Bmat Essay Questions Here!

[sara7000]

Hey guys,
We all know how terrible and difficult it is to get your hands on ESSAY questions for BMAT section 3. The exam was done yesterday, so I thought it was worthwhile to start a thread where people can post ONLY ESSAY QUESTIONS. Sorry, I don't tend to be rude but pls only post relevant essay questions. For any other topic, begin a new thread Also some advice:

1. Do not worry, the questions are very general and better than some of the example questions available in books.

2. DO PLAN...You do rest of the paper in a soft pencil but this part is in pen, and you CAN NOT GO BACK to make changes.

3. Keep your writing legible but small.

I hope this thread helps those applying next year and sitting this dreadful test. You never know it might just help me, if I am unsuccessful this year Hope not. Good luck with the results current applicants and good luck with BMAT future ones I will add more to this post later

Sara xxx

"Learning through discovery is less effective than being taught"

Briefly rephrase the statement and define "effective". Advance an argument that being taught is more effective, as you have defined it, than learning through discovery.

Honesty, openness and integrity are important in professional care.

Why is being honest important for a good doctor? In what cases is being less honest justified?

It is an obscenity that rich people can buy better medical treatment than poor.

What is the argument behind this statement? What assumptions does it make? Give an argument for why rich people should be able to buy better medical treatment than poor.

Progress must always be welcomed.

Write a unified essay in which you address the following:
Define 'progress' in an objective way. Explain why it could be argued that progress, as you have defined it, might not always be welcomed. Discuss, giving examples, the circumstances which influence whether or not progress should be welcomed.

There is more to healing than the application of scientific knowledge.

Write a unified essay in which you address the following:
Briefly define "scientific knowledge". Explain how it might be argued that medical treatment that is not wholly based on scientific knowledge is worthless. Discuss whether there can be approaches to healing that are valid but not amendable to scientific experiment.

Science is a great and glorious enterprise--the most successful, I argue, that human beings have ever engaged in. To reproach it for its inability to answer all the questions we should like to put to it is no more sensible than to reproach a railway locomotive for not flying or, in general, not performing any operation for which it was not designed.
(The Limits of Science, Peter Medawar)

Write a unified essay in which you address the following:
What do you understand by the statement above? Explain why it might be argued that science should be expected to answer all the questions that are put to it. Discuss, giving examples, the extent to which science has limits.

Stop moaning! The pain is there to help you!

What does the above statement imply? Give examples that illustrate how pain can be benificial and others that illustrate the opposite. How can you explain the differences in the function of pain?

In the modern age of science, the laws of natural selection no longer apply to humans.

What do you understand by the statement above? Can you suggest examples where natural selection still applies and examples where it does not? What factors affect whether natural selection applies to a species?

Health and disease are point along a continuum, rather than separate states.

Explain what the meaning of this statement is. Do you agree with this statement? Advance arguments in support of and in opposition to this statement. What determines the balance between health and disease?

[buchaneyes]

i see you beat me to putting mine in

there is also a file with about 10 in at the top of this year's BMAT thread on TSR

and an additional note - unless you can write very quickly don't do what i did which is: bullet point plan, write essay on spare page, THEN write essay on answer sheet as time is always tighter in the real thing it seems, and its very hard to write legibly with cramps all the way from your hand to your shoulder *ouch*

[buchaneyes]

oh my friend did q2, which was - "It is important in medicine not to be too clever", or something like that, can't remember who said it, and she had to argue one side (can't remember which)

[space_fra]

actually, I think you wrote the third one wrong. the last sentence was something like "give an argument, why people are entitled to choose how much money they spend on their medical treatment." something like that

[RDexpress]

I did question 2 on mine. It was something like "A healthy mind is more important than a healthy body." What do you think the statement means? Did any word strike you as ambiguous? Give an argument in which a healthy body is more important than a healthy mind.

[buchaneyes]

RD express you're right, you must have had the same set as me, the one i posted was the first question

out of interest did you sit yours outside the uk? i'm trying to see if its "random" or sorted out geographically

[RDexpress]

oh wow! I think we do have the same paper then!
I sat it in Asia though (taiwan, to be specific). what about you?

Maybe it's more of a time zone and time taking time thing..

[o_O]

Science is a way of not fooling yourself


not in that exact wording...:P

[buchaneyes]

I'm a home student, but sat mine in Singapore

[sara7000]

I have added a few more essays from the book Preparing for the BMAT and also the ones from the student room....in case people find it difficult to search for it.