Spaced repetition — a protocol you can run this week. A working protocol for atomic cards is capture, schedule, retrieve, repair, mix, audit.
Scores here are relative ranks inside this atlas, not lab grades or official cut scores.
Steps
- Capture
Write cards from a public outline, one fact each, answer hidden.
If you need a comma in the question, split the card.
- Schedule
Set a daily due time and a new-card cap so the queue cannot explode.
Cap new cards before you cap reviews.
- Retrieve
Grade honestly: a peek is a fail, even if you then recognise the line.
Recognition is not recall.
- Repair
Suspend or rewrite leeches after a set number of lapses.
A leech is usually two facts glued together.
- Mix
Keep related procedures on separate cards and mix their due dates.
Interleaving lives in the queue, not inside one card.
- Audit
Once a week, mark young high-yield cards and check them against the public outline.
If the outline moved, the deck must move.
Protocol
- Daily queue — Clear due atomic cards before adding anything from public outline. Leftovers are scheduling debt.
- New-item cap — Cap new atomic cards so the queue cannot explode the night before a sitting.
- Repair clinic — Rewrite atomic cards that failed twice instead of grinding it infinitely.
- Pre-event freeze — Freeze new atomic cards 10–14 days before the sitting so only mature retrieval remains.
Variants
- Software queue — A digital list of due atomic cards. Useful when volume exceeds a shoebox.
- Paper analog — Index cards or a notebook column for atomic cards. Honest if you actually move them.
- Oral walk-through — Speak atomic cards aloud. Good when the exam rewards oral retrieval.
- Calendar-only — Write review dates for atomic cards in a diary without ease grades.
Educational atlas — not an official syllabus, medical advice, or leaked item bank. Spaced repetition: Keep the public outline in view and treat this page as method, not a leaked key.
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