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The exam rewards reasoning,
not recall.

Almost every question hands you the information you need. What it takes from you is the clarity to reason with it under time - which is why reading a textbook does so little, and why practice has to be timed to count.

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Section II prompt sets

Section III topics written up

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Three sections, three different problems.

They are not variations on one exam. One is about how carefully you read, one about how clearly you write, and one about how well you reason with data you have just been handed.

Section I

Reasoning in Humanities and Social Sciences

62 questions in 100 min

Passages, poems and cartoons. You are not being tested on what you know - you are being tested on how carefully you read.

Section II

Written Communication

2 essays in 65 min

Two essays and 65 minutes to cover both - how you split the time is your call. Task A argues about society; Task B reflects on the personal. The quotes are a springboard, not a subject.

Section III

Reasoning in Biological and Physical Sciences

75 questions in 150 min

First-year biology and chemistry, Year 12 physics. Almost every question hands you the information - the work is reasoning with it under time.

Section times are ACER’s published totals. There is no separate reading time in the 2026 booklet: the section time is the whole time, and the practice clock treats it that way.

Section II, actually marked.

ACER publishes what it assesses Written Communication on. That makes it the one thing here that can be marked against a genuinely published standard, rather than against someone's opinion of a good essay.

Each essay, out of ten on

Thesis and Argument
Structure and Cohesion
Evidence and Examples
Expression and Language
Depth and Insight

How it runs

Task A and Task B: A argues about society, B reflects on the personal. Both from a set of quotes, which are a springboard rather than a subject - one of the most common ways a strong writer loses marks.
An estimated band: With the per-criterion breakdown behind it, and the specific line in your own essay each comment refers to.
64 prompt sets, unlimited writing: The marking is rationed; the practice is not. You can generate prompts and write against them as often as you like, marked or not.

One question, the whole way through.

From the bank as it stands. The answer is shown, every option is explained, and the working is the same working you get in review after a timed set.

Section III - Biology

Enzyme kinetics and inhibition

An enzyme was assayed at a fixed enzyme concentration across a range of substrate concentrations, and the initial reaction rate recorded. The experiment was then repeated with a fixed concentration of an added compound Z.

Curve X shows the enzyme alone. Curve Y shows the enzyme in the presence of Z.

Both curves approach the same maximum rate, but Y requires a higher substrate concentration to reach any given rate.

Compound Z is most likely acting as

A
a competitive inhibitorCorrect
Correct. Vmax is unchanged and Km rises - the signature of an inhibitor that competes for the active site and can be outcompeted by excess substrate.
B
a non-competitive inhibitor
A non-competitive inhibitor lowers Vmax, because the enzyme it binds is disabled regardless of substrate. Vmax here is unchanged.
C
an allosteric activator
An activator would raise the rate, not depress it.
D
a substrate analogue that is itself turned over
That would consume enzyme capacity and lower the apparent Vmax.

The working

Read the two parameters off the graph independently. Vmax: both curves plateau at the same height, so maximum turnover is untouched. Km: curve Y needs more substrate to reach half-maximal rate, so apparent Km has risen. Unchanged Vmax with raised Km is competitive inhibition - at saturating substrate the inhibitor is simply outcompeted. This one pairing of parameters is worth memorising, because Section III tests it repeatedly.

Get one wrong and it points at the topic it tested, not just at the mark. There are 42 Section III topics written up with notes and cards, and a wrong answer links straight into the right one.

Where you sit, and how confident anyone can be about it.

Scores alone do not tell you whether you are competitive. Reported outcomes from previous applicants do, roughly - and 'roughly' is the important word.

Against offers and against rejections: Your GPA and GAMSAT placed against applicants who reported an offer, and against those who reported a rejection, at each of the 12 universities with enough data to say anything.
It tells you when the sample is too thin: A cohort of eleven reported outcomes cannot support a confident estimate, and the calculator says so rather than producing a percentage that looks like the ones built on hundreds.
Self-reported, not official: Community-sourced applicant outcomes, not GEMSAS or ACER data. Unofficial and directional, and never a substitute for a university's own admissions page.
It cannot see what decides a close call: Preference order, rural status, portfolio, and how strong a given year's field happened to be. A marginal case is decided by things no calculator has access to.

What a free account gets you.

A real trial, not a locked door.

One practice a day, per reasoning section: Up to 3 stimuli each for Section 1 and Section 3, with every worked solution, resetting daily.
One AI-marked essay: After that you can still generate prompts, write, and keep drafts for as long as you like. It is the marking that needs a plan, not the writing.
The whole topic library: All 42 Section III topic pages are public - notes, worked reasoning and flashcards, no account needed.

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The exam rewards reasoning,not recall.