How we source, check and correct what we publish.

The public claim is 100,000+ MCQs. The database holds 94,906 MDCAT rows, of which 83,000+ are active today. The rest are retired or awaiting review. Explanations cover all 83,781 active questions. Each active question has an answer key and a chapter.

A retired question stays in the database for history and does not appear in practice. The bank is being expanded so the active count reaches the public claim. We publish the active count on this page rather than hiding the gap.

The bank includes 3,707 CRUX questions. The product also holds 12,087 UCAT items and 14,062 flashcards. With the active MDCAT questions, the UCAT items and the flashcards, the total is 100,000+ practice items.

80 of 89 active chapters have notes.

Every 2026 paper is free, in timed or tutor mode, with answers and worked explanations. A free paper does not use your 500 practice attempts.

The 2026 test was held on Sunday, 20 September 2026. PMDC has not announced a 2027 date. July 2027 is the mymdcat planning assumption for the study planner, not an official date.

The active count describes the live database. The 100,000+ claim counts the full bank and is backed by the expansion plan. A bank of this size has gaps. We list the ones we know below.

Questions and explanations are checked against board textbooks and past papers. The textbook corpus is Punjab (PTB), Sindh (STB) and Federal (NBF). The corpus has no separate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Balochistan set, so those boards fall back to the Federal books.

Past papers come from 6 boards: UHS, DUHS, KMU, NUMS, Balochistan, Federal. A paper is stored in its original order. The row shows how many questions we recovered, because some older papers are partial.

These are the official sources we use. A link goes to the organisation, not to a copied page.

• Pakistan Medical and Dental Council

  MDCAT format, registration notices, NRE rules and college recognition.

• University of Health Sciences, Lahore

  Punjab admitting university and UHS paper notices.

• Dow University of Health Sciences

  Sindh admitting university.

• Khyber Medical University

  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa admitting university.

• National University of Medical Sciences

  NUMS test and admissions.

• College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

  FCPS training and induction.

• Higher Education Commission

  Degree recognition and scholarships.

• Aga Khan University

  AKU admissions and test requirements.

• UCAT Consortium

  UCAT subtests, scoring and test rules.

A question enters the bank only when the answer key matches one of its options, the chapter exists, and the subject and chapter agree. A question with an empty option, a null option or a key that matches no option is rejected.

Every active question has an explanation. The explanation gives the reasoning for the correct option. Some explanations also discuss the options a student is likely to pick. We do not claim that every distractor has a separate full write-up.

Formulas are written in LaTeX and rendered with KaTeX. A formula that fails the renderer is repaired before it ships. If it cannot be repaired, the item is retired.

Human review is targeted, not line by line across the whole bank. A person reviews reported items and items that fail a check. New batches are sampled before release.

A wrong answer key is the most serious defect we can ship. If we confirm one, we retire the question, correct the explanation and then decide whether it should return.

SAGE is a study companion, not a search box. It can explain a concept, work through a calculation, compare two processes and quiz you on a chapter.

When retrieval finds a textbook passage, SAGE may cite it. The citation names the board, subject, grade and chapter. It does not carry a page number.

Retrieval enriches an answer. It does not gate the answer. When no passage is found, SAGE answers from model knowledge and says which parts you should check in your textbook.

A citation is evidence that a chapter was retrieved. It is not proof that every sentence came from that chapter. SAGE can be wrong. Check a high-stakes fact in your textbook before you rely on it.

A free account gets 10 SAGE questions a day. The MDCAT Pass raises the limit to 20 questions an hour.

CRUX is a shortlist drawn from the active bank, not a separate bank written by hand. A weighted score ranks each candidate: 50% for a high-yield topic, 30% for recency-weighted past-paper frequency, 10% for a core concept and 10% for the existing quality score.

Subject quotas follow the exam split of 81 Biology, 45 Chemistry, 36 Physics, 9 English, 9 Logical Reasoning. Coverage floors stop a low-volume chapter from disappearing. Each selected item carries a longer explanation, and an AI audit scores the item before it joins the set.

A CRUX rank is a study priority. It is not a prediction that the question will appear in your paper.

The study plan reads the exam date configured for the app. When no date is configured, it uses the July 2027 planning assumption. It does not ask a student to type a personal exam date. It asks how many days a week and how many hours a day you can study.

The time to the exam is split into three phases: learn, revise and papers. Learn takes about 60% of the remaining time, revise about 20% and papers about 20%. A weekly test runs on Friday. Rest days are part of the plan.

The plan re-derives on every read from your attempt history and your ticked chapters. A ticked chapter is skipped and counted. A topic you decline is offered again after a gap, then dropped after three distinct offers.

Flashcards use FSRS-5. A correct answer rates Good. A wrong answer rates Again. The scheduler targets 90% retention and caps an interval at 365 days. The deck holds 14,062 cards.

The plan and the scheduler are study aids. They do not promise recall, a score or an admission outcome.

Send a correction to [email protected]. Use the subject line Correction. Include the page URL, the question ID if the page shows one, what is wrong and the source you used.

We check the item against the source. If the item is wrong, we correct it or retire it. If the source is out of date, we say so and update the page. When a correction changes a number on this page, we update the checked date.

We aim to reply within one working day, Monday to Saturday.

AI tools draft and check text. They also generate explanations, notes and CRUX audits. A person reviews reported items and sampled batches before release.

The bank counts and dates on this page come from the fact ledger, which was checked against the live bank on 25 October 2026. The CRUX weights, phase shares and FSRS settings come from the code that applies them. AI output can be wrong. If you find an error, use the correction address above.

We do not claim that 100,000+ questions are active today. The public claim counts the full bank, including retired rows. The active count is 83,000+, published above. We do not claim that every active question is tagged to a topic. 467 active questions have no topic yet. Every active question does have a chapter.

• SAGE does not carry page numbers. Its citation names the board, subject, grade and chapter.
• SAGE can answer from model knowledge when retrieval finds no passage. It is not a strict retrieval-only system.
• The corpus has no separate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Balochistan textbook set. Those boards fall back to the Federal books.
• Nine of the 89 active chapters have no note yet.
• Some older papers are partial. The paper row shows the number of questions recovered.
• There is no live video lecture library. Study Zone links to public YouTube playlists.
• There is no faculty or teacher dashboard. Academy partners receive a monthly report.
• The 2027 exam date has not been announced. July 2027 is a planning assumption.
• No score, rank or admission outcome is guaranteed.

We also do not claim that the bank is complete. Some topics are thin, and some old papers are partial. The paper row shows the recovered count.