How we built a 6,900-card MCAT deck with 1,000 cited sources

Search "MCAT Anki deck" and you'll find a handful of community decks, most of them years old, merged from several people's notes, with no consistent sourcing and gaps nobody's gone back to fill. That's the deck most premeds end up studying from. We built something different: one compiled class, organized the way the AAMC actually breaks the exam down, with a source behind every card.

Built to the AAMC's structure, not a study group's habits

The AAMC tests four sections: Chemical and Physical Foundations, Biological and Biochemical Foundations, Psychological/Social/Biological Foundations, and Critical Analysis and Reasoning (CARS isn't content-testable the same way, so it's out of scope for a flashcard deck - if CARS is where you're losing points, that's a pacing problem more than a content one, and the CARS timing calculator is built for that instead). We split the deck into 6 units that map onto that structure - General Chemistry, Physics, Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, and Psychological/Social/Behavioral Sciences - instead of the looser "premed subjects" grouping most shared decks default to. 79 chapters sit underneath those units, so a chapter is small enough to actually finish in a sitting instead of an undifferentiated 500-card unit dump.

6,900 cards, 1,000 sources

Every card in the deck carries a source field tracing it back to a specific reference - a standard textbook, an AAMC content outline, a peer-reviewed explanation of a mechanism - rather than "whatever a Discord server agreed sounded right." Across the deck that's roughly 1,000 distinct sources cited. This matters most in the sections premeds under-review: biochemistry metabolism pathways and psych/social terminology are exactly where a vague or half-remembered flashcard costs you a real point on test day, because the AAMC's actual passages test precise definitions, not vibes.

No signup wall to browse

You can open the deck itself and scroll it before creating an account - we'd rather you see the card quality up front than take our word for it. Once you do want spaced repetition tracking your weak spots instead of a flat scroll, that's what an Encodr account adds: see what spaced repetition actually does and how Encodr's scheduler decides what to show you today for what changes once you're signed in.

Once you've got a study plan around it, the MCAT score predictor turns a practice-test breakdown into a projected total and percentile.

What's still ahead

The deck isn't static. Chapters get refined as we find gaps or a card that's technically correct but poorly written, the same QA process used on every curated class in the library (see where your cards' facts come from). If you're studying the deck and hit a card that's wrong, thin, or missing a citation, that's useful signal - flag it and it gets fixed, not defended.