GAMSAT Section 1 2026: Humanities, 62 Questions in 100 Minutes

What’s in GAMSAT Section 1?

Most of the material is written passages, and ACER lists personal, imaginative, expository and argumentative writing. Some units give ideas in visual or table form instead. Topics range across academic and public issues, with the emphasis on socio-cultural, personal and interpersonal ones.

ACER describes three kinds of question:

Understanding: picking up explicit and implicit meanings from close reading of words and phrases, and reading a text as a whole.
Plausible reasoning: relating, developing and extending ideas, and drawing conclusions.
Critical thinking: making judgements and fine distinctions within that reasoning.

How is Section 1 marked?

Each question has four options and you choose the most appropriate. Every question is worth the same and a wrong answer costs nothing. Your raw mark is turned into a scaled score from 0 to 100, which counts once in the overall score.

How the GAMSAT score works →

Can you use a dictionary in GAMSAT Section 1?

Only a printed bilingual dictionary, and only if English isn’t your first language. It must be unmarked, with any notes removed, and must not define English words in English. You hand it to the supervisor for checking before the test starts. Electronic dictionaries aren’t allowed, and you can’t use a bilingual dictionary in the Sciences section.

Section 1 practice questions

ACER’s Practice Test A and B e-books each include a full Humanities test, and its online Humanities tests run 62 new questions in 100 minutes with a built-in timer, at the same length and time limit as the real section.

ACER GAMSAT practice tests →Section 2: Written Communication →Section 3: Sciences →All sections and timing →

Sources: ACER · GradReady and 2 more. Checked October 2026.

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