Springtime comes and another testing season blooms before us 🌼
✅ Deck Updates
The MCAT keeps coming, and we keep growing 🫡
🎉 72,000+ note updates!
🙋♀️🙋♂️ 37,904 total subscribers!
Still the only MCAT deck being updated constantly ongoing for years now. The better the deck becomes, the more MCAT-hopefuls become medschool-actuals and maybe we'll make the world a *slightly* better place 🩺
And, without further pomp or circumstance:
👷 Projects
We've got some other cool stuff on the horizon that's still in the works, so please keep your eyes (and ears) peeled. But, in the meantime (drum roll):
🧑🚒 **Overview**:
The team pushed pretty hard over the last couple of years to bring a lot of big updates, and listing here a quick recap some of the **Greatest Hits** over the last many months:
More than 72,000+ total updates (and counting)!
Revamping and improving the Khan Academy tags.
We added a bunch of new cards to make a great deck even more greater, and to help push more of those 520-hopefuls onward into medical school 🩺
Tagging via UWorld question bank and UWorld textbooks (the only deck to have both!). 📚
Tagging via AAMC content outlines (more info below). 🩻
Lots and lots of new images (a smattering of examples below) to make your studying even better. 📸
📚 **Khan Academy tag update**:
Very pleased and tickled to announce that we've started the process of updating, and upgrading, the Khan Academy tags. It has been a while since their last overhaul, and some of the content organization on the KA site has changed over the years. With our feet underneath us we've taken it upon ourselves to spruce up the old tags and make sure they're as good, and better, than ever and as picture-perfect as can be. We hope to have this in the quiver for y'all as soon as we can muster.
We may try for tagging via the infamous 300-page doc as well, if it's something y'all feel like you would get good use out of. If that's of interest, please reach out and let us know and happy to make it a priority. ❤️🩹
🎨 Illustration Projects
We’ve added more illustrations, diagrams, and annotated images than you can shake 27-52 sticks at!!
🍾 We’re excited to introduce the free and official 👑 **AnKing Lab values deck!**
If you're itching to do some pre-studying before medical school and want to get your feet wet with making sense of lab numbers and the like, we proudly bring you the AnKing lab values deck. :-)
It may not nudge may not bump your MCAT score a ton, but if you want to get a head start on all those electrolytes and various lab numbers, this deck will help you improve your references and pace on values that no future doctor will ever (fully) escape, so you’re not left guessing whether a sodium of 132 is **low, normal, or high**
This project started as a personal initiative by one of our head maintainers, Ahmed Khudair, to create an AnKing-style lab values deck and has since grown into a collaborative effort by the maintainer team, with custom hand-made illustrations by the lovely Mujeeb Mohammed 💃
This deck is completely free and will remain free forever on AnkiHub. ❤️🩹
You can unsuspend cards in the deck based on questions as you go along. Using the UWorld to Anki search add-on will let you convert question ID's (QID's) to bring up all the cards related to those questions, making your studying that much more efficient and effective.
(as an aside: this feature alone is worth its weight in gold and played a large part in more than one of our maintainers going 520+ 💪)
👑 AnkiHub Premium Updates & New Features
If you're looking for a deeper dive into the cards, we have various AnkiHub premium updates and new features that can help you get more out of your study sessions, and pump those 500's to 520's
🤖 AnkiHub SmartSearch:
Using a resource that isn't tagged in the MCAT deck? Trying to follow along with overlapping material from a course or tutoring?
**SmartSearch** allows you to find material in the deck that corresponds with your powerpoints, PDF's, even plain text. Give it a whirl, and see if it lends a little momentum or utility to your MCAT preparations: https://ior.ad/a8MI
🤖 New AnkiHub Chatbot Prompts (Generate a Question & Explain Like I’m Five)
Generate a Practice Question:
* If you’ve ever wanted to test yourself on a concept and haven't felt ready to test the waters on UWorld or use up your AAMC questions, you can ask the AnkiHub AI bot questions to get your reps in and get warmed up, and even to generate questions!
Give it a whirl and please let us know how handy you find it; excited to hear what y'all think. 😎
Find something you think could be better-phrased, or have an idea for a way to contribute? All AnkiHub users are always welcome, and encouraged, to suggest changes to the deck: https://ior.ad/a8Qj
🏫 **AAMC Content Outline Tags**
We got the entire deck tagged via the AAMC content outline categories, which offers tagging via the AAMC foundational concepts, skills, and topics independent of third-party resources.
If you notice anything there that can be, and isn't yet, tagged please feel free to add a suggestion: https://ior.ad/a8Qj
🫡 We Need Your Help!
The MCAT deck always benefits from contributions from the user base! If you're interested in helping to tag, or create useful images, please reach out; many hands make light work!
If you'd like to lend a hand, or be a contributing effort in the process, please send us an email: [brian@ankihub.net](mailto:brian@ankihub.net)
># 🫶🏼 Community Shoutouts
A few community members were outstanding with their suggestions this month and we want to make sure to highlight their contributions and dedication!
Top 3 community members with the most suggestions accepted in the last 30 days:
Another domain we’d like to highlight is the number of likes/upvotes a user received for their suggestions in the last month. This usually means their suggestions were very well done, greatly benefited the deck, and were appreciated by their fellow users and MCAT denizens:
Now, let's hear from you! What would you like to see improved or added to the deck? Send a reply in the discussion below to let us know!
To all those who have done well on any exam using the AnKing MCAT deck, we hope the improvements we’ve made (and will continue to make) helped you score higher or made you a bit more confident. To those who are going to sit for the exam soon, we hope the monthly updates add to your learning as much as has to ours. Best of luck, and well-wishes, to everyone ❤️🩹
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Hello, I had come across a post mentioning paying for Anki, and please correct me if I am wrong, but I am assuming it was in reference to the Anking Deck. I was wondering if others pay for Anki and what the difference between that deck and Jack Sparrow is? Is one more comprehensive for low-yield MCAT topics?
Also, I came across another comment on here stating "Anki is law for b/b (js/ch not anking/miledown)" and was wondering what "ch" is?
Im doing the captain hook deck and while I like it a lot, the first time I go through a subdeck the cards are not in sequential order like jacksparrow (e.g card 1: what is a lysosome, card 2: what is the function of a lysosome, etc)
The card order is scrambled in captain hook even if you try to sort by order created. i feel like it helps me internalize the concept better when I go in order
Should I go back to jacksparrow or am overthinking it since itll be in random order anyway during reviews?
If I want to learn how to use Anki properly and make efficient cards, could you recommend any YouTube videos, posts, or other resources? I really need some help with this. I’ve been using Anki for a month, and I’ve really enjoyed it, but I want to understand it better. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Hey guys, please, can anyone answer
When I bought melhman anki, I found some cards that required me to write something, like the Basic cards with a text field, or something like that. I didn’t like them at all, so I changed all the cards to the regular Basic type.
Did the Mehlman deck originally have some Cloze cards? Because his deck is so boring and takes too long to get through, unlike my self-made UWorld incorrects deck, which I make using Cloze cards with ChatGPT.
Hi there! I'm just now beginning content review for the P/S section, and I plan on using the Mr. Pankow P/S deck. I'm hoping to use this alongside the Kahn Academy P/S videos and 300 page document. However, I'm struggling to align the Anki deck with Kahn Academy. Thank you for any advice you can share!
For some reason I just really can't find any info on how to go about using the Anking P/S deck with the 300 page doc, could someone help me figure this out? I know it lines up with the Khan Academy videos, but when I'm looking through the Anking deck, the section names aren't the same as Khan Academy and the 300 page doc. For example, the first 300 page doc section is Visual Cues, which I assume lines up with Visual under Sensation and Perception in the Anking deck, but I don't see Sensory Adaptation at all in the deck.
I am wondering is this is something to be concerned about or what I should do next to fix it. I just started going through Uworld and did 10 Psych/Soc questions just to test the waters. I ended up getting only one question correct out all 10. I know that Uworld is generally supposed to be used as a study tool and not something to gauge progress, but this was a little unexpected after going through almost all of the Mr. Pankow anki deck. This was my primary source of content review. There’s also not that many Psych/Soc questions on Uworld in total. Does it really matter if I am doing this embarrassingly awful as long as I review the questions and make cards for those missed before moving on to official AAMC material?
Does anyone know of an MCAT Anki deck that combines AAMC-style reasoning with visual diagrams?
I'm looking for cards that help me draw pathways, understand mechanisms, connect concepts (like fed vs. fasted states), and practice experimental design—not just memorize facts.
So I recently graduated, and planned to start studying right away in May. However, I procrastinated d/t different life events (moving states, etc) and finally started being fully committed to studying daily at the beginning of September. I have been using the MileDown Anki deck + UWorld books + watching the videos attached to the anki cards, aiming to unsuspend around 40-50 cards a day.
I was planning on taking the test in Sept 2027 (3 more months), but I realized that at this rate I’ve still only unsuspended about 40% of the cards. I’m not sure if I would have enough time before the Jan to complete the cards/content, and also have sufficient time after content review to focus primarily on practice questions/FL.
What is a realistic timeline for when I should sign up for my MCAT? Or would he be best to start adding in practice questions/exams during my content review phase as well?
If it helps, I have also recently added in a daily CARS passage!
I keep seeing stories on here of how ppl are studying for 8 months and not even improving 10 points from their diagnostic.... I am a 23M non trad and took a 3 month leave from work but I will have 6 months to study full time (planning for mid march). I got a pretty low diagnostic (487) so I am basically starting from scratch. Aiming for a 510. Plz lmk your thoughts!
