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Active recall

Fast pass

Active recall — triage and high-yield first passes. Pull the answer from memory before you look — Karpicke and Roediger's testing effect.

Active recall — triage and high-yield first passes. For a fast pass, freeze new closed-book prompts two weeks out and only retire leeches and high-yield lists.

Scores here are relative ranks inside this atlas, not lab grades or official cut scores.

Weeks

  1. public outline → closed-book prompts

    Build closed-book prompts only for facts that can reappear as a name, number or list.

  2. High-yield first

    Put must-name facts into closed-book prompts before commentary.

  3. Daily due only

    If time is short, drop new closed-book prompts and pay the due queue. That is the pass, not a failure.

  4. Exile chronic fails

    Move chronic fails off infinite closed-book prompts and learn them as a one-page list.

  5. Freeze and retrieve

    Two weeks out, zero new closed-book prompts. Leftover minutes go to closed-book dumps.

  6. Eve light

    Do a short due pass of closed-book prompts, then sleep. Do not inflate the pile at 1 a.m.

Shortcuts

Triage

Educational atlas — not an official syllabus, medical advice, or leaked item bank. Active recall: Keep the public outline in view and treat this page as method, not a leaked key.

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