It so happens that every six or seven months an article like this pops up, and revives my interest in Anki for a short while. So far, it has never stuck with me, but maybe this time…
I’m preparing for a bunch of Maths (linear algebra, analysis, automata and grammars, and the like) and Biology (molecular bio, immunology, genetics) exams, all due in June. I haven’t seen/used any of the subjects in question for at least a year, although I have passed each of them with perfect marks back then.
Is it too late to construct the cards now as part of the refresh/relearning process?
If it is, what other learning routine would you recommend? I usually just go through a book and try to connect everything to everything else. I’ve also adopted Zettelkasten notes for some of the subjects, formalising this notion of connecting things.
If it isn’t, how granular should I be wirh the cards?
A card for every definition, every theorem, and the main lemmas? (there’s literally hundreds of those)
Or just a few high level cards like “explain the matrix subspaces” and “what are the eigenvectors about”?
Or should the granularity be chosen relative to the expected granularity of the exam? (They probably won’t ask me to proove every little theorem)
Hey, are English-speaking and never-been-to-a-meetup-ing individuals welcome as well?