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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.