Khan Academy MCAT Review

The Khan Academy MCAT channel is worth using for content review, and it costs nothing. We counted 1,124 videos across its 11 playlists, and 456 of them cover MCAT Chem/Phys alone.

What it will not do is teach you CARS. One playlist on the channel covers Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills, and it holds 9 videos.

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The Khan Academy MCAT channel on youtube.com, captured September 2026.

Khan Academy MCAT Overview

This is a dedicated channel, not the main Khan Academy one. It sits at the handle @KhanAcademyMCATprep, it has 39.3K subscribers, and it has been posting since August 9, 2016. If you searched "Khan Academy" on YouTube and landed on a channel with millions of subscribers, you were in the wrong place: that is the general Khan Academy channel, and the MCAT material is not filed there.

The library came out of a partnership with the AAMC. The AAMC's own Khan Academy MCAT course update page says Khan Academy would continue the MCAT course until 2026 with AAMC support, and describes the course as 1,100 videos and 3,000 review questions covering all four sections. The AAMC also published a road map mapping the CARS skills it tests to the Khan Academy collection.

Two things follow from that, and they matter more than anything else on this page.

First, the video count on the channel matches. We counted 1,124 videos in the 11 playlists, against the 1,100 the AAMC describes. The video half of the course is on YouTube.

Second, the 3,000 review questions are not. They lived in the Khan Academy website platform, with the scoring and progress tracking that goes with it. The channel header still points to khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat, but what you get on YouTube is video and nothing else. No questions, no score report, no schedule.

The playlists are named after the AAMC foundational concepts rather than after school subjects, which is why this library maps onto the exam better than most free video:

• Physical processes, 255 videos
• Chemical processes, 201 videos
• Organ systems, 166 videos
• Biomolecules, 140 videos
• Behavior, 108 videos
• Processing the environment, 80 videos
• Cells, 62 videos
• Individuals and society, 58 videos
• Society and culture, 32 videos
• Social inequality, 13 videos
• Critical analysis and reasoning skills practice questions, 9 videos

Khan Academy MCAT Review For 2026

Three sections are covered well, one is not

Group those 11 playlists by exam section and the shape of the library is obvious.

Khan Academy MCAT videos by exam section, counted from the channel's playlists in September 2026.

Chem/Phys gets 456 videos, Bio/Biochem 368, Psych/Soc 291. Those are serious libraries. Psych/Soc in particular is the section most free video resources skip entirely, and here it has five playlists and 291 videos built to the AAMC vocabulary. That alone separates this channel from most of its free competition.

CARS gets 9 videos, which is 0.8 percent of the library.

That is not a small gap. The AAMC's CARS section overview sets the section at 53 questions in 90 minutes, all of them passage-based, drawing 50 percent from humanities and 50 percent from social sciences. It is one of the four scored sections, and it is the only one where no amount of content knowledge helps you.

The playlist names are the real feature

Most free MCAT video is filed by school subject: biology, chemistry, physics. That forces you to translate from the AAMC content outline into a textbook table of contents every time you look something up.

This channel does not make you do that. "Processing the environment" and "Individuals and society" are AAMC language, not textbook language. When you miss a Psych/Soc question and the explanation names a foundational concept, you can find the playlist without guessing.

It also means the coverage is honest about scope. A playlist called "Biomolecules" with 140 videos tells you what you are getting. Compare that with a general science channel where you have to watch to find out whether the treatment is at MCAT depth or well past it.

The practical workflow is the same as with any video library. Come with a named gap from a practice question you missed, find the playlist, watch the one video, go back to questions. Our MCAT study schedule guide sets out how much of your week video review should take, and the answer is less than most students give it.

Age and format are the limits

The channel started in 2016 and the library was built for a course that the AAMC funded through 2026. Nothing in it has been revised against how the exam looks now.

For the science that is close to harmless. Glycolysis has not changed. For anything about the test itself, timing, question format, or section strategy, do not use this channel. It was not built to teach that, and what it does say is old.

The format has a second cost. Video is passive, and 1,124 videos is enough material to spend a month inside without answering a single question. The MCAT scores application, not recognition. A library this large is a genuine risk to a study plan that has no practice attached to it, which is why we treat it as a reference and not a curriculum.

Production is plain Khan Academy: a digital whiteboard, a voice, a diagram drawn as it is explained. Most students watch at 1.25 or 1.5 speed. Captions and speed controls come free with YouTube, and you do not need an account to watch anything.

Pricing

Free. There is no plan, no tier, no trial, and no account requirement. You can open the channel and watch all 1,124 videos without signing in to anything.

Khan Academy is a non-profit and does not sell MCAT prep. There is no upsell attached to this channel, no guarantee, and nothing to cancel. On price, nothing else in MCAT prep competes.

The cost to weigh is not money, it is time. If you spend 60 hours working through these playlists and never build CARS practice or a question bank into the same weeks, the free library will have cost you more than a paid course would have.

Who Khan Academy MCAT Is Best For

This channel is a good fit if you are doing content review on a budget and you want the AAMC outline covered by a library organised the same way. It is particularly strong for Psych/Soc, where free alternatives mostly do not exist, and for students who are relearning first-year science rather than meeting it for the first time.

It suits self-studiers who already have a question source. Pair it with practice and it is the cheapest content review that exists. Use it as your whole plan and it will leave you short on CARS and short on practice.

It is a poor fit if you need structure and accountability, if you are inside six weeks of test day, or if CARS is your weak section. It is also the wrong tool if you want the review questions the AAMC describes: those were part of the website course, not the channel.

When You Might Look Elsewhere

If CARS is the gap, and for most students using this channel it will be, go to a resource built for it. Jack Westin MCAT CARS practice gives you daily passages with explanations, which is the one thing 9 videos cannot replace. Our full MCAT CARS practice roundup compares the rest.

If the gap is practice rather than explanation, video is the wrong purchase. UWorld MCAT puts you in passages with worked explanations attached. The AAMC official practice tests remain the only material written by the people who write the exam, and nothing free substitutes for them.

For deeper single-concept explanations than Khan Academy gives, AK Lectures goes further on biochemistry and organic chemistry, though it covers no psychology or sociology at all. To lock in facts rather than understand them, the AnKing MCAT decks do that job better than any video. You can compare every free channel we have reviewed on our MCAT YouTube channels page, and our review methodology explains how we score them.

If you want the wider Khan Academy MCAT story, including the website course rather than the channel, our Khan Academy MCAT prep review covers that product.

Final Verdict

The Khan Academy MCAT channel earns 4.1 out of 5. It is held up by scale, by price, and above all by organisation: 1,124 videos filed under AAMC foundational concepts is the most usable free content review in MCAT prep. It is held down by the CARS playlist, by the missing practice questions, and by a library that has not been revised against the current exam.

Khan Academy MCAT FAQs

Is Khan Academy MCAT still free?

Yes. The Khan Academy MCAT channel on YouTube is free to watch, with no account, no trial and no paid tier. All 1,124 videos across its 11 playlists are open. Khan Academy is a non-profit and does not sell MCAT prep, so there is no upsell attached to the channel.

Does Khan Academy cover MCAT CARS?

Barely. The channel has one CARS playlist and it holds 9 videos, which is 0.8 percent of the 1,124 video library. The AAMC sets CARS at 53 passage-based questions in 90 minutes, so 9 videos will not carry that section. Use a dedicated CARS resource and keep this channel for the other three sections.

How many Khan Academy MCAT videos are there?

We counted 1,124 videos across 11 playlists on the channel in September 2026. By section that is 456 for Chem/Phys, 368 for Bio/Biochem, 291 for Psych/Soc and 9 for CARS. The AAMC describes the original course as 1,100 videos and 3,000 review questions, so the videos are on YouTube but the questions are not.

Is Khan Academy enough to study for the MCAT on its own?

No. It is content review with no practice questions, no full length exams, no schedule and almost no CARS. Most students who use it well pair it with a question bank and the AAMC official practice material, then use the playlists to fix the specific concepts their practice reveals.

Which Khan Academy YouTube channel is the MCAT one?

The handle is @KhanAcademyMCATprep. It is a separate channel from the main Khan Academy one, which has millions of subscribers and no MCAT playlists. The MCAT channel has 39.3K subscribers and has been posting since August 9, 2016.

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