A month+ is plenty of time for spaced repetition to work its magic.
Thanks, that sounds encouraging.
For math, I recommend Anki; for non-Latex-intensive subjects like biology, I recommend SuperMemo for fast card creation while you read and review material.
I have to admit, I despise Anki. I love well-designed tools, to the point it’s probably detrimental to my life. But alas, it is like it is — and so every time I see Anki (and I’ve made around 300 cards for it past the last few years), I have an urge to throw the computer out of the window.
But, that’s just a detail. I plan to use Mochi, by the way.
I like to look at the “cheat sheets” for courses and ensure I know how to reason using the key concepts. Add cards for the key concepts you find in course review notes.
Ok, so the main advice is: don’t make a card for everything, just the important concepts. And those concepts can be found in “cheatsheets” and “course review notes”, it seems — unfortunately, I don’t have any of those things.
So, I’d be grateful if you could illustrate what do you think constitutes a major, Anki-worthy piece of information. Let’s say you’re trying to revise (in the context of my current exam prep) a base chapter on vector spaces from Linear algebra done right. You probably want a card with the VS axioms. What else do you view as important enough?
Ok, so the main advice is: don’t make a card for everything, just the important concepts. And those concepts can be found in “cheatsheets” and “course review notes”, it seems — unfortunately, I don’t have any of those things.
If the plan was to understand the given subject, then yes, that would work. And of course, that is the ultimate plan.
However, the more pressing matter are the exams. I would be afraid that the intersection of the two programs won’t contain all of the important concepts; that’s my experience with “other” textbooks (meaning, other than the few recommend ones), at least.
Thanks, that sounds encouraging.
I have to admit, I despise Anki. I love well-designed tools, to the point it’s probably detrimental to my life. But alas, it is like it is — and so every time I see Anki (and I’ve made around 300 cards for it past the last few years), I have an urge to throw the computer out of the window.
But, that’s just a detail. I plan to use Mochi, by the way.
Ok, so the main advice is: don’t make a card for everything, just the important concepts. And those concepts can be found in “cheatsheets” and “course review notes”, it seems — unfortunately, I don’t have any of those things.
So, I’d be grateful if you could illustrate what do you think constitutes a major, Anki-worthy piece of information. Let’s say you’re trying to revise (in the context of my current exam prep) a base chapter on vector spaces from Linear algebra done right. You probably want a card with the VS axioms. What else do you view as important enough?
Why not use Google for notes from other schools?
If the plan was to understand the given subject, then yes, that would work. And of course, that is the ultimate plan.
However, the more pressing matter are the exams. I would be afraid that the intersection of the two programs won’t contain all of the important concepts; that’s my experience with “other” textbooks (meaning, other than the few recommend ones), at least.