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Where this comes from

You are studying medicine from it, so you should know who wrote it and under what rules.

Who writes it

Every question, explanation and reference entry in this app was written for this app by QuickCruit. None of it is scraped, licensed or copied from a question bank, a deck or a textbook. That is a deliberate constraint rather than a boast: it is what lets us give it away free and it is why we can change any of it the moment it is shown to be wrong.

It also means the content carries our judgement rather than an institution's. Nothing here has been through peer review or editorial board sign-off.

The rule the questions are written under

Settled teaching only. Where a topic is genuinely contested in the literature, or where management depends on which guideline you follow or on local practice, the question is not written at all rather than written with a confident answer we cannot defend.

One consequence you will notice: the bank is heavier on mechanism, physiology and diagnosis than on the details of drug regimens and thresholds, because the first group is stable and the second moves. Where a mechanism is widely taught but actually disputed in research, the question says so rather than asserting it, and the classic association is kept because that is the part that is real.

What is checked automatically

Every commit runs a test suite over the content itself. It fails the build if any question has more than one correct answer, a missing or duplicated choice, a choice without a rationale, an explanation shorter than a real explanation, an invalid subject tag, or a stem that duplicates another. It also fails if the correct answer clusters in any one position, because a bank you can beat by always picking A teaches position rather than medicine.

These checks guarantee the questions are well formed. They cannot check whether the medicine is right. Nothing automated can.

Limitations, stated plainly

  • No physician has reviewed this bank. It is written carefully and checked structurally, but it has not been signed off by a clinician. Treat it as a supplement to your primary resources, not a replacement for them, and check anything that surprises you.
  • It is small. 450 questions is a fraction of what a commercial bank holds. It is not enough to practise on alone.
  • The answer is often the longest choice. Measured across the whole bank, a student who reads nothing and always clicks the longest option scores 59%, against 20% for guessing. That is a flaw in our writing rather than a study tip: it means many of these questions can be answered without understanding them, and it inflates every accuracy figure this app shows you. The fix is thicker wrong options, not shorter right ones, and the build holds the number from rising while we work through it.
  • There are almost no images. 9 vignettes carry a figure, and every one is drawn from the same description the question is written against, so the strip and its caption cannot disagree: 5 rhythm strips, 3 flow-volume loops and 1 acid-base plots. There is no histology, no radiology and no clinical photography, because drawing those would mean illustrating what we imagine a slide looks like. Those are a real part of the exam and are not represented here.
  • Two published categories have no questions.The USMLE publishes Human Development at 1 to 3 percent of Step 1 and Social Sciences: Communication and Interpersonal Skills at 6 to 9 percent. We have nothing tagged to either. Two of our own categories, General Principles and Biochemistry & Genetics, are also ours rather than theirs: the USMLE retired General Principles in 2024 and spread its content across the organ systems by disease process. We keep them because they are useful to drill, not because they are on the blueprint.
  • Reference ranges vary by laboratory. The values here are the conventional adult ranges in the form the exam presents them, and a real report should be read against the range printed on it.
  • None of it is medical advice. It is written for exam study and nothing else.

Found something wrong?

Tell us and it gets fixed. A wrong answer in a study tool is worse than no study tool, so a correction is the most useful thing you can send us. Email hello@quickcruit.ai with the question and what is wrong with it.

What is actually in here

Clinical vignettes
450
Organ systems covered
15 of 15
Disciplines covered
11
Lab values
58
Formulas
24

Questions by organ system

  • Nervous System & Special Senses 50
  • Multisystem & Infectious Disease 46
  • Musculoskeletal & Skin 40
  • Gastrointestinal System 39
  • Renal & Urinary System 33
  • Endocrine System 32
  • Hematologic & Lymphoreticular 31
  • Behavioral Health 29
  • Cardiovascular System 27
  • Respiratory System 22
  • Reproductive System 21
  • Biochemistry & Genetics 21
  • General Principles 21
  • Immune System 20
  • Biostatistics & Epidemiology 18

Your own materials

The planner schedules resources you already own, by name and by count. It stores how many cards or questions or minutes each one holds and nothing else. We do not host, mirror or reproduce anyone else's deck, question bank or video course, and we never will: that content is not ours to give away, and the tool is more useful scheduling what you already trust than competing with it.

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