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Effective Exam Preparation with Anki (Patreon)

Published:
2018-10-31 18:43:51
Imported:
2023-01

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Update (2020-03-25):

It took way too long, but I'm happy to say there's finally a way for you to give these simulations a try yourselves. Head on over to the Anki Simulator announcement post to check it out!

Original post:

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Hey guys!

I hope everyone's having an amazing day, and in case of those of you celebrating, a happy Halloween!

Today's post is somewhat special, as I wasn't really planning on doing something like this. However, one of you guys recently wrote to me with a series of questions about how to best utilize Anki in exam preparation, and I thought this was such an intriguing topic that I just had to record a video on it.

In this special Patreon-only tutorial I try to share some of my thoughts in using Anki for exams while running you through some simulations of Anki's algorithm. Topics covered include:

  • Whether it makes sense to customize settings like the maximum interval or interval modifier
  • What kind of effects these types of adjustments can have on your workload
  • How to best identify and fix your weak points in the final weeks ahead of an exam

A couple of notes on the video:

  • The video did turn out much longer than I hoped for, so please do feel free to set the speed to 2X or to make ample use of the timestamps in the description!
  • At 10:00 on I mention 10% for the difference in average review load. That should be 5%. Sorry!

For those of you on the Add-on Aficionado support tier and up: I will also be posting a follow-up link soon where you will be able to play around with these Anki simulations yourselves! So if you ever wondered how many daily reviews you might have to do for a particular deck or different scheduling settings, now you can!

If you have any feedback or questions on the video, please do let me know in the comment section below!

– Glutanimate

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Patreon Q&A: Anki Exam Settings

In this special Q&A video I try to answer a recent Patreon question about how to best utilize Anki for exam preparation. Topics covered in this video include: - Which effects different scheduling settings like the interval modifier and a capped review interval have on your workload - Whether you should adjust these settings when preparing for an exam - How to identify and fix weak points ahead of an exam Contents: 00:00 Intro & problem statement 02:11 Explaining settings for review simulator 07:00 Running different simulations to shed light on the effects of different scheduling settings (esp. max ivl and ivl modifier) 18:00 Caveats to the interval modifier 23:40 Anki search strings to identify weak cards 29:19 Add-ons to assess your performance 32:24 Whether to use prop:due to 35:02 General advice on advice about Anki scheduling settings and extro ---------------- Thanks a lot to all of you awesome people on Patreon for making this video possible, in particular: Blacky 372, Fin Thiessen, Paul Bake, Alex M, Andrew, Devin Beecher, Edan Maor, Henrik Giesel, Itai Efrat, JessC, Jim Sola, Jørgen Rahbek, Man Duong, Michael Song, Nicolas Curi, PapelMagico, Paul McManus, Peter Benisch, Rob Alexander, Scott Barnett, Sebastián Ortega, Shawn Lesniak, spiraldancing, Steven Nevers, Yuniesky Echemendia ---------------- Not a Patron, yet? Pledge your support here and get access to even more exclusive content: https://patreon.com/glutanimate

Comments

JooceMayn739

Thank you for this awesome contribution. I was wondering what your opinion was on how to handle "old" cards with large intervals, like Hard, Good, Easy at 1 months+ , that you end up "forgetting" or "getting wrong" while reviewing. Is it good practice to press again, or use hard?

glutanimate
>>19871770

Hey Jooce! Glad you like the video! My recommendation would be to pretty much always hit again when you forget something. I usually reserve hard for instances where I got the answer right, but took very long to get there. Sometimes I also hit hard when I get some tiny minutiae wrong, but am otherwise correct with my answer. But for the most part Again is the way to go for me. With that said, I do have my deck options set up to keep 10-20% of the old interval after lapses. Anki's defaults are to reset cards as if they were new when you get them wrong. I feel that's too harsh and not necessary in most scenarios. Forgetting a card just once shouldn't invalidate all of the hard work you puts toward it in the past.

glutanimate
>>23275702

Hi Lucas! Thank you for your support! My main concern with the current version of the simulator is that I wasn't able to find a way to make it performant enough when running through a web browser (which I feel would be important, as I think most users won't know how set up a development themselves). So I'm now looking at porting the code to JavaScript and hosting it on the web myself. Unfortunately I don't have any ETA at the moment on when this will be done.