, Australia or the US once I graduate. As such, I'm planning on sitting the GAMSAT and GAMSAT UK as many times as possible to maximise my score. I am interested in sitting GAMSATUK later this year and anecdotally only second and third years are allowed to sit it but I have noticed in the GAMSATUK info booklet the following:



"GAMSAT is appropriate for any student who 
has completed an undergraduate honours degree 
or who will be in the penultimate or final year of 
study for an honours degree at the time of sitting 
the test, or, in the case of applicants to Peninsula 
Medical School, who believes he/she has achieved 
an appropriate level of intellectual maturity and 
subject knowledge to meet the demands of the test."

As I will be an applicant to Peninsula medical school, am I eligible to sit the GAMSATUK in my first year as is mentioned above?

Thank-you for your time

Kind Regards,

Enwi Abe

[paulsterio]

What's Penninsula Medical School? :\


Edit: Oh in the UK, I see


Anyway, lmao, I love the name "Enwi Abe" - I was like, that sounds so familiar