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A card that asks you to recognise an answer teaches recognition, not recall. "Which of these is the Krebs cycle?" feels easy and proves nothing; "What does the Krebs cycle produce, and where in the cell?" is the question an exam actually asks.
One fact per card. A card carrying three facts gets marked wrong when you miss any of them, so you re-study all three even though you knew two. Split it and you know exactly which fact you missed.
Re-reading feels productive because the material gets easier to read, which your brain mistakes for getting easier to remember. Retrieval is the opposite: it feels harder and is what actually moves the fact into long-term memory.
The schedule matters more than the volume. A card reviewed just before you would have forgotten it costs one review; the same card reviewed daily costs seven and teaches you no more. Scholarize does not schedule reviews for you, so space them yourself: come back to a deck after a day, then three days, then a week.
Paste a paragraph of lecture notes and the generator pulls out the testable facts as question-and-answer pairs. It works best on material that has definite answers — definitions, mechanisms, dates, formulas, syntax — and worst on essay-style argument, which is not what flashcards are for.
Read the deck before you study it. Anything that is not actually the point of the passage, delete; a deck you do not trust is a deck you will not finish.
CS material suits cards better than most subjects because so much of it is precise: what a call stack holds at a given depth, what Big-O a structure gives for insert versus lookup, what a git command does to the index rather than the working tree.
For code, make the card about behaviour rather than syntax — "what does this loop leave in the array" teaches more than "what does .splice() do", and it is the shape an exam question takes.
No. Paste your text and the deck is generated and shown to you straight away. An account is only needed if you want to save a deck and come back to it.
Lecture notes, a syllabus, a textbook chapter, an article, or your own summary. Plain text works best; the generator reads it and writes question-and-answer cards from the facts it finds.
It works wherever the material has definitions, processes or facts to recall - biology, law, medicine, languages, history, engineering. It is weaker on material that is mostly calculation, because a worked problem is not a recall card.
The cards are built from the text you paste, but the generator will also add related facts it knows - paste one line about mitochondria and you may get a card about ATP that your notes never mentioned. That is usually helpful and usually right, but it means the deck is not strictly a copy of your source. Read the cards once before revising from them: if your notes contain a mistake it can be repeated, and an added fact is worth a glance before you memorise it.
Yes, generating and viewing a deck is free and needs no card. Saving decks, the AI tutor and quizzes sit behind a free account, with paid plans for heavier use.