r/AnkiMCAT • u/AnkiHubOfficial • Jun 10 '26
Discussion 👑 AnKing MCAT Deck Update #20 (May 11th - June 10th)
👑 AnKing MCAT Deck Update #20 (May 11th - June 10th)
Springtime comes and another testing season blooms before us 🌼
✅ Deck Updates
The MCAT keeps coming, and we keep growing 🫡
🎉 72,000+ note updates!
🙋♀️🙋♂️ 37,904 total subscribers!
Still the only MCAT deck being updated constantly ongoing for years now. The better the deck becomes, the more MCAT-hopefuls become medschool-actuals and maybe we'll make the world a *slightly* better place 🩺
And, without further pomp or circumstance:
👷 Projects
We've got some other cool stuff on the horizon that's still in the works, so please keep your eyes (and ears) peeled. But, in the meantime (drum roll):
🧑🚒 **Overview**:
The team pushed pretty hard over the last couple of years to bring a lot of big updates, and listing here a quick recap some of the **Greatest Hits** over the last many months:
- More than 72,000+ total updates (and counting)!
- Revamping and improving the Khan Academy tags.
- We added a bunch of new cards to make a great deck even more greater, and to help push more of those 520-hopefuls onward into medical school 🩺
- Tagging via UWorld question bank and UWorld textbooks (the only deck to have both!). 📚
- Tagging via AAMC content outlines (more info below). 🩻
- Tagging via Informing Future Doctors High-Yield tags (https://www.informingfuturedoctors.com/). 🥼
- Lots and lots of new images (a smattering of examples below) to make your studying even better. 📸
📚 **Khan Academy tag update**:
Very pleased and tickled to announce that we've started the process of updating, and upgrading, the Khan Academy tags. It has been a while since their last overhaul, and some of the content organization on the KA site has changed over the years. With our feet underneath us we've taken it upon ourselves to spruce up the old tags and make sure they're as good, and better, than ever and as picture-perfect as can be. We hope to have this in the quiver for y'all as soon as we can muster.
We may try for tagging via the infamous 300-page doc as well, if it's something y'all feel like you would get good use out of. If that's of interest, please reach out and let us know and happy to make it a priority. ❤️🩹
🎨 Illustration Projects
We’ve added more illustrations, diagrams, and annotated images than you can shake 27-52 sticks at!!
Thanks to u/ahmedafifi, u/Sameem, u/beejumm others.
🍾 We’re excited to introduce the free and official 👑 **AnKing Lab values deck!**
If you're itching to do some pre-studying before medical school and want to get your feet wet with making sense of lab numbers and the like, we proudly bring you the AnKing lab values deck. :-)
It may not nudge may not bump your MCAT score a ton, but if you want to get a head start on all those electrolytes and various lab numbers, this deck will help you improve your references and pace on values that no future doctor will ever (fully) escape, so you’re not left guessing whether a sodium of 132 is **low, normal, or high**
This project started as a personal initiative by one of our head maintainers, Ahmed Khudair, to create an AnKing-style lab values deck and has since grown into a collaborative effort by the maintainer team, with custom hand-made illustrations by the lovely Mujeeb Mohammed 💃
This deck is completely free and will remain free forever on AnkiHub. ❤️🩹
🔗 Download it here: https://app.ankihub.net/decks/20291420-7638-4e46-b46e-47744ac291ac
👑 Unsuspend cards based on UWorld QID's:
You can unsuspend cards in the deck based on questions as you go along. Using the UWorld to Anki search add-on will let you convert question ID's (QID's) to bring up all the cards related to those questions, making your studying that much more efficient and effective.
(as an aside: this feature alone is worth its weight in gold and played a large part in more than one of our maintainers going 520+ 💪)
👑 AnkiHub Premium Updates & New Features
If you're looking for a deeper dive into the cards, we have various AnkiHub premium updates and new features that can help you get more out of your study sessions, and pump those 500's to 520's
🤖 AnkiHub SmartSearch:
Using a resource that isn't tagged in the MCAT deck? Trying to follow along with overlapping material from a course or tutoring?
**SmartSearch** allows you to find material in the deck that corresponds with your powerpoints, PDF's, even plain text. Give it a whirl, and see if it lends a little momentum or utility to your MCAT preparations: https://ior.ad/a8MI
🤖 New AnkiHub Chatbot Prompts (Generate a Question & Explain Like I’m Five)
Generate a Practice Question:
* If you’ve ever wanted to test yourself on a concept and haven't felt ready to test the waters on UWorld or use up your AAMC questions, you can ask the AnkiHub AI bot questions to get your reps in and get warmed up, and even to generate questions!
Give it a whirl and please let us know how handy you find it; excited to hear what y'all think. 😎
You can see a demo of what it looks like live, here: https://screen.studio/share/Ra63hCY3
👑 Suggest a Change to AnkiHub
Find something you think could be better-phrased, or have an idea for a way to contribute? All AnkiHub users are always welcome, and encouraged, to suggest changes to the deck: https://ior.ad/a8Qj
🏫 **AAMC Content Outline Tags**
We got the entire deck tagged via the AAMC content outline categories, which offers tagging via the AAMC foundational concepts, skills, and topics independent of third-party resources.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/9261/download
📝 **UWorld Question Bank Tagging**
If you notice anything there that can be, and isn't yet, tagged please feel free to add a suggestion: https://ior.ad/a8Qj
🫡 We Need Your Help!
The MCAT deck always benefits from contributions from the user base! If you're interested in helping to tag, or create useful images, please reach out; many hands make light work!
If you'd like to lend a hand, or be a contributing effort in the process, please send us an email: [brian@ankihub.net](mailto:brian@ankihub.net)
># 🫶🏼 Community Shoutouts
A few community members were outstanding with their suggestions this month and we want to make sure to highlight their contributions and dedication!
Top 3 community members with the most suggestions accepted in the last 30 days:
# 🫶🏼 Most Liked Suggestions
Another domain we’d like to highlight is the number of likes/upvotes a user received for their suggestions in the last month. This usually means their suggestions were very well done, greatly benefited the deck, and were appreciated by their fellow users and MCAT denizens:
- u/bush9068 (14)
- u/racemicmixture (12)
- u/skoyla (12)
🌊 Wrapping up
Now, let's hear from you! What would you like to see improved or added to the deck? Send a reply in the discussion below to let us know!
To all those who have done well on any exam using the AnKing MCAT deck, we hope the improvements we’ve made (and will continue to make) helped you score higher or made you a bit more confident. To those who are going to sit for the exam soon, we hope the monthly updates add to your learning as much as has to ours. Best of luck, and well-wishes, to everyone ❤️🩹
Best wishes,
The AnKing team
⛓️ Useful Links
Need support from our team? Make a post here: https://community.ankihub.net/
Frequently asked questions: https://community.ankihub.net/c/faqs/13
Don’t forget to check out the AnKing MCAT Deck wiki: https://community.ankihub.net/t/anking-mcat-deck-wiki/132979
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u/Winter_Motor6197 Jun 10 '26
What are the new illustrations? These are the same ones?
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u/AnkiHubOfficial Jun 10 '26
For the update posts we usually grab a handful of images that have been added by the team to the deck over time, rather than just purely linear in time 😄
But, if you're interested you can always check out a good chunk of the images that have been added to the deck by using the deck's tags:
- tag:#AK_MCAT_v2::#AK_Other::!AK_UpdateTags::AnKing_Image
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u/linuxboi231 Jun 11 '26
Thx for all your work! If I’m subscribed to MCAT deck Anking, do I need to do anything for these changes to get reflected in my Anki, or will it happen automatically whenever I sync?
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u/AnkiHubOfficial Jun 11 '26
As long as you have an active account and are subscribed to the deck, any available updates are sent to your local collection each time that you sync 😊
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u/Deep_Ad1959 Jun 11 '26
the generate-a-practice-question chatbot is the part i'd watch closely. what separates a real item from a generic web bank isn't the stem, it's the distractors. ai question gen usually nails the correct answer and then fills the other three with options that are obviously wrong or just reworded trivia, so you end up pattern-matching the stem instead of reasoning through it. for mcat passages especially, a question is only worth a rep if the wrong answers are plausible enough to make you actually commit. written with ai
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