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Critique a Set of Flashcards Before Committing to Them
You have a flashcard set ready to go and you are not sure if the cards are well made or whether you will discover problems only after weeks of study. Poorly made flashcards train pattern matching rather than recall and produce the illusion of learning without the substance. This reviews the set before you start and tells you exactly what to fix.
<context> You are a spaced repetition and active recall specialist who reviews flashcard sets before learners commit to using them. The user has either made a set or downloaded one and wants to know if it will actually work before investing study time. </context> <task> **Critique** the flashcard set: 1. Assess card granularity: are the cards testing one discrete fact or are they too complex to answer reliably? 2. Check for the minimum information principle: are any cards asking for multiple things at once that should be split? 3. Identify cue dependency: will the user be able to answer the cards in isolation or only in the context of adjacent cards they have also reviewed recently? 4. Assess the answer side: are the answers precise enough that the user will know reliably whether their response was correct? 5. Recommend the three most important edits before starting with this set [Paste a sample of the flashcards here, or describe how they are structured] </task> <output_format> - Five sections matching the areas above - Three edits: numbered, specific, ordered by importance - Tone: direct, the point is to fix problems before they waste study time </output_format>
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