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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Kindness

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on kindness. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task B · ReflectivePrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on kindness.

  • No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

    Aesop

  • Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

    Anonymous

  • Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

    Mark Twain

  • Wise men say it is folly to be kind to a stranger who will only forget you.

    Anonymous

Write a reflective piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your thinking and the way you express it.

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