Study tools
Flashcards
Flashcards fail people in one specific way: you learn to recognise the front of the card rather than the material. The decks here carry the reasoning behind each card, not only a term and a definition, which is what makes the difference on an exam that asks you to apply the term instead of restate it.
Open Flashcards
At the top of the Study section, directly below Lectures — that adjacency is intentional, since a lecture can generate a deck for you.
Describe the deck you want
Name the topic and, if it helps, the course. A unit is about the right size: big enough to be worth a deck, small enough that the cards stay specific.
Go through it
Work the deck front to back. The point of the reasoning on the back is to be read on the cards you got wrong, not skipped past on the way to the next one.
Find it again later
Saved decks live under the Flashcards history, so a deck built during the unit is still there in exam week.
Flashcards suit some subjects far better than others
Biology, chemistry nomenclature, vocabulary and definitions reward them. Calculus and physics mostly do not — for those, practice quizzes are a better use of the same half hour, because the skill being tested is the setup rather than the recall.
Common questions
Can I make a deck from a lecture I recorded?
Yes. A processed lecture produces notes, a flashcard deck and a quiz — see the Lectures guide.
Can I edit a card?
The decks are generated as a set rather than hand-edited card by card. If a deck is not what you wanted, it is usually faster to regenerate it with a narrower description than to correct it.
How many cards do I get?
It scales to the topic you describe. A narrow topic yields a short, sharp deck; a whole unit yields a longer one.
Still stuck?
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