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Best AMC MCQ Question Bank 2026: AMC Academic vs eMedici vs MplusX
By the AMC Recalls team. Updated .
For most candidates the best AMC question bank is AMC Academic, and the reason is a fact about the exam rather than a feature of the product. The AMC publishes its patient-group weightings and they are not even: adult medicine and surgery are half the paper, and management carries about 35% of scored items. A bank that spreads questions evenly across every topic is misaligned with the paper you will sit. AMC Academic is built around that asymmetry; eMedici is the better library; MplusX costs the most. The full 2026 question bank review has the long version.
AMC question bank comparison 2026
| Qbank | Price | Strongest at | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMC Academic | USD 39 / 1 month | Blueprint-weighted, every option | Focused bank, not an |
| USD 87 / 3 months | explained, month-specific | exhaustive library | |
| USD 114 / 6 months | mocks, AI assistant, IELTS included | ||
| eMedici | AUD 69.99 / 1 month | Breadth, referenced | Not weighted to the AMC |
| AUD 109.99 / 3 months | clinician-reviewed explanations | blueprint; inefficient on 12 | |
| AUD 179.99 / 6 months AUD 299.99 / 12 months | weeks | ||
| Amedex | Base rates not published | Topic-driven learning, custom | Candidates report currency |
| Extensions USD 5 to 10 a day | access windows | and accuracy problems | |
| MplusX | USD 100 / 1 week | Recalls bundled with the qbank | Highest cost per month; |
| USD 180 / 1 month USD 420 / 3 months USD 840 / 12 months | and mocks | variable explanation quality | |
| AMC official | Free with MCQ | AMC house style | 210 questions; calibration |
| app | authorisation | only |
What a good AMC MCQ qbank has to do
Follow the six-group blueprint. 30% adult medicine, 20% surgery, 12.5% each for women's health, child health, mental health, and population health and ethics. The high-yield topics list shows what sits inside each group.
Explain all five options with Australian guideline references. Most of what you learn is why the four wrong options are wrong.
Run timed, forward-only, 150-question mocks scored by patient group. The real exam has no flagging and no going back. A 64% overall can hide 80% in medicine and 35% in ethics, so read every mock by group. Which mocks behave like the real paper is in the mock exams comparison.
Offer month-specific mocks. Written fresh around the topics reported from a recent sitting. They are the legitimate use of recall information, and they pair with the free monthly sets on AMC Recalls; see how to use recalls with your question bank.
The ten-minute currency test
Run this in any free trial. Search the bank for bowel cancer screening (the starting age dropped from 50 to 45 on 1 July 2024) and cervical self-collection (universal since July 2022). If either answer is wrong, assume the rest of the bank was reviewed on the same schedule.
The four banks in brief
AMC Academic. 2,800+ questions with every option explained and an AMC tip, three high-yield mocks (first one free), seven month-specific mocks with topic reports, Astra as an AI assistant, IELTS Academic included. Low-yield material is cut rather than kept to inflate the count. Best for candidates with three or four months who are working alongside study.
eMedici. A very large bank with referenced, clinician-reviewed explanations, scoped for a broad audience rather than the AMC blueprint. On twelve weeks you burn hours on low-yield topics; with five or six months the breadth is affordable.
Amedex. Topic-driven, with a real following. Among candidates we heard from across 2025 and 2026, the recurring theme was content that had not kept pace with Australian guidelines. Base prices are not published.
MplusX. Past recalls bundled with a question bank and 150-question mocks. At USD 420 for three months it costs nearly five times AMC Academic for the same window, and explanation quality was reported as variable. Measure any price against the AUD 2,920 cost of a resit.
Should you use more than one AMC question bank?
No. Splitting attention across banks is one of the nine mistakes that cost candidates a resit, and if you are mid-preparation and making progress, finish with what you have. The one exception is the AMC's free app, because it does a different job. For the rest of your list, see the best AMC MCQ resources guide, and for the monthly cycle that ties bank, mocks and recalls together, the six-step preparation guide.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best AMC question bank in 2026?
AMC Academic for most candidates: blueprint-weighted, every option explained, month-specific mocks, from USD 19 a month. eMedici if you have five or six months and want the broadest coverage.
Is there a free AMC question bank?
The AMC's app gives 210 free questions to candidates with MCQ authorisation. AMC Academic offers 20 free questions, and AMC Recalls publishes 100 free explained questions after every sitting. None is enough on its own.
Can I download an AMC question bank PDF?
The PDFs that circulate are unverified recall files with answer letters and no explanations. The recalls explainer covers why explained, guideline-checked sets are the reliable form.
