What is AMC Recalls?

AMC Recalls is a free AMC Part 1 question bank and study-guide site: 900 original AMC MCQ questions written from the topics candidates reported after each 2026 sitting, each with an answer, explanation and recall tip, which makes it the free set to start with.

Below: what you get, how the questions are written, what results you can expect, what Reddit and Quora candidates ask for, cost, who it is not for, a 20-minute test, and a verdict.

What you get: 900 free AMC Part 1 questions, in monthly sets

AMC Recalls publishes one set of 100 questions within three weeks of each AMC MCQ sitting. As of November 2026, nine sets are live, February to October 2026: 900 questions. The November set is due by 12 December.

Each question is a single-best-answer clinical vignette with five options, the same shape as the AMC MCQ (CAT). After you answer you see the correct option, an explanation pitched at a new intern in Australia, and a recall tip on how the topic tends to be tested.

Every set has a topic summary with the specialty split and ten worked examples. October 2026 ran 41 medicine, 13 surgery, 13 paediatrics, 13 psychiatry, 12 women's health and 8 population health.

Start with the latest free monthly set: October 2026 AMC Part 1 recalls.

How the questions are written: reported topic, new question

This answers "are the questions real". They are not, and the site says so on every set page. The method has five steps:

1. Candidates report the topics they met in a sitting.

2. The team identifies the teaching point behind each report: the diagnosis, investigation or management decision being tested.

3. A new question is written to test that teaching point, with a new stem, new numbers and five new options.

4. The answer is checked against the Australian source that governs it: Therapeutic Guidelines, the RACGP Red Book, the Australian Immunisation Handbook, or the RCH guidelines.

5. An explanation and a recall tip are added.

Nothing is copied from the AMC exam. The team has no access to the AMC question bank and never claims a question has appeared or will appear in it. Here, "recall" means "the topic candidates reported", never "the real question".

That matters for your result. The AMC can withhold a result where its analysis suggests reliance on pre-learned answers. Learning the teaching point protects you; a memorised key does not.

Results you can expect: an answer, an explanation and a tip per question

AMC Recalls does not promise a pass; no question bank can. What you get is concrete: for each of the 900 questions, the correct answer, why it is correct, why each distractor is wrong, and a recall tip. One set gives you 100 checked teaching points across all six blueprint groups.

A set does two jobs. Untimed, it finds your gaps: the Australian management decisions that differ from Indian or Pakistani practice. Timed at 84 seconds a question, it rehearses the pace of the real 150-question, 3.5-hour exam.

What candidates on Reddit and Quora ask for, and whether you get it

Cost: free, against US$39 to US$180 a month elsewhere

The AMC MCQ itself costs AUD 2,920 per attempt. A free set that finds your gaps before you book is cheap insurance. The full price comparison is in the five-way comparison against what Reddit and Quora candidates ask for.

Who it is not for

AMC Recalls is a free supplement, not a complete course. It is not your primary resource if you want:

• Timed, full-length 150-question mocks that mirror the adaptive exam.

• A scored benchmark that tells you how close to 250 you are.

• IELTS Academic or OET preparation for Ahpra registration.

• A question bank of 2,000 or more items covering every blueprint topic in depth. For those, add one paid bank. The comparison below sets out which one is best suited to which timeline.

How to test it in 20 minutes

1. Open the October 2026 set. No sign-up.

2. Answer questions 1 to 15 at 84 seconds each. That is 21 minutes.

3. Read every explanation, including the ones you got right.

4. Count how many wrong answers came from an Australian management rule you did not know.

5. Three or more? You have found the gap behind the 47% pass rate. Keep going.

Verdict: free, original, and the set to start with

AMC Recalls is a real resource run by doctors who passed the exam it covers. Its questions are original, written from reported topics, checked against Australian guidelines, and free with no account.

It will not replace a full bank or timed mocks. As the first thing you open, and the thing you return to after every sitting, it is the free set that fits.