The Ideal Card

In addition to the card models, here are the characteristics of an ideal card:

• Asks one fact. Multiple facts make the card harder to learn.
• Short. Shorter the better.
• Asks precisely the ‘gap’ in knowledge using Cloze Deletion.
• Understanding before putting the card into the SRS .
• Summarizes information rather than verbatim from the source .
• Clear what the card is asking. There may be ‘layers’ of information like the Los Angeles location.

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