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Thermodynamics & Carnot Engine

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What happens to entropy in a reversible adiabatic process?

Entropy remains constant (dS = 0)Next review

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UCAT

AKU and UCAT

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Question bank

100,000+ MCQs

The full bank, searchable by chapter.

Explanations

Every active question explained

Each active question has a worked answer, including the free ones.

Past papers

Free 2026 papers

Timed or tutor mode, with answers and worked explanations.

Flashcards

14k+ flashcards

Scheduled with FSRS. You rate a card, and it sets the next review.

Study plan

A plan built from your week

Your study days, your hours and a short diagnostic, not a fixed timetable.

UCAT

AKU and UCAT

A UCAT track with every subtest, full mocks and scaled scores.

Forum

A forum for MDCAT questions

Ask, answer and report a post. Moderated.

SAGE

SAGE can act on your plan

It reads your plan, proposes a change and applies it when you confirm.

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The 3,700+ high-yield set.

Each question comes from the 83,000+ active MDCAT bank and has a worked explanation. The card below shows the full four-option breakdown. Try a question.

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High-Yield PracticeCRUX Biology, Support and Movement

A key component of muscle contraction, this globular protein possesses binding sites for ATP and myosin heads. It is typically found associated with tropomyosin and troponin in the thin filaments. What is this protein?

How to reach (B)

The correct answer is Actin. Actin, specifically in its filamentous form (F-actin), constitutes the main structural component of the thin filaments within muscle sarcomeres. Each F-actin strand is a polymer of G-actin (globular actin) monomers. These G-actin monomers possess a crucial binding site where the myosin head can attach to form a cross-bridge. This interaction is the fundamental basis of muscle contraction. While tropomyosin and troponin are also part of the thin filament and regulate actin's interaction with myosin, they do not directly bind ATP or form the primary binding groove for myosin heads in the same way actin does. Titin, a very large protein, functions as a molecular spring and anchors the thick filaments to the Z-lines, playing a role in passive muscle elasticity rather than direct cross-bridge formation.

Distractor Analysis

(A)The lure wording 'possesses binding sites for ATP' is misleading. While myosin is involved with ATP hydrolysis that powers the cross-bridge cycle, it is the myosin head that binds and hydrolyzes ATP, not actin itself. Myosin forms the thick filaments and interacts with actin, but actin is the primary protein with binding sites for myosin heads.
(C)The misconception is confusing regulatory proteins with the primary structural protein. Tropomyosin is a filamentous protein that lies along actin and, along with troponin, blocks or unblocks the myosin-binding sites on actin, but it does not directly bind ATP or myosin heads.
(D)The lure wording 'key component of muscle contraction' is broad. Titin is indeed a crucial structural protein within the sarcomere, acting as a 'molecular spring' and stabilizing the thick filament, but its primary role is not in binding ATP or forming direct cross-bridges with actin.

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Your MDCAT companion.

It reads your plan, your weak chapters and your recent mocks. Ask what to do today. Ask it to explain a question. Or ask it to change the plan. It shows the change before it applies it.

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Chemistry

I have 40 minutes tonight. What should I do?

Your plan has a 45-minute Physics drill. You missed four Chemical Bonding questions in the last mock. I would swap it for a 30-minute Chemistry drill and add a 10-minute flashcard review. That is 40 minutes.

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A plan built from your week.

Tell the planner how many days you study, how many hours you have, and which subjects need the most work. A short diagnostic sets your starting point. The planner gives more time to the subjects with more exam marks, and it carries unfinished work into the next week.

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Spaced repetition flashcards

Rate a card and FSRS sets the next review. Hard cards come back sooner. Easy cards move further out.

High-YieldBiology, Circulatory system

The phase of the cardiac cycle in which the ventricles contract and push blood out of the heart

Answer Key

Systole: the ventricular muscle contracts, the AV valves shut, and blood is driven into the aorta and pulmonary artery.

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Predicted score

Sample data

164 / 180

Biology77 / 81
Chemistry38 / 45
Physics33 / 36
English8 / 9
Logical Reasoning8 / 9

Recalculated after every practice session and mock, so your numbers come from your own history.

A weekly plan that carries unfinished work

The plan uses your study days, your hours, your subject priorities and the diagnostic. If you miss a day, it carries the work forward. When the week cannot hold everything, it drops the task with the lowest exam yield. The working date is July 2027 (tentative). PMDC has not announced the 2027 date. The week below is a sample plan.

Adaptive Weekly Plan

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Mocks and past papers

Sit the full 180-question mock.

A full mock follows the PMDC format: 180 questions in 180 minutes. The split is Biology 81, Chemistry 45, Physics 36, English 9 and Logical Reasoning 9. Past papers from 6 boards can be taken in timed or tutor mode.

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Mock simulator180 questions

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Take a full mock under the 180-minute clock, or build a shorter Smart Mock from the chapters where your accuracy is lowest. Both use questions from the 83,000+ active bank.

180questions

Biology8145%
Chemistry4525%
Physics3620%
English95%
Logical Reasoning95%

Full mocks and Smart Mocks

A full mock keeps the subject split and the clock. A Smart Mock uses the chapters where your accuracy is lowest. After you submit, each question shows the correct option and its worked explanation. Full mocks and Smart Mocks are on the MDCAT Pass. The 2026 papers below are free.

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Free 2026 papers

Every 2026 paper is free in timed or tutor mode, with answers and worked explanations. A free paper does not use your 500 practice attempts. Some papers are partial, so each row shows the count recovered.

DUHS180 questions

Federal180 questions

Federal, second setpartial143 recovered

KMU180 questions

NUMSpartial151 recovered

UHSpartial37 recovered

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AKU has signalled a move toward the UCAT.

Four subtests, timed, with the scaled scores the UCAT reports.

Aga Khan University stated in its 2026-2027 MBBS admission information that it is likely to administer the UCAT from the 2027 admission cycle, for eligible applicants. The exact eligibility rules, the score requirement and the date are not yet published. Check AKU's current admissions page before you plan around the change.

MDCAT is still required. PMDC regulations make it compulsory for MBBS applicants, and AKU uses the MDCAT result for final selection. The UCAT would be an additional assessment, not a replacement for the national test.

All four subtests: Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning and Situational Judgement.

No negative marking: each question counts. Pace yourself, and skip a question that will take too long.

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UCAT format

Computer-delivered at Pearson VUE test centres

Verbal Reasoning

Critical reading of written passages

44 questions in 22 minutes

Decision Making

Logic, probability and deductive arguments

35 questions in 37 minutes

Quantitative Reasoning

Numerical problem solving

36 questions in 26 minutes

Situational Judgement

Professionalism and clinical ethics

69 questions in 26 minutes

Total test time: 1 hour 51 minutes.

Scaled score: 300 to 900 on each cognitive subtest. Situational Judgement reports a band from 1 to 4.

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An academy or self-study. Compare the structure.

An academy gives you a timetable, a teacher in the room and a fixed pace. Self-study with mymdcat gives you a plan you control, a question bank you can search and a record of every attempt. Academy fees vary, so ask the academy for its current fee. The MDCAT Pass is PKR 10,000 for one year.

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UCAT add-on

PKR 15,000

The pass plus the UCAT track for PKR 5,000 more.

Everything in the MDCAT Pass
All four UCAT subtests
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What is free?

A free account gets 500 practice attempts, notes for 80 of 89 chapters, 14,062 flashcards, every 2026 paper and 10 SAGE questions a day. Each practice attempt includes a worked explanation. No card is needed.

What happens after the 500 attempts?

Practice pauses when the 500 attempts are used. The notes, the flashcards, the 2026 papers and 10 SAGE questions a day stay open. The MDCAT Pass removes the practice cap for one year.

Are the 2026 papers free?

Yes. Every 2026 paper is free in timed or tutor mode, with answers and worked explanations. A free paper does not use your 500 practice attempts. Some papers are partial, and each row shows the count recovered.

How many SAGE questions do I get?

Free accounts get 10 questions a day. The MDCAT Pass allows 20 questions an hour. When SAGE finds a matching textbook chapter, it names the board, subject, grade and chapter. It does not carry page numbers.

What can SAGE do?

SAGE explains questions, reads your notes and recent mocks, finds similar practice and checks past-paper evidence. It names the chapter when it finds one. When it finds none, it answers from what it knows and shows no citation. It can propose a change to your study plan, and it applies the change only after you confirm.

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Is the 2027 MDCAT date confirmed?

No. The 2026 test was held on Sunday, 20 September 2026. PMDC has not announced a 2027 date. The planner uses July 2027 (tentative) as a working assumption, so treat planned dates as a guide, not an announcement.

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