Can any give me any tips/stories they had for using it for school. I plan to use it in my last year of school. It's been amazing for japanese so I definitely feel I can use it for bio/chem courses and ace them all.

Can anyone explain any srs forms(cloze deletion/question answer types) they used for school subjects?

Thanks in advance!

Cloze deletion for formulas and equations. Anything that the textbook author considers important enough to put it into a box or make it stand out somehow goes into the srs.

Generally I did this (and am still doing this post-PhD) as production cards.

Even worked for steps of standard proofs expected in calculus courses, although back then I only had the rotten supermemo.

Irixmark Wrote:Cloze deletion for formulas and equations. Anything that the textbook author considers important enough to put it into a box or make it stand out somehow goes into the srs.

Generally I did this (and am still doing this post-PhD) as production cards.

Even worked for steps of standard proofs expected in calculus courses, although back then I only had the rotten supermemo.

thanks for the tip. I know for bio, cloze deletion for one fact or two facts is vital. Plus for chem I can apply it for the same concepts/for chem definitions.
But one thing I want to do is. Put all the problems in there for chem. I.e. we always get practice questions/solutions on how to do them. Would it be possible to put this in the srs and use it for retention purposes? Some problems are short while some other longer. Typing up the problems isn't the problem here but putting up the answers in the answer part of the question is. I would think I'd have to photocopy it onto my computer(i mean scan it). And put it in the answer section.

Does anyone have any experiences with this sort of thing?

I'm using Anki for Bio and Maths this year. Bio works just with cloze deletion and simple question answer format.

Maths + Anki = pure win! I've just been putting all the sample problems from the videos on Khan Academy into a deck as I work through the videos and as a result I'm starting to get a solid understanding of the core concepts on a much deeper level than school goes through them.

Actually... if anyone would be keen to help make that deck it'd be a massssssive help cos I'm so busy these days.

mezbup Wrote:I'm using Anki for Bio and Maths this year. Bio works just with cloze deletion and simple question answer format.

Maths + Anki = pure win! I've just been putting all the sample problems from the videos on Khan Academy into a deck as I work through the videos and as a result I'm starting to get a solid understanding of the core concepts on a much deeper level than school goes through them.

Actually... if anyone would be keen to help make that deck it'd be a massssssive help cos I'm so busy these days.

So bio works well for cloze deletion/smiple question/answer style.
I know I would be able to put diagrams in there(fill in the blanks for diagrams and such).
As for math I know I have math style questions related to bio and chem is nothing but problem solving involving math. So I definitely need to make/enter all the questions I get in my courses to my srs. I think if I'd do that, I would be owning all my classes with good grades

This guy had some ideas, could be useful. He's certainly written a lot.

http://study-shack.com/

Could also take notes on your computer during class and then copy and paste them into your SRS later.

Could also see if the school textbook has a sister site that has the terms down.My sociology course has one and I pasted all the vocab off the site. I didnt even read the book and I scored high on tests.

Also reccommend getting Anki Mobile and doing reps during class, or the grocery line. Explain to the teacher youre using flashcards on your ipod to study for their class. be smart about how you tell them.

there may even be a way to download the textbook and rip stuff directly from it which I dont know.

My philosophy teacher kept all his test info at the end of the chapter which I only I dumped into my srs after hardly listening to his lectures -_-

My master student class gave a study guide and I finished while the teacher was talking and remembered everything on the drive to class with srs.
Hope some of this helps anyone

TwoMoreCharacters Wrote:This guy had some ideas, could be useful. He's certainly written a lot.

http://study-shack.com/

yes this is what I forgot to bookmark

Tolerence91 Wrote:Could also take notes on your computer during class and then copy and paste them into your SRS later.

Could also see if the school textbook has a sister site that has the terms down.My sociology course has one and I pasted all the vocab off the site. I didnt even read the book and I scored high on tests.

Also reccommend getting Anki Mobile and doing reps during class, or the grocery line. Explain to the teacher youre using flashcards on your ipod to study for their class. be smart about how you tell them.

there may even be a way to download the textbook and rip stuff directly from it which I dont know.

My philosophy teacher kept all his test info at the end of the chapter which I only I dumped into my srs after hardly listening to his lectures -_-

My master student class gave a study guide and I finished while the teacher was talking and remembered everything on the drive to class with srs.
Hope some of this helps anyone

It helps. All my teachers post notes/review questions always for each class. So I can definitely add this/all definitions in there. I just got to find a good easy way of entering those number based questions(i.e. problem soloing with various formulas and units)

I find this all rather interesting. I haven't really used SRS outside of language learning, but I hear that it works well.

Cranks Wrote:I find this all rather interesting. I haven't really used SRS outside of language learning, but I hear that it works well.

it is. I know someone who is using it for school as well as for Japanese. He said he's been getting 90's in all his classes thanks to the srs

mezbup Wrote:Maths + Anki = pure win! I've just been putting all the sample problems from the videos on Khan Academy into a deck as I work through the videos and as a result I'm starting to get a solid understanding of the core concepts on a much deeper level than school goes through them.

Hey, me too! Actually just started, I find making cards for other subject to be a much bigger pain in the ass than for language, but maybe that's because I haven't yet become accustomed to the process for math/science.

I use Anki a lot to cram for university exams (I'm studying biology). I have a lot of cards asking for characteristics of things, definitions, filling out tables, labeling graphics etc. Windows 7's Snipping tool makes it very easy to input cards fast, since we normally get the lecture's pdfs from our professors and I just need to mark stuff with the snipping tool and copy/paste it into Anki (as additional resource, google books works quite well that way too). That way I don't need to type in all cards manually (I'm ok with not being able to search my cards for certain keywords). I also put in all questions from past exams I'm able to get my hands on. Since most of the exams involve many questions with "one-word-answers" as opposed to writing out a whole paragraph about a topic, it works quite well that way.

TwoMoreCharacters Wrote:This guy had some ideas, could be useful. He's certainly written a lot.

http://study-shack.com/

I'm bored at work so I read this whole site. Good info. Loves Khatz.

Had a couple of good suggestions for proper class attendence, etc. It's pretty easy to read through the whole blog too, so I highly recommend it.

TwoMoreCharacters Wrote:This guy had some ideas, could be useful. He's certainly written a lot.

http://study-shack.com/

Wow, this is very nice. Highly recommended.

Started using Anki for taking notes at lectures about a week ago. I'll see how it works out.

Usually I'm so busy with typing powerpoint sentences to anki, that I hear like 10% of the lecture

I use anki for these subjects right now:

Japanese culture and society
Introduction to management

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I learn prefectures too.( premade deck)

jettyke Wrote:Started using Anki for taking notes at lectures about a week ago. I'll see how it works out.

Usually I'm so busy with typing powerpoint sentences to anki, that I hear like 10% of the lecture

That's certainly not good. You should listen the whole lecture and then input what you retain into anki. What you retain, will be most of the time, what your subconcious considers to be more important.

jettyke Wrote:Usually I'm so busy with typing powerpoint sentences to anki, that I hear like 10% of the lecture

And why don't you just record the lecture to listen to it later in the day? You could also hook up a USB web cam, and record the lecture. This will lessen the stress you are having right now, by trying to work on one thing, while having to concentrate on the other, so you don't miss something important the lecturer says.

Or you could team up with some classmates and take shifts.

Nagareboshi Wrote:

jettyke Wrote:Usually I'm so busy with typing powerpoint sentences to anki, that I hear like 10% of the lecture

And why don't you just record the lecture to listen to it later in the day? You could also hook up a USB web cam, and record the lecture. This will lessen the stress you are having right now, by trying to work on one thing, while having to concentrate on the other, so you don't miss something important the lecturer says.

Sadly I don't have enough free time to relisten, but at least I discovered some shortcuts today

Jettyke: if you aren't given the powerpoint lectures already, you could try asking your teacher(s) nicely if they would consider putting the lectures up on the web. You could argue for it by saying that it helps students by giving them a chance to prepare for lectures so that they will understand the lecturer better while listening and also by making reflections on past lectures easier. At my university, lecturers that don't make their powerpoint slides accessible somehow through the 'Net to students are a small minority, I don't know what it's usually like at Japanese colleges/universities though.

Once you have the lecture slides, replace typing with copy-pasting as much as possible to increase time efficiency.

I also agree with Josee that making cards during lectures is generally not a good idea. As a rule, you should have a good idea about the context of the material that you input into Anki so that you 1) know whether it is actually important at all 2) know what aspects of the material is important. For example, a concept like "ethology" has a lot of components, and you want to be able to recognize what components making up the concept are crucial for your understanding/what is going to be important in the long run. Of course, it can be hard sometimes to get a good grip of a concept until you've gotten really into the subject, but some fuzzy idea about what makes the material important is necessary. Otherwise you end up bogged down by not-so-valuable card reviews.

So, at the least listen to the whole lecture to make sense of what was most important in the lecture, and why. Looking up things on wikipedia can also help a lot, Japanese wikipedia pages aren't always of the best quality but often you can copy text from these too to use in Anki.

Hope this helps, good luck with your studies!

Edit: When you're unsure about the validity of information on a Japanese wikipedia page and there's no good source reference (which is sadly very often the case), checking the English version of the same article can often help.

This thread is great.

After starting school recently I have made it a routine to input everything into Anki. Usually one or two days after having class I simply take the material presented in the last class and the information still floating in my head and create cards. I do this for every subject. From maths to languages.

For maths I usually write down the derivation steps for certain kinds of problems. They could be the derivation steps required to multiply two fractions (very simple stuff, I know, but bare with me). They might look like this:

1. Factorize all nominators and denominators
2. Reduce the fractions
3. Multiply nominator by nominator
4. Multiply denominator by denominator

For these steps there will be three sets of cards:

- The first set of cards uses cloze deletions for each step. For example, blanking out the text after "1. ". Do this for every step.
- The second set of cards uses questions like "what step comes after step "Factorize all nominators and denominators"?
- The third set of cards uses questions like "what step comes _before_ step "Multiply denominator by denominator"?

No idea if this is the right approach or not. I'd love to hear any feedback on this. What I can say though is that I am like a machine when solving math exercises, they are all so easy if you actually bother to learn the rules! Two additional notes on the derivation rules cards:

1. Step 2 of the above example consists of derivation steps in itself, so basically, when thinking about Step 2 my mind automatically expands the derivation steps of "reducing fractions".
2. Learning these derivation steps have made it easier to learn material that builds upon the existing one. For example, after learning fractions the linear equations came. While others were trying to remember the rules of specific things to solve the equation I simply went on without problems. Like a machine.

No exams so far though, so can't really comment on the effectivness

Changing the subject a bit, I would love to hear your thoughts on the following questions:

- How do you use cloze deletions with LaTeX in Anki?
- How much time do you usually spend answering cards?
- Do you solve/answer questions, e.g. in maths, by solving the problem on a separate sheet of paper or just in your head?
- How many concrete exercises (as opposed to abstract rules, e.g. equations) do you put into Anki in maths or other subjects? Does learning maths simply end up as solving exercices?

EDIT:

Also, does anyone know how to prevent Anki from clearing all fields after adding a card?

cntrational Wrote:

TwoMoreCharacters Wrote:This guy had some ideas, could be useful. He's certainly written a lot.

http://study-shack.com/

Wow, this is very nice. Highly recommended.

Is the site down? Or is it just me? Seems to be hacked or something

[Zgarbas]

Muslim hackers, apparently.

I was going to read up on his blog and prepare to use the srs for my next semester courses but now it's hacked? This came at a bad time but wonder why it got hacked even?