"How could they afford this error to happen?" More than 250 students may resit the GAMSAT after their exam booklets were affected by a printing error.

More than 250 candidates who sat the Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT) last month may resit the exam, due to an extensive printing error in a section of their exam booklet.

Things ran smoothly for most of the 10,000 candidates sitting the exam on March 21, but about 260 found serious errors on the page within moments of opening their exam booklets.

"As you looked around the room about 10 seconds into reading time everyone in the whole section had their hands up," said Matthew, who has asked that his name be changed for fear of jeopardising his future success in the GAMSAT.

Not for everyone: A post on the GAMSAT Facebook page, following the exam in which the booklets of 260 students were affected by a printing error. Photo: Facebook

The GAMSAT is developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in conjunction with the Consortium of Graduate Medical Schools and costs $455 to sit.

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The paper is structured into three parts: Reasoning in humanities and social sciences, written communication and reasoning in biological and physical sciences.

But for candidates like Matthew, science questions were scattered throughout section one.

"We were told to put our hands down and they were on the phone to ACER trying to clarify what was happening ... they interrupted our whole reading time," he said.

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Candidates to resit Graduate Medical School Admissions Test due to printing error