MCC's New $1 Official Practice Exam for MCCQE Candidates
MCC introduced a real, current official practice resource worth knowing about, announced directly on mcc.ca (https://mcc.ca/news/making-mccqe-preparation-more-accessible-for-candidates-with-new-1-pe/, published July 21, 2026).
As of July 2026, MCC introduced a new Preparatory Examination (PE) form for $1 — a fresh, non-repeating set of 230 multiple-choice questions, matching the real length of the MCCQE itself, built for a genuine full-length practice experience rather than a short quiz. MCC's own stated reasoning is responding to candidate feedback about the growing cost of exam preparation, and expanding access to high-quality official resources for a broader range of candidates.
The $1 form is built to the same standard as MCC's existing paid preparatory products — developed by subject matter experts and refined through physician test committees, reflecting the real structure, format, and content areas of the MCCQE — and it complements rather than replaces those existing paid products, which remain available for purchase.
A real, useful number worth knowing: there are no repeated questions across the four official MCC practice forms (this new $1 form, the existing PE form, and two PE-Lite forms) or MCC's own set of 55 free MCCQE practice questions — MCC states this adds up to 745 official practice questions total across all of its own free and paid resources combined.
Study takeaway: treat this as one real, genuinely low-cost official resource worth adding alongside broader practice, not a reason to substitute for it — 230 questions (or even the full 745 across every official MCC resource) is a real but comparatively small slice of the coverage a full qbank subscription is built to provide.