Guiding your way through ‘GAMSAT Organic Chemistry’

‘GAMSAT: Reasoning in Biological and Physical sciences’. Sounds intriguing right? Makes you wonder what kind of questions awaits your destiny this year!!

Well, to begin with, you not only have to have a knowledge of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, but also study all the subtopics or branches of these subjects. Let us now consider a few details about Organic Chemistry which forms a vital part of your chemistry section from GAMSAT point of view.

GAMSAT section III often has around 110 reasoning questions, 40% of which are from chemistry and out of this, 35% are from organic chemistry that comes up to around 14-15 questions. Now coming back to the main issue- What is the mantra to score a full mark in all these 15 questions? The answer is Practice!!!

Yes, the clearer you get with your concepts of organic chemistry the better you score in your GAMSAT. And a clear concept here indicates that you should never go wrong with the basic nomenclature. Study all the name reactions and their end products, swot the catalysts for each of these reactions and revise each and every fundamental compound and their structures. For your convenience, make a chart of the elementary structures or functional groups which are most repetitive in GAMSAT tests and hang it in a place at home where you dwell the most. Each look at that chart will register its contents in your brain and you will slowly be able to grab the whole thing without much of an effort.

Remember!! There is no need to memorise any reactions to answer your GAMSAT questions. Just make sure that you have completely understood the basic mechanism and that will help you to complete the reactions.

Also, the next time you sit for your GAMSAT preparation make sure that you learn to manage your time as it often happens that you get too absorbed in solving one particular question and at the end, run short of time for the rest of them.

Keeping all these in mind will definitely help you to be more confident the next time you go for it and will unquestionably guide your way through GAMSAT exams.

Wish you all the very best!!!