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Free Khan Academy MCAT Course: How I Used It for MCAT Studying
The Khan Academy MCAT course is one of the best free resources I found while preparing for the MCAT, and it is a resource I actually used during my own studying. The collection was developed with support from the Association of American Medical Colleges, or AAMC, and includes approximately 1,100 instructional videos and 3,000 review questions covering material from all four sections of the MCAT.
You can access the complete Khan Academy MCAT course for free here:
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat
You can also access the Khan Academy MCAT YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/@KhanAcademyMCATprep
What made Khan Academy particularly useful for me was not that I tried to replace every other MCAT resource with it. I was already working through the Kaplan MCAT books, and I used Khan Academy as another way to hear difficult concepts explained and reinforce what I had already learned. I frequently listened to the videos while driving home from class, traveling to visit family and friends, and taking longer road trips. MCAT studying requires so much time that finding ways to reinforce material during time I otherwise could not have used for traditional studying was genuinely helpful.
I also completed all of the Khan Academy practice questions that were available when I studied. I thought they were useful for checking whether I understood the content, although I did not find them as representative or as valuable as UWorld, Blueprint, or the official AAMC questions later in my preparation. That distinction is important because I think Khan Academy works best when you understand what it is particularly good at instead of expecting one free resource to do everything.
Is the Khan Academy MCAT Course Still Available in 2026?
Yes. As of August 2026, the Khan Academy MCAT course is still accessible through the Khan Academy website, and the original videos are also available through the official Khan Academy MCAT YouTube channel.
Students understandably get confused about this because Khan Academy previously announced plans to retire the MCAT collection. The AAMC subsequently worked with Khan Academy to keep the resource available, and the collection remains accessible today.
I would bookmark both the main Khan Academy course and the YouTube channel. The regular Khan Academy website is much better when you want the organized course experience and access to the associated questions, while YouTube is convenient when you want to search for a particular concept or listen to videos away from your normal study setup.
The main course is here:
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat
The YouTube channel is here:
https://www.youtube.com/@KhanAcademyMCATprep
What Is Included in the Free Khan Academy MCAT Course?
The Khan Academy MCAT collection includes content from all four sections of the exam: Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems, Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills, Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems, and Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior.
The AAMC currently describes the collection as including approximately 1,100 videos and 3,000 review questions. You can see the AAMC’s description of the free Khan Academy collection here:
https://students-residents.aamc.org/prepare-mcat-exam/free-planning-and-study-resources
That amount of content is one of Khan Academy’s greatest strengths, but it can also become one of its biggest weaknesses if you approach it incorrectly. Watching more than a thousand videos from beginning to end would require a huge amount of time, and I do not think most MCAT students need to do that.
Instead, I would think of Khan Academy as a very large library of free MCAT explanations. You can use more of it when you are learning a weak subject and much less of it when you already understand a topic.
If you are confused about fluid dynamics, you can review fluid dynamics. If amino acids are giving you trouble, you can focus on amino acids. If two Psychology and Sociology terms seem almost identical, you can find a full explanation instead of repeatedly memorizing one-sentence definitions that you do not actually understand.
That flexibility is what I found most useful.
How I Personally Used Khan Academy for My MCAT
When I studied for the MCAT, Kaplan was one of my main resources for organized content review. I would work through the Kaplan material and then use Khan Academy when I wanted another explanation of a concept or additional reinforcement.
One of the biggest ways I incorporated Khan Academy was during drives. I listened to the MCAT YouTube videos while driving home from class, visiting family and friends, and taking longer trips. This worked particularly well because I had usually already reviewed the material in Kaplan, so I was not trying to learn an unfamiliar equation or complicated diagram entirely through audio.
Instead, I was hearing concepts for a second or third time.
That repetition helped, particularly with Biology and Psychology and Sociology. Those subjects contain many concepts that can be explained reasonably well through spoken examples and relationships. Hearing someone describe a psychological theory or walk through a physiological process was often more useful to me than simply rereading another paragraph in a review book.
I would not use this approach for every topic. Physics calculations, organic chemistry mechanisms, diagrams, graphs, and other visually intensive material deserve your full attention. If a lesson requires you to look at the screen, work through calculations, or take notes, save it for a time when you can actually sit down and study it.
Most importantly, never watch a screen, answer questions, or interact with the course while driving. I used familiar conceptual videos as audio review, not as a substitute for focused studying.
I Also Completed the Khan Academy MCAT Practice Questions
I did not only use the videos. I also completed all of the Khan Academy MCAT practice questions that were available during my preparation.
I thought those questions were useful, particularly during the content-review portion of studying. If I had just learned a concept, the questions gave me another opportunity to check whether I understood the main idea instead of assuming that understanding a video meant I had mastered the material.
However, I would put the Khan Academy questions in a different category from UWorld and the official AAMC resources.
UWorld was more useful to me for challenging passage-based practice and detailed explanations. Blueprint also gave me more practice working through longer MCAT-style passages. The official AAMC materials were ultimately the most important because they came closest to the reasoning and question style I needed to understand for the real exam.
For that reason, I think the Khan Academy questions are best viewed as free learning and reinforcement questions rather than the centerpiece of your final MCAT practice.
That does not make them unimportant. If you are studying on a limited budget, having thousands of free questions associated with free instructional material is an incredible resource. I would simply make sure that your practice becomes increasingly MCAT-specific as your exam approaches.
What Khan Academy Was Best for During My MCAT Studying
The Psychology and Sociology material was probably the part of Khan Academy that I found most useful.
Psych/Soc contains an enormous number of theories, terms, stages, and concepts that can look deceptively similar when reduced to a flashcard definition. Hearing a concept explained through an example often made it much easier to remember what actually separated one term from another.
The well-known Khan Academy 86-page, 100-page, and 300-page Psychology and Sociology documents are based on the same broader body of Khan Academy content. If you prefer written review, I have all three of those resources and explain how I would choose between them here:
I also found the Biology material useful for conceptual review, especially processes and organ systems that I had already encountered in Kaplan.
For Chemistry and Physics, I would be more selective. Khan Academy can give excellent explanations, particularly when a concept feels abstract in a textbook, but I would usually sit down and actively work through anything involving equations, graphs, or calculations instead of treating those videos as passive review.
Is Khan Academy Good for MCAT Psychology and Sociology?
Yes, and I think Psychology and Sociology is one of the strongest reasons to know that this resource exists.
The Khan Academy Psych/Soc collection covers behavior, learning, memory, identity, psychological disorders, social structures, demographics, sociological theories, research methods, and many of the other concepts that appear throughout the behavioral science section.
What I especially like about the video format is that it gives context to concepts that are easy to memorize incorrectly.
Suppose you have two terms that seem almost identical in your Anki deck. You can keep pressing “Again” and trying to memorize two sentences, but sometimes the better solution is to spend ten minutes actually understanding why the concepts differ.
That is how I would use Khan Academy.
Learn or clarify the concept there, then let Anki help you retain it.
If you want a dedicated Psych/Soc Anki deck, I would particularly consider Mr. Pankow. My complete Mr. Pankow download and review is here:
Should You Watch Every Khan Academy MCAT Video?
I would not.
This is probably the biggest change I would make if I were planning my MCAT preparation again.
A resource containing more than a thousand videos can make you feel as though finishing every lesson should be the goal. It is not.
The goal is to become good enough at the material and the exam to answer MCAT questions correctly.
If you already understand amino acids well enough to explain their structures, properties, charges, and common MCAT applications, you probably do not need to watch every introductory amino acid video simply because it exists.
Spend that time somewhere you are weaker.
If electrostatics makes no sense to you, that may be where you watch an entire group of lessons.
If you repeatedly confuse similar Psychology and Sociology terms, use Khan Academy heavily there.
If you already understand a topic and consistently answer questions about it correctly, move forward.
That selective approach allows you to take advantage of Khan Academy’s enormous library without allowing content review to consume your entire study schedule.
Can Khan Academy Replace MCAT Books?
For some students, it potentially can. I still preferred having Kaplan as a structured backbone for my own content review.
One advantage of a traditional MCAT book set is that you always know where you are. You can complete one chapter, move to the next, and eventually finish a defined set of material.
Khan Academy is much larger and can feel less linear.
If you learn particularly well through videos, you may prefer making Khan Academy your primary content resource and using the AAMC content outline to make sure you cover the necessary areas.
If you like textbooks, I would do something closer to what I did. Use your books as the organized framework and Khan Academy whenever you need a second explanation.
I think that combination gives you the best of both approaches without requiring you to finish two complete content-review programs.
Can Khan Academy Replace UWorld?
I would not think of them as substitutes because they solve different problems.
Khan Academy is primarily an instructional resource. It helps you learn or relearn a concept.
UWorld is primarily useful for applying concepts through questions, passages, figures, experiments, and detailed explanations.
If I missed a UWorld question because I realized I did not understand a scientific concept, Khan Academy was exactly the kind of resource I could return to.
That creates a useful cycle.
You learn the concept, reinforce it through active recall, attempt questions, identify your weakness, and then return to content review only where your performance tells you that you need it.
That is much more efficient than repeatedly reviewing every chapter because you are worried that you might have forgotten something.
Can Khan Academy Replace Official AAMC MCAT Materials?
No. I would still prioritize the official AAMC materials as your exam gets closer.
The value of AAMC practice is not simply that the questions contain MCAT content. It is that they teach you how the organization responsible for the MCAT actually presents passages, frames questions, constructs wrong answers, and expects you to reason.
Khan Academy is an excellent free content resource, but it cannot replace that exposure.
I would use more Khan Academy earlier in preparation and gradually allow AAMC material to become the focus later.
The closer you get to test day, the less time I would spend broadly reviewing topics that have not caused problems and the more time I would spend identifying exactly why I miss questions.
How to Use Khan Academy With Anki
Khan Academy and Anki worked well together for me because they accomplish two different tasks.
Khan Academy helps you understand.
Anki helps you remember.
I personally relied heavily on MileDown during my MCAT preparation because I liked that the deck was manageable enough to leave time for everything else I needed to do.
My complete MileDown guide is here:
If I were studying again and wanted substantially more detail, I would consider some of the other modern options depending on my timeline.
JackSparrow is much more detailed:
Aidan provides even more extensive coverage:
Mr. Pankow is particularly useful for Psychology and Sociology:
You do not need to complete all of these decks. I would choose one main system and then use Khan Academy when a card exposes something you do not understand.
That is much more realistic than collecting every popular MCAT deck and trying to finish all of them.
How to Use Khan Academy With the 86-Page and 300-Page Psych/Soc Documents
You do not need to watch every Psych/Soc video and independently read hundreds of pages of notes from beginning to end.
The resources overlap because the documents were developed around the broader Khan Academy behavioral science material.
If you want detailed written content review, the 300-page document gives you more explanation.
If you want a faster review, the shorter document is much easier to work through.
Then, when something in the document feels unclear, find the corresponding Khan Academy lesson and let the video provide the explanation that a condensed set of notes cannot.
You can download and compare the documents here:
I think this is a much better use of the videos than deciding you have to complete every resource independently.
How I Would Use Khan Academy if I Were Taking the MCAT Again
If I were beginning MCAT preparation again today, I would still use Khan Academy, but I would be even more selective with it.
I would begin with an organized content-review resource or the official AAMC content outline and identify the subjects where my foundation was weakest. Those would receive the most Khan Academy time.
For material I already understood, I would not spend hours watching introductory videos simply to say that I completed them.
I would begin practice questions fairly early.
Whenever a practice question exposed a true content gap, I would search Khan Academy for that concept, review the explanation, and then create or unsuspend an Anki card so I did not forget it again.
For Psychology and Sociology, I would probably use Mr. Pankow as my detailed Anki resource, use Khan Academy whenever a term needed more explanation, and keep the condensed Psych/Soc document available for review.
I would also continue using some Khan Academy audio during safe situations such as long drives, but only for material I had already studied and could reasonably review without seeing the screen.
That approach preserves what I think is Khan Academy’s greatest advantage: there is an enormous amount of high-quality instruction available for free whenever you genuinely need it.
How Much Khan Academy Should You Use Based on Your MCAT Timeline?
If you have four to six months before your exam, you have enough time to use Khan Academy fairly extensively for subjects where you need to rebuild your foundation. I would still begin practice questions during that period instead of waiting until content review feels completely finished.
If you have two to three months, I would become much more selective. Use the videos for concepts you genuinely do not understand, but do not spend days reviewing material you already know.
If you have only about a month remaining, I would use Khan Academy primarily as a repair tool. Your practice questions and full-length exams should be telling you exactly which topics still cause problems, and Khan Academy can help you fix those specific gaps.
At that point, I would not begin watching hundreds of videos simply because they are available.
Are the Khan Academy MCAT Practice Questions Worth Doing?
Yes, particularly because they are free and closely tied to the content being taught.
I completed them during my own preparation and thought they helped reinforce what I was learning.
I would still place them below UWorld and official AAMC questions when deciding how to use limited study time later in preparation.
Their value is strongest when you use them immediately after learning a topic.
Watch or review a concept, complete the associated questions, and make sure you can actually retrieve and use the information.
Later, use more passage-heavy resources to determine whether you can apply those concepts under conditions that look more like the MCAT.
Is Khan Academy Enough for MCAT CARS?
Khan Academy includes CARS instruction and practice passages, but I would not rely on videos alone to improve CARS.
CARS is a skill section.
You become better by reading passages, making decisions under time pressure, reviewing why you selected particular answers, and learning how to separate what the passage actually says from what simply sounds reasonable.
Khan Academy can help you understand the basic approach and give you additional passages, especially early in preparation.
As your MCAT approaches, however, official AAMC CARS material should become increasingly important.
Who Should Use the Free Khan Academy MCAT Course?
I would especially recommend knowing about Khan Academy if you are preparing for the MCAT on a limited budget, learn well through videos, need a second explanation after reading a textbook, have been away from science coursework for several years, or consistently identify particular knowledge gaps through practice questions.
I also think it is particularly valuable for busy students who want a resource that can sometimes be used outside a traditional desk-based study session. My own experience listening to familiar conceptual lessons while traveling made Khan Academy more useful to me than it would have been if I had treated every video as another formal lecture I needed to sit through.
At the same time, students who strongly prefer textbooks do not need to force themselves to use videos for everything.
Use Khan Academy where it actually helps you.
Can You Study for the MCAT for Free?
You can build a surprisingly substantial MCAT preparation plan from free resources.
Khan Academy can provide a large portion of your content instruction. Free community Anki decks can provide spaced repetition. The Khan Academy Psych/Soc documents can provide written behavioral science review. Free practice resources and spreadsheets can help you organize your studying.
I maintain a larger collection of these resources here:
If your budget allows one major purchase, however, I would strongly consider reserving money for the official AAMC preparation materials. Free resources can teach you a tremendous amount, but exposure to official MCAT questions becomes increasingly important as your exam approaches.
The larger lesson is that you do not need to purchase every expensive MCAT product you encounter.
A small group of resources used consistently is much more valuable than constantly changing books, decks, question banks, and study plans.
The Biggest Mistake I Would Avoid With Khan Academy
The biggest mistake is confusing time spent watching videos with progress.
Khan Academy explanations are clear enough that you can finish a lesson feeling as though you completely understand the material.
Then the next day, you may discover that you cannot explain it without the instructor walking you through it.
That is normal.
The solution is not simply watching the video again.
Try to retrieve the information yourself. Use Anki. Answer questions. Explain the concept without notes. Apply it inside an unfamiliar passage.
If you cannot do those things, return to the explanation and figure out exactly where your understanding breaks down.
That turns Khan Academy from passive entertainment into a real study resource.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Khan Academy MCAT Course
Is the Khan Academy MCAT course free?
Yes. The Khan Academy MCAT collection is available without purchasing a commercial MCAT course.
You can access it here:
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat
Is Khan Academy still available for the MCAT in 2026?
Yes. As of August 2026, the MCAT collection remains accessible through Khan Academy, and the videos are also available through the official Khan Academy MCAT YouTube channel.
How many Khan Academy MCAT videos are there?
The AAMC currently describes the Khan Academy collection as containing approximately 1,100 instructional videos.
How many Khan Academy MCAT practice questions are there?
The AAMC describes the collection as containing approximately 3,000 review questions.
Is Khan Academy good enough for MCAT content review?
It can provide a very strong content foundation, particularly for students who learn well from videos. I still recommend combining it with active recall and practice questions rather than relying entirely on passive video watching.
Should I watch every Khan Academy MCAT video?
I do not think most students need to. Use the collection extensively for weak areas and selectively for material you already understand.
Is Khan Academy good for MCAT Psych/Soc?
Yes. Psychology and Sociology is one of the parts of the collection I found particularly helpful during my own preparation because full explanations can make closely related terms easier to distinguish.
Should I use Khan Academy or the 300-page Psych/Soc document?
You can combine them. Use the document for organized written review and return to Khan Academy when you need a fuller explanation of a particular concept.
My comparison and download page is here:
Is Khan Academy better than UWorld?
I would not compare them as direct substitutes. Khan Academy is primarily useful for learning and reviewing concepts, while UWorld is more useful for applying those concepts through passage-based practice.
Can Khan Academy replace AAMC practice?
No. I would increasingly prioritize official AAMC questions and full-length exams as your test date approaches.
What Anki deck works well with Khan Academy?
For general MCAT review, MileDown is a manageable option and was the deck I personally used most. Mr. Pankow pairs particularly well with Khan Academy Psychology and Sociology content. JackSparrow and Aidan provide substantially more detailed alternatives for students with longer study timelines.
Can I listen to Khan Academy MCAT videos while driving?
I personally used conceptual Khan Academy videos as audio review during drives after I had already studied the material. I would only do this with lessons that can be understood safely through audio alone. Never watch the screen, take notes, answer questions, or interact with the course while driving.
Can Khan Academy help if I only have one month before my MCAT?
Yes, but I would use it selectively. At that point, allow your practice questions and full-length exams to identify your weak topics, then use Khan Academy to repair those specific gaps.
Final Thoughts: Is the Free Khan Academy MCAT Course Worth Using?
Yes. Khan Academy was genuinely useful during my own MCAT preparation, and I would use it again.
What I would not do is turn the more than 1,000 videos into another giant checklist that I felt obligated to finish.
I found Khan Academy most valuable when it supplemented the rest of my studying. Kaplan gave me an organized content-review structure, Khan Academy gave me another way to understand and reinforce the material, Anki helped me remember it, and practice questions showed me whether I could actually apply what I had learned.
I also appreciated how flexible the videos were. Being able to listen to familiar Biology or Psychology and Sociology topics on a long drive gave me additional review without taking another hour away from the focused practice I needed when I was sitting at my desk.
The practice questions were worthwhile too, and I completed all of them, but I would still prioritize UWorld and official AAMC practice as your preparation becomes more advanced.
If you are trying to keep MCAT costs down, Khan Academy is one of the first resources I would recommend exploring. Even if you eventually purchase other materials, having a free library of roughly 1,100 videos and 3,000 questions available whenever you encounter a content gap is incredibly valuable.
Use it selectively, use it actively, and do not measure your progress by how many videos you have watched. Measure it by whether you can explain the concepts yourself and answer questions correctly when the MCAT presents those concepts in a completely different way.