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So the idea is, as you go through practice problems or practice simulations and the things
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that you find difficult to understand, the act of, okay, can I take this explanation
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in front of me and distill it down into essentially kind of your own words on a flashcard
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Just the act of doing that means that you're able to make sense of a concept or a calculation
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And then you have the same benefit of taking handwritten notes. You've put things in your own words
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And then the second big benefit that flashcards gives you over handwritten notes is, as you
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review the flashcards, is the forced recall. So again, this is just super important to understand on test day
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Of course, the only thing you have is what you can pull out of your own memory
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So flashcards takes your personal things that you've made flashcards on, and then as you
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review them, it's that forced recall. Whereas when you review handwritten notes, it's just all in front of you
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Your brain doesn't have to really do any work
