How to use Flash Cards - Study Tips - Spaced Repetition

Hello Socratica Friends! We're here to help you be a Great Student.
In this episode, we learn about the best way to use FLASH CARDS.
Flash cards are a great tool to use anytime you need to memorize facts, fast. They're great for drilling vocabulary terms, learning dates in history...so many uses. The best thing about flash cards is that they help you figure out what you know, and what you don’t know. And although this may be uncomfortable, the best way to master a subject is to focus on what you DON’T know!
In this video, we'll show you how we use flash cards, using an important technique known as "spaced repetition." Basically, don't try to cram in all your studying in one go! Make sure you break it up over a couple of days at least, with breaks in between. Try using flashcards following the Pomodoro method! Two fantastic techniques working together to help you be a Great Student.
We recommend making flashcards the old fashioned way - with pen and paper, but if you'd like to use an app on your phone, we like Anki. Do you have a different method of studying with flash cards? Let us know what are your favourite study tips in the comments!
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Great Student: Liliana De Castro
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#StudyTips #Flashcards #SpacedRepetition

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Summary: - Spaced repetition method (aka pomodoro): Study in 20 min intervals with a 5 min break in between. One of the most effective study methods. - Can use flashcards apps like anki that use spaced repetition if its more convenient for you. But use physical flashcards when you can. - Cut flashcards in half. Full size is not necessary, - Color coat them to separate the categories. categories like subjects, or each chapter, etc. Colored the sides with a marker if you only have white ones. - One card per term. Word on one side. Brief definition in your own words simplified on the other. Check with friend to make sure your definition is not oversimplified. - Go thru them once looking at the definition side. Try to guess the word by saying it out loud before turning the card. - Separate cards in 2 piles - 'know' and 'don't know.' Be honest with yourself - don't put the card in the Know pile if you don't 100% know. - Take a break in between (remember spaced repetition) - Come back and shuffle the cards in the don't know pile and go thru them again. After another 5 min break...go thru the 'don't know's again. This time there should be very few cards in that pile. - What to do about the last "don't know" cards - try reading both sides out loud. Try writing a sentence using that word. Try reading your notes and textbook. - Wait a few days and go thru all the cards again starting from the term side this time. Remember to shuffle the cards first in case you just memorized the order. - there are new don't know cards. read out loud and follow up with cards that. you missed. read out loud and write a sentence. Have a friend test you. It's easy to say 'Oh I knew that' but in a test, you need to recall the material cold. Make sure you really know your stuff. Repeat steps when necessary. Great stuff -- Thanks! I'll use them starting today!

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Thank you for this video from an old gezzzer in London that is going back to study in my 60+ year.. Not knowing where to start! This helps me know where to start in simple terms.

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Oh my goodness! Her English is simply amazing! I wish my English was so perfect like that. Hahaha.

[@lawlietway3733]

Finally! Someone who focuses on analog systems, ahaha... Writing always helps and sticks in my memory

[@jsabssabellano6603]

yes. this is really effective. Ive been using this strategy since highshool and for the very first time I got the highest score in our first grading examination. Now that I enrolled again for my second course, I am still using this. You need to have more patience in writing it down on your flashcards. I tell you. its really effective.

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I've found this video extremely useful, I am struggling to study English, I hope with the help of my flesh cards I can remember new words in order to expand my vocabulary. Thanks so much.

[@Socratica]

Good luck! It's so challenging learning another language. Flash cards are a great way to build your vocab for sure! We made another video about how we study languages - give it a try! bit.ly/Learn_Lang

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Ayo flesh cards?

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Lots of good simple common sense advice. Just what I needed. Thanks.

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I am also going to learn korean with these methods ❤

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I’m going to use this for Spanish. I got an entire large packet of homework for summer that has a bunch of vocab lists so I can be better prepared for the fall.

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parli italiano?

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I discovered the Socratica today, and was surprised by a familiar face :) Você arrebenta, Liliana!

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We love it when we get to break out the school supplies!!! :)

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Cool

[@zexstation8815]

so concise and to the point. thank you.

[@tahamagdy4932]

I love the way you're randomizing your flash cards :D

I've been using flash cards for 3 years and that's my advice: a card don't have to be definition and term. I often prepare 2 sided questions which are prepared to include answers to the other side. So that I see different questions referring to same topic. Lastly, your video, especially the coloring part is great. I should try coloring perhaps.

[@dg7438]

are your two question on the same side? Or do you alternate with question/answer on each side?

@@dg7438 I'll explain with an example. On one side the question is: Who was the lead vocalist of Queen? And on the other side: Which band was Freddie Mercury in?

[@dg7438]

@ thx for the reply. Just to clarify... so the answers are also on the opposite side? So on 1 side you have a question & answer (from the opposite question)?

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I thought I invented that!! But it's just thinking economy/ efficiency, I guess. Good luck to you.

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This tip is perfect for the lessons about abstract algebra, there's a lot of definitions and to demonstrate stuff we really need to remember everything, thanks for the tips!

[@Socratica]

That's awesome that you can apply this technique to Abstract Algebra. Great thinking! :)

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That's amazing! I think this can help me so much! Thank you!

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its a interesting trick to study!!! and thanks for letting us know about flash cards !!

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going to use this for learning new vocabulary👍

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This really helpful, thank's!

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Wow, I felt like I learned this in a flash! Also, spaced repetition is far out!

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Definitely great information and tips I subscribed and I gave a like and you are right, it does help pretty much anything. Again, thank you. Great video

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i am always amazed how good your english is!!!

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This was do helpful. Thanks a lot guys 😃

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Ma'am thank you! for this telling how to use flash cards

[@seesterran3822]

🍄 Two tips I have learned- 1- the cards are easier and more natural to ‘flip’ if the card is flipped bottom to top rather than left to right, which is achieved by writing the other side ‘upside down’. 2-Instead of neatly writing all of the words the same, I sometimes try to write things in an unusual way to help me remember better. For example, if I’m writing bed…I might write the letters to look like a BeD-which will hopefully stand out more in my mind.

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Now I know what is flash cards 😀.

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Your explanation was exemplary!

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Ty for made this usefull video. I really enjoyed it

[@imranahmed6445]

Very helpful video. One of my school teacher once said about this type of cards. So it's an old yet effective method to learn something especially vocabbulary, definitions, terms etc.

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Obrigado pra quem legendou,não tenho dinheiro para uma mentoria particular e um conteúdo desse pra mim é uma riqueza

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Thank you so much, I need to pass the University's entrance exam, and there's a lot of information to remember. This helped and it's fun to make :) I remember I watched an anime in which a guy was using flashcards and it stuck on my mind, so thank you for such an amazing explanation. Truly helped a lot.

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Writing out carefully what to remember, and how to remember it (hints, short cuts, relationships etc) is a bomb way to 'inbrain' quickly.

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Really helpful!!

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Thanks you for this video this really helped

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nice video, very interesting about how to use flash cards

[@johncrwarner]

When I was doing an evening degree course on Modern Chinese I had a one and a half hour journey by coach to the college and being on a coach was not conducive to writing and reading wasn't the easiest thing so I used to drill flashcards of vocabulary. Luckily I have a "visual memory" and so it was very suitable for the following pairs of knowledge: character(s) and sound sound and English meaning character(s) and English meaning Interestingly as there are three elements to Chinese character learning: shape of character, sound associated and English meaning flashcards being binary in nature (two sides of card only) this sometimes caused problems but ... you just have to brute force it sometimes.

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We're so glad you found it helpful! Please let us know how it goes for you! :)

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until today...I only knew that flashcards are ...now I know how to use them..Thanks a ton!!

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Hi great video as always. I often face the problem of making a study program, with deadlines that I want to achieve at different dates but somehow I manage to miss all of them. I guess I won't be the only student asking for a video on how to plan out the syllabus and achieve those study targets more effectively..

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Ha! you read my mind when you said we don't want to waist our money on paper. I've already cut my flash cards in half too.

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Thank you so much mam I think this will be very helpful for me thank you again mam....

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Have you seen how she suffle the cards? I know magicians and poker players that don't do it so well. AWESOME video by the way.

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Fantastic ... I'm gonna learn Japanese and Mathematics both equally difficult.

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this video is amazing I got A* by using this method thank you very much

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That's fantastic!! Congratulations!! We're so happy for you that all your hard work paid off. :) :)

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great video quite useful

[@Socratica]

We're so glad you found it helpful. Thank you for letting us know! :)

[@vitvov]

I've tried paper cards before, but I kept forgetting them. So I downloaded the app. My favorite "Smart Repetition" for ios and "Memory Card" for Android

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Thanks for the recommendations!!

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Hey TQ it helped me a lot for my exams broh

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Nice shuffling skills. Olá Liliana

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Thank u so much 4 this video...it's awsm...I can memorize maths formulas easily by this trick...so much useful..👍

[@KJ7JHN]

I have an Epson Printer. You can run 3x5 cards through the printer. Works slick. Thanks for the video!

[@Socratica]

Neato! Have you noticed any difference in effectiveness if you type up the cards versus handwriting them?

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@@Socratica a bit, especially if I dont get to them. . . hand written still have their place.

[@xyze97]

Flashcards really helps a lot. Nice tutorial, though Anki does all the work automatically

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[@anerd6979]

Great video.I'm studying computer science engineering and in my second year know, researching for ways to study more effectively. I don't know if flashcards will help me with the theory part of my subjects. Since my books are like 500 pages minimum the amount of flashcards will be... a lot 😅. Do you think using flashcards will be good for technical subjects?