Best for: students who want regular access to a live instructor without a four-figure commitment
VS
MedLife Mastery
8.1/10
Best for: students who know the content and are losing points to strategy, timing and passage approach. Tutoring from $547, or the 6-week live course at $1,800
Our call, and we are one of the two
ExamKrackers is the best value on this page at $695, and if your budget is the binding constraint we would point you there without hesitation. The trade is that office hours are shared rather than dedicated, so nobody is booked to watch you work a passage end to end.
Who each one is built for
ExamKrackers is built for students who want regular access to a live instructor without a four-figure commitment.
We built the live course for students who want dedicated one-to-one time and a cohort holding them to a schedule.
That distinction is doing most of the work on this page. Two programmes can both be good and still
be wrong for you, because they are solving different problems. Before comparing features, work out
which of the two descriptions above is actually yours.
Where ExamKrackers beats us
ExamKrackers is far cheaper than us at $695 for 90 days, and that price includes live office hours six
days a week. On cost per hour of available human help, nothing on this page comes close, and if budget is the
binding constraint we would point you at it rather than at us. It also offers a seven-day free trial, which
we do not.
We have left those rows in the table above rather than quietly dropping them. A comparison that shows
one company winning every row is an advertisement, and you should treat it as one.
Free quiz
The Unbiased MCAT Prep Course Decision Quiz
Three different problems stall an MCAT score, and buying the wrong fix costs
months. Six questions sort out which one is yours and what to spend on it. We name competitors and
free resources when they beat us, and say so when the answer is spend nothing.
No email required. Your plan appears on screen.
Transparency, before you start. We sell MCAT tutoring and courses, so here are
the rules this quiz follows.
Zero budget, nothing paid. Free resources only, and we say so.
Content gap, buy content first. From whoever does it best, which is usually not us.
Our tutoring comes up only as an optional add-on for a big gap.
Competitors named and linked when they beat us: UWorld, Kaplan, Blueprint,
ExamKrackers, Khan Academy.
We appear only where we fit, with the budget to match, and always beside a
cheaper option.
Our free MCAT resources show up wherever they fit, and they ask for nothing.
How to decide between them
The distinction that matters is shared versus dedicated. ExamKrackers gives you somewhere to take
questions six days a week. It does not book somebody to sit with you and watch how you work a full passage
from first read to answer choice, which is the thing that tends to move a stalled score.
If money is tight, start with ExamKrackers. If you have already been through content help and the score
has not moved, the cheaper option is unlikely to be the answer.
How MedLife Mastery and ExamKrackers compare, row by row
ExamKrackers's one-to-one tutoring against MedLife Mastery 1:1 tutoring. Like for like: this compares tutoring to tutoring, not tutoring to a course. A check marks whichever has the advantage on that row.
ExamKrackers
MedLife Mastery 1:1 Tutoring
Cost
Published price
$695 for 90 days, all-inclusive
$547 for 5 sessions up to $2,097 for 30. Published on the page
Cost per hour of human help
Effectively very low, but the help is shared
$99/hour at the 10-session package ($997), our own published figure
What the live help is
One-to-one or group
Group office hours, six days a week. Not dedicated 1:1
60-minute 1:1 video sessions
Somebody watching you work a full passage
Not part of the model
That is what the session is for
Weekly group Q&A
Office hours six days a week
Unlimited weekly 90-minute office hours Q&A included
Who teaches you
Tutor standard
ExamKrackers instructors
515+ scorer matched to your goal score and strongest in your weakest section
How you are matched
Not matched. You attend office hours
Personalised mentor matching within 24 hours
In the sessions
Session recordings
Not published as a standard feature
AI-enhanced session recordings, used to target weak areas
Prep before sessions
Not applicable to group office hours
Your mentor prepares before every session
Extras and risk
Free trial
Seven-day free trial
No free trial, no sample session and no consultation calls
Access window
90 days from purchase, then you re-buy
Sessions never expire; unused ones transfer to med-school application coaching
Teaching focus
Content-led with a strong practical voice
Strategy-first: how you work a passage, triage and manage the clock
Tally on the rows above: MedLife 8, ExamKrackers 4, 0 even. We wrote the table, so read it as our argument rather than a neutral audit, and the rows we lose are left in.
What students who tried both told us
★★★★★5.0 out of 5
This really helped me when I did practice questions and exams on my own. Hieu also went above and beyond by keeping me accountable with my time as well as reaching out if I had not scheduled sessions. I had started with a 501 as my highest score, but by the end, of August I was averaging close to 510. I highly recommend Hieu as he is accommodating, compassionate, and wants to see you succeed.
Bhagvat Patel
★★★★★5.0 out of 5
I worked with Varun Aysola for about a month leading up to my MCAT date. I had taken the MCAT earlier this summer and received a 499 (C/P , and felt really discouraged by this score because I was not improving on any of the practice tests. With Varun, he took the time to make a <em>study</em> schedule so that I stayed on track and we focused on improving strategies for tackling the passages.
Alisha Belsare
Verified reviews from students who used ExamKrackers before working with us. See all 370+ on our student reviews page.
For a student whose score has stalled despite knowing the content, we think so, and that is the case we built for. For a student with genuine content gaps who has never learned the material properly, ExamKrackers may well be the better fit. We have tried to make the table above honest enough that you can tell which of those you are.
How much does ExamKrackers cost compared to MedLife Mastery?
Our live course is $1,800, or $650 a month over three months, and that price is on the page. ExamKrackers is covered in the comparison above with whatever it publishes. Where a company does not publish pricing we say so rather than guessing, because we will not print a figure we could not verify at source.
Can I trust a comparison written by one of the two companies?
Not blindly, and you should not. We wrote this table, we chose the rows, and we score ourselves highest. What we have tried to do instead of pretending to neutrality is leave in the rows we lose, name our own limitations, and tell you when a competitor is the better answer. Read it as our argument and check it against the company itself.
What are MedLife Mastery’s weaknesses?
We have no free trial and no sample session, we discontinued sales calls in 2026, and we are a much smaller brand than most of the names we compare against. Our answer to the first is free tutor switching at any time, for any reason, with sessions that never expire. If a free trial is what would make the decision for you, that is a real point against us.
What does the MedLife live course include?
A seat is $1,800 and includes 12 live classes, seven 60-minute 1:1 sessions usable from the day you enroll, every self-paced strategy course, weekly office hours, a study buddy and 24/7 Q&A. Cohorts run about one a month and are capped at 20 to 25 students. Unused sessions never expire and transfer to med-school application coaching.
