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GAMSAT Section 2 Preparation

- What you say and how you say it - Sociocultural (A) and personal-social issues (B) - 35mins each essay - Quality of thought, content and structure - Organisation and expression of ideas - Language is a small proportion, focus on good clear ideas - FAS approach

- Practice practice practice - What you say and how you say it - Sociocultural (A) and personal-social issues (B) - 35mins each essay - Quality of thought, content and structure - Organisation and expression of ideas - Language is a small proportion, focus on good clear ideas

- FAS approach - Practice practice practice - What you say and how you say it - Sociocultural (A) and personal-social issues (B) - 35mins each essay - Quality of thought, content and structure - Organisation and expression of ideas - Language is a small proportion, focus on good

clear ideas - FAS approach - Practice practice practice FAS approach 1. Fundamentals

2. understand skills required to answer texts correctly 3. - skills based approach 4. - reading and comprehending texts 5. - interpreting questions 6. - analysing answer options

7. - recognising and acknowledging biases and emotions 8. - literary vs technical texts 9. understand skills required to answer texts correctly 10. - skills based approach 11. - reading and comprehending texts 12. - interpreting questions 13. - analysing answer options

14. - recognising and acknowledging biases and emotions 15. - literary vs technical texts 16. understand skills required to answer texts correctly 17. - skills based approach 18. - reading and comprehending texts 19. - interpreting questions 20. - analysing answer options

21. - recognising and acknowledging biases and emotions 22. - literary vs technical texts Understand skills required to answers texts correctly. Skills based approach. Reading and comprehension texts Interpreting questions Analysing answer options. Recognising and acknowledging biases and emotions Literary vs technical texts 2. Application Practising questions utilising fundamentals Focus on accuracy first and timing later Do all types Active reflection 90sec/question 3. Simulation Gamsat-like environment Reflection- constantly getting questions wrong address those Application Every cartoon critiques has a social issue, has humour and has a main point Find the social issue Find the humour Social issue + humour = main point

Q1 – Privacy and confidentiality + not

actually changing sign = privacy policies don’t change (C) Q2 – privacy + hiding his face physically with a bag = privacy is contextual and certain situations don’t require it (C) (A) Q1 – Privacy and confidentiality + not actually changing sign = privacy policies don’t change (C) Q2 – privacy + hiding his face physically with

a bag = privacy is contextual and certain situations don’t require it (C) (A)...