Guide to Anki Intervals and Learning Steps

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• @premedthrowaway3514 · 2024-01 · in “My Three-Year Journey to a 274 (Step 2)- Anki/UWorld, Practice Scores, Shelf Scores, and Stubbornness”

  …just to pass. Around January of my first year, a switch clicked in my brain, and I truly stopped giving AF about my in-house exams lol. Around this time, I switched my deck settings from Anking’s deck settings to Conan’s deck settings (▶ link since the cards were starting to take up a ton of my time. This reduced my daily card load dramatically while allowing me to continue focusing on long-term learning. This wa…

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• @Lickety_my_dickety · 2023-11 · in “How do people still do well on tests when they are studying 5~6 hrs daily and take a day off?”

  Optimize your anki interval settings ▶ link Itll hugely decrease your workload

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• @Lickety_my_dickety · 2023-11 · in “How do people still do well on tests when they are studying 5~6 hrs daily and take a day off?”

  Optimize your anki interval settings ▶ link

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• @H63Dg · 2022-05 · in “Cards in dedicated?”

  I used these settings ▶ link It ranged from 0-150ish cards per day. Tried to finish doing new anki cards in the first 1.5 weeks of rotations to do uworld questions after (personally would rather learn by doing questions on sorta familiar topics than get them wrong bc I’ve never seen it before)

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• @Lickety_my_dickety · 2021-12 · in “Do you guys remmeber anything after the exams?”

  What are your learning intervals like? I found anki basically impossible to keep up with with the default intervals, but after switching them to the ones recommended in this ▶ video I can keep up with it really well including all past material

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• @byunprime2 · 2021-11 · in “An efficient approach to a 270+ on Step 2 CK”

  …are relatively good, so unless you scored 250+ on Step 1, this method might not get you a 270 on Step 2. But I do think virtually anyone, if they followed the steps I did, can get at least a 250+ on Step 2. Edit: As an aside, I recommend ▶ this video for anyone trying to learn how to set their Anki intervals, as well as some of the learning theory behind the app. Interval adjustment is incredibly important for maxi…

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