@slowthai What's your opinion on making your own Anki cards for class lecture slides. Is it really as time inefficient as everyone says? Right now, I have been doing spaced repetition with the lecture slides but I feel like I could get a better testing effect by making cards. What do you do to memorize the lecture material?
It just depends. There are multiple approaches for covering lecture stuff:
1. Make your own cards for stuff that's not already covered by your premade deck of choice. This could work well if your school has a relatively small percentage of low yield. Mine doesn't, so that was a non-starter. If your school is the ideal, you'll only be making a small number of cards per lecture, like anywhere from 10-30 short and sweet clozed/image occluded cards. Just ballparking here.
I will say that I made cards for a bit, but it just wasn't worth it. The time it took to make and review these cards was just too much. Keep in mind that my school overloads us with the low yield.
2. Use a premade deck that your classmates are passing around. This could work very well, depending on how good it is. The premades at my school just weren't good enough for me.
3. Some people have some extremely good and high yield notes that you can just cram a few days before the exam. I have yet to come across this personally.
4. Run through the slides like you're doing. I did this for the most part for M1, except I did it a few days before exams. It worked okay. Keep in mind that I couldn't care less about my exam scores; I'm boards focused.
Now I only do the practice qs that the school supplies. The curriculum is more board relevant this year, so I'm able to get away with completely ignoring all lecture materials.