GAMSAT Section II Written Communication Practice Test 2024

Last Updated on May 23, 2024

GAMSAT Section II Practice Test 2024 Written Communication Sample Question Answers.  The GAMSAT Section II Practice Test Sample Questions contains examples of the kind of materials and questions you can expect to find in the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT).

GAMSAT Section II Practice Test

Test Name GAMSAT Practice Test 2024
 Section Section II
Subject Written Communication
Question Type Sample Question Answers
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Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them.
Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme; how well you organize and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.

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Comment 1

If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father.

Jean de La Bruyere

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Comment 2

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

George Bernard Shaw

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Comment 3

Punishment is as likely to harden and corrupt prisoners as it is to reform them.

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Comment 4

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Bertrand Russell

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Comment 5

The victims of crime have a right to see criminals made to pay for their crimes.

Task B


Consider the following comments and develop a piece of writing in response to one or more of them.
Your writing will be judged on the quality of your response to the theme; how well you organise and present your point of view, and how effectively you express yourself.

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Comment 1

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Felix Frankfurter

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Comment 2

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Charles Dudley Warner

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Comment 3

There is no such thing as originality. We are always learning from and building on those who came before us.

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Comment 4

We arrange our lives – even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited – with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

Walt Whitman

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Comment 5

We don’t need to worry about being different from or the same as others, we need to worry about being ourselves.

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