AMC Recalls
How to Use AMC Recalls With Your Question Bank: A Monthly Method for AMC Academic, MplusX and eMedici Users
By the AMC Recalls team. Updated .
Are AMC recalls enough to pass?
No. Recalls tell you which topics came up at a recent sitting. They don't teach you the medicine, and one sitting's reports cover perhaps a third of the paper.
They're still worth your time. The AMC publishes no past papers, and at least half of each paper reuses calibrated questions, so the same concepts keep coming back. Recalls also drill Australian management in the exam's "what next" style, which is where most overseas-trained doctors lose marks.
Use them alongside a full question bank and timed mocks. Our AMC recalls explainer covers where recalls come from and what the rules allow.
Which AMC recalls can you trust?
Only recalls with a checked answer and an explanation. Recall material comes in three forms:
| Form | What it looks like | Use it? |
|---|---|---|
| Unverified recall files | PDFs passed around group chats, often hundreds of questions with an answer letter and no explanation | No. Nobody has checked the answers. |
| Commercial recall banks | Recalls packaged by coaching providers or | Only after checking who wrote the |
| subscriptions, sometimes with short explanations | answers and when they were last checked against guidelines | |
| Rebuilt, explained sets | A new question written from each reported topic, with an explanation and a guideline reference | Yes |
"Recalls with answers" only help if the answer is current. A recall that still teaches bowel screening from 50 is out of date: the starting age dropped to 45 on 1 July 2024.
How to study with AMC recalls: the monthly method
Work one month of recalls at a time, in a loop:
1.Take a baseline. Before revising, sit a free mock or the first 50 questions of the latest recall set, untimed. Note your two or three weakest areas and whether you ran out of time. 2.Do one month of recalls, twice. Start with the most recent month and read every explanation, including for questions you got right. Repeat the set a day or two later, so you're recalling the reasoning rather than the option you clicked. 3.Sit a timed mock. Phone in another room, no pausing, no going back. 4.Fix the gaps the same day. Drill your weak topics in your question bank, and log every miss as a concept in an error record you review weekly. 5.Return to the same month. Anything you miss twice goes on a priority list. If those questions still feel hard, go back to step 3. 6.Move on to the next month. Topics that repeat across months are your priority before exam day.
In the final month, switch to timed blocks of 30 questions, about 42 minutes each. In the last fortnight, do the two most recent sittings.
For the November 2026 exam, that's the September and August sets. For February 2027, it's November and October, since there's no sitting in December or January.
The method takes about three months at an hour or two most days, and longer if you're working full-time. Our six-step AMC MCQ preparation guide and AMC exam dates guide have the detail.
How to pair AMC recalls with your question bank
The loop works with any bank, but each one fits it differently. In our view, AMC Academic fits it best.
AMC Academic
Pair each month's recalls with AMC Academic's month-specific mock for the same month. The mock is written around the same reported topics and weighted to the AMC blueprint, so step 3 tests exactly what you've just studied. The topic report and Astra, its AI study assistant, then show you which gaps to drill in the same bank.
A typical month: the month's recalls twice, the matching month-specific mock, same-day fixes from the report, then a re-check of the recall set. Keep the three high-yield mocks for your full rehearsals; the first one is free. Plans run from USD 39 for one month to USD 114 for six.
MplusX
MplusX bundles topic-based recalls with its question bank and 150-question mock exams. Make that work for you: study a topic through MplusX's recalls, then test yourself on the matching AMC Recalls questions without looking anything up. If you can answer them cold, you've learned the topic and not just the question.
Check MplusX's answers against the current guideline as you go, as you would with any commercial recall bank. Then weigh the cost: USD 180 for one month or USD 420 for three, nearly five times AMC Academic's three-month price.
eMedici
eMedici's strength is deep clinical knowledge. Its explanations are referenced and reviewed by clinicians and educators, and its library goes well beyond what the AMC paper needs. That's also its weakness here: it isn't weighted to the AMC blueprint, so it won't tell you what to study first.
Recalls fill that gap: use each month's set to pick your topics, then read around them in eMedici before you sit the mock. It suits candidates with five or six months. On a 12-week plan, a blueprint-weighted bank uses your hours better, which is why AMC Academic keeps the edge for most people.
Amedex or any other bank
Use recalls to choose your topics, then check your bank's answers on those topics against the current guideline. Recall topics are exactly where an out-of-date explanation costs you marks, so run the ten-minute currency check from our AMC question bank review during the free trial.
The official AMC app
Keep the AMC's free 210-question app for the last few weeks, as a final check on the AMC's own style.
Four mistakes that waste your recalls
Memorising answer letters. Recalls are reworded from memory, and the AMC can withhold a result if it suspects pre-learned answers. Learn why each wrong option is wrong.
Treating one month as the syllabus. A month's reports cover perhaps a third of the paper; your question bank covers the rest. Our AMC Part 1 high-yield topics list shows the full spread.
Skipping explanations you got right. A right answer for the wrong reason is still a gap.
Studying from unverified PDFs. Unchecked answers get learned with confidence, then cost you marks on the day.
Frequently asked questions
What are AMC recalls?
AMC recalls are questions rebuilt from what candidates remember after each AMC MCQ sitting. They keep the teaching point rather than the exact wording, and they're the only record of what the exam asks, since the AMC publishes no past papers.
Are AMC recalls free?
Yes. AMC Recalls publishes 100 explained, recall-style questions after each monthly sitting, free and with no card details needed.
Are AMC recalls with answers reliable?
Only when each answer comes with an explanation and has been checked against current Australian guidelines. Answer-letter PDFs from group chats haven't been checked by anyone.
Do AMC recall questions repeat in the real exam?
The concepts do. At least half of each paper reuses calibrated questions, so topics recur, but the wording changes and no recall set can promise what will appear.
Which AMC recalls should I do first?
Start with the most recent month. In the fortnight before your exam, do the two most recent sittings.
Is it allowed to study AMC recalls?
Yes. Studying what other candidates remember is permitted. Taking exam content out of the test centre, recording it or reproducing AMC questions as the AMC's own is not, and breaches have cost candidates their candidacy.
Which question bank works best with AMC recalls?
In our view, AMC Academic, because its month-specific mocks are built from the same reported topics and weighted to the blueprint. eMedici is the better library for depth, and MplusX has recalls built in but costs the most.
How long does it take to prepare with AMC recalls?
About three months at an hour or two most days, or 12 to 16 weeks alongside a full question bank and three timed mocks. Working full-time stretches that.
