Affiliate disclosure
How we are paid, and what we refuse
We may earn a commission on some of the books and courses we mention. This page sets out exactly how that works and where the line is. Last updated 29 July 2026.
The short version
Some outbound links earn us money. Those links are labelled where they appear, before you click. The commission never changes the price you pay and never changes what we say. Where a competitor’s product is the better choice, we will say so — including when we earn nothing from it.
What an affiliate link is
An affiliate link carries a code identifying us. If you buy something after following it, the seller pays us a share of the sale. You pay exactly the same price you would have paid going direct.
We use them because GAMSAT Practice Test is free, has no course to sell, and puts nothing behind a signup. That model has to be funded somehow, and taking a cut of a purchase you were going to make anyway is the least distorting option we could find. It is not undistorting, which is why the rest of this page exists.
How paid links are labelled
Prominently, next to the link, before you click it.
The standard we hold ourselves to is that the label is visible at the point of decision. Not at the bottom of the page. Not below a “read more”. Not a #affiliate hashtag buried at the end of a paragraph, which the Advertising Standards Authority has repeatedly ruled is not sufficiently clear to the reader.
In practice that means an “Ad” or “Affiliate link” label adjacent to the link and above the fold of the section it sits in, plus a statement at the top of any page that contains paid links.
| We do | We do not |
|---|---|
| Label at the link, before the click | Bury the disclosure in a footer or a hashtag at the end |
| Say plainly that a link is paid | Use vague wording like “supported by” or “partner” |
| Keep the label visible on mobile without expanding anything | Hide it behind a tooltip, an accordion or a “read more” |
| Leave pages with no paid links entirely unlabelled | Blanket-label every page so the label stops meaning anything |
Why we are strict about this
Partly because it is right. Partly because the enforcement position in this market has changed.
The unfair commercial practices regime of the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 commenced on 6 April 2025. It matters here for two reasons.
- The CMA now enforces directly. It no longer has to go to court to establish a breach and impose a penalty.
- The penalties are turnover-based. Fines can reach 10% of global turnover.
Failing to identify commercial intent — publishing what looks like editorial when it is paid for — is squarely within that regime. In Australia, the ACCC applies the misleading and deceptive conduct provisions of the Australian Consumer Law to exactly the same behaviour, and the ASA and CAP police it in UK advertising.
We would label these links anyway. We are telling you about the regulatory position because a site that only discloses what it is forced to disclose is a site you should read differently.
How recommendations are actually made
- We will name a competitor as the better choice where that is true, including one that pays us nothing. Several of the largest providers in this market run no affiliate programme at all. That does not exclude them from a recommendation, and it does not soften what we say about the ones that do pay.
- Ranking is never for sale. No provider can pay for a position in a comparison table, a mention in a guide, or a higher rating. There is no rate card because there is no inventory.
- Commission rate does not influence order. The programme paying the most is not the one recommended most, and this page exists partly to prove it.
- The honest recommendation is often “buy nothing”. Most candidates do not need a several-thousand-dollar course, and we will keep saying so on a site that earns more when they buy one.
- Criticism stays in. If a product is overpriced, thin, or built on recycled material, we say that, whether or not there is a commission attached.
- Our own free test is never gated behind a partner link.Nothing you need from this site sits on the far side of somebody else’s checkout.
- No affiliate relationship touches the data. A cutoff, a fee, a percentile range or an answer key is not adjusted for anybody, ever.
The programme we turned down
The clearest way to show a policy is real is to name what it cost.
40% of every sale, refused.
The highest published affiliate commission in the GAMSAT preparation market pays 40% of every sale. It is the single most lucrative programme available to a site like this one, and it is open to anyone.
Its affiliate terms require that affiliates “behave in a positive manner at all times” when referring customers to it, and reserve the right to cancel the agreement at any time without notice.
A contractual obligation to stay positive is incompatible with independent reviewing. It would mean that any criticism we published could end the revenue, which means you could never tell whether the absence of criticism was a finding or a business decision. We are not in that programme and will not join it.
We apply the same test to every programme we consider. If the terms restrict what we may say about the product, we do not join, regardless of the rate. A commission we cannot explain on this page is a commission we should not take.
Current position
Where a page contains a paid link, that page says so at the link. Where a page carries no such label, no link on it earns us anything. That rule holds regardless of how many programmes we are in at any given moment, so it is the thing worth checking rather than a list on this page that could go stale.
Books, question banks and courses are the only categories where a commission is possible. We run no display advertising, no sponsored posts, and no paid guest content.
If you think we have got this wrong
If a recommendation on this site reads like it was bought, tell us and say why. Write to hello@gamsatpracticetest.com. If a paid link is missing its label, that is an error and it belongs at corrections, where it will be fixed and noted like any other.