Scope & limitations
What we are, and what we are not
This page exists so you can judge how much weight to put on anything else here. It is deliberately blunt about the limits.
The short version
We are an independent revision site. We have no connection to ACER, our questions are not real exam questions, and doing well here does not predict your GAMSAT result.
We are not affiliated with ACER
GAMSAT® is a registered trademark of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), which sets and administers the exam. GAMSAT Practice Test is not affiliated with, endorsed by, connected to, or authorised by ACER in any way.
ACER does not review, approve or endorse anything on this site. It publishes no list of recommended preparation providers — when asked directly which providers it recommends, ACER answers: “None.” That applies to us exactly as it applies to every commercial course.
We use the word GAMSAT descriptively, to say what our material is for. That is permitted, and it does not imply any relationship.
Our questions are original, and that is the point
Every question on this site is written from scratch by contributors who have sat the exam. Nothing is copied, transcribed or paraphrased from a real GAMSAT paper or from ACER’s published preparation materials.
We also never purchase ACER’s practice materials. Buying them binds the purchaser to a licence, and accepting that licence would compromise the clean-room position that makes our questions defensible. We write from ACER’s free published specification instead.
This matters to you, not just to us. ACER runs plagiarism checks on Section 2 responses and has warned that candidates can be flagged even if they have never seen the original source. Some providers advertise real past quote sets as a feature. Practising against recycled prompts carries a risk to your own score that original material does not.
What our scores can and cannot tell you
We report a raw percentage — how many of our questions you answered correctly. That is a real measurement of your performance on this material.
We deliberately do notshow a predicted GAMSAT score. ACER converts raw marks into a 0–100 scaled score using Item Response Theory, calibrated against everyone who sat that particular exam, and a live sitting also includes unscored trial questions. No public conversion from raw performance to a scaled score exists.
Any tool that shows you a “predicted GAMSAT score” from a practice test is inventing it.
Where our university data comes from
We verify against each institution directly — not against ACER's summary list.
ACER publishes a list of institutions that use GAMSAT. We checked every entry against the universities’ own admissions pages and found four errors. Three are courses widely assumed to use GAMSAT that do not:
| Institution | Course | What it actually uses |
|---|---|---|
| University of Melbourne | Doctor of Optometry | no admissions test at all; selection on WAM alone |
| University of Western Australia | Doctor of Podiatric Medicine | graduate entry runs on sWAM ≥65 plus interview |
| University of East Anglia | MSc Physician Associate Studies | course no longer exists; ACER still links to it |
The fourth: ACER still names the University of Nottingham, which has moved to UCAT for 2027 entry.
We mention this not to criticise ACER but to explain our method. Most preparation sites build their university lists from ACER’s page and inherit the same four errors. We check each institution directly, and we date-stamp what we find.
Things we will get wrong
Being specific about this is more useful than a blanket disclaimer.
- Cutoffs move every year. Every figure carries the year it applies to. A 2025 cutoff tells you roughly where the bar sat, not where it will sit.
- Some universities publish nothing.Sydney states plainly that previous thresholds “will not be published or provided”. We say so rather than estimating.
- Published numbers are different kinds of number. A cutoff, a minimum, an interviewee average and an admitted median are not comparable. We label which is which; most sites do not.
- Some facts we simply could not verify. Those are marked unverified rather than filled in with a plausible guess.
- Test dates are only listed once ACER publishes them. Where a sitting has no confirmed dates, we say that instead of estimating.
This is not admissions advice
Nothing here is personal advice about your application. We do not know your GPA, your circumstances, or how a particular admissions committee will read your file. Always confirm requirements with the university you are applying to before acting.
Where our data and a university’s own page disagree, the university is right and we are wrong. Please tell us when that happens.
What we know about you, which is also almost nothing
The last limit is about us rather than about the exam. The practice test runs entirely in your browser — no signup, no login, no email address — and your answers, your timer and your score are never sent to us. That is a real constraint on what this site can offer you: we cannot show you how your result compares with other candidates’, because we do not hold theirs either.
It is a deliberate trade, and you should be able to check it rather than take our word for it. How we handle your data sets out what is stored, what is not, and which cookies and analytics are involved, in the same plain terms as the rest of this page.