How we source, check and correct what we publish.
mymdcat publishes a question bank, worked explanations, notes, past papers and an AI tutor. This page says what we check, how we check it, and how far each claim goes.
Bank counts and dates checked against the live database on 6 November 2026. The policy applies to every question, explanation, note and paper in the product.
The record
What we publish, and where it comes from.
What we publish
The public claim is 100,000+ MCQs. Every question in practice has an answer key, a chapter and a worked explanation.
We remove a question from practice when its key or explanation fails review. It stays in the database for history. A question that fails review is not shown to a student.
The bank includes 3,707 CRUX questions. The product also holds 12,087 UCAT items and 14,062 flashcards.
Every MDCAT chapter has a note. AKU-only chapters are marked separately.
The 2026 paper from each of the 6 boards is free, in timed or tutor mode, with answers and worked explanations. A free paper does not use your practice attempts. The older archive is on the pass.
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.
Sources we use
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 the order it was printed, and the row shows how many questions it holds.
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.
The checks
How a question is checked, and how SAGE answers.
How a question and explanation are checked
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 question in practice 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.
How SAGE uses retrieval and answers without one
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.
The engines
How CRUX, the study plan and FSRS work.
How CRUX is generated
CRUX is a shortlist drawn from the bank, not a separate bank written by hand. A weighted score ranks each candidate. Half comes from a high-yield topic, 30% from recency-weighted past-paper frequency, 10% from a core concept and 10% from the existing quality score.
Subject quotas follow the paper's 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.
How the study plan and FSRS work
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 for a weekly rhythm: which days you study, and how long each one runs.
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.
The people
How we handle corrections, and where AI is used.
How we handle corrections
Send a correction to support@mymdcat.com. 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.
Write on any weekday or Saturday. Most messages are answered the same working day.
AI disclosure
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 6 November 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.
The limits
How far each claim goes.
A bank of this size has gaps. These are the ones we know about, written down so you can check them.
We do not claim that every question is tagged to a topic. Some questions have no topic yet. Every question in practice does have a chapter.
We also do not claim that the bank is complete. Some topics are thin, and each paper row shows how many questions that paper holds.
The published limits
- SAGE does not carry page numbers. It names the board, subject, grade and chapter when it finds one.
- 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.
- Every MDCAT chapter has a note. Nine AKU-only chapters have no note yet.
- Some older papers are partial. A recovered question is a question that matched a question in our bank. 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.
If a claim on another page is stronger than this one, this page is the one to trust. Write to support@mymdcat.com and we will correct the other page.
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