Last minute GAMSAT 1 month study plan days 21-30

Days 1-10
Days 11-20
Days 21-30

• Day 21: Read up on multiple choice question formats and how these are used. In the GAMSAT, there is only one correct answer for each question, and incorrect questions are not penalised. While few know the inner workings of ACER, test questions have been notes on some papers - the questions that you get may not be the same questions that your fellow students get, and it's unlikely that these marks are used to calculate your score, but rather server to gather other information and 'test' the question for inclusion in next year's GAMSAT. In addition, harder questions may also be weighted more highly.
  
  When answering multiple-choice questions, feel free to mark on the sheet any answers that you do not feel are correct. This can make it easier if you need to come back to the question. Other strategies can include choosing the middle answer from a range of numbers, an answer whose negative is also listed, options that are not absolute or that contain qualifiers, or the answer that looks best to you. See the NSW Board of Studies for online multiple-choice questions from various HSC subjects.
  
  Interestingly, a study has recently shown that you are more than three times as likely to correct a wrong answer for a right one as a right answer for a wrong one.
  

• Day 22: Look up IUPAC naming. Create a model of a molecule from a name only:

3-ethyl-4-methylhexane
2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1,-trifluoroethane
4-oxobutanoic acid
2-methylbutane
Or try the molecule in the linked article: 18-bromo-12-butyl-11-chloro-4,8-diethyl-5-hydroxy-15-methoxytricos-6,13-dien-19-yne-3,9-dione

Then apply a reaction as per Day 5. What two molecules would come together through Fisher esterification to create your random molecule? What mechanism would you use to add a methyl group to the fourth carbon? What's your molecule's new name?

• Day 23: Take a full length practice test.

• Day 24: Recap on test.

• Day 25: Look over any weak points on the test. More specifically, reassure yourself about any weak points you feel you have - remind yourself how small a contribution each small subject makes to the overall GAMSAT. Diss those who spent all their time studying optics, and reassure yourself that poetry majors will not get paid well anyway.
  

• Day 26: Understand the principle of conservation: everything on both sides of an equation or equilibrium must balance, including atoms, electrons, and energy. This can be used as with Hess's law to calculate the change in energy from a reaction. If a reaction produces energy, then like a ball rolling downhill it will tend to go ahead; the Gibbs free energy change can be calculated to see in which direction an equibrium will move.
  

• Day 27: Read Ambrose Bierce's Devils's Dictionary. Explain to your cat or significant other why, exactly, each entry is funny. Consider the following extract; then because you can, model the socially important opioids. Then, consider the ethical implications of providing such drugs to drug-seeking patients. Would you give a placebo to such patients, if requested by their specialist doctor as in this case?.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

• Day 28: Ohm's law: v=ir. One of two very simple physics equations that you should have memorised. V is the potential difference in volts; I is the current in amperes or amps and R is the resistance in ohms.

• Day 29: How will you deal with graphs and diagrams, and long slabs of text to ensure they don't waste your valuable test time? Simple. Skim first, then read the questions, then check back into the text to find your answers. You don't have to comprehend completely on first reading, if you are skilled at picking up the meaning of each sentence quickly. Look into speed reading and skimming to improve your comprehension and speed. Don't try for large improvements, but skimming up to 1000 words/minute is achievable. More than this and you may be being sold a dodgy product.

• Day 30: Rest day - see our article on what to do the day before the GAMSAT. Undertake pre-exam ritual such as purchasing The Exam Pen, snacks and chocolate for the day.