This audit is for standard-pathway candidates deciding whether the AMC Question Bank (amcquestionbank.com) should be their primary resource for the AMC MCQ. In short: it is a discipline-organised, explained bank that maps cleanly onto the AMC's six-strand structure and is a reasonable spine for knowledge and recognition. Its principal limitation is the one every bank shares — once you have worked through it, your score measures memory of its items, not transfer to unseen questions — and its public pages do not state a live total question count, so treat volume claims as unverified until you see them in the product.
Current state (verified 19 July 2026)
The figures below are vendor-reported from the product's own pages on the date shown; confirm each on the site before you buy, including the currency displayed at checkout.
| Item | What the product page shows |
|---|---|
| Exam covered | AMC MCQ (AMC Part 1) preparation |
| Content organisation | Six disciplines: Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Public Health & Ethics |
| Total question count | Not stated on the public pages — verify the current count on the product page |
| Explanations | Detailed explanation for each option "wherever possible" (vendor-reported) |
| AI / adaptive features | None mentioned |
| Access periods | 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12 months (vendor-reported) |
| Indicative price | Roughly 70 to 250 in the listed currency across the shortest to longest plan (vendor-reported; verify) |
| Guarantee | Free subscription extension if you do not pass (vendor-reported) |
The most important cell is the empty one. A bank that does not publish its size is not disqualified — many good ones under-state volume — but it means you cannot audit breadth from the marketing page and must judge coverage from inside the product during any trial.
Exam anchor
The AMC MCQ is 150 single-best-answer questions (one correct of five options) in one 3.5-hour computer-administered session at Pearson VUE, and it is the written gateway to the AMC Clinical Examination. The official blueprint weights Adult Health – Medicine at about 30%, Surgery 20%, Women's Health (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) 25%, Child Health 12.5% and Mental Health 12.5%, with Population Health and Ethics distributed across those settings. The AMC calls it a "Computer Adaptive Test", but the public exam page does not confirm a difficulty-adapting algorithm; plan around a fixed-length computer-administered MCQ and verify the mechanism in the AMC specifications. These are the official requirements; a vendor's discipline labels are a convenience, not a promise that its internal weighting matches the AMC's.
Coverage by blueprint domain
The bank's six categories line up almost one-to-one with the AMC's strands, which is genuinely helpful — you can practise "Psychiatry" against Mental Health, "Public Health & Ethics" against the population-health strand, and so on. The alignment you cannot confirm from outside is proportional coverage. If the bank holds far more Medicine than Women's Health items, its category filter will still let you practise O&G, but the depth may be thinner in a strand that carries a quarter of the exam. During a trial, sample each category and ask whether the number and variety of items in the 25%-weighted Women's Health strand and the 12.5% Child Health and Mental Health strands feel proportionate, or whether the bank is Medicine-heavy like the exam is but thinner than the weighting warrants elsewhere.
Sample question style
On the visible sample material the items read as exam-style single-best-answer questions with clinical stems and five options, and the vendor's stated design goal is per-option explanations. What to check on your own sample: are stems the length and structure of AMC items, or shorter recall prompts; do the wrong options look plausible (good distractors) or obviously wrong (recognition-only); is there meaningful use of investigation and image or data interpretation, given the exam tests investigation, therapy and management; and does the explanation reason toward the best answer or merely assert it. A bank that leans to short recall stems with weak distractors will inflate your percentage without building the discrimination the exam rewards.
Jurisdiction and recency
This is where an AMC-specific bank earns or loses its place. Take a stratified sample of ten to fifteen items across prescribing, screening, immunisation and mental-health law and check them against current Australian sources — Therapeutic Guidelines (eTG), the Australian Medicines Handbook, the National Immunisation Program and relevant RACGP or college guidance. Record the date you did it. The bank is fit for purpose if its answers and explanations track Australian practice; it is a liability if it quotes another country's first-line therapy or an out-of-date schedule. Because the vendor does not publish a content-review date on the pages audited, this check is yours to do, not theirs to assert.
Format gap: what a standalone bank cannot prepare you for
State it plainly: no standard Q-bank, this one included, can prepare you for three things the AMC MCQ quietly demands. Australian guideline localisation — the reflex to choose the eTG or AMH answer, not the one from where you trained. International-graduate transition — consent, cultural safety and medico-legal reasoning in the Australian context. Pace on a long computer-administered session — 150 items across 210 minutes without banking time deficits. A bank builds knowledge and recognition; these are performance skills, trained by coached cases, timed integrated blocks and unseen simulation. Our companion piece on what MCQ banks cannot prepare you for in AMC MCQ sets out how to train each one.
Duplication and contamination
The risk with any single bank is that completion becomes recognition. Watch for near-duplicate stems that teach the same fact twice, for concepts that recur so often you answer from memory of the item rather than reasoning, and for the point at which your rising percentage simply reflects re-seeing content. When you notice yourself recognising answers from the first line, the bank has done its teaching job and your number has stopped measuring anything new. That is the moment to move measurement onto genuinely unseen items, not to buy a longer subscription.
Best-fit matrix
| Job | Is the AMC Question Bank a strong fit? |
|---|---|
| Foundation building | Yes, if you need Australian-referenced content organised by discipline |
| First structured pass | Yes — the six-strand layout supports a blueprint-led first pass |
| Second bank for fresh volume | Only if it is genuinely new to you; otherwise it duplicates |
| Retake after a near miss | Partial — good for shoring knowledge, weak for an independent readiness signal |
| Final unseen simulation | No — by then you have seen the items; use an unseen source |
Worked example: a seven-day plan
A candidate three months out, overseas-trained, strong in Medicine and shaky on Australian defaults, using the AMC Question Bank for one job — building localised knowledge — and iatroX for a second, separate job: measuring transfer on unseen, timed items. No proprietary algorithm is assumed on either side.
- Day 1: 40 AMC Question Bank items in the two weakest strands; log every miss and, for each, the Australian source that settles it.
- Day 2: Review only the logged misses; write a one-line delta (home practice vs Australian practice) for each localisation error.
- Day 3: 40 new items in Women's Health and Child Health (the higher-weighted strands you neglect); same logging.
- Day 4: A 40-item timed iatroX block, unseen, mixed, no assistance — this is measurement, not learning; record accuracy by discipline.
- Day 5: Teach back your five hardest misses of the week from memory; re-test them the same day.
- Day 6: 50 AMC Question Bank items across all six categories at exam pace (about 84 seconds each) to train rhythm.
- Day 7: Rest or a short unseen mixed block; compare this week's unseen accuracy with last week's, by strand.
The division of labour is the point: the bank teaches, iatroX measures on items neither of you have contaminated. Doing both jobs inside one resource is what produces a confident percentage and a disappointing result.
Decision checklist: continue, supplement, switch or stop
Continue if your unseen accuracy is rising across strands and the bank's Australian content checks out against current guidance. Supplement if one blueprint strand — most often Women's Health or Mental Health — is under-served, or if you have no independent unseen measure; add a second, unseen source rather than more of the same. Switch if a jurisdiction sample shows repeated non-Australian answers or stale guidance you cannot reconcile. Stop adding new volume when your errors are few and specific and your unseen, timed accuracy has plateaued — then spend your remaining weeks on spaced re-testing and full-length simulation. Decide on measurable gaps, never on sunk cost or the appeal of a new interface.
Three mistakes this audit is designed to stop
First, treating a rising bank percentage as a readiness score: it is a memory-of-this-bank score, and the AMC reports a scaled result rather than a raw percentage, so the two are not the same currency. Second, trusting the six-category labels as proof of proportional coverage — a strand that carries a quarter of the exam needs a quarter of your depth, not merely a filter tab, and only sampling the product tells you whether the depth is there. Third, leaning on the pass guarantee as a substitute for verification: a free extension if you fail is a commercial comfort, not evidence that the content is current or Australian, so run your own jurisdiction sample regardless of what the guarantee promises. Avoid all three and the bank does its real job, which is building explained, discipline-organised knowledge you then measure somewhere your score has not already seen the answers.
Bottom line
The AMC Question Bank is a credible, discipline-aligned, explained spine for AMC MCQ knowledge, with an honest caveat that its public pages do not state a size and its recency is yours to verify. Use it to build and localise knowledge; do not ask it to be your readiness signal. Pair one clear job in the bank with unseen, timed measurement elsewhere and you get the best of it without mistaking familiarity for preparedness.
Frequently asked questions
Is AMC Question Bank enough for AMC MCQ on its own? For the knowledge and recognition load it can be enough as a primary bank, provided its Australian content holds up on your own jurisdiction sample and its volume is adequate once you see the count inside the product. What it cannot supply on its own is an independent readiness signal or training in localisation, transition and pacing, so most candidates pair it with a small pool of unseen, timed questions and some coached case work rather than relying on the bank alone.
Which AMC MCQ component does AMC Question Bank not reproduce well? Like any static MCQ bank, it does not reproduce the performance layer — sustained pace across a 3.5-hour computer-administered session, and the reflex to localise to Australian guidelines under time pressure — nor does it stand in for the separate AMC Clinical Examination. It reproduces content and recognition, which are necessary but not sufficient.
How many AMC Question Bank questions should I complete per day for AMC MCQ? There is no magic number; a sustainable 40 to 60 items a day, fully reviewed with every miss logged and localised, beats 150 skimmed. The constraint is review quality, not throughput. If you cannot debrief the block the same day and check its Australian claims against a primary source, you are doing too many.
When should I stop using AMC Question Bank and move to mixed mocks? Move to mixed, timed mocks once you are recognising answers from the opening line of stems and your accuracy within the bank has plateaued — that is the signal completion has become recognition. Keep the bank for targeted revision of logged weak topics, but shift your measurement onto unseen, full-length blocks so your score reflects transfer rather than memory.
How should I combine AMC Question Bank with iatroX without duplicating practice? Give each a single, distinct job: the AMC Question Bank for building and localising knowledge by discipline, iatroX for unseen, timed measurement of whether that knowledge transfers. Never run the same items through both, and never let the bank you learned on also be the bank you grade yourself on. The two-Q-bank rule explains how to add the second source without duplicating questions or corrupting your calibration.
Editorial notes and references
Written by Dr Kolawole Tytler, NHS GP and founder of iatroX. Last checked 19 July 2026; question counts, prices, access periods and features are vendor-reported from the product's own pages on that date and change without notice — verify each on amcquestionbank.com before purchase, including the checkout currency. iatroX operates a competing AMC MCQ bank, which we disclose; this audit confines iatroX to the job the audited product does not claim — independent, unseen measurement of transfer — and makes no proprietary-algorithm claim. Corrections are welcome via the feedback route on iatrox.com.
References: Australian Medical Council — AMC CAT MCQ examination format and MCQ specifications (amc.org.au); AMC Question Bank product and pricing pages (amcquestionbank.com, vendor-reported); iatroX AMC MCQ bank (iatrox.com/australia/exam/au-amc); iatroX comparison hub; "Your Q-Bank Percentage Is Not Your Exam Score"; the two-Q-bank rule.