Should you use flashcards and Anki?
Flashcards, Anki, question spreadsheets as the tool for recall.
Axis: Anki for everything … a question spreadsheet or other recall tools
Concept: spaced repetition
Answers by date: 12 records in 8 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. shift and revise mean the advice changed; tension — speakers disagree.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-29 | Ali | For using active recall in medicine, Ali recommends Anki. | Live Stream - Hangout 00:04:35 |
| 2018-05-07 | Ali | shift: Ali does not much like Anki: he used it for isolated facts in anatomy and pharmacology but now almost never does, preferring his spreadsheet method, which he thinks is much better. | Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:25:18 |
| 2018-05-02 | Ali | Ali loves pre-made notes but not pre-made flashcards, because making a flashcard is what makes you think. | Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students 00:20:03 |
| 2018-05-02 | Ali | Proofs in maths should be memorised rather than derived in the exam, Ali says: his brother, who did maths, made many flashcards of proofs, and Anki or a spreadsheet works for this. | Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students 00:06:33 |
| 2018-05-01 | Ali | shift: Ali made too many Anki cards in his first year; now he makes them only for the things he really struggles to remember. | First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A 00:16:01 |
| 2018-05-01 | Ali | Ali really likes Anki for medical school: its iOS app costs £24, one of the best £24 he has ever spent, though Quizlet is free. | First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A 00:03:40 |
| 2018-04-14 | Ali | For essay subjects Ali uses Anki to memorise building-block paragraphs, with quotes, dates and evidence, that fit many essays: a point on Romeo and Juliet, or Hodgkin and Huxley's giant squid axon experiments for essays on the sodium pump. | Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students 00:19:29 |
| 2018-04-14 | Katherine | Katherine says if you are not willing to use Anki properly, don't use it at all: use paper flashcards or the spreadsheet method instead. | Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students 00:16:11 |
More answers (4)
| date | who | answer | source |
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| 2018-04-14 | Ali | Ali prefers his spreadsheet method to Anki for much of his revision because spreadsheets are easy and Anki takes effort to set up: anything that reduces friction between wanting to do something and doing it is worth doing. | Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students 00:14:45 |
| 2018-04-10 | Ali | Ali's problem with flashcards is that you can do them for a while, but they get really boring really quickly. | Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 00:01:27 |
| 2018-04-09 | Ali | For flashcards, Ali personally prefers the app Anki. | How to Study for Exams - Spaced Repetition · Evidence-based revision tips 00:09:09 |
| 2018-04-04 | Ali | Ali says the flashcard app Anki is really good for memorising particular facts; he used it a lot for anatomy and pharmacology. | How to study for exams - Evidence-based revision tips 00:14:41 |