Free MCAT® planner · 2027 test dates
Pick a test date. See every week until then.
Tell it your date and the hours you can give. It lays out new questions, reviews, passages and the full-length week by week, using the same scheduler the app runs on, then gives your last six weeks to the AAMC’s own practice exams.
- Scheduling opened
- October 20 to 22, 2026, at noon ET
- 2027 test dates
- January 15 to September 11 · all 35, with score dates
- Cost
- Free. No account needed to build a plan.
13 weeks, then test week.
38 of 50 topics started by December 1740 CARS passages1 ATP Quest full-length5 AAMC full-lengths
Learn from Nov 9 to Dec 3, Practice from Dec 4 to Dec 31, AAMC practice from Jan 1 to Feb 11, FL 1 in the week of Dec 18, the AAMC’s Unscored Sample Test in the week of Jan 1, the AAMC’s Practice Exam 1 in the week of Jan 8, the AAMC’s Practice Exam 2 in the week of Jan 15, the AAMC’s Practice Exam 3 in the week of Jan 22, the AAMC’s Practice Exam 4 in the week of Jan 29, then test day, Feb 12.
Your last six weeks, from January 1, go to the AAMC’s own exams: they are written by the people who write the test. The AAMC’s practice exams and question banks (opens in a new tab) are on its site.
At 15 hours a week, five of the AAMC’s seven full-lengths fit, the sample test first and the last about a week before test day. Each runs 7 h 05 with the optional breaks and takes about 2 h to review the next study day. More hours a week fit more.
ATP Quest’s reviews keep running in these weeks if you want a few minutes a day. The plan gives them no hours, and the scheduler still never schedules one past test day.
Week by week
Each week fits your hours. ATP Quest’s weeks carry the reviews the scheduler expects by then, so later ones hold more review and less new material; the AAMC weeks hold only the AAMC’s work.
At 15 hours a week the plan reaches 1,848 of the 2,488 questions, 38 of 50 topics, and keeps up with their reviews. More hours a week reaches more.
| Week | Dates | New material | Reviews a day | CARS passages | Exam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Nov 9 to 12 | CARS skills 1, Bio/Biochem 2, Chem/Phys 1, Psych/Soc 1: CARS skills to Protein structure | Reviews a dayAbout 35 | CARS4 | ExamNone |
| Week 2 | Nov 13 to 19 | Bio/Biochem 3, Chem/Phys 3, Psych/Soc 3 | Reviews a dayAbout 145 | CARS4 | ExamNone |
| Week 3 | Nov 20 to 26 | Psych/Soc 4, Bio/Biochem 4, Chem/Phys 3 | Reviews a dayAbout 190 | CARS4 | ExamNone |
| Week 4 | Nov 27 to Dec 3 | Bio/Biochem 3, Chem/Phys 2, Psych/Soc 2 | Reviews a dayAbout 215 | CARS4 | ExamNone |
| Week 5 | Dec 4 to 10 | Bio/Biochem 2, Chem/Phys 2, Psych/Soc 2 | Reviews a dayAbout 180 | CARS8 | ExamTimed Chem/Phys |
| Week 6 | Dec 11 to 17 | Psych/Soc 1, Bio/Biochem 2, Chem/Phys 2 | Reviews a dayAbout 145 | CARS8 | ExamTimed Bio/Biochem |
| Week 7 | Dec 18 to 24 | Full-Length 1 in one sitting, then reviews | Reviews a dayAbout 145 | CARSNone | ExamFull-Length 1 |
| Week 8 | Dec 25 to 31 | Read through Full-Length 1 | Reviews a dayAbout 110 | CARS8 | ExamTimed Psych/Soc |
| Week 9 | Jan 1 to 7 | AAMC question banks, and a study day after the exam to review it | Reviews a dayOptional | CARSNone | ExamAAMC Unscored Sample Test |
| Week 10 | Jan 8 to 14 | AAMC question banks, and a study day after the exam to review it | Reviews a dayOptional | CARSNone | ExamAAMC Practice Exam 1 |
| Week 11 | Jan 15 to 21 | AAMC question banks, and a study day after the exam to review it | Reviews a dayOptional | CARSNone | ExamAAMC Practice Exam 2 |
| Week 12 | Jan 22 to 28 | AAMC question banks, and a study day after the exam to review it | Reviews a dayOptional | CARSNone | ExamAAMC Practice Exam 3 |
| Week 13 | Jan 29 to Feb 4 | AAMC question banks, and a study day after the exam to review it | Reviews a dayOptional | CARSNone | ExamAAMC Practice Exam 4 |
| Week 14 | Feb 5 to 12 | AAMC question banks, at about half the hours | Reviews a dayOptional | CARSNone | ExamTest day, Friday |
Keep the plan. Let it adjust.
Saved to a free account, the plan follows what you study. Home shows today’s share of it, worked out again each day from what you have done, so falling behind moves the work into the weeks you have left and the date still holds.
No account needed to start: open the app with this plan, kept in this browser. Or add test day to your calendar.
Free covers every topic at 25 new questions a day, all your reviews, Rapid Fire and 3 of the 40 passages. Full-Length 1, timed sections, the other passages and Final Week come with Premium.
- If you missThe card comes back sooner, and every review after it is set from your answer.
- If you skipNothing is lost. Due cards wait, the ones you are closest to forgetting first, and the new work spreads over the days you have left.
- If you moveChange the date and every week redraws around the new one.
How the plan is worked out
- Pace
- About 30 seconds a question, new or reviewed: a quest is 10 questions in about five minutes. New questions go in at one steady pace on your study days, as many as your hours hold once the reviews are done, and no faster than finishing the questions before mixed practice ends needs.
- Reviews
- Worked out by the app’s own scheduler, which aims for 92% recall and schedules nothing after your test date. Its gaps shorten as the date nears, so reviews grow late in the plan. A miss comes back once more.
- Practice
- CARS passages at exam pace, 102 seconds a question; timed sections of 59 questions in 95 minutes; Full-Length 1 in one sitting with the optional breaks, in the last two weeks before the AAMC’s. Every question you sit is then read through at the quest pace. The plan only schedules exams ATP Quest has.
- AAMC weeks
- The last six weeks plan nothing from ATP Quest. The AAMC’s full-lengths go in as your hours fit them, at most two a week: each in one sitting with the optional breaks, 7 h 05, and read through the next study day, the Unscored Sample Test first and the last about a week before test day. The AAMC’s question banks fill the days between. The Unscored Sample Test and Practice Exam 1 are free from the AAMC; it sells Practice Exams 2 to 6. The last week runs at about 50% of your usual hours, and the day before the test is off.
- Short runway
- A test under ten weeks away gives the AAMC fewer weeks, never under two, so ATP Quest keeps four to teach the content first. A test two weeks away or less is the AAMC’s alone.
Test dates and score release dates are from the AAMC’s 2027 US calendar. Scheduling for them opens at noon ET on October 20 (Group A), October 21 (Group B) and October 22 (Group C), 2026, as the AAMC’s 2027 registration page says. Confirm yours with the AAMC before you book. The plan is an estimate from your inputs, not a promise of a score.