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A-level biology flashcards

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What the cards are for

980 cards across 21 units. Each card holds one item to produce from memory: a term and its definition, a question with a short written answer, a common misconception to correct.

Answer each card before turning it over, then choose Again, Hard or Good to schedule the next review.

Again, Hard and Good

Again: the card comes back soon, with the gap cut to about a fifth, and again later in this session. Hard: the gap stays as it was. Good: the gap grows, up to about three months.

The keys 1, 2 and 3 do the same. Two answers to one card on the same day count as the lower of the two.

Revise, learn, or cram

The first button reviews the cards that are due, the ones you are most likely to have forgotten first. With none due it introduces up to 20 cards you have not seen, from topics you have read first; with none of those, it shuffles the selection. Learn new: up to 20 unseen cards. Cram: every selected card in random order, whether or not it is due.

The selectors above set which cards all three draw from. Every card you grade counts towards its schedule, here or on Today.

980 flashcards from the Biology lessons, including definitions, short questions and common misconceptions. Choose the whole course or one unit, answer before turning the card over, and rate how well you recalled it.

The same cards are free to download as Anki decks for every biology unit, and the definition and spot-the-error cards print eight to a sheet from the same page.

How the three kinds differ

Define cards carry a term on the front and its definition on the back. Check cards carry a question with a short written answer, one per lesson; write the answer out before turning the card over. Spot the error cards carry an inaccurate statement on the front for you to correct.

The collection, unit by unit

Every unit’s cards have a page of their own, with a player scoped to them. The session above draws on the whole collection, or on one unit if you choose one; either way, one schedule covers every page.

Your card schedule is kept in this browser, on this device, unless you sign in, just like the revision checklist. For Anki, the same cards are available as free Anki decks, one per unit.