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Flashcards and spaced repetition

Flashcards are how the material stays in your head between sessions.

Written by Tyler Read

Flashcards are how the material stays in your head between sessions.

Open Flashcards and pick a deck — one per domain of your exam, plus All decks to review everything due across the whole exam. Each row shows how many cards are due.

Rating a card

Flip it — tap it, or press Space — then rate how it went: Again, Hard, Good or Easy. Keys 1 to 4 do the same. Each button shows when you would next see the card, so the choice is not abstract.

What the scheduling actually does

Capital Prep uses FSRS, which models each card's own strength for you individually. It is not fixed intervals and it is not a box system: a card you find hard comes back soon, a card you know is pushed weeks out, and the schedule adapts as you go.

That is why coming back tomorrow matters more than doing more today — the cards due tomorrow are precisely the ones about to fall out of memory.

New cards are introduced at a steady rate rather than all at once, so a deck never dumps two hundred unseen cards on you in one sitting. Cards you wrote yourself are exempt from that pacing.

Quick Ten

Quick Ten Cards reviews ten cards that are genuinely due, with no new ones mixed in — about three minutes. It is the one to use on a phone in a queue.

Nothing due?

The app will tell you rather than invent work: "Nothing is due right now — that's the schedule working." You can open a deck early and it will show you cards ahead of time, which is allowed but rarely the best use of a session.

On the free trial

The first domain's deck is fully open — real cards, real scheduling, including the reviews that come due on later days. The other decks and All decks come with a pass, and you can see how many cards are in them.

Flashcards work offline once you have opened them online at least once.

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