Sample questions

AMC CAT MCQ sample questions

Free single-best-answer questions in the AMC CAT MCQ style, with a rationale for every option. Try them without an account.

How each question is built

Options: 5
Correct answers: 1
Rationales: Every option
Difficulty scale: 1 to 5

The format

Single best answer, computer adaptive. Each question must be answered before the next appears, with no going back and no end review

CAT MCQ questions present a clinical vignette, a question and five options. One option is the single best answer, and the others are plausible but weaker, wrong under Australian guidance or wrong on the facts given.

The format tests clinical reasoning rather than recall. Each explanation in the platform states the principle, names the Australian guideline, applies it to the patient and gives the reason the closest wrong option fails.

Options: 5
Correct answers: 1
Rationales: Every option
Difficulty scale: 1 to 5

Question 1 of 3

Question 1 · Adult health: medicine
Difficulty 3/5
A 32-year-old man presents to the emergency department with 2 days of sharp central chest pain that worsens with deep breaths and eases when he sits forward. He had a cold last week. His temperature is 37.6°C, pulse 96/min, blood pressure 128/76 mmHg and oxygen saturation 98% breathing room air. A scratching sound is heard at the left sternal edge. The ECG shows concave ST elevation in I, II, aVL, aVF and V2–V6 with PR depression and no reciprocal change. High-sensitivity troponin is normal at 0 and 2 hours, and bedside echocardiography shows no effusion.
Which one of the following is the most appropriate treatment?
Choose an option first.
Question 2 · Adult health: surgery
Difficulty 3/5
A 66-year-old Aboriginal man sees his general practitioner at an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service in a regional town. Yesterday, vision in his left eye went dark 'like a curtain' for 10 minutes, then fully recovered. He has no headache, jaw pain or scalp tenderness. He smokes and has hypertension. His pulse is 76/min and regular and his blood pressure 148/86 mmHg. Eye and neurological examinations are normal. The regional hospital nearby has an ED with CT and carotid ultrasound.
Which one of the following is the most appropriate next step in management?
Choose an option first.
Question 3 · Child health
Difficulty 3/5
A 3-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department with 6 days of fever. He has red eyes without discharge, red cracked lips, a red tongue, a blotchy rash on his trunk, and swollen red hands and feet. A tender 2 cm lymph node is palpable in the left neck. Three days of oral amoxicillin have not helped. He has no cough or coryza, and his immunisations are up to date. His blood pressure and capillary refill are normal.
Which one of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
Choose an option first.

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