Why?
I was in college when my friends were trying to mug up the Oxford English Dictionary for GRE and CAT examinations. They would keep a jar with folded slips. Each slip had a word on the outside of the fold, and the answer within. If someone could answer what a word meant, that slip would go in a side-jar. Otherwise, he would try to memorize, but put it back in the original jar because he was not sure that he would remember it on next random draw. The main jar would be studied / tested daily, but the side-jar would be looked at after longer gaps, just to make sure that the word hadn't evaporated with time.
This is the same thing in digital format. So,
- The "jars" are always at hand
- Much more personalised (the app remembers each time you look at a card, and what you do)
- More context. Some flashcards show you an explanation video of their content. Imagine, if my fellow students had been able to write a short sentence showing the usage of a word on every slip.
- Permanent record
I never gave either GRE or CAT. But I must tell you something from my memory as well. When I was studying for JEE, I realised that what I needed to have always ready in my working memory (kind of like a RAM) could be reduced to a chart-paper full of squibbles, one each for Maths, Physics and Chemistry. These 3'x2.5' charts were stuck on my wall.
Of course, there won't be a standard set of such factoids that fits everyone's requirements. You may possibly remember something automatically and strongly, which I have to jot down on my chart. But you would realise what you need as you keep practicing questions.
Again, think of this as a collection of factoids that you have curated for yourself.
How to use?
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Adding a Study Set
- Go to Menu, Study Sets -> Add
- Give a name to your study-set and add flashcards in question-answer format.
- To keep adding more flashcards, press the green + button.
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Studying a Study Set
- Go to Menu, Study Sets -> All
- Select a Study Set
- Select subjects in that Study Set or leave blank to study all flash-cards in that set.
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- Click a flashcard to see answer.
- Swipe left if you feel you know it well. It will be added to your learnt bin. You can see all your learnt cards by clicking
- Swipe right if you want to see it again on your next revision. It will be added to your learning bin. You can revise it again soon by clicking
- If you want to favourite a card, click on the tiny heart icon below the card to the left side. It will be added to your favourites bin. You can see your favourites by clicking
- You can just go to next / previous cards in the study-set by clicking and
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Editing a Study Set
- Go to Menu, Study Sets -> All
- Select a Study Set
- Select either of the options to edit the existing cards in a study-set, or to add more cards without touching existing cards.
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Standard Study Sets
- The Admin has provided some study-sets that he has prepared for you to study from. You can customise a Study Set by adding your own cards.
- Since you cannot edit existing flashcards in a standard study set, you can either add your own cards to it by or edit the personalised flashcards you have already added to the standard set by .
- Now, when you learn this study-set, you will be shown the standard as well as your added cards.
Developer
This web application is developed by Sanjay Singh, IPS, WB:1992 for the use of students aspiring for competitive exams.
Email : sanjaysingh13@gmail.com
I will continue to develop content and features. Everything that I do till October, 2026 is guaranteed to be free of cost. So, say, you develop your own studyset with some flashcards. You will never ever be expected to pay for it, as it is a pre-2026 feature.
There are other Flashcard apps available of course, but a) they are mostly subscription-based even for such a basic thing as flashcards b) They don't have Latex, which I have used to write mathematical symbols in a natural way. I, for one, found it very confusing to memorise strings like X^(2.n^2 - 3n + 7)/m
\[\text{I find this more intuitive } \frac{X^{2n^2 -3n +7}}{m} \]Throughout this site we use the Binomial Coefficient symbol: \[ \binom{m}{n} \] for mCn . In a normal flash-card app, you would have to write mCn
Credits
The app-development was accelerated by ChatGPT which is more like a Consultancy Service than a Search Engine.
It uses the free SSL certification offered by Let's Encrypt.
Privacy
A user's study-sets and their addition of flashcards to standard sets remain visible only to them and to the Admin.