Thank you so much for these incredible videos Jesse! At about 12:30 you wrote/stated "transcription" but I think you meant translation. Just in case that might be confusing to other viewers :)
Hey Jesse, I must have watched all your videos by now but haven't commented before. But just wanna say that even though your channel is relatively small (but ever growing) at the moment, I think I speak on behalf of most of the subs in saying that we really really appreciate your content and hope you keep it up in the future. Relative to other channels, I feel like you not only have a lot of 'traditional science' knowledge to share, but more importantly I think you have really reflected on ACER's logic and rationale behind their tests and are able to put the scientific knowledge into a GAMSAT context. Anyway, sorry for the long-windedness but just wanted to say keep up the good work!!
Really fantastic to get this kind of feedback and thank you for sitting through every one of my videos! Wowsas haha Hopefully this channel can really make a difference in people's preparation and their mentality when approaching the GAMSAT in March and for future sittings too. Appreciate the feedback, mate! I'll keep the videos comin'
Hey mate, can't express how helpful these videos are. I studied an undergraduate in Civil engineering and Biology was such a mystery. The price-gouging GAMSAT prep guys aren't nearly as articulate or clear in their explanations. Also I noticed a cool little trick for hormonal/neural pathways, if you treat stimulatory as positive and inhibitory as negative, you can just multiply them along the path to see if something will increase or decrease the target area. Example A -(+)-> B -(-)-> C -(-)-> F If A goes up +ve x -ve x -ve = +ve Therefore F increases, should extend to more complicated situations, happy studying team
Thanks Gus, happy to hear that they've helped! Nice catch! It can also be simplified by considering whether there is an odd or even number of (-) signals: Odd = overall neg, even = overall pos. However just be mindful of loops or alternative paths in a network that might interfere with the overall effect as a lot of pathways are generally not linear.
Jesse, you are truly an amazing tutor you have no idea how much you have helped me get through the GAMSAT prep, your resources are super helpful. I appreciate all the efforts you have put in to make these videos!! wish you all the very best in life :)
Jesse my man, you're a real G. These videos are ridiculously good and helpful as they are tailored for the GAMSAT. I really hope your channel gets as big as possible because you deserve it.
Just wanted to say a massive thank you Jesse, your videos are so so good. I've only just started GAMSAT prep and i'm already feeling more confident. If there're more ways we can support you aside from subscribing then please say! Thanks again x
This is fantastic to hear, Sami! I'll be sure to let you all know but I'm pretty chuffed just if people are watching and coming away feeling more confident and prepared for their next sitting. Best of luck in March! :)
Thank you very much for this. Going through practice questions I found the hormone and neural pathway maps difficult to grasp. This video did a brilliant job of simplifying them and making it so much easier for me to know how to reason my way to the right answer
thank you so much for these videos they have been super helpful to me as someone who is still doing their undergrad which only has a little science (i do psychology so only has bio) !! juggling uni and gamsat is hard but ive watched all your crash course videos and they have really helped me! thank you for taking the time to do this for free and i wish u luck with ur future!
Hey Jesse, thanks so much for your videos! I was wondering if you have any idea of, when prepping for the Gamsat, how to predict what one's scores could be based on the practice exams? Let's say for instance, I got 80% of questions right for section 1, what that would correlate to for a gamsat score. I know there is probably not a way to know with complete accuracy but I saw one of your other videos where you had a spreadsheet and you wrote out your practice scores and then what you predicted your gamsat score to be based on that. Any insight would be appreciated, thanks so much again!
Hey there! Yeah, it is pretty difficult to determine this with a lot of accuracy. I used a cumulative normal distribution function with a mean of 43.55% and a standard deviation of 14.06% (I read these estimates somewhere haha) and used it to determine a percentile. I then used the latest distribution curve to read it backwards to determine a rough GAMSAT score. Flaws with this are that * The mean and standard deviation could be very wrong * distribution will change from sitting to sitting * Overall GAMSAT percentile curves doesn't correlate to section score distributions (we'll never know them) * Item Response Theory means that % accuracy is a very basic measure of performance but it's the best we've got I found that this estimation method was relatively accurate for scores around the median but exaggerated scores at the lower and upper ends (ie. If you get 90%ish, it starts estimating GAMSAT scores of 100 haha) It might have been this video th-cam.com/video/ZJzco_iQPHU/w-d-xo.html There's a google drive link to the template of the tracker I built with the normal distribution already built into it if you wanted to use that Best of luck!
Hey Jesse great video just a bit confused about the (U) placed within the sequence from your other video I get that they need to be complimentary so G (C) A (T) and vice versa but in the mrna sequence it changed not all A's took a U but it was some of them could you explain that pls I am a bit confused on that thanks again!
In RNA, instead of thymine (T), RNA uses uracil (U) as one of its bases. The base pairing in RNA is as follows: Adenine (A) pairs with Uracil (U). Cytosine (C) pairs with Guanine (G) In the mRNA sequence, A's are paired with U's because of the base-pairing rules specific to RNA, where A-U pairs are formed instead of the A-T pairs found in DNA. I hope this helps the ones going through these videos for their 2024 GAMSAT preparation :) Happy Studying!
From what I've seen so far, I'd say that they are useful as a secondary resource after working through all of the ACER stuff first. This will help you in navigating what is relevant in Des and what's a little off track. I like the way they break down the chapters into skills and topics but many of the questions either require excessive amounts of theoretical knowledge or focus on use of formulae and scientific principles rather than reasoning with them and extrapolating. This means that they aren't as reflective of ACER material in that way. I'm using them for the first time now in preparation for March and I see them more so as a resource to develop time management and practice quick critical thinking but not necessarily the same question answering abilities that ACER requires of us. I actually have a video coming out this afternoon addressing this exact question but spoiler... My answer in the video is basically this ^^haha
Thank you so much for these incredible videos Jesse! At about 12:30 you wrote/stated "transcription" but I think you meant translation. Just in case that might be confusing to other viewers :)
Hey Jesse, I must have watched all your videos by now but haven't commented before. But just wanna say that even though your channel is relatively small (but ever growing) at the moment, I think I speak on behalf of most of the subs in saying that we really really appreciate your content and hope you keep it up in the future.
Relative to other channels, I feel like you not only have a lot of 'traditional science' knowledge to share, but more importantly I think you have really reflected on ACER's logic and rationale behind their tests and are able to put the scientific knowledge into a GAMSAT context. Anyway, sorry for the long-windedness but just wanted to say keep up the good work!!
Really fantastic to get this kind of feedback and thank you for sitting through every one of my videos! Wowsas haha
Hopefully this channel can really make a difference in people's preparation and their mentality when approaching the GAMSAT in March and for future sittings too. Appreciate the feedback, mate! I'll keep the videos comin'
Hey mate, can't express how helpful these videos are. I studied an undergraduate in Civil engineering and Biology was such a mystery. The price-gouging GAMSAT prep guys aren't nearly as articulate or clear in their explanations.
Also I noticed a cool little trick for hormonal/neural pathways, if you treat stimulatory as positive and inhibitory as negative, you can just multiply them along the path to see if something will increase or decrease the target area.
Example
A -(+)-> B -(-)-> C -(-)-> F
If A goes up
+ve x -ve x -ve = +ve
Therefore F increases, should extend to more complicated situations, happy studying team
Thanks Gus, happy to hear that they've helped!
Nice catch! It can also be simplified by considering whether there is an odd or even number of (-) signals: Odd = overall neg, even = overall pos.
However just be mindful of loops or alternative paths in a network that might interfere with the overall effect as a lot of pathways are generally not linear.
Jesse, you are truly an amazing tutor you have no idea how much you have helped me get through the GAMSAT prep, your resources are super helpful. I appreciate all the efforts you have put in to make these videos!! wish you all the very best in life :)
Jesse my man, you're a real G. These videos are ridiculously good and helpful as they are tailored for the GAMSAT. I really hope your channel gets as big as possible because you deserve it.
Thanks Faraz, appreciate it man! :)
I still cant believe you got 100! That is incredible - thank you so much for these videos too they are seriously helpful :)
Just wanted to say a massive thank you Jesse, your videos are so so good. I've only just started GAMSAT prep and i'm already feeling more confident. If there're more ways we can support you aside from subscribing then please say! Thanks again x
This is fantastic to hear, Sami! I'll be sure to let you all know but I'm pretty chuffed just if people are watching and coming away feeling more confident and prepared for their next sitting. Best of luck in March! :)
Thank you very much for this. Going through practice questions I found the hormone and neural pathway maps difficult to grasp. This video did a brilliant job of simplifying them and making it so much easier for me to know how to reason my way to the right answer
Awesome, really happy to hear this, Peter!
thank you so much for these videos they have been super helpful to me as someone who is still doing their undergrad which only has a little science (i do psychology so only has bio) !! juggling uni and gamsat is hard but ive watched all your crash course videos and they have really helped me! thank you for taking the time to do this for free and i wish u luck with ur future!
Hey Renie, this is so great to hear! Glad it's made the prep a little easier for you :)
Best of luck to you!
brilliant Jesse!
Thank you so much for another great resource. Very very grateful to you 😊
Thanks Aditi! Happy to hear that its so helpful again! :)
Hey Jesse, thanks so much for your videos! I was wondering if you have any idea of, when prepping for the Gamsat, how to predict what one's scores could be based on the practice exams? Let's say for instance, I got 80% of questions right for section 1, what that would correlate to for a gamsat score. I know there is probably not a way to know with complete accuracy but I saw one of your other videos where you had a spreadsheet and you wrote out your practice scores and then what you predicted your gamsat score to be based on that. Any insight would be appreciated, thanks so much again!
Hey there! Yeah, it is pretty difficult to determine this with a lot of accuracy. I used a cumulative normal distribution function with a mean of 43.55% and a standard deviation of 14.06% (I read these estimates somewhere haha) and used it to determine a percentile. I then used the latest distribution curve to read it backwards to determine a rough GAMSAT score.
Flaws with this are that
* The mean and standard deviation could be very wrong
* distribution will change from sitting to sitting
* Overall GAMSAT percentile curves doesn't correlate to section score distributions (we'll never know them)
* Item Response Theory means that % accuracy is a very basic measure of performance but it's the best we've got
I found that this estimation method was relatively accurate for scores around the median but exaggerated scores at the lower and upper ends (ie. If you get 90%ish, it starts estimating GAMSAT scores of 100 haha)
It might have been this video
th-cam.com/video/ZJzco_iQPHU/w-d-xo.html
There's a google drive link to the template of the tracker I built with the normal distribution already built into it if you wanted to use that
Best of luck!
Great video again, thanks Jesse :) GAMSAT study feels slightly less daunting with your content at hand!
Fantastic to hear this Sureka! Thanks for watching :)
Great video, love the note towards the end about not urinating in plants lol
Haha I usually don't plan what I'm exactly gonna say in these and there was no saving that one haha
Hey Jesse great video just a bit confused about the (U) placed within the sequence from your other video I get that they need to be complimentary so G (C) A (T) and vice versa but in the mrna sequence it changed not all A's took a U but it was some of them could you explain that pls I am a bit confused on that thanks again!
In RNA, instead of thymine (T), RNA uses uracil (U) as one of its bases. The base pairing in RNA is as follows:
Adenine (A) pairs with Uracil (U).
Cytosine (C) pairs with Guanine (G)
In the mRNA sequence, A's are paired with U's because of the base-pairing rules specific to RNA, where A-U pairs are formed instead of the A-T pairs found in DNA.
I hope this helps the ones going through these videos for their 2024 GAMSAT preparation :) Happy Studying!
What are your opinions on using Des o Neill for prep? :)
From what I've seen so far, I'd say that they are useful as a secondary resource after working through all of the ACER stuff first. This will help you in navigating what is relevant in Des and what's a little off track.
I like the way they break down the chapters into skills and topics but many of the questions either require excessive amounts of theoretical knowledge or focus on use of formulae and scientific principles rather than reasoning with them and extrapolating. This means that they aren't as reflective of ACER material in that way.
I'm using them for the first time now in preparation for March and I see them more so as a resource to develop time management and practice quick critical thinking but not necessarily the same question answering abilities that ACER requires of us.
I actually have a video coming out this afternoon addressing this exact question but spoiler... My answer in the video is basically this ^^haha