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ChristianKl comments on Useful Standardized Tests? - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: adam_strandberg 07 July 2014 08:26PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 08 July 2014 08:54:32AM 0 points [-]

Anki is a great way to solve the problem that you are having for topics like cognitive science and neuroscience. If you manage to translate the book you are reading into Anki flashcards and you successfully learn those flashcards you have the knowledge. Anki gives you automatic testing.

Comment author: somnicule 10 July 2014 12:00:44AM 0 points [-]

What about practical knowledge and skills you might want to practice from those fields? Anki is an excellent substitute for the "short answer" side of standardized testing, but there's more to it than that if you want to apply it, and it's often difficult to find systematic ways to practice such things.

Can you set multiple questions to the same card in Anki? Like, if I wanted to practice something like factoring quadratic equations, would I be able to copy a whole bunch of problems of that type to Anki, and not have each one as an independent card to be memorized?

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 July 2014 09:55:17PM 0 points [-]

There no real reason to have multiple problems on the same card. If you want to add 10 problems about factoring quadratic equations don't add 1 card but 10.

That said I have little experience with testing procedural math knowledge via Anki.