Free, excellent, and on a clock
Khan Academy's MCAT collection is free, covers most of the content outline, and is taught well. It is also living on borrowed time, and anyone planning prep past 2026 needs to know that before building a study plan around it.
The collection was slated for retirement in 2020 and kept alive by a partnership with the AAMC that runs through 2026. Khan Academy has said the content is under audit and revision and that it hopes to continue beyond that, but it has not guaranteed anything. If your test date is in 2027, treat this as a resource that may not be there when you need it.
What the collection covers
Videos, articles and practice passages across the sciences and psychology and sociology, organised by foundational concept rather than by subject. That organisation is the most common complaint about it, and it is a fair one: if you want to revise "the endocrine system" you will be hunting across several concept groupings to assemble it.
The psychology and sociology material is the strongest part and remains the single best free resource for that section. The physics is thinner than the biology. Explanations occasionally stop short of the depth the exam asks for, which is where students find themselves supplementing.
What thousands of students told us about Khan Academy
Khan Academy appears in over 1,000 conversations students have started with us, almost always as the free backbone of a self-directed plan rather than as a complaint.
In a couple of hundred of those the student had the content down, could explain it, and still could not convert it into a score. That is the clearest illustration on this page of a point worth taking seriously: content delivered free by Khan Academy is not meaningfully worse than content delivered for $3,000 by a big-brand course. If free content plus hard work were sufficient, all of those students would have scored well.
As everywhere on this page, these are co-occurrences in inbound support mail, not measured outcomes.
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Where it makes sense, and where it does not
Exhaust it before you spend anything. If you are weighing a $1,599 content course, work through the Khan Academy collection first. A meaningful number of students discover they did not need the course.
Pair it with a question bank. Khan Academy's practice material is not enough on its own and is not pitched at the difficulty of the real exam. Khan Academy for content, UWorld or AAMC for questions, is a better plan than most paid courses and costs a fraction.
Do not build a 2027 plan on it. The AAMC partnership covers 2026. Anything after that is a hope rather than a commitment.
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