Australia · Admissions testRead the passage, then answer the question. “Defenders of public libraries usually point to the books on their shelves. That is the weakest case they could make, since most books can be bought cheaply or read online. A library’s real value lies in what it offers that nothing else does: a warm, quiet room that anyone may enter without buying anything or explaining themselves. Close it, and the people who lose most are those with nowhere else to go.” The writer’s main point is that public libraries matter mostly because they
20 practice questions in the style of the test.
How to use these 20 questions
Questions 1 to 8 are Humanities and Social Sciences, on three short passages of our own and a set of survey figures. Those are the kinds of material ACER lists: personal, imaginative, expository and argumentative writing, plus tables. Real Humanities questions have four options, as ours do. Questions 9 to 20 are Sciences: 5 chemistry, 5 biology and 2 physics, close to the 40%, 40% and 20% split ACER gives.
Work without a calculator, since none is allowed, and do your working on paper or a whiteboard. Aim for 15 right, which is 75%. That’s our own target: the GAMSAT has no pass mark, and each university sets its own minimum scores.
Where can you find more GAMSAT questions?
ACER is the only source of real GAMSAT questions. Its Practice Test A e-book comes with your registration, and it sells Practice Test B and timed online tests. Its free preparation videos show how GAMSAT questions are built. Our 20 aren’t from ACER.
Sources: ACER and 1 more. Checked October 2026.
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