How Do You Review Using Flash Cards?
Reviewing. No-one likes it, but everyone needs to do it. Flash cards (or cue cards) are a good way to do this. • Buy or make some cards. Make sure that they are approximately A6 size (half of an A5 piece of paper). Don’t try to save money by getting paper – you can see through it, which allows you to unwittingly cheat. It must be lightweight card. • Write the keyword on the card. On one side of the card, write a very brief cue, key word or phrase, or possible exam question. For example “Solar system planets (in order of closest to sun)”. • Write the answer on the other side. On the other side, write “Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune”. • Make up several – or dozens – of such cards. You could color code them for different subjects – for example, have all blue cards for biology, and pink cards for physics. • Increase the complexity for essay exams. If you are reviewing for an essay-based exam, make the information on the back side of the cards more complex, so
