hey guys,
currently doing kaplan with 1-3 chapters a day for MCAT, supplemented by Anking deck. going the route of unsuspending the cards as i finish a chapter.
only problem is i have a big backlog of new cards (e.g. i have 300 new cards but have already done my 50 new cards for today + review)
is this normal? or should i increase my daily new card limit
thanks!
Hi everyone, so I have downloaded the JS cards and did the setting for them but im confused as to how Anki works. Like my new cards are at 80 cards per day and organized according to Kaplan chapters. I am doing content review right now. If I do a chapter I unsuspend the cards and go through them, but them tomorrow do I go through the same cards? Do I go through the cards for all the chapters? How does this work and what do I click on? im very confused please help.
I feel like I can grasp the basic concepts but the straight up memorization doesn’t feel like it’s serving me and I keep forgetting it. Are you guys actually memorizing them all?
Linked Notes automatically pulls up the lecture page that matches your flashcard. No manual tagging, just import your lecture PDFs and it's set!
It solves a major problem when studying AnKing decks: Linked Notes finds your lecture material that matches the card you’re reviewing.
If you find yourself looking back at lectures constantly, having the right lecture page automatically pulled up saves a lot of time.
I also added deck presets today, so each deck can search only through the PDFs you choose for it, as seen in the demo.
I'm so happy with the state Linked Notes is in, and I hope to hear more stories about how it's helped y'all!
Learn more about it here
Using an older version of the AnKing deck rn, but wondering if its worth adding in the Mr. Pankow deck? I don't really believe I should be focusing too much of my time on Anki, but also psych/soc is defo my worst section. If I do that, the decks have like 7.5k cards combined (5.3k AnKing, 2.2k Pankow), with probably like 300-400 reveiws per day total from the 2 decks? Ik modern AnKing includes pankow cards but I also was worried the deck was too tiny. Should I just stick to the 5.3k AnKing and separtely study psych?
Hi everyone,
I am doing content review for the MCAT. I have 3 months till my MCAT. I’m doing content review from scratch as I’m non-traditional. I’m using the JS deck for AnkI. I love the cards but I’ve never used Anki before so I’m wondering what do my settings need to be for Anki?
I thought I would do the chapter that corresponds to Anki chapters but like that’s like lots of cards per day and it’s overwhelming. so how should I do it? what’s the best way to study using Anki if my goal is to get a high score? please help!
Hello, so I’ve been using anki for a few years and I just downloaded the Anking MCAT deck about a week ago for MCAT studying. I never used FSRS before this deck but I enabled it after seeing the AnKing 2025 tutorial, and I set my desired retention to 90%. At first when I tried to optimize the parameters, I got “0 reviews” and that parameters were optimal, which makes sense to me since I hadn’t done any reviews for the deck yet.
Here’s where I think I maybe messed up. I optimized the parameters every other day (so I think 4 times in the first week) for that deck, which I now read that I should only be optimizing once a month. When I evaluated and checked the RMSE, it showed 23% which is absurdly high. I’m very new to FSRS and I still don’t quite understand a lot about it yet, so sorry if things I’ve done seem very obviously wrong but I’d appreciate any insight and what I should do next!
TLDR; optimized FSRS too often and RMSE is 23%.
Last month, I asked my friends who study anatomy on Anki what would help them grasp the concepts better, and given my Computer Engineering degree from Texas A&M, I built Linked Body.
Linked Body analyzes the concepts of your flashcard to pull up a 3D interactive model of whatever anatomy you’re studying inside Anki automatically.
After releasing Linked Notes last month, an add-on that automatically pulls up the page your card came from (without any manual tagging), I wanted to build on that concept so that Linked Body complements Linked Notes.
Instead of memorizing spatial relationships from a flat image, you get a model you can rotate, zoom, and explore from any angle, turning a static image into something you can actually interact with, giving you a much deeper grasp of the concepts.
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I am going to be using the Kaplan books for content review. I heard the AnKing deck follows through with the Kaplan chapters. But I also heard it isn't free (?), I don't really want to spend money on anything else at the moment. Is there another similar deck? I've read that Milesdown is pretty good, but outdated?
AnKing also seems to have Pankow embedded, so if it's a good enough investment to make (especially when compared to other decks out there), I will go for it! I'd appreciate hearing any suggestions regarding this.
I also want to know how to use anki effectively I plan on testing in November and I just want some help I posted something similar on r/MCAT but it got removed. Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.
I'm trying to figure out how to time my anki. I really really want to use CH but its 7k cards and intensive. I have 3.5 months to study, and here's what I'm leaning to so far
I plan to start FL practices in 2nd month, spaced out. I'm just wondering when to start practice/how much practice to do/what practice to do each day in content phase, and whether my anki plan is feasible. Idk if its "wrong" or not of that makes sense, I'm still struggling to understand how to use it properly. I've employed it in undergrad but in the worst way possible I'd do an entire deck of a few hundred in like one day sometime in the 10 days to a test, sometimes without even reviewing the content first. It worked and but was insanely time intensive and obviously wont fly for the MCAT. Insight on how to properly use anki/deck presets and what they mean would be much appreciated.
i’m so confused i’ve spent some time here and im confused and what the differences between the anking, milesdown, and jack sparrow deck are? i’ve also heard pankow for psych? im so confused 🥀🥀
I'm trying to figure out how to time my anki. I really really want to use CH but its 7k cards and intensive. I have 3.5 months to study, and here's what I'm leaning to so far
I plan to start FL practices in 2nd month, spaced out. I'm just wondering when to start practice/how much practice to do/what practice to do each day in content phase, and whether my anki plan is feasible. Idk if its "wrong" or not of that makes sense, I'm still struggling to understand how to use it properly. I've employed it in undergrad but in the worst way possible I'd do an entire deck of a few hundred in like one day sometime in the 10 days to a test, sometimes without even reviewing the content first. It worked and but was insanely time intensive and obviously wont fly for the MCAT. Insight on how to properly use anki/deck presets and what they mean would be much appreciated.
^TITLE. Is it once you get it multiple times? I have just been pressing hard or good on my reviews, but I want to know when we should press good? I know people who say not to press "easy" at all...
Anyone willing to share their deck with me please? I’ve already dropped so much money on resources I don’t want to buy another thing. I’d really appreciate it!
Hey I’m confused what is the difference between miledown deck and anking?
Also, for Anki, when should you be choosing “Easy,” “Good,” “Hard,” or “Again”? What’s the actual difference between these options, and how do you decide which one to click based on how you did on a card? I feel like the options are pretty similar.