Why flashcards beat re-reading
Testing-effect research is one of the most consistent findings in cognitive psychology: students who retrieve information from memory remember it far longer than students who re-read the same material the same number of times. Flashcards are a structured delivery mechanism for retrieval practice.
Five flips, not five reads
If you find yourself staring at the back of a card you can't answer — close it and move on. The value is in the attempt to retrieve, not in passively reading the answer.
How our flashcards work
- 1Pick a topic or a weak area from your dashboard.
- 2Generate a flashcard set — typically 20-40 cards per set.
- 3Work through with the flip UI: prompt on the front, fact on the back.
- 4Mark each card as correct or incorrect. Incorrect cards come back sooner.
- 5Organise sets into collections — by specialty, by week, or by exam focus.
High-yield facts only
A common flashcard failure mode is too many cards with too little yield per card. Fifty flashcards that each test a high-yield fact beat five hundred that each test something you'll never see in a stem.
Our generation pipeline filters for facts that:
- ✓Appear in multiple questions across the bank (high test-frequency)
- ✓Are quick enough to retrieve in under 10 seconds
- ✓Lend themselves to a clear question-answer pair (not vague 'discuss X' prompts)
Frequently asked questions
How does this compare to Anki?+
Anki is a general-purpose spaced-repetition system that you load with your own cards. Our flashcards are curated to the UKMLA/PLAB blueprint and generated automatically from topics — less setup, less filler, less time to get started.
Can I create my own flashcards?+
Generated sets are the primary workflow today; custom card creation is on our roadmap.
Are the cards spaced?+
Incorrect cards come back sooner within a session, and collections let you revisit sets on a schedule you control. A formal spaced-repetition scheduler is planned.