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I’ve very frustratedly watched the GAMSAT preparation space get plagued by greedy, exploitative, and predatory prep companies looking to take financial gain from the desperation of applicants to Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM). Overpriced ‘prep courses’ have become the norm despite the fact that there are no guarantees that anything like this will actually work.
Putting aside some of the tactics used by these organisations to lure students into spending excessive amounts of money, the embedding of these groups in the GAMSAT prep space has meant that access to GEM has slowly been divided and risks tipping towards a ‘pay to play’ environment in a field that already faces heavy underrepresentation of those from low SES backgrounds and other minority groups.
My goal with the YouTube Channel and this page is to bring a real challenge to these companies and the commercialisation of GEM and GAMSAT prep that has evolved. The only appeal that paid courses have to potential customers is the offer of additional questions and guidance beyond what is already available from official ACER materials and this unfortunately seems to be priced at a premium that could never be justified.
HOWEVER! Free, high quality (hopefully) materials, notes, guidance, questions, and explanations available here can help erode any value proposition that these prep companies attempt to offer. I would hope to see preparation for GAMSAT permanently democratised and equally accessible to all candidates regardless of how much money you’ve got in your bank account, who your parents are, or any other element entirely arbitrary to your ability to be successful in your pursuit and your fitness for healthcare.
The reality is that many GAMSAT candidates study independently, spending only on their GAMSAT ticket and the official materials, and score far better than they might have expected. Spending money on resources does not correlate with higher scores so don’t buy in (if you’ll pardon the pun) to the narrative that you need to undertake a paid course.
While I might have started this initiative to put an end to greedy profiteering from prep courses, it’s you that will finish it. When you study for free, with my resources or something else, you are signalling to the prep companies that the tide has changed. We can see through the tactics and the more people continue on this path, the closer we come to the day that prep companies are no longer in business.
Happy studying!