How to study with flashcards
Flashcards work because they make you retrieve an answer before you see it. Two habits make them work better: active recall, saying or writing the answer before you flip the card, and spaced repetition, reviewing the cards you miss more often and spacing out the ones you know.
- Say the answer out loud before you check it
- Sort the cards into a know pile and a not-yet pile
- Go through the not-yet pile again later the same day
- Come back to the whole deck after a few days






