If you are a budget-conscious GP trainee — and most GP trainees are — i-Medics is the first free resource you should know about. The platform offers 3,000+ free MCQs covering AKT-relevant content, created by two UK GPs and aligned with current NICE guidelines.
What i-Medics Offers
The free package includes 3,000 MCQs with detailed answer feedback, a game mode for gamified revision, a score tracker, review question functionality, and topic-based filtering. The questions cover clinical medicine, statistics, and health administration — the three AKT domains.
Paid upgrades are available: the Silver package adds 350 AKT revision podcasts (updated monthly with latest NICE CKS guidelines). The Gold package adds 750 AKT teaching videos on top of the podcasts and questions. The podcast library is genuinely useful — monthly guideline updates delivered in an audio format that fits into commute time or gym sessions.
i-Medics also offers MSRA (2,500+ questions), DRCOG, MRCP Part 1, MRCEM, and PLAB 1 question banks — many with free tiers, making it a multi-exam resource for trainees sitting multiple postgraduate exams.
Strengths
Volume and cost. 3,000+ free questions is the largest free AKT-style bank available. For trainees who have exhausted their budget on Passmedicine or SCA tools, i-Medics provides additional question exposure at zero cost. The podcast library (Silver/Gold) provides passive revision that no other AKT resource offers in this format. The topic filtering allows targeted practice on weak areas. The MRCGP AKT questions are created by two UK GPs and updated to align with current NICE guidelines — covering clinical, statistics, and health administration domains.
Limitations
Explanation quality is below Passmedicine and Pastest — the detailed teaching notes that make those platforms effective learning tools are less developed on i-Medics. There is no adaptive engine — questions are served from a static pool without performance-based targeting. No peer benchmarking — you cannot compare your performance against other candidates preparing for the same diet. Some questions may lag behind the most recent RCGP curriculum updates or NICE guideline changes. The AKT format changed in October 2025 (now 160 questions in 2 hours 40 minutes) — verify that any platform you use reflects this change.
The free questions are genuinely free — but the platform is funded by upselling to paid tiers, so the free experience includes prompts to upgrade.
Who Should Use i-Medics
i-Medics works best as a supplementary resource alongside a primary Q-bank. The optimal combination for budget-conscious trainees: i-Medics (free) for raw question volume and topic exposure, iatroX (free) for adaptive weak-area targeting and spaced repetition, and Passmedicine (approximately £35) for curriculum-mapped questions with peer benchmarking. Total cost: £35. Total question exposure: 10,500+. This three-tool combination covers more questions, with better adaptive targeting, than any single premium platform — at a fraction of the cost.
Where iatroX Fits
Combine i-Medics' free volume with iatroX's free adaptive quiz engine. i-Medics gives you raw exposure across 3,000 questions. iatroX's adaptive engine identifies your weak areas from that exposure and concentrates practice there — automatically, on every session. Two free tools, complementary functions, zero cost.
The Bottom Line
i-Medics is a valuable free resource that every budget-conscious GP trainee should know about. The 3,000+ free questions provide question exposure that costs nothing. The paid podcast and video upgrades add passive revision formats that other platforms do not offer. It is not a replacement for a curriculum-mapped, high-explanation-quality Q-bank like Passmedicine or Pastest — but it is an excellent free supplement. The combination of i-Medics (free volume) plus iatroX (free adaptive targeting) provides a surprisingly comprehensive AKT preparation foundation at zero cost.