The method
Six minutes a day vs four hours of panic-reading.
Meet the loop: STUDYNT catches you right before you forget. We turn lecture slides into micro-quizzes and show them on a spaced-repetition schedule (FSRS) — not a stack of cards you have to build yourself.
Why rereading fails
Highlighting and rereading feel like work. They don’t force retrieval. After a lecture, memory drops unless you pull the idea back out — that’s the dip on the forgetting curve. Cramming the night before is four hours of panic-reading against that drop.
What FSRS actually does
FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler) estimates when you’re about to lose an item and brings it back then. Easy recalls wait longer. Shaky ones come sooner. You spend minutes on the edge of forgetting instead of hours restudying what you already know.
How STUDYNT uses it
- 1. You upload slides and notes in the STUDYNT app (not on this website).
- 2. We write short multiple-choice quizzes from those materials.
- 3. A daily session — about six minutes — shows items at the FSRS due time.
- 4. By exam week you’re retrieving, not rereading the deck from scratch.
This isn’t a 74% miracle number. It’s a scheduling method: retrieve a little, often, at the right time.