AMC Mock Exams Compared: Which Mock Is Closest to the Real CAT, How Many to Sit and What Score Means You're Ready

What makes an AMC mock exam realistic?

A realistic AMC mock copies five things about the real CAT MCQ. Miss one and you're rehearsing for a different exam.

1. 150 questions in one sitting. The real paper is 150 single-best-answer questions with five options each, sat in one 3.5-hour session. ECGs, X-rays and clinical photos turn up on screen.

2. Real timing. That works out at about 84 seconds a question. A mock you can pause trains the wrong pace.

3. Forward-only. The CAT has no flagging, no review screen and no going back. A mock that lets you return to a question is building a habit you can't use.

4. Every question answered. There's no negative marking, and blank answers can leave the AMC with too little data to give you a result.

5. Results by patient group. A useful mock splits your score across the six groups: adult medicine (30%), adult surgery (20%), then women's health, child health, mental health, and population health and ethics (12.5% each).

What no mock can copy is the adaptive scoring. On the real exam, a correct answer brings a harder question, and your result is an ability estimate on a 0 to 500 scale, with 250 to pass. More on how that works in our AMC CAT MCQ format guide.

Which AMC mock exams are worth sitting?

AMC Academic, eMedici and MplusX all offer 150-question mocks, so the real difference is what each mock is built from. For most candidates, our pick is AMC Academic's month-specific mocks, with eMedici alongside for depth if you have the months. Here's how the options compare.

Prices come from our AMC question bank review and do change, so check them before you subscribe.

AMC Academic: month-specific and blueprint-weighted

Month-specific mocks are the most useful way to turn recall information into practice. Each one is written fresh around the topics candidates reported from a recent sitting, checked against current Australian guidelines, and sat timed and forward-only. Because the bank is weighted to the AMC blueprint, your mock hours go where the marks are.

Sit each one straight after working through the same month's recalls, then fix the gaps from its topic report that day. Keep the three high-yield mocks for your baseline, midpoint and final rehearsal, since they aren't tied to one month's topics.

eMedici: deep clinical knowledge

eMedici is the strongest library here for understanding a topic properly. Its explanations are referenced and reviewed by clinicians and educators, but it's written for a broad audience, not the AMC blueprint. On a 12-week plan, that breadth costs you hours on low-yield material.

Its 150-question mocks match the real paper's length, which makes them good extra full-length practice. When a mock shows you're weak in, say, haematology or obstetrics, read around those topics in eMedici before your next mock. With five or six months, it can work as your main bank too.

MplusX: everything in one subscription, at a price

MplusX bundles past recalls with its question bank and 150-question mock exams, which is handy if you want one login for everything. It's also the most expensive option we've reviewed: USD 420 for three months, nearly five times what AMC Academic charges for the same window.

The official AMC app: calibration, not a mock

Every candidate with MCQ authorisation gets 210 free questions written by AMC contributors. It's the closest you'll get to the AMC's own voice, but instant feedback and 210 questions don't make a mock. Save it for the last few weeks as a final check.

Amedex and other banks

Hold any other bank to the same five points during its free trial. While you're there, run our ten-minute currency check: an up-to-date bank teaches bowel screening from 45 and cervical self-collection for everyone.

How many AMC mock exams should you sit?

At least three full-length, timed mocks, spaced across your preparation:

1. Baseline, week 1. Sit it cold, before you revise. A low score here is a starting point, not a verdict.

2. Midpoint, around week 6. This one decides your exam date. Above 60% with no patient group under 50%, book or keep it. Below that, move to a later sitting, which is free before the scheduling close date.

3. Final rehearsal, 7 to 10 days out. Sit it at the same time of day as your booking.

If you're running the monthly recall cycle, the month-specific mocks come on top of these. In the last three to four weeks, switch to full-blueprint mocks, because month-matched material narrows your focus just when you need stamina across the whole paper.

Don't leave your first full mock until the final week. It's one of the most common mistakes behind a resit, and our first-try study plan covers the others. Every scheduling close date is in our AMC exam dates guide.

What mock score means you're ready for the AMC MCQ?

On a full-length mock, aim for 65% or better with no patient group under 55%. That's where candidates who pass generally sit at their final rehearsal.

You'll see three numbers across our guides because they belong to three different mocks:

The 90% bar is higher because you've just studied those topics. One strong mock can be luck; two or three in a row is a pattern.

None of these numbers converts to the AMC's 250/500 scale. The real exam weighs each answer by how hard the question was, so a percentage on a fixed mock only tells you whether you're on track. Our AMC pass rate and passing score guide explains the scale.

How to sit and review a mock

Treat every full mock as a dress rehearsal:

• Phone in another room, no notes, no pausing, and the same time of day as your booking.

• Keep to about 84 seconds a question. If you're still stuck at around 90 seconds, pick your best answer and move on.

• Answer every question. Guessing costs nothing; a blank scores zero.

Review it the same day, by patient group rather than headline score. A 64% overall can hide 80% in medicine and 35% in population health and ethics, a group worth as many marks as child health.

Check every wrong answer against the guideline itself (eTG, the RACGP Red Book or the Australian Immunisation Handbook), not just the bank's explanation. If a group still leaks marks after two rounds of drilling, the problem is review depth, not volume. Our AMC Part 1 high-yield topics list shows what to drill in each group.