The Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (commonly known as the GAMSAT, formerly Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test) is a test used to select candidates applying to study medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy and veterinary science at Australian, British, and Irish universities for admission to their Graduate Entry Programmes (candidates must have a recognised bachelor's degree, or equivalent, completed prior to commencement of the degree). Candidates may take the test in a test centre in one of the 6 countries, being Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States, offering the test.

GAMSAT makes use of a marking system known as item response theory, meaning that scores are issued according to a sigmoid distribution and can be converted to a percentile rank based on the percentile curve that is issued at the same time as results are released.

  • Australian National University
  • Deakin University
  • Flinders University (although admission is not via the GEMSAS system, as with the other Australian universities)
  • Griffith University (Gold Coast campus)
  • Macquarie University
  • The University of Melbourne (dentistry and optometry in addition to medicine)
  • The University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle)
  • The University of Notre Dame Australia (Sydney)
  • The University of Queensland
  • The University of Sydney (although admission is not via the GEMSAS system, as with the other Australian universities) (dentistry and pharmacy in addition to medicine)
  • The University of Western Australia (dentistry and podiatric medicine in addition to medicine)
  • The University of Wollongong

In 1999, it was brought into use by British universities and has since expanded to ten universities across the United Kingdom:

  • Cardiff University
  • Keele University
  • University of Liverpool
  • Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine Programme (University of St Andrews, University of Dundee and University of the Highlands and Islands)
  • St Georges, University of London
  • Swansea University
  • University of Nottingham
  • Ulster University
  • University of Exeter
  • University of Plymouth

In the Republic of Ireland, the University of Limerick and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland adopted the GAMSAT for medical applicants starting with the 2007 enrolment cycle. It is currently used as the selection criteria for all graduate-entry programmes in Ireland (University College Dublin, University of Limerick, University College Cork, and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland).

  • Section I comprises 62 questions in 100 minutes from the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Section II - 2 essays assessing written communication (65 minutes)
  • Section III - 75 physical science questions in 150 minutes after 1-hour lunch

A score is calculated based on performance in all three sections, with double weighting applied to section III (except in the case of applications to the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney and University of Queensland, which weights all three sections equally

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  • The GAMSAT website