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I built this for my own MCAT.

Spaced repetition works; that part of Anki is right.

What I wanted while studying was pacing built around my test date, and a reason to open the app every day.

ATP Quest is both: every card is scheduled so the reviews land before the exam, and every right answer earns ATP you spend building a cell.

It has grown to 2,488 original questions across 50 topics and 99 drawn figures. The rest of this page is how they are made and how the scheduler decides what you see.

Griffin Blue, founder

  1. How the questions are made

    Every question, explanation and memory hook was written for ATP Quest. None is copied from official AAMC materials, commercial prep courses or shared flashcard decks, and the bank is checked by script for passages that overlap known sources. Questions are tagged to the AAMC’s own content categories, so what you drill maps onto the outline the exam is written from.

    Structures are drawn from coordinates checked against PubChem, the US government’s public chemistry database; stereochemistry is verified by software, not by eye. Figures are drawn in code and audited for legibility on phones and for color pairs that merge under common forms of color blindness.

  2. How the scheduler works

    Each card has a memory model, the FSRS-5 algorithm: difficulty, stability and the probability you still remember it. Answer a card and the scheduler predicts when your chance of recalling it will fall to 92%, then brings it back just before. How quickly you answer tells it how solid the memory is, so you never have to grade yourself. Miss a card and it comes back later in the same session, then daily until it sticks. Set your test date and no review is ever scheduled after it.

  3. Why the biology

    ATP is the energy currency of the cell; here it is the currency of study. You earn it for correct answers and spend it building a cell whose organelles change how studying pays. It is a small joke with a serious point: the exam rewards the learner who keeps the whole system running, not the one who crams one organelle.

  4. Not affiliated with the AAMC

    MCAT® is a registered trademark of the Association of American Medical Colleges. ATP Quest is an independent study tool, not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by the AAMC. For official practice material, go to the AAMC.

  5. Get in touch

    Found a wrong answer, a typo or a bug? Use the bug button in the app, press R, or use the contact form. I read every report.

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