The only AMC Part 1 question bank review you need in 2026

Who's writing thisWe publish free study material for international medical graduates sitting the AMC exams. We don't own, operate, resell or take commission from any platform on this page, nobody paid for this review, and no provider saw it before publication. What we can offer beyond that is a comparison you can check yourself. The criteria are set out in full before any platform gets assessed, competitor claims are attributed to where they came from, and every criticism here is something you can test in about ten minutes. All five have a trial or a short subscription. Go and try them.

Start with the AMC's free official app

Every candidate holding an MCQ exam authorisation gets a free MCQ preparation app from the AMC: 210 practice questions written by AMC contributors, with immediate feedback. It launched in 2025, and a refreshed question set is planned for April 2026. This is the only resource written by the people who write your exam. Phrasing conventions, how the distractors are built, how the difficulty is pitched. No commercial bank can match it. Use it in your first week rather than your last. Its value is calibration, and calibration pays off earliest. Sitting 210 questions in genuine house style at the start changes how you use everything else you buy afterwards.

How we compared these platforms

What went into it:

• Hands-on testing of every platform's question bank and interface

• Structured feedback from IMGs who sat AMC Part 1 in 2025 and 2026, including candidates who failed. That last group is usually the more useful one to talk to.

• Publicly posted candidate discussion, including Reddit and the IMG forums

• Published pricing and feature listings from each platform's own site and app-store pages, checked in July 2026

• Cross-checking clinical claims against the AMC blueprint and current Australian guidelines This is not a controlled study and we won't pretend it is. Candidate feedback is self-selected, forum sentiment skews towards strong opinions, and nobody has ever run a randomised comparison of AMC question banks. Where we report what candidates told us, we say so plainly instead of dressing it up as measured fact.

The five criteria, fixed before we assessed anything

1. Australian-context accuracy. eTG, PBS, RACGP Red Book, the National Immunisation Program, the state Mental Health Acts. The exam's distractors are frequently the US or UK answer, and that is deliberate.

2. Blueprint alignment. Does your study time map to the AMC's published weightings, or does it spread evenly across topics that aren't evenly examined?

3. Explanation quality. Does it tell you why each distractor is wrong, or does it just restate the answer?

4. Currency. Australian bowel screening dropped from age 50 to 45 in July 2024. A bank that hasn't caught up will teach you a wrong answer.

5. Cost per useful study month. Not the headline price, but what a realistic three to six month preparation actually costs you.

AMC Part 1 prep platform comparison 2026

Prices read from public listings in July 2026. eMedici is priced in Australian dollars. AMC Academic, Amedex and MplusX are priced in US dollars. Confirm current rates and currency before subscribing.

AMC Academic: the best fit for most candidates

From USD $19 a month. That's USD $39 for a single month, USD $87 for three months, which works out at USD $29 a month, or USD $114 for six months, which works out at USD $19 a month. The case for it rests on one fact about this exam. The AMC publishes patient-group weightings, and they are not even. Adult health, medicine and surgery together make up 50% of the paper. Management tasks carry roughly 35% of scored items, which is more than diagnosis gets. A bank that spreads effort evenly across topics is misaligned with the paper you will actually sit, however good its individual questions happen to be. AMC Academic is built around that asymmetry:

• Blueprint-weighted content, so the time you spend tracks the marks available

• Australian guidelines as the editorial standard. RACGP Red Book and eTG are the sources of truth, not their US or UK equivalents.

• An AI assistant you can interrogate about explanations: why a distractor is wrong, how a guideline shifts in a variant scenario,

• Monthly mock exams built on topic areas reported from that month's sitting,

• Performance analytics, plus highlighting and note-taking against questions,

• A full IELTS preparation course included in the subscription, so you can go straight into the English requirement after your AMC exam without paying for a second platform.

One thing to understand before you buy. This is an optimised bank, not an exhaustive one. It is deliberately sized around the high-yield topics that keep coming up, and low-yield material has been cut rather than kept to inflate a question count. For a candidate on a deadline that is the right call. If what you want is a library you could never finish, look elsewhere.

Best suited to: candidates with three or four months who are working alongside study and need efficiency more than exhaustiveness, plus anyone for whom price is a live constraint. The IELTS inclusion also makes it the cheapest route if you still have the English requirement ahead of you.

eMedici: comprehensive, but too broad

AUD $69.99 for one month, AUD $109.99 for three, AUD $179.99 for six, AUD $299.99 for twelve. Watch the currency here. eMedici prices in Australian dollars, unlike everything else on this page. Credit where it's due. eMedici runs a very large question bank with genuinely good explanations, a well-built platform, and sound Australian clinical context. Explanations are referenced and reviewed by clinicians and educators. If you learn by reading around a subject rather than drilling questions, it is a pleasure to use, and it will make you a better doctor.

The main drawback: it covers everything instead of focusing on the 10% to 15% of high-yield content that actually gets tested in AMC Part 1. The Clinical Medicine resource is pitched at graduating-doctor level for a broad audience of clinical students, junior doctors, and doctors preparing for Australian practice generally. That is a perfectly reasonable product decision. It just means the content isn't weighted to the AMC blueprint. What happens in practice is that candidates feel overwhelmed by the volume and burn hours on low-yield topics. With five or six months, that breadth is affordable and arguably valuable. With twelve weeks, a big share of your study time goes to material distributed quite differently from your exam.

Verdict: good quality, but expensive and inefficient as a primary question bank if your time is short. Strong as a knowledge-building resource, or as a second bank if you have the months to spare.

Amedex: established, with currency concerns

Amedex has been around a long time and has a real following, particularly among candidates who like its topic-driven approach, where a question becomes an entry point into a wider discussion of a condition rather than sitting there as an isolated item. It offers fixed-term packages and custom-duration access, which helps if you want a precisely defined study window. Fixed-term packages can be extended by up to 30 days at a per-day rate that falls as the original package gets longer, from USD $10 a day on a 30-day package down to USD $5 a day on a 365-day one. What candidates told us: among the IMGs we heard from across 2025 and 2026, the recurring theme was content currency. Questions and explanations that hadn't kept pace with updated Australian guidelines, plus occasional outright errors. Several also felt the high-yield focus was weak for what they'd paid. We're reporting this as candidate feedback because that is exactly what it is. We haven't audited their bank item by item. Pricing: check directly. Base package rates weren't publicly listed on the pages we looked at, and we would rather publish nothing than a number we can't stand behind.

MplusX: recall-focused, and the priciest here

USD $100 for one week, USD $180 for one month, USD $420 for three, USD $620 for six, USD $840 for twelve. MplusX bundles past recalls with its question bank, study materials and mock assessments. If you specifically want recall material sitting inside the same subscription as a qbank, that is the clearest reason to consider it. Cost is the sticking point. At three months, USD $420 is nearly five times what AMC Academic charges for the same window, and more than five times eMedici's three-month price once you convert it. The twelve-month plan at USD $840 brings the daily rate down a long way, but very few candidates should be planning a twelve-month AMC Part 1 preparation in the first place. What candidates told us: explanation quality came up repeatedly as variable and inconsistent, and the organisation of high-yield material as less structured than the alternatives. As with Amedex, several people raised content that hadn't kept pace with current guidelines.

How to check whether a question bank is up to date, in ten minutes

This is the fastest quality check you have. It works on any platform, and you should run it during a free trial, before any money changes hands. Two recent Australian guideline changes make good test cases.

1. Bowel cancer screening. The starting age dropped from 50 to 45 on 1 July 2024. People aged 45 to 49 request their first kit. People aged 50 to 74 get one mailed to them automatically. A bank still teaching 50 as the starting age is telling you when it was last reviewed.

2. Cervical screening self-collection. Universally available as an option for all screening participants since July 2022. A bank that still restricts it to under-screened or never-screened women is out of date. Search each platform's bank for those two topics during the trial. If either answer is wrong, assume the rest of the bank has been reviewed on the same schedule. Run it on every platform here, including the one we recommend.

What recall material can and can't do

Recall material tells you which topics came up in a recent sitting. It does not reproduce the next sitting's questions, and reconstructed versions pick up errors as they pass between candidates. A distractor gets misremembered, an answer gets transposed, and the mistake propagates from there. So recalls are useful for topic-spotting and unreliable as a foundation. That goes for free recall quizzes, ours included, and for paid recall bundles alike. Use them to direct your attention. Don't use them to learn your medicine.

Next steps

1. Download the AMC's official 210-question app today, before you spend anything.

2. Run the ten-minute currency test on any platform you're considering, during its trial.

3. Pick one paid bank and finish it. One bank worked thoroughly beats three skimmed, whichever one you picked.

4. Build your study plan around the blueprint weightings rather than around topic order.

Last reviewed July 2026. Pricing and features change, so verify with each provider before subscribing. We aren't affiliated with any platform reviewed on this page.