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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Loss

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on loss. 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 loss.

  • What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

    Helen Keller

  • Grief is the price we pay for love.

    Anonymous

  • Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.

    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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