The S1 & S2 Strategy Guide is two strategy guides in one.

Yep, you heard that right! Two full-length, complete GAMSAT guides for the price of one.

First, you will work through the S1 Strategy Guide, and then you will work through the S2 Strategy Guide.

We combined the two into one to save you money and encourage you to give both sections a good go, as many students tend to ignore at least one of the humanities sections to their own detriment.

Here’s a run down of all the juicy topics you’ve got to look forward to:

1. An in-depth analysis of how (and why) ACER constructs S1 questions and S2 essay tasks.

2. How to apply scientific reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving to S1 questions.

3. What it means to problem solve, and the theory underpinning why and how S1 is a reasoning test.

4. The exact cognitive skills needed to maximise your problem solving skills for S1.

5. A detailed, clear, and reproducible framework for solving S1 questions, with video explanation.

6. Descriptions of how to identify, understand, and answer every type of S1 question.

7. Video walkthroughs applying the problem solving framework to core S1 question types.

8. Creative and effective study drills to optimise your cognitive skills for each step of the problem solving process, as well as every core question type.

9. A breakdown of the biggest S2 misconceptions and a reality check.

10. How to transform your approach to S2 so you meet all of ACER’s hidden marking criteria.

11. A practical framework for planning incredible essays and generating sophisticated ideas regardless of the theme.

12. Another framework for writing, structuring, and expressing a powerful essay.

13. Video walkthroughs for both S2 frameworks, including annotated sample writing.

14. Strategies to optimise your S1 + S2 study process.

The guide is delivered using an interactive online platform that integrates:

• More than 30,000 words of strategic advice

• More than 36 lessons, organised into 9 simple chapters

• >6 hours of video walkthroughs

• Strategic activities to apply what you’ve learnt

The guide is pretty f*ckn incredible, if you ask us.

The Game Plan Guide:

The Game Plan Guide is designed to be a one-stop-shop for GAMSAT strategy, diagnosing your specific strengths and weaknesses, planning your study effectively, providing you with specific activities and resources to complete study for each section, and refining your performance/time management/exam skills. 

Creating this guide was based on a strong observation that the majority of students have major issues in their approach, understanding, strategy, and study methods for the entire exam that underpin their section-specific technique/question issues. Hence, the Game Plan Guide is designed to iron out any of these foundational concerns and build a rock-solid baseline before distracting students with drilling down into section-specific techniques.

Section 1 & 2 Guide:

In contrast, the S1 & S2 guide is designed for students with a particular weakness in either of these sections to understand the ins and outs of a problem solving strategy and S2 essay writing, learn a reproducible framework for problem solving questions and writing good essays, deconstruct different question types, and then provide video examples for how to address these different question types or essay themes.

It is the humanities section equivalent of our S3 Strategy Guide- indeed, they are structured very similarly!

The Strategy Guides function to detail the specifics of how to answer questions, whilst the Game Plan Guide details the specifics of how to organise your study and approach all three of the sections. The Game Plan Guide is designed to be the first stop on your GAMSAT journey, with the Strategy Guides designed as add-ons.

Together, our guides will have you absolutely sorted for your GAMSAT study.

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As the GAMSAT is a complex psychometric exam, we believe it is unethical to create or provide practice questions, as they will never be able to emulate those made by ACER.

To complete this guide you will need a copy of the Des O’Neill 2014 books, and ACER’s practice materials, or email us.

Rather than construct practice questions, we provide numerous templates and resources to help you make the most of the good practice questions that you already have access to.

We founded No Bullshit GAMSAT because we were doing private GAMSAT tutoring and weren’t happy with the cost barrier that it involved.

We felt there must be a way to deliver the same transformative insights to students, but at a much lower cost.

Thus, No Bullshit GAMSAT was born!

The Section 1 & 2 Strategy Guide contains information and resources equivalent to more than $500 of private tutoring sessions, but we’ve slashed the price to make it as accessible as we possibly can, whilst still meeting running costs.

Wins all round!

The Section 1 & 2 Strategy Guide was written and developed by Lexi, a 99th percentile GAMSAT scorer, current medical student, experienced skill-based GAMSAT tutor, and founder of No Bullshit GAMSAT.

Lexi has a degree in Arts & Humanities, so she’s one of the most equipped in the GAMSAT space to be teaching you about Section 1 and 2.

Outside of the GAMSAT world, Lexi has experience as an advocate for education equity and works as a tutor and mentor for young people with ADHD. These experiences help make her approach to the GAMSAT creative, realistic, positive, and accessible.

She used this experience of empowering others, and combined it with her personal GAMSAT successes, to hand pick the best advice, tools, and approaches to level up your approach to the exam.

The guide is online and text-based, with some videos and images.

The guide is delivered through a secure interactive platform, Thinkific.

All payments and signups are processed through Thinkific. After purchase, you will be prompted to make a Thinkific account, allowing you to access the guide directly.

You have access to the guide for 1 year.

This includes access to any and all updates over the year.

Yes we do! Find out more and register here.