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ADMISSIONS TESTS
GAMSAT (Graduate Medical School Admissions Test)
The graduate-entry admissions test used by medical schools in the UK, Ireland, and Australia.
The Graduate Medical School Admissions Test is the standard entry test for graduate-entry medical programmes in the UK, Ireland, and Australia. It is administered by ACER (the Australian Council for Educational Research) and is designed to assess the reasoning skills and scientific knowledge of candidates who already hold a bachelor's degree (typically of any discipline).
The GAMSAT is a long test, conventionally three sections sat across one or two days: humanities and social science reasoning, written communication, and reasoning in the biological and physical sciences. The science section assumes first-year university biology, chemistry, and physics. Unlike the UCAT, which is delivered year-round, GAMSAT is offered on a small number of fixed sitting dates each year (typically March and September), and scores are valid for two years.
GAMSAT results are used differently by every participating school — some combine the GAMSAT with GPA in a formula, others apply a threshold. Always check the entry requirements of the specific programmes you are applying to.
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This page is one of a set of medical school and medical careers resources on chrispaton.org, replacing the category landings of New Media Medicine (newmediamedicine.com), an early digital health blog and UK medical school applications community I ran between 2004 and 2014. The original New Media Medicine forum threads — user-generated content from that community — are not republished here; this is original framing written to help current applicants find authoritative information. Always confirm details with the official sources linked above before acting on them.