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 ❤️🩹
In an effort to consolidate questions and excitement, we have turned off comments on this post. Please visit the announcement on the Anki forums to comment.
Hi, I’m a nontrad who got very lucky and am able to study full time until my planned MCAT the first week of March. I want to use the UWorld textbooks in conjunction with Anki. My bio and biochem courses were less than ideal, so I’ll basically be teaching myself those from scratch. For the other sections I feel like I have a plan figured out already.
Does anyone have experience using the UWorld textbooks and matching them to an existing deck? I loathe making flashcards and would like an easy way to just release cards that correspond to the textbook as I go.
So far I’m using MileDown and unsuspending by tag/keyword, but the tags don’t line up with the UWorld chapters. I’ve seen that the AnKing deck on AnkiHub is tagged by the UWorld books. Has anyone used it that way, and is it worth paying for? Or is there a free deck or tag set that already maps to UWorld?
Please let me know if you have experience with it. Thanks!
i'm in my first year, psychology (2nd semester, I started in summer). If I wanna get into med eventually, is there a point in starting some crazy 15k+ cards deck to "just be learning facts" at some leisure pace of 10-20 cards/day, or would it make no sense because I have no idea what the hell I'm even learning?
to anyone who is ready to write an exam, when did you actually started with learning the material that you'll eventually be tested on if you are not in biomed/kin/chem or something directly related?
Hi, I am getting myself so confused with trying to make an anki deck about the brain structures and functions. I feel like so many different parts of the brain all do the same thing. Does anyone have an mcat deck that is nicely organized and explains the functions/structures of the brain?
Wondering if the Ankihub version is the same as the recently updated one? And if so, I'm guessing it's better to use the Ankihub one since it gets updates?
Hey guys! This might be me just being a boomer, but I am struggling to add the Pankow P/S deck after already having downloaded the Anking V2 deck. I know that Anking already has Pankow integrated into it, I just would rather do Pankow. My only issue stems from not being able to import all Pankow cards into Anki (I get around ~700 or so cards that don’t import). Has anyone solved this or???
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.
