MCAT Practice Questions: Every Question Bank Compared

By MCAT Study Planner Team • Updated 10/10/2026

Short answer: the AAMC Online-Only Bundle is 2,876 official questions for $336.15, about 12 cents a question, read from the AAMC store on October 10, 2026. Blueprint sells questions cheaper, at roughly 6 cents, and Magoosh charges 54 cents. But the cheapest bank per question is also the one you have the least chance of finishing.

Every page ranking for this search answers a different question than the one you asked. They hand you a free sample and a signup form.

Nobody counts the banks. Nobody prices them. And nobody multiplies a question count by the time a question actually takes, which is the number that decides whether the bank you just bought was a purchase or a decoration.

In this guide

• Every MCAT question bank, counted and priced
• The AAMC retired three CARS products ten days ago
• What the official bundle actually holds
• Free questions, and how many there really are
• How many questions a day your bank implies
• The biggest bank is not the best buy
• What one question costs you in minutes
• What the ranking pages get wrong
• Why the Examkrackers 1001 books are not in the table
• Every bank on one page

Every MCAT Question Bank, Counted and Priced

Every figure in this table came off the vendor’s own page on October 10, 2026. Where a vendor sells several terms, the term is named in the row.

The per-question column is our arithmetic: the published price divided by the published count, nothing else.

Those terms are not comparable, so here is the same arithmetic on one basis. Six months is the window most people actually buy, and where a vendor sells no six-month term we say which term we used instead. Jack Westin at six months is six payments of $29.99, which is $179.94.

Magoosh charges 18 times what Jack Westin does for a question, and nearly five times what the AAMC does.

Two notes before you read anything into the spread.

UWorld publishes “Starting at $339” on its QBank page without saying what access period that price buys, which is the only bank on this list where the term is missing from the page. Everyone else states it.

And Magoosh’s 740-plus is the only count on this list that includes the full-length exams inside the headline number rather than on top of it. Its own page says “740+ questions including up to 3 full-length practice tests”, and three full lengths are 690 questions by the AAMC’s exam structure.

The AAMC Retired Three CARS Products Ten Days Ago

This is the part that has not reached the search results yet, and it changes what you should buy.

On September 30, 2026, the AAMC stopped selling the CARS Diagnostic Tool and CARS Question Packs Volumes 1 and 2. In their place it released one product, the CARS Question Bank: 575 passage-based questions for $70 on a one-year subscription.

Of those 575, the AAMC states that 166 are brand new and 409 carried over from the three retired products. So the new bank is the old CARS material plus about a third again on top.

If you already own one of the retired products, the AAMC says your access runs to its expiration date, and that within 60 days of that date you can buy a 3-month CARS Question Bank subscription for $35 or a 6-month one for $45. It also says refunds will not be issued for earlier purchases, and that a bundle bought before September 30 does not get the new bank added to it.

At $70 for 575 questions the CARS Question Bank is 12.2 cents a question, which puts it mid-table. For CARS specifically there is no substitute, because these are the only passages written by the people who write the exam. If CARS is your weak section, our CARS strategy guide covers what to do with them once you have them.

What the Official Bundle Actually Holds

The AAMC’s Online-Only Bundle is the default purchase for most students, so it is worth knowing exactly what is inside it.

Buying all of that separately costs $405, which is exactly the regular price the AAMC prints beside the bundle. The bundle sells at $336.15, a saving of $68.85, or 17 percent.

Here is the discrepancy worth knowing about. Add the counts in the table and you get 2,955. The AAMC’s own description of the bundle says it holds “a total of 2,876 unique questions”, 79 fewer. The operative word is the AAMC’s, not ours: unique. We quote the AAMC’s 2,876 throughout this guide and show you the gap rather than guessing at its cause.

The page currently ranking second for this search tells readers the same bundle is “over 3,000 practice questions”. It is not, by the AAMC’s own count, and the difference is at least 124 questions.

One more oddity from the same read. The AAMC store’s product comparison page prints the bundle at $336.70 in its price table and $336.15 in the product listing further down the same page. We use $336.15, which is the listing price against the stated $405.00 regular price and the one that works out to an exact 17 percent discount.

Two things the Section Banks and the Independent Question Bank get right, and that the per-question price hides: the Section Bank volumes carry 100 questions from each of the three science sections and lean hard on biochemistry, psychology and sociology, and the Independent Question Bank is 150 standalone questions split 25 each across biochemistry, biology, chemistry, physics, psychology and sociology. At $10 for 150 questions, the Independent Question Bank is the cheapest official question you can buy, at 6.7 cents.

Free Questions, and How Many There Really Are

The free roundups on this search are mostly lists of other people’s lists. Here is the actual count of free official questions, read on October 10, 2026.

That is 590 official AAMC questions before you spend a cent, and the 130 inside the free Content Outline Course are the ones nobody lists. The AAMC also moved resources out of the retired CARS Diagnostic Tool into that course, including 10 CARS practice questions across two passages with video walkthroughs.

Khan Academy’s MCAT collection is still free and still built with the AAMC, 15 units covering all four sections with practice passages. It publishes no total question count, which is why it has no row in the price table.

For everything else that costs nothing, our free MCAT prep compilation goes wider than question banks.

How Many Questions a Day Your Bank Implies

A bank is not a number of questions. It is a number of questions divided by the days you have left.

This is our arithmetic, and the assumptions are stated so you can change them: six study days a week, and finishing the bank once.

Read down the right-hand column and the problem is obvious. The 6,000-question bank that looked like the best deal needs 250 questions a day if you have four weeks, which is more than the entire 230-question MCAT, every day, for 24 days.

UWorld is the only vendor that publishes this arithmetic for itself, and only for one timeline. Its QBank page says that with “a 6-month plan (approx. 120 study days) and our QBank has 3,000 questions, an average of 25 questions per day is a sustainable target.” That is the same calculation in this table, run once. Our questions-per-day math for UWorld runs it across every timeline and adds what happens when the bank does not fit.

The AAMC bundle at that same 25 a day takes 115 study days, which is a little over 19 weeks at six days a week. If you are also running a content phase, our MCAT content review plan shows where question days sit beside review days.

The Biggest Bank Is Not the Best Buy

Now attach time to those questions, and the ranking inverts.

A question on the real exam gets 1.61 minutes, from the AAMC’s own structure: 95 minutes for 59 questions in each science section. Review costs more than the question did. We use two review rates, both stated as assumptions rather than measurements: 2 minutes a question for light review, which means reading the explanation on the ones you missed, and 4 minutes a question for deep review, which means reading every explanation including the ones you got right.

So a question costs 3.61 minutes light and 5.61 minutes deep. Multiply out:

The 475 hours is ours. It is the median total MCAT study time across the 43 real study-hour reports we collected and analyzed, and our analysis of 43 real reports has the full distribution behind it.

Finishing Blueprint’s bank with real review would eat 98 percent of a median student’s entire MCAT preparation. Jack Westin’s would eat 118 percent of it, leaving nothing for content review, full lengths or flashcards.

Which is not an argument against those banks. It is an argument against buying one because the number on the box is bigger. Past roughly 3,000 questions you are no longer buying questions you will do, you are buying optionality: the ability to drill a weak content category without running out. Price that honestly and the per-question column stops meaning much.

The practical read: buy the AAMC bundle, because those are the only questions written by the people who write the exam, and add exactly one commercial bank sized to your runway. If you have 24 weeks, a 5,000-question bank is usable. If you have eight, it is not.

What One Question Costs You in Minutes

The hours column above comes from one small table that is worth seeing on its own, because it is the table that decides whether your plan is real.

Here is what it costs, per day, to finish the AAMC bundle alone at each timeline. Our arithmetic, same assumptions: six study days a week, 1.61 minutes a question at MCAT pace, plus review.

At four weeks out, finishing just the official bundle with full review is an 11-hour day, every day, with no content review in it. That is the honest answer to “can I cram the AAMC material”, and it is no.

Once you can see the hours a day your bank demands, the schedule is the easy part. The free MCAT study schedule generator takes your test date, the hours you can genuinely give each week and the resources you already own, and places the question blocks and the practice exams across the weeks you actually have.

One thing the per-day table does not cover: full lengths are a separate budget. Each one is 230 questions and about 7 hours 30 minutes seated, before review. We keep those out of the question-bank arithmetic for that reason, and every full length compared handles them on their own terms.

What the Ranking Pages Get Wrong

We read the pages Google currently ranks for this search on October 10, 2026. Three things are worth knowing before you trust a number you find on one.

The section times at position 6 are wrong. That page publishes a timing table giving C/P 59 minutes and P/S 59 minutes. Both sections are 95 minutes, per the AAMC’s own exam-structure table. The 59 is the question count, printed in the time column. The page is also an email gate: the test arrives in your inbox.

The seventh result contains two questions. It is a Kaplan post dated January 1, 2023, titled for math practice questions, and it holds exactly two of them with explanations, then a call to action. For a search term asking for practice questions, that is the seventh best thing Google could find.

Two ranking pages sell question products and publish neither a count nor a price. The Princeton Review result lists one number on the whole page, “over 500 MCAT flashcards. A $17.99 value at no cost”. The MedSchoolCoach result lists none at all.

Google’s AI summary for this search names the AAMC hub, Khan Academy and the free Kaplan and Blueprint tests, then describes the four sections. It gives no count, no price and no timeline, which is why this page leads with all three.

Why the Examkrackers 1001 Books Are Not in the Table

The Examkrackers 1001 series is the obvious objection to a price-per-question table, because a book with 1,001 questions in it looks unbeatable on that metric.

We left it out, and here is why. Examkrackers’ own site returns an empty page to us, so there is no publisher price to read. On Amazon on October 10, 2026, the 1001 series appears only as single-copy listings of editions dated 2001, 2002, 2017 and 2018, at prices ranging from $11.30 for the chemistry volume to $62.55 for a general and organic chemistry edition, with most marked “only 1 left in stock”. A price that swings fivefold across the same series on the same day is not a price, and an edition dated 2001 predates the 2015 exam redesign entirely.

Books in general are a different purchase from a question bank, with a different unit of cost. Our guide to what each MCAT prep book set costs per page prices them the way books deserve.

Every Bank on One Page

All counts and prices read from the vendor’s own page on October 10, 2026. Hours and per-question figures are our arithmetic, at 1.61 minutes a question plus 2 or 4 minutes of review, six study days a week.

The decision this table supports is not “which bank is cheapest”. It is “how many questions fit in the weeks I have left, and which ones do I want them to be”. Answer the second question first.

If you want the weeks laid out rather than estimated, build your MCAT schedule from your test date and your real weekly hours, and the question blocks land where they fit instead of where you hoped.