Add an exam with its day and the topics it covers, and from the day it starts, Memorics plans those topics’ cards so that you remember as many as possible on the morning of the exam. An exam has no cards of its own: it studies the cards of its topics, and cards you add to them later join it too.
Add one
On Exams, choose Add exam, or press N. You can also start from a topic: its Exams button has New exam with it, which adds the exam with that topic already in it.
Then fill in, from the top:
- Name, and an icon and color with the tile next to it.
- Topics: any of your own topics, and topics of others you pinned. A topic comes with all its subtopics.
- Day of the exam.
- Start right away, or turn it off and choose Start on. An exam can start up to 21 days before its day. Until you change it, an exam less than a week away starts right away, and one further away a week before it.
- How well prepared you want to be: Save time, Balanced or Best results (below).
- Study days: the days of the week you can study. Every day is picked unless you change it.
Then choose Add exam.
On Free, you can have 2 exams at a time that aren’t done yet. An exam is done once you mark it done or its day has passed, and one in the trash doesn’t count. On Plus, you can have as many as you like. On Free, Exams shows how many you have next to Add exam, like “1 of 2 not done”. With 2, Add exam tells you so instead of opening a new exam (see Free and Plus).
How well prepared
- Save time: fewer reviews, skipping cards you already know well.
- Balanced: well prepared, without overdoing it. This is the one we suggest.
- Best results: more reviews, and a final pass over every card in the days before the exam.
Once the exam has a day and topics, each choice shows about how long a day of studying takes and how ready it leaves you, worked out from your cards and your pace. Next to Add exam, the one you picked says the same, such as “About 25 min a day · 91% ready on Fri, Nov 13”.
If the busiest day would take more than an hour, Memorics says so and offers what makes the days lighter: starting earlier, studying every day, or Save time.
Before it starts, and exams close by
Until an exam starts, its cards come up in spaced repetition as always. An exam more than 21 days away can’t start right away. Add it anyway with a later start, and it starts on that day by itself.
An exam less than three days away can still be added. There’s not enough time to spread the work out, so Memorics crams with two short rounds a day.
Add a topic to an exam later
On a topic’s page, the Exams button shows the upcoming exams that include it. Open it to add the topic to an exam or take it out. On an exam’s page, Add topics does the same. See Change or finish an exam.