The 4 Mistakes That Make People Quit Flashcards (NEET PG), by DrG on YouTube. 12 min 32 s.
- Video length
- 12 min 32 s
- Time to do it
- 20 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 9
What you need
Steps
Decide what flashcards are for. Use cards to hold facts you have already met, and use practice questions to find gaps in your knowledge.
Write one fact per card. If you cannot answer a card in about ten seconds, split it into two or three smaller cards.
Check that each card can actually fail you. If the answer is obvious from the question, rewrite the card so it tests real recall.
Set a daily cap on new cards. Treat 20 new cards a day as a realistic ceiling and 50 as an absolute maximum, not a target.
Expect the review load to multiply. Around 20 new cards a day can mean roughly 200 reviews a day, so pick a cap you can sustain.
Keep your active deck small. Move out cards you already know well so the deck only holds what you still do not know.
Treat a backlog as a queue, not a debt. Do not try to catch up in one day. Cap tomorrow's new cards and work through the queue steadily.
Retire cards you have proved you know. Suspend or delete them so the count stays honest and does not scare you.
Use paper cards if an app count stresses you. Paper has no backlog number, so you can review only what you pull out.
Tips and common mistakes
If a card keeps feeling hard, split it rather than adding more detail.
Do not raise your new card cap just because you had a free day.
Review your deck weekly and delete cards that no longer test anything useful.
Pair each study block with practice questions so cards and questions do different jobs.
Questions
How many new flashcards should I add each day?
Start around 20 new cards a day and treat 50 as a ceiling, not a goal. Your daily reviews will grow to several times the number of new cards you add.
What should I do about a huge flashcard backlog?
Do not try to clear it in one sitting. Cap new cards, work through the queue at a steady pace and retire cards you have already proved you know.
Should flashcards replace practice questions?
No. Questions show you where your gaps are, and cards stop those gaps from reopening. Use both for different jobs.
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