TL;DR: The best AMC question bank is written for Australia, mapped to all six patient groups in the AMC blueprint, explains every option, builds original questions on recalled topics, and gives you timed mocks under real exam rules. That's exactly how the AMC Academic question bank is built, with more than 2,800 original AMC Part 1 questions. Below: one free question, what to look for in a qbank, how many qbank questions you need, and a free 6-question AMC exam quiz with worked answers.
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Most of your AMC Part 1 preparation will happen inside a question bank, so the bank you use matters more than any textbook. Here's what a good AMC question bank has to do for you, how AMC Academic does each part of it, and how much practice is enough. Start with a free question.
Start with one free question
Here's one from our bank. Give yourself 90 seconds, roughly what the real exam allows.
Question 1 (Adult health: Surgery). A 47-year-old sheep farmer from central New South Wales is bitten on the right ankle by a snake at dusk and reaches the emergency department 50 minutes later. He has collapsed and is hypotensive and tachycardic. His INR is 3.1, fibrinogen 0.7 g/L and platelets are slightly low. Neurological examination is normal. What is the single best next step?
A. Observe and repeat coagulation studies
B. Fresh frozen plasma to correct the INR
C. Intravenous antivenom without delay
D. Neostigmine and atropine
E. A proximal arterial tourniquet
Answer: C, intravenous antivenom without delay. Collapse plus coagulopathy means systemic envenoming, and antivenom is the only thing that neutralises circulating venom. Plasma given first is consumed by the venom, so clotting factors come later and only if bleeding continues. Tourniquets are never used; first aid is a pressure immobilisation bandage. Read the full explanation, option by option.
If you picked B, that's the trap the question is built around. It's also why the quality of a bank's explanations matters more than the number of questions it has.
What a good AMC question bank has
Most of your study hours will go into one bank, so it has to earn them. Seven things separate a useful AMC MCQ bank from a pile of Q bank questions, and here's how AMC Academic handles each one.
| What to look for | Why it matters | How AMC Academic does it |
|---|---|---|
| Written for Australia | The exam is pitched at what a doctor graduating in Australia should know, and management answers follow Australian practice. | Questions are reviewed against Australian guidelines, and the free cases cite the guideline behind each answer: Therapeutic Guidelines in the snake bite case, Austroads in the commercial driver case, RANZCOG in the ectopic pregnancy case. |
| Blueprint coverage | Adult Medicine is 30% of the exam, Surgery 20%, and each of the other four groups 12.5%, including Population health and ethics. | Every question is mapped to the AMC blueprint, and the free cases are sorted into the same six patient groups. |
| Every option explained | AMC distractors are plausible by design, so the wrong options teach as much as the right one. | A worked explanation for every option, and a one-line reason each wrong option is wrong. See it in the rural STEMI case. |
| Recalled topics, original questions | Raw recall papers are often wrong, and sharing them breaches AMC rules. | Every question and case is our own, written to the published blueprint on recalled topics. |
| Exam-realistic mocks | The real exam is 150 questions in 3.5 hours, with no skipping and no going back. | Timed mocks that follow the real exam's timing and navigation rules. |
| Current content | Guidelines change, and stale explanations keep old answers alive. | The free cases show when they were last updated and which guideline they follow, like the croup case. |
| Results by topic | One overall percentage hides the specialty that will sink you. | Accuracy by specialty and topic, tracked over time. |
What you get with AMC Academic
Everything in that table, in one subscription:
More than 2,800 original AMC Part 1 questions, mapped to the blueprint, each with a worked explanation for every option.
Timed mock exams under the real exam's timing and navigation rules, so exam day feels familiar.
Practice that adapts to you. Accuracy is tracked by topic, and your questions lean towards the areas you keep getting wrong.
Astra, our AI study companion. It reads your own record (your weakest specialties, what you last revised) and answers questions about your preparation using Australian guidelines. See how Astra works.
IELTS Academic in the same subscription, for AHPRA's English requirement. See the score you need.
50 free clinical cases and 20 free questions to start with, no account or card needed. Browse the free cases.
Plans run for one, three or six months, from US$19 a month. They end when the term does, with no automatic renewal, and there's a 7-day money-back guarantee.
Create my free account → Nothing is charged until you choose a plan.
How many qbank questions do you need?
There's no magic number, but there is a sensible range. Our 12-week study plan works out to 40 to 50 questions a day, six days a week, with full 150-question mocks in the final fortnight. That's roughly one complete pass of a 2,800-question bank, with time left to redo the misses. Working full-time? The 24-week version halves the daily load to 20 to 25.
Volume only helps if the questions are doing their job, though. A few rules make most of the difference:
Warm up with a case. Start each session with one free clinical case, worked cold in 90 seconds. It sets the pace for the block that follows.
One bank, finished. Two half-done banks tend to double up on the topics you already like and leave the same gaps.
Tutor mode first, timed mode later. Learn with explanations open for the first half of your prep, then switch to timed, mixed blocks so you get used to changing specialty every 84 seconds.
Keep an error log. One line per miss: the topic, why you got it wrong (knowledge, misread, time), and the takeaway. Patterns show up within a fortnight.
Don't reset the bank to chase a score. A second pass on questions you remember inflates your percentage and teaches you little. Redo the misses instead.
Treat mocks as rehearsals. Sit two or three full 150-question mocks about a week apart, at the time of day your real exam is booked.
For a month-by-month version, How to pass AMC Part 1 in 3 months sets it all out.
Free AMC exam quiz: five more questions, one per patient group
Five more from our bank, each from a different patient group, so with question 1 you've sat one question from all six. Answers are after question 6.
Question 2 (Adult health: Medicine). A 58-year-old man sees his GP in a rural town 90 minutes after his chest pain began. The ECG shows 2.5 mm ST elevation in II, III, aVF, V5 and V6. He is haemodynamically stable. The nearest PCI centre is 180 km away, with a projected first-contact-to-device time of more than 180 minutes. Fibrinolysis is available on site. What is the preferred reperfusion strategy?
A. Transfer directly for primary PCI
B. Fibrinolysis, then routine angiography
C. Helicopter transfer to a PCI centre
D. Half-dose tenecteplase with enoxaparin
E. Conservative management as for NSTEACS
Question 3 (Women's health). A 32-year-old woman, 7 weeks pregnant by dates and with an IUD in place, has sudden severe lower abdominal pain and shoulder tip pain. She is pale and sweaty, with a BP of 82/50 mmHg and a heart rate of 148/min. Her urine pregnancy test is positive. Transvaginal ultrasound shows a 3.8 cm left adnexal mass and free fluid extending to the hepatorenal space. What is the most appropriate immediate management?
A. Intramuscular methotrexate and review in 24 hours
B. CT abdomen to confirm the diagnosis before surgery
C. Remove the IUD and reassess
D. Intravenous fluids, massive transfusion protocol and immediate surgery
E. Intravenous morphine and reassess in 2 hours
Question 4 (Child health). A 2-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department at 2 am with 24 hours of barking cough and noisy breathing, after two days of coryza. He has inspiratory stridor at rest and marked intercostal and subcostal recession, and he is agitated. He isn't drooling and is swallowing normally. HR 150/min, RR 48/min, SpO2 94% on room air, temperature 37.8°C. What is the single best next step in management?
A. Nebulised adrenaline plus oral dexamethasone
B. Heliox, then discharge if improved
C. Nebulised salbutamol and observe
D. Admit for intramuscular benzylpenicillin
E. Immediate intubation without a trial of treatment
Question 5 (Mental health). A 25-year-old man with schizophrenia started haloperidol 5 mg twice daily three days ago. He presents with two hours of severe neck pain, his head turned to the left, trismus and upward deviation of his eyes. He is afebrile, alert and haemodynamically stable, with no tremor, bradykinesia or autonomic instability. What is the most appropriate immediate management?
A. Urgent CT head
B. Intravenous diazepam 10 mg
C. Reduce the haloperidol dose and observe
D. Switch to oral olanzapine 5 mg daily
E. Intramuscular benzatropine 1 to 2 mg
Question 6 (Population health and ethics). A 68-year-old taxi driver with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes has had recurrent severe hypoglycaemia. Last week he had a witnessed seizure while driving his taxi, with a blood glucose of 1.2 mmol/L. He plays the episodes down, refuses to notify the driver licensing authority and plans to keep driving. What is the most appropriate course of action?
A. Advise him to stop driving and to self-report, then take no further action
B. Advise him he is unfit to drive, document this, and report him to the driver licensing authority when he refuses to self-report
C. Make a mandatory notification to the Austroads database
D. Optimise his insulin and reassess his fitness to drive later
E. Arrange a Holter monitor before advising on driving
Answers
Question 2: B. Primary PCI is preferred only when it can happen within 120 minutes of first medical contact. It can't here, so give fibrinolysis now and transfer for angiography within 2 to 24 hours, or for rescue PCI if the ST elevation doesn't fall by at least half. Full case
Question 3: D. A positive pregnancy test, an adnexal mass, free fluid up to the hepatorenal space and shock add up to a ruptured ectopic. Resuscitate with blood and operate now. Methotrexate is only for stable women with a small unruptured ectopic, and a CT just adds delay. Full case
Question 4: A. Severe croup (stridor at rest, marked recession, agitation) gets oral dexamethasone plus nebulised adrenaline. Keep him calm and watch him closely for a few hours afterwards, because the adrenaline wears off. Salbutamol treats the wrong part of the airway. Full case
Question 5: E. Torticollis, trismus or an oculogyric crisis within days of starting a dopamine blocker is an acute dystonic reaction. Benzatropine (often still written benztropine), IM or IV, usually settles it within minutes. Changing the antipsychotic is a decision for later. Full case
Question 6: B. Under the commercial driver standards, a severe hypo while driving makes him unfit to drive his taxi. Advise him, document it, and if he still won't self-report, notify the licensing authority. Reporting is mandatory in South Australia and the Northern Territory and permitted with legal protection elsewhere. Austroads publishes the standards but doesn't take reports. Full case
How did you score? Six from six or a couple of misses, the next step is the same: take 20 more free questions, timed, with every option explained and your weakest topic named at the end. No account, no card. Create your free account afterwards and your answers carry over.
More free AMC practice cases, by patient group
Every case below is a full worked case on a recalled topic, free and with no account needed.
Adult health: Medicine
COPD exacerbation with hypercapnic respiratory failure. Acidotic and tiring despite initial treatment. Which ventilation support?
Acute monoarthritis: gout or septic arthritis? A febrile man with a hot first MTP joint. What must happen before you treat?
ACE inhibitor cough: switching to an ARB. A dry cough on ramipril with a normal chest workup. What's the right medication change?
Adult health: Surgery
Acute compartment syndrome of the forearm. Escalating pain after a fracture, pulses still intact. What's the immediate treatment?
Gallstone pancreatitis: timing of cholecystectomy. Mild gallstone pancreatitis, improving by day three. When does the gallbladder come out?
Women's health
Gestational diabetes: postnatal testing and long-term risk. Diet-controlled GDM after delivery. When and how do you test?
Anti-D for threatened miscarriage before 12 weeks. RhD-negative with light bleeding at 10 weeks. Is anti-D needed?
Child health
Pyloric stenosis: correct the alkalosis before surgery. Projectile vomiting, an olive mass and a pH of 7.55. What has to happen before pyloromyotomy?
Imaging after a first febrile UTI in infancy. An infant recovering from a first febrile UTI. Which imaging comes first?
Mental health
Postoperative delirium: non-drug management first. Agitated delirium two days after surgery. What's the right first-line management?
Mania with an organic cause: thyrotoxicosis. Three weeks of elevated mood and a suppressed TSH. What's really going on?
Population health and ethics
Breast cancer screening with a family history. One relative with late-onset breast cancer. How should a 42-year-old be screened?
Meningococcal disease: notification and contact prophylaxis. Confirmed meningococcal disease. What do the household contacts need?
Contraception for a 16-year-old: Gillick competence. She's come alone for the pill and doesn't want her parents told. What do you do?
Refusing life-saving surgery: respecting a capable adult. A ruptured aortic aneurysm, and a patient who understands the risks and wants to die at home. What's the right response?
Impaired colleague: mandatory notification to Ahpra. A colleague is slurring, unsteady and smells of alcohol before an emergency laparotomy. What must you do?
AMC question bank FAQ
Is there a free AMC question bank?
AMC Academic gives you 50 free worked clinical cases and 20 free questions, no account or card needed, so you can start practising today. When you're ready for full volume, the complete bank has more than 2,800 original AMC Part 1 questions, from US$19 a month.
Are AMC question bank PDFs worth downloading?
Usually not. A PDF can't tell you when it was written, which guideline it follows or why the wrong answers are wrong. If it's built from reconstructed exam questions, the AMC's own review found many such stems and answers to be incorrect. Our free cases show when they were last updated and the guideline behind each answer, which no PDF can.
How many questions should I do a day for AMC Part 1?
On a 12-week plan, 40 to 50 a day, six days a week, moving to full 150-question mocks in the last two weeks. If you're working full-time, 20 to 25 a day over 24 weeks is more realistic.
Should I use more than one AMC question bank?
No. Finishing one good bank and redoing your misses beats skimming two. If you finish a full pass with time to spare, timed mocks are a better use of it than a second bank.
What is the best AMC question bank?
One that's written for Australia, mapped to the blueprint, explains every option, uses original questions and lets you practise under real exam conditions. That's the standard AMC Academic is built to. Try 20 questions free and see for yourself.
What's the difference between a question bank and AMC recalls?
Raw recalls are fragments of past exams reconstructed from memory, often with missing details and crowd-voted answers. A good question bank takes recalled topics and builds fresh, fully explained questions around them, which is how our free cases are written. More in AMC recalls: 18 free cases on recalled topics.
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Keep practising with all 50 free clinical cases. Planning your whole prep? Read AMC Part 1 exam preparation: the Australian topics that catch IMGs out.
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