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GAMSAT Essay – Building Your Idea Bank

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GAMSAT Essay – Building Your Idea Bank

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  1. GAMSAT Essay – Building Your Idea Bank

  2. GAMSAT Essay – Building Your Idea Bank • It is not an understatement to say that developing ideas as it broadly relates to the social sciences is one of the most important aspects of your GAMSAT study. • Engaging with interesting, socio-politically relevant, and polemic ideas and debates occurring throughout society will ensure that you pen more readable and relatable essays. • So, now that we know we must build up our knowledge base, what is to be done?

  3. Tip #1: Identify exactly what we are building ideas about • Primarily, this is to help us be aware of current debates, discourses, and conversations that are occurring in society across sectors of the arts, culture, education, politics, economy, history, environment, and health. • You do not need to gain a PhD across each of these fields, but you should be engaged and interested in them.

  4. Tip #2: The source of these ideas is important • If you want to get a quick idea of what debates are important in contemporary Australian society, you can simply look at any papers from the tabloid press. However, these are often very superficial, presented from a certain political ideology, and primarily used to sell newspapers. • I have listed some sites below that will help your search for more investigative, citated, and well-written news and reports that effectively demonstrate the important debates raging in Australia today: • The Conversation – independent news site (funding from CSIRO and universities) – https://theconversation.com/ • Michael West – excellent independent, investigative journalism, particularly focused on politics and economic issues https://www.michaelwest.com.au/ • Independent Australia – independent, investigative journalism on social issues in Australia https://independentaustralia.net/ • New Matilda – independent, short investigative news site on Australian problems, focus on environmental/indigenous https://newmatilda.com/

  5. Tip #3: Read books • You should supplement the perusal of news sites and daily issues with the reading of books. • If you have not read much before, try picking up a book that is within an area you are broadly interested in. For example, if you like fantasy computer games or movies, then try to read a fantasy-based novel! • Whether reading fiction or non-fiction, reading books will help you synthesise ideas, enhance your comprehension, improve reading speed, and also generate new perspectives and insights that you normally would not have access to.

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