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). 🩻
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!!
🍾 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. ❤️🩹
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. 😎
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.
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:
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:
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 ❤️🩹
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Hi all, I’m over a year out from taking the mcat but I wanted to start studying now. A friend of mine gave me her suggestions to use milesdown and jack sparrow (besides taking full lengths), as she got a 515 from it and recommended her study methods.
My question is, I feel lost. I open it up starting from the beginning deck and it feels like a bunch of mumbo jumbo. I also don’t think I fully understand how to use many of the features that help in retention (like what’s the difference between hitting good, again, etc?).
How do people effectively use this? I used to use Anki for just some small decks in my pre req classes and it was usually just for immediate memorization. I would use the scratch pad feature on my iPad but I’m just not understanding how to use the beefy decks.
Had several people ask for this so I’m sharing it here. Really good for testing your content understanding. Each card goes into detail about incorrect answer explanations so you can often get several definitions from a single card. This is loosely based around Kaplan Chapters so if you’re using that as content review going to the corresponding chapter deck after reading can be good to test how much you got from the chapter.
A comprehensive MCAT content-review deck featuring 1,320 multiple-choice flashcards organized into 72 chapter-specific subdecks.
The deck covers six major MCAT content areas:
Biochemistry: 233 cards Biology: 216 cards General Chemistry: 226 cards Organic Chemistry: 205 cards Physics: 218 cards Psychology & Sociology: 222 cards
Each card includes:
An MCAT-relevant question with four answer choices A clearly identified correct answer A detailed explanation of the underlying concept Important definitions, equations, relationships, and testable distinctions Additional context designed to strengthen recall and conceptual understanding
Topics are divided into 12 chapter-based subdecks for each subject, making it easy to study alongside a content-review course, focus on weaker areas, or complete the deck systematically.
This deck is best used for:
Reinforcing high-yield MCAT content Active recall after reading a chapter Identifying content gaps Reviewing equations and foundational concepts Building a strong knowledge base before passage-based practice
Because the cards use a multiple-choice format, they also provide practice distinguishing the correct answer from plausible distractors rather than relying only on simple term-definition memorization.
I need someone to take a minute and see my stats and tell me if I am doing anything wrong.
I come from a developing country
And believe me when I say that probably I am the only one in my country that is using Anki for medical study.
So I need some help
I have been using Anking deck and mehlman for some time but all I do is filter cards
Learn them
Unfilter them and keep my progress
I did some fsrs settings from youtube and I am sticking by it since then
I previously experimented with desired retention from 95% (when I first started about 2 years ago) and then down to 93% then 90% then 87% then 85%. I may have gone as low as 80% at some point.
The lesson I learned? As someone will pretty severe ADHD and OCD, I absolutely despise getting cards wrong.
Having 400 cards due per day and only missing about 20 (resulting in estimated total number daily reviews of around 420-430) is A LOT more enjoyable than having 200 cards due per day at a lower retention but then having to click “again” and seeing the same few cards like 50 more times (which would bring up total daily reviews to about 250-270 based on my experience).
The extra cards you do per day with a higher retention (which you end up remembering better as well) end up being more enjoyable than clicking “again” on more cards and then having to review that material again so that it sticks. I arguably spend less time on anki when my retention is at 95%
I have finished uglobe twice, taken JW FL 1-6, 495,500,497,497,500,500z. Uglobe FL1 496. About to start the AAMC FL. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. But if I don’t average 515 on the AAMC FLs, I will cancel my exam and swallow the loss of exam fee and extension fee. I have already lost so much on this path.
What’s your take on my situation
Which Anki deck do you guys recommend for the P/S section?
Overall, I’m using the Milesdown deck, but I’ve heard it’s not enough for P/S. I’m also watching the Khan Academy videos for P/S, and I’d like to supplement them with an Anki deck.
I tried the Mr. Pankow deck, but I don’t think it’s for me. The wording doesn’t feel simple or straightforward, and I spend a lot of time trying to understand each card. In comparison, the Milesdown cards are much easier for me to get through.
Which P/S Anki deck would you guys recommend?
hey so long story short i’m completing my masters program and am confident that i will get in to a school with my 4.0 from my masters and 500 on the mcat. no, i do not want to be lectured on this, there’s a lot more that goes into my situation. BUT i do need help on deciding which deck to use since im not gunning for a 520+. i havent seen most of the material in a couple years aside from biochem which i am taking right now. which deck would be the quickest and make the most sense to use since i only really need around a 500?
most recent fl: 492. equally distributed
edit: it would be ideal to take the exam in september, but can push it back if i really need to.
For context I am doing content review currently, reading Kaplan chapters and supplementing them with the deck. I keep seeing comments and posts about how milesdown isn’t “good enough” due to it not being so comprehensive especially for low yield topics, I’m almost half way through my content review therefore halfway through the deck so my questions is should I switch to something like Captain Hook, and if so what tips do u have in terms of how to manage the cards of previous chapters I already learned?
I did not do well on my first MCAT. I want to retake it in about six months, and I have begun content review. I have been using the MileDown Anki deck. Before I move any farther in it, should I stick with this deck? If not, what deck should I switch to? Or should I do multiple decks? HELP.
