GAMSAT prep that marks your essays — and shows you how the best ones win.
All three sections. Two independent examiners on every Section II essay. No live class.
Independent of ACER. See the marking evidence.
What a GAMSAT prep course should give you
A course that stops at the question bank has done the easy half.
Taught on real stimulus
Adapts to what you miss
Real timing, real scale
Two AI Judges, line by line
The four stages as a list, and why the order matters
Lessons — taught material for all three sections, worked on real stimulus. Practice — a question bank that adapts to what you get wrong and explains every option. Mocks — full and single-section exams under real timing, scored on the GAMSAT scale. Marking — every Section II essay read by two independent examiners, with line-level notes.
Most people buy the middle two and skip the ends — a question bank and a mock, with nothing taught before and nothing marked after. The ends are where a score moves: a lesson tells you what the paper is asking, a marked essay tells you what your own writing is doing. For the whole approach, start with how to prepare for the GAMSAT.
Is this a course or a platform? The honest answer
A platform.
A timetable and a cohort moving through it with you.
Sessions at a time you choose
Lessons you work through at your own pace, in any order.
A room, a teacher and a schedule
The same comparison as a table, and the longer answer
| A lecture course | Aptavia |
|---|---|
| A timetable and a cohort moving through it with you | Lessons you work through at your own pace, in any order |
| A teacher in the room, answering the question you just asked | Practice that adapts to what you get wrong and resurfaces it |
| One syllabus, delivered to everybody in the same order | Timed mocks, and every essay read by two independent AI Judges |
| Not this: sessions at a time you choose | Not this: a room, a teacher and a schedule |
We are not a lecture course. There is no timetable, no cohort and no live class. What there is: a structured set of lessons you work through at your own pace, a question bank that adapts to what you get wrong, timed mock exams, and every essay read by two independent AI Judges on a rubric we built from ACER's two published criteria.
Lessons for every section, worked
The taught half of a GAMSAT online course — free to read, counted live from the library itself.
66 lessons in all, 2 of them written to apply across every paper — free to read, no login.
What each section's lessons cover, and how many there are
- Section I — Reasoning in humanities & social sciences
- 11 lessons
- Section II — Written communication
- 7 lessons
- Section III — Reasoning in the sciences
- 46 lessons
- Across every paper
- 2 lessons on approach and timing that are not tied to one paper — which is how 11 + 7 + 46 + 2 makes 66.
Section III carries the most because it has the most content to reason over — and each lesson works a real stimulus rather than listing facts to memorise. Every one of them is in the free lesson library, which needs no account.
Where should you start?
Four questions, no sign-up.
Rather not answer questions? Sit a timed section and start from your own score.
Learn from model essays — then get yours marked.
Annotated model essays show you the target. Then two independent examiners score your own on our rubric, built from ACER's two published criteria, and you revise and re-mark until it climbs.
Three criteria, one mark each. Your own bands are drawn here once both readers have read your essay.
An example of the feedback you receive. Not affiliated with ACER.
Every question explains every option.
Practice that targets your weak topics and escalates as you improve — and every question carries per-option reasoning, so you learn from the mistake instead of seeing a key.
Full and section mock exams, properly timed.
Sit the exam in the shape it is really sat: Section II remotely first, Sections I and III about three weeks later. Every mock returns a scaled score, a percentile estimate and a breakdown of where the marks went.
A study plan that fits your life.
Built around your degree, the hours you actually have and your test date — and it re-plans itself the week you fall behind.
How it compares to the other GAMSAT courses
Four established providers sell something we do not. Prices, bank sizes and marking terms are on one page, sourced and dated.
See how the GAMSAT courses compare — a source link and a re-check date beside every figure, and our own row naming its own weaknesses. No budget at all? Start with the free way to start.
One exam, and the interview that follows it.
No UCAT, no A-levels. Every feature, every question and every line of feedback exists for the GAMSAT — which is why the hardest parts, Section II marking and per-option reasoning, are done properly here rather than bolted on. The one thing that comes after it, the medical interview, has its own home: what every Australian school publishes about its interview, and a station you can stand at.
Questions about the course, answered
Is this affiliated with ACER?
No — we are independent and not affiliated with ACER. We mark on our own rubric, built from ACER's two published Section II criteria; the GAMSAT and its official materials belong to ACER.
How is my essay marked?
Your Section II writing is graded on our rubric, built from ACER's two published criteria — the quality of your thinking, and how clearly it's organised and expressed — with two AI Judges cross-checking each other and reconciling, plus specific fixes to raise your next draft. Scores map to the 40–84 GAMSAT scale.
Do you guarantee a score?
No — no honest tool can. Your results are well-calibrated estimates, and we give you the specific work to move them; the real exam is ACER's.
Which GAMSAT is this for?
The GAMSAT used for graduate-entry medicine, dentistry and related programs in Australia, the UK and Ireland. Practice spans all three sections — humanities & social sciences (I), written communication (II), and the sciences (III).
Is Aptavia a GAMSAT course?
Not in the lecture sense: no timetable, no cohort, no live class. What there is is a structured set of lessons you work at your own pace, a question bank that adapts to what you get wrong, timed mocks, and every essay read by two independent examiners on a rubric we built from ACER's two published criteria.
What does a GAMSAT prep course usually cost?
Published course prices from the big Australian providers ran from A$299 to A$5,999 when we last re-read their own pages on 11 Oct 2026, and some sell a subscription rather than a course. Every figure, with the page it came from and the date we checked it, is on our comparison page — we do not quote a rival's number we have not just re-read.
Can I prepare for the GAMSAT without a course?
Yes. ACER publishes free preparation videos, a platform demo and sample Written Communication prompts; our lesson library is free and needs no login; and our free GAMSAT prep page lists every genuinely free resource we know of, ours and everyone else's. What free preparation is worst at is volume — timed practice and marked essays in the quantity that moves a score.
How long does a GAMSAT prep course take?
There is no fixed length. Most providers sell access for a season rather than a set number of weeks, so the question that matters is how long you have. Our preparation guide sets out realistic timelines by starting point under “How long to prepare”, and the study planner turns yours into a week-by-week schedule around your test date.
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Try the part that actually moves your score
Write one Section II essay, have two independent examiners read it, then sit a timed section.