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Study Tips: How to Memorise Notes Using Flashcards!

Hey guys, Shay here from Student Life Australia, and in today’s video, I’m going to talk about how to study and memorise using flashcards. Let’s go!

Alright, so flashcards or system cards are just handheld pieces of paper, and they’re a great idea if you want to learn your notes really fast. This is how they work:

First, you want to get your notes—any sort of textbook or handwritten notes that you’ve already prepared with all the information you might need for an upcoming exam. On one side of the flashcard, you write a question derived from your notes. It should have an answer that can only be given if you actually know your notes well enough. Then, obviously, on the other side, you write the answer.

Alright, so you’ve got a question and an answer that addresses a certain dot point, chunk, or paragraph of the information you need to know for the exam. Once you’ve made one, you’re going to make another, and another, and another, until you have questions and answers that cover everything you need to know for the upcoming exam. Try to make the questions and answers pretty concise—just the summarised version will do.

Once you’ve written all your questions and answers, you’re going to go through them like this: Look at the question. Okay, this is my answer. Read your answer aloud, then flip the card over to see if you got it correct. If you got it right, place it somewhere else—you don’t need it anymore because you know that one. Next question: read your answer aloud, flip it over, and if you got it wrong, take that card, flip it back to the question side, and put it at the bottom of the stack.

Keep going through the cards, getting them right or wrong, until all of the cards are gone and you know everything off by heart. You can keep repeating the process in rounds, again and again, until you’ve memorized everything fully. From there, you can keep practicing to maintain your knowledge until test day.

Another way to make it a bit more fun is to time yourself or race yourself to improve with each try. You could also verse a friend—maybe someone studying the same subject—and have a race to see who can go through 50 flashcards in under two minutes. Whatever works for you!

So, there you go: Get your notes, write a question, write the answer. If you get it right, chuck that flashcard somewhere else. If you get it wrong, put it at the bottom of the stack, and keep going until they’re all gone.

There you go, guys. See you later!

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