How many flashcards a day to finish before your exam?
Divide your cards by the days you will be adding them. For 600 cards with 60 days to the exam and the last 7 days kept for review only, that is 600 cards over 53 days, so 12 new cards a day. Simulated with spaced repetition, the busiest day is day 26 with 60 reviews, and the final week averages about 31 reviews a day. Enter your own card count and exam date below.
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To learn 600 cards in 60 days with the last 7 days for review only, add 12 new cards a day for 53 days. The busiest day is day 26 with 60 reviews, and the last 7 days before the exam average 30.9 reviews a day, about 4.1 minutes.
- New cards per day
- 12
- for 53 days
- Busiest day
- Day 26
- 60 reviews
- Final week average
- 30.9
- 4.1 min per day
- Total study time
- 6.5 h
- 2,940 reviews
Your plan week by week
| Period | New cards added | Avg reviews/day | Avg minutes/day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days 1-7 | 84 | 29.1 | 3.9 |
| Days 8-14 | 84 | 44.6 | 5.9 |
| Days 15-21 | 84 | 48 | 6.4 |
| Days 22-28 | 84 | 53.1 | 7.1 |
| Days 29-35 | 84 | 60 | 8 |
| Days 36-42 | 84 | 60 | 8 |
| Days 43-49 | 84 | 60 | 8 |
| Days 50-56 | 48 | 51.4 | 6.9 |
| Days 57-60 | 0 | 24 | 3.2 |
The daily count is rounded up, so the last day of adding may be a few cards over your total.
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One card, every review answered Got it on its due date, counting the first look. Computed with the app's scheduler.
| Days before the exam | Reviews before the exam |
|---|---|
| 1 day | 1 |
| 3 days | 2 |
| 7 days | 3 |
| 14 days | 4 |
| 21 days | 4 |
| 30 days | 5 |
| 45 days | 5 |
| 60 days | 5 |
Assumptions
- Day 1 is today and the exam is on the last simulated day. Reviews are counted on UTC calendar days.
- Every card is reviewed on the day it is due, and every review is Got it unless you enter an Again percentage.
- New cards are added evenly across the adding days. The daily count is rounded up, so the final adding day may be a few cards over your total.
- Days until the exam are limited to 7 to 365, and new cards to 200 a day.
Frequently asked questions
- How many flashcards a day do I need to learn before my exam?
- Cards divided by the days you will add them, rounded up. Add days are the days until the exam minus the days you keep for review only. For example, 600 cards over 53 adding days is 12 new cards a day.
- Why stop adding new cards before the exam?
- A card needs several reviews to be remembered, and the schedule spaces them out. With every review answered Got it, a card first seen 1 day before the exam is seen 1 time, one seen 7 days out is seen 3 times, and one seen 30 days out is seen 5 times. The review-only window gives the last cards their repeat reviews.
- How long should the review-only window be?
- That is your call; the planner defaults to 7 days. Use the table below to see how many times a card is reviewed for each number of days before the exam, and set the window so the cards you add last still get repeated.
- Does this include cramming or missed days?
- No. It assumes you review every card on the day it falls due, answer Got it unless you set an Again rate, and study every day. Missed days make the later days heavier.
- Does remembering a card for the exam mean I will remember it afterwards?
- This planner counts reviews and time, not how much you will remember. It tells you the workload that gets every card in front of you repeatedly before the date, not a prediction of your score.