ExamKrackers has changed shape completely
ExamKrackers spent two decades as a books company, and most reviews still treat it that way.
The site now leads with Krack University, a subscription platform at $695 for 90 days of all-inclusive access, with live tutoring available six days a week included in the price. There is a seven-day free trial.
The company positions itself directly against the big-course pricing, naming the "$1,000, $2,000, or even $3,000" competitors in its own marketing. On price per hour of live human contact, that claim holds up better than most competitive claims in this market.
What $695 buys
Ninety days of platform access, the full ExamKrackers curriculum, and live office hours six days a week where you can bring questions to an actual instructor. The teaching voice is the same one that made the books popular:
- Direct
- A little irreverent
- Willing to tell you what not to bother learning
The 90-day window is what to plan around. It suits a student who is already in a dedicated study block and knows their test date. It suits a student twelve months out considerably less well, because the clock starts when you buy.
What students tell us about ExamKrackers
ExamKrackers comes up in dozens of conversations students have started with us, and almost always in connection with the books rather than the platform.
The pivot to Krack University is recent enough that our archive has not caught up with it yet.
What students did consistently say about the books is that the explanations made sense the first time, and that the reasoning style suited them better than the encyclopedic approach of the larger publishers.
That is a signal about the teaching, even if it predates the current product.
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Where it makes sense, and where it does not
It is the best value in live instruction on this page. Six days a week of access to an instructor for $695 is not matched by anything else here, and the nearest comparable live offerings run three to five times the price.
The 90-day clock is the catch. If your test date slips, and MCAT test dates slip constantly, you are re-buying. Courses with 6 or 12 month access absorb that better.
The platform is newer than the reputation. You are buying a company with a long, good track record in books and a much shorter one in software. The free trial exists for this reason, so use it.
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