How it works
Spaced repetition, made simple.
You forget most of what you learn within a few days. OphthoMentor fixes that by showing you each question again just before you would forget it.
In short: get a question wrong and you see it again soon. Get it right and you see it again later. Over time it sticks, and you stop wasting time on things you already know.
You forget fast
Learn something today and most of it is gone in a few days.
But if you look at it again just as you start to forget, it sticks a little better. Do that a few times and it stays for weeks, then months.
Dashed line: no review. Solid line: each dot is a review. Your memory jumps back up and fades more slowly every time.
The app does the planning
You do not need a timetable. For every question you answer, the app keeps track of how well you know it and works out the best day to show it to you again.
Each day you just open the app and answer what is due.
Your answer decides when it comes back
After each question you can say how sure you were. The app looks at that and at whether you were right.
It comes back soon
It comes back fairly soon
It waits longer
You can adjust it
How much you want to remember
Drill your weakest topic
Next, see how we measure if you are ready for your exam, or how we make sure the questions are right.
The science behind it
Spaced repetition comes from more than 100 years of research on memory.
- Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
- Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis
- Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention
- Making things hard on yourself, but in a good way: Creating desirable difficulties
- Spaced repetition promotes efficient and effective learning
- A stochastic shortest path algorithm for optimizing spaced repetition scheduling
- Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler (FSRS)