Anki and lecture timing

[after_the_flood]

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So Anki was made for long term retention purposes. I can see how that would help for material at the beginning of the unit - you'd get a good amount of time before the exam to study it a few times in Anki - but I don't see that being helpful for the material presented right before the exam. Could someone explain this to me?

 

[ski89]

I see your point, but honestly if you have a lot a new material to cover with a few days to go before an exam, you are already doing something wrong. You should only have a few lectures at most to cover in the last few days. I would still make anki cards for that material but perhaps to a little extra review on that material the day before the test.

 

[Squamous Eddie]

What's been really successful for me during my hard sciences in undergrad is doing the cards over the duration of the course as an SRS tool, and then a few days before the exam, using the cram feature to present all or some of the cards in a deck as a custom deck that I can study all at once. For material presented close to the day of the exam, you'll go through it as normal when you learn it (assuming you make the cards and review them the same day as the lecture), then you'll see them once again on cram day. This typically does the trick, for me.