How to get started 
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In order to get started with the MCAT Deck deck you will need the following, instructions for which can be found below:
- Install Anki if you haven’t already
- Select a AnkiHub membership from Sign In
- Sign into AnkiHub via the Anki application
- Subscribe to the AnKing MCAT Deck and install it.
- Start studying!
1. Install Anki
Instructions
Install the latest version of Anki here: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
2. Select an AnkiHub membership
Instructions
Head to Sign In and select the membership option that most suits you.
3. Sign into AnkiHub via the Anki application
Instructions
To sign into AnkiHub, do the following
- Open Anki
- In the top left, click “Anki”
- Then click “Preferences”
- Click on “Third-Party Services”
- Use your AnkiHub login and sign in
- Restart your Anki and the add-on will install
External link: Install Ankihub Addon (New User)
If you are on an older version of Anki, you can also install the AnkiHub add-on by going to Tools - Add-ons - Get Add-ons inserting the code ‘1322529746’ and restarting Anki.
(If you see ‘Invalid code, or add-on not available for your version of Anki’ it likely means that your version of Anki is out of date and will need to be updated).
4 Subscribe to and install the MCAT deck:
Instructions
External link: Subscribe/Install MCAT Deck (New User)
5. Start Studying!:
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How do I use the deck?
Video Tutorial
How The AnKing scored 520+ on the MCAT
What is AnkiHub?
AnkiHub is a web application and Anki add-on that facilitates mass collaboration on Anki decks, real-time updates for deck subscribers, and much more, all while still allowing users to customize their Anki cards. Every time a change is accepted, you get instant updates!
↓ Watch this 1 minute video explanation ↓
Recommended Settings (FSRS)
Info about the deck:
This deck is the best deck for the MCAT and is mostly comprehensive. It is also infinitely updatable via AnkiHub so we as a medical student community can continually bring it up to date for new content.
If you are interested in contributing to the deck, here are the guidelines for making suggestions:
What decks is this based on?
Summary
This deck is based on the original Miledown deck. We merged in updates from the Abdullah update and the Coffin update.
Miledown
- Miledown made their deck based on a 90 page review sheet pdf. They also included every item in a 300 page Khan Academy Psych/Soc document and every equation, unit, and constant needed for the MCAT.
Abdullah update
- The Abdullah deck was a modification of the Milesdown deck with additions from many other decks. We merged in the updates that were added to the Miledown portion without pulling in the additional content (we didn’t want to make the deck too large)
Coffin update
- Coffin updated the deck to be organized by Khan Academy video sections (in the tags)
MrPankow update
- MrPankow worked with us to integrate his P/S deck
What has been updated?
Changes to the deck
Summary
Making suggested changes
Read the AnkiHub documentation to see how to submit suggestions. You can also view other’s suggestions on AnkiHub’s website and like/dislike or comment.
If your suggestions do not contain enough rationale and specific evidence, they will be rejected. Please follow these rules:
Cite Sources When Making Changes
Please submit your suggestions with an acceptable source. Acceptable sources include specific UWorld QIDs + explanation or other trusted MCAT prep materials. Unacceptable sources include random articles, and wikipedia.
Suggestions with Images
If you are adding an image that is already in another note, please specify that in your rationale (e.g. image added from nid:###)
If you are adding a new image, please only do so to the TEXT or EXTRA fields (unless otherwise directed). If you do, you MUST use an image that is considered “public domain” e.g. (Google images creative commons search, Wikimedia Commons, etc.) Do NOT use files with CC-NC or CC-BY-NC licenses. Additionally, make sure to cite images as follows in italics and size 10 font: Type out the source like this “Photo credit: name [link]” (example: Photo credit: The AnKing [www.ankingmed.com](http://www.ankingmed.com]%60/)) or use the required citation method if applicable.
Help us review other suggestions
Please do help us review suggestions by liking/disliking others’ suggestions and leaving comments!
Personal Fields & Tags
“Lecture Notes”, “Missed Questions”, & “Additional Resources” fields are protected by default.
If you have personal tags in your collection, please add them to the protected tags section so that they don’t show up in the suggestions for all users
One by one notes
Please don’t submit changes to make notes one by one. We will take care of those.
What do all the tags mean?
Summary
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Tags are complete
Tags are still in progress (email us if you’d like to help!)
Tags are not complete and not progressing quickly because we do not have active volunteers for them
Discount available for this resource at this link
#AK_MCAT_v2
This is the top-level, “parent,” tag for the tag. The tags below are subtags that are used to link the cards to various resources.
#KhanAcademy - Cards tagged by Khan Academy videos. Nearly every card in the deck is tagged.#Kaplan - Cards tagged by Kaplan videos. Nearly every card in the deck is tagged.#Pixorize - Cards tagged by Pixorize videos (tagged by Pixorize). More of these hopefully coming soon!#UWorld - All UWorld Step 1 question ID #s (QIDs) that have corresponding cards in the deck are tagged here. Volunteers modify this via AnkiHub daily as they go through UWorld themselves. There are likely skeleton QIDs which had their UWorld questions removed that will stay in the deck for some time. Also contains UWorld Self Assessment & COMLEX QID tags. These can be used with the UWorld QID to Anki search add-on.$Errata- These are changes that were made to the deck in versions 1 and 2.AKaddare notes that were added by the AnKing#MileDown- The structure of the original MileDown deck
What are all the fields for?
Summary
✏️ What do all the fields mean in the AnKing Step Deck?
- Text, Extra - This is the main content of the flashcard.
We recommend that you do NOT edit these fields so you can get updates from AnkiHub. ****If for whatever reason you want to edit one, you can protect the text and extra fields of these individual cards (see this video). - Lecture Notes, Missed Questions - These aren’t used. They are for your personal notes! These fields are protected by default, meaning AnkiHub won’t update them.
- Pixorize - The Pixorize images go along with Pixorize videos which are great for memorizing things! Visit www.pixorize.com. (Check out our website for a discount!)
- Sketchy - We are working closely with Sketchy and hope to include media in this field in the future, but for now there is not any content.
- Additional Resources - This field contains HTML references to images that were in the original decks. We have since replaced all these images with ones that we can share. This field is protected by default. You may want to unprotect it if you are updating from a previous version or have these images already from some other source.
- One by one - This field triggers the one-by-one feature for the note type. (See the next section for more information on this)
Handy tip: Use
nto reveal the one by one notes ('to reveal all of them at once.
How do I customize the note styling (AnKing Note Types & Add-on)?
Summary
This new video describes the brand new AnKingMCAT note type and the add-on that we made to make it very customizable and user friendly. It works with AnkiHub. 
This older video shows html/css formatting and this video shows some newer features that were added (the above video includes most of this).
Things you can do:
- change all fields (including hints) to be editable with the Edit Field During Review (Cloze) add-on
- change font sizes and colors
- make hint buttons open automatically and change their order
- choose how many levels of tags you want shown
- Open multiple clozes one at a time
- tons of other really cool tricks
This Github has a copy of the Customizable section of the Styling portion of the note type if you would prefer a MedShamim style
Recommended add-ons
How do I stay up to date?
Summary
If you haven’t already, sign up for our EMAIL UPDATES here.
Follow on socials for weekly updates: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Patreon
How can I help with future updates or contact the team?
Summary
Send us an email: ankingmed@gmail.com Before adding anything to the deck that you intend to share, please discuss it with us first so we can tell you how to do it.
Frequently asked questions
Summary
See our FAQs.
❓ FAQs - AnkiHub Community
How do I get the UWorld add-on to convert QIDs to Anki search?
Summary
It is available through the AnKing VIP subscription (All Tiers)
Thank You
Huge thank you to the following:
The entire AnKing team: Read our bios here
Main decks: u/MileDown, u/humii97, u/premedunr, u/MrPankow
AnkiHub Step Deck maintainer team: Ethan Damron, Ty Forbes, Ahmed Khudair, and Nicholas Flint.
AnkiHub MCAT Deck maintainer team: Brian Havens, Kevin Hneen, and Phil Kaplan.
Contributors: u/DinoNights, u/premedunr, and Pixorize Inc.
And the many people who elected to remain anonymous or submitted errata and helped fact check changes!
*If you have made significant contributions and your name is not listed, please let us know so we can add it!