All the MCAT resources you might be looking for.

Free practice exams, lessons, study notes, textbooks and Anki decks, each credited to the people who made it.

Official AAMC material

The AAMC writes the MCAT, so its own material is the closest thing to the real exam. Some of it needs a free AAMC account.

Practice exams
Practice Exam 1 and the Unscored Sample Test (opens in a new tab)
AAMC, MCAT Official Prep
Two free full length exams. Practice Exam 1 is built from questions on past MCAT exams and gives a scaled score and percentile rank. The Unscored Sample Test looks and works like the real exam but gives no score.
Free with an AAMC account
Content outline
What’s on the MCAT Exam? outline (opens in a new tab)
AAMC
AAMC’s official outline of every concept, content category and reasoning skill the exam tests.
Free, no account
The PDF, on AAMC’s site (opens in a new tab)
Course
Content Outline Course (opens in a new tab)
AAMC
The same outline as an online course, with links to open textbooks and Khan Academy lessons, plus free practice questions.
Free with an AAMC account
Sample questions
MCAT Sample Question Guide (opens in a new tab)
AAMC
Twelve official sample questions, three per section, each with the answer and an explanation.
Free, no account
Study plan guide
Creating Your MCAT Exam Study Plan (opens in a new tab)
AAMC
AAMC’s step by step guide to building a study plan from a baseline test.
Free, no account
Videos
Preparing for the MCAT Exam, video playlist (opens in a new tab)
AAMCtoday, AAMC’s own YouTube channel
AAMC’s own videos and webinars on getting ready for the exam.
Free
Fee help
Fee Assistance Program (opens in a new tab)
AAMC
Lower MCAT and application fees, plus free MCAT Official Prep products, for students who qualify.
For students who qualify
FAQ
MCAT FAQs (opens in a new tab)
AAMC
AAMC’s answers on registration, scores and test preparation.
Free, no account
Student stories
How I Prepared for the MCAT Exam (opens in a new tab)
AAMC
Students describe, in their own words, how they prepared for the exam.
Free, no account

Notes students made

Review notes, guides and sheets that students wrote and shared on r/Mcat, including the 300 page Psych/Soc doc.

Review notes
The 300 page Psych/Soc notes, download the file (12.3 MB)
u/grand_sales, from Khan Academy’s Psych/Soc videos. Shared through r/Mcat, since the creator’s own link is gone.
Notes on Khan Academy’s Psych/Soc videos in one 334 page PDF. This is the file students call the 300 page doc.
Free
Shared in r/Mcat’s sidebar (opens in a new tab)
Review notes
The 100 page Psych/Soc notes, download the file (2.0 MB)
Students on r/Mcat, condensed from the 300 page notes
The community’s condensed version of the 300 page notes, for a faster pass through Psych/Soc.
Free
Shared in r/Mcat’s sidebar (opens in a new tab)
Review notes
The Lazy OCD Psych/Soc notes, download the file (2.2 MB)
Students on r/Mcat, from the same Khan Academy notes
Another condensed version of the same Khan Academy Psych/Soc notes, known on r/Mcat as the Lazy OCD doc.
Free
Shared in r/Mcat’s sidebar (opens in a new tab)
Review notes
MileDown’s review sheets, download the file (11.4 MB)
MileDown (u/MileDown)
A PDF of review notes drawn from the creator’s prep books and practice tests.
Free
Creator’s post on Reddit (opens in a new tab)
Study guide
MCAT Lab Techniques guide, download the file (7.0 MB)
u/iwantahighmcatscore
An 18 page PDF on the lab techniques the MCAT asks about, from gel electrophoresis and PCR to chromatography, spectroscopy and ELISA.
Free
Shared in r/Mcat’s sidebar (opens in a new tab)
Spreadsheet
MCAT study sheet and mnemonics, download the file (0.6 MB)
The r/Mcat community
A student’s spreadsheet of MCAT facts and mnemonics for quick review.
Free
Shared in r/Mcat’s sidebar (opens in a new tab)
Spreadsheet
Full length review workbook, download the file (24 KB)
The r/Mcat community
A blank mistake log for reviewing your full length practice exams one question at a time.
Free
Shared in r/Mcat’s sidebar (opens in a new tab)
Community
r/Mcat (opens in a new tab)
Reddit’s MCAT community
Students share study plans, score reports and free resources, and the sidebar links the community files listed here.
Free

Anki decks

Flashcard decks other students built and shared, and the free app they run in.

Anki deck
MileDown’s MCAT Anki Deck, download the file (238 MB)
MileDown (u/MileDown)
A fill-in-the-blank deck covering every MCAT subject, with a picture and a Khan Academy video link on each card.
Free
Creator’s post on Reddit (opens in a new tab)
Anki deck
MrPankow’s Psych/Soc deck, download the file (158 MB)
MrPankow (u/MrPankow), who credits the Bouras deck for part of it
A cloze deck for Psych/Soc, built from the 300 page Khan Academy notes and sorted by the AAMC outline.
Free
Creator’s post on Reddit (opens in a new tab)
Anki deck
Premed95’s Anki collection, download the file (0.7 MB)
u/premed95
1,729 cards in 21 decks across biology, chemistry, physics and Psych/Soc, plus research methods and amino acids.
Free
Shared in r/Mcat’s sidebar (opens in a new tab)
Anki deck
Ortho528 Anki deck, download the file (121 MB)
Posted by u/AnKiForTheMCAT
A mostly cloze deck for the three science sections, tagged bb, cp and ps.
Free
Creator’s post on Reddit (opens in a new tab)
Anki deck
The AnKing MCAT Deck (opens in a new tab)
The AnKing, on AnkiHub. Built on MileDown’s deck with updates from Abdullah, Coffin and MrPankow.
MileDown’s deck, kept up to date by the AnKing team and delivered through the AnkiHub add-on.
Paid: needs an AnkiHub membership
Deck index
r/AnkiMCAT wiki (opens in a new tab)
The r/AnkiMCAT community
A community index of MCAT Anki decks with sources and download links.
Free
Flashcard app
Anki (opens in a new tab)
Anki is open source. AnkiDroid is built by volunteer contributors.
The flashcard app these decks run in. It is free on Mac, Windows and Linux, AnkiWeb sync is free, and AnkiDroid is free on Android. AnkiMobile for iPhone and iPad is a paid app.
Free on computers and Android
AnkiMobile on the App Store (opens in a new tab)

Video lessons

Free video lessons for the sciences and Psych/Soc.

Video lessons
Khan Academy MCAT collection (opens in a new tab)
Khan Academy, made with support and funding from the AAMC and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Video lessons and practice passages for all four MCAT sections.
Free, no account needed to watch
Video lessons
Crash Course Psychology and Sociology (opens in a new tab)
Crash Course, on YouTube
Two short video series on intro psychology and sociology, a quick start before the Psych/Soc notes.
Free
Sociology playlist (opens in a new tab)
Video lessons
The Organic Chemistry Tutor (opens in a new tab)
The Organic Chemistry Tutor, on YouTube
A huge library of free worked examples in chemistry, organic chemistry and physics.
Free
Video lessons
Professor Dave Explains (opens in a new tab)
Dave Farina, on YouTube
Short, clear videos on chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, biology and physics.
Free
Video lectures
Ninja Nerd (opens in a new tab)
Ninja Nerd, on YouTube
Whiteboard lectures on physiology, biochemistry and anatomy for the Bio/Biochem section.
Free
Video lectures
AK Lectures (opens in a new tab)
AK Lectures
Short video lectures on biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry and physics.
Free science lectures

Free textbooks

Open textbooks and online lessons you can read for free, for when a video is not enough.

Textbooks
OpenStax textbooks (opens in a new tab)
OpenStax, Rice University
Free online college textbooks. These six cover the MCAT sciences.
Free
Chemistry 2e (opens in a new tab)College Physics 2e (opens in a new tab)Organic Chemistry, by John McMurry (opens in a new tab)Psychology 2e (opens in a new tab)Introduction to Sociology 3e (opens in a new tab)
Textbook
Biochemistry Free For All (opens in a new tab)
Kevin Ahern, Indira Rajagopal and Taralyn Tan, Oregon State University
A free open biochemistry textbook, from protein structure and enzymes to metabolism and gene expression.
Free
Textbooks
Chemistry LibreTexts (opens in a new tab)
The LibreTexts project
Free chemistry textbooks and explainers, from general chemistry to organic chemistry.
Free
Lessons
The Physics Classroom (opens in a new tab)
The Physics Classroom
Free physics tutorials with diagrams and practice, from motion and forces to waves and circuits.
Free

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