AMC CAT MCQ mock tests

Australian Medical Council Computer Adaptive Test, Multiple Choice Question examination

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About AMC CAT MCQ

The AMC CAT MCQ examination is the knowledge stage of the AMC standard pathway, for international medical graduates whose primary medical qualification is not recognised by the Medical Board of Australia. It is a computer-administered test of medicine at the level of a graduating Australian medical student about to start internship. Pearson VUE delivers it in one 3.5-hour session at centres in Australia and overseas. A candidate buys a 12-month authorisation, then schedules one event with Pearson VUE.

The examination has 150 A-type questions: one best answer from five options. The AMC MCQ page states that all 150 items are scored. Content is blueprinted by patient group in the September 2025 specifications: adult health — medicine 30 percent, adult health — surgery 20 percent, and women's health, child health, mental health, and population health and ethics 12.5 percent each. Questions are also classified by clinician task (data gathering, data interpretation and synthesis, and management). Stems cover pathogenesis, clinical features, investigations, differential diagnosis, and management. Some live items use images; this practice form describes the findings in words.

The live test is a computer adaptive test. The first item is drawn from the pool, a correct answer is followed by a harder item, and an incorrect answer by an easier one. The ability estimate is updated after each response and equated across forms. A question must be answered before the next is given, and an answer cannot be changed. There is no deduction for a wrong answer. This site's practice form is fixed. It does not adapt. Every candidate gets the same 150 questions and may move among them on one 210-minute clock.

The AMC reports ability on a scale of 0 to 500. A passing performance is represented at 250. From 17 December 2025 the AMC raised the underlying standard slightly and folded that higher cut into the same 0–500 scale, still describing the pass mark as 250. The number of correct answers is not the score: two candidates with the same number correct can differ if one received harder items. The conversion is not published as a raw mark, so this site reports how many questions were answered correctly, out of 150.

The second stage is the AMC clinical examination, which a candidate may sit only after passing the MCQ. It is a structured clinical assessment at the AMC Test Centre in Melbourne or online. There are 16 assessed stations and four rest stations. Rest stations are not scored. At the test centre each station is 10 minutes: two minutes to change over and read, and eight minutes of assessment. Online, most stations are 10 minutes, with two minutes to read and eight minutes of assessment. Two of the 16 assessed stations are pilot stations. The result is decided on 14 scored stations. An examiner's global rating, on a seven-point scale, decides the station: four or above is a pass on that station and three or below is a fail. A candidate who passes 9 or more of the 14 scored stations passes the examination; 8 or fewer is a fail. Stations focus on history, examination, diagnostic formulation, or management, counselling and education. This site describes that examination and does not set stations for it.

AMC CAT MCQ examination exam pattern

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