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Successive relearning: a card counts as known only after you recall it correctly on three separate days, and each correct day pushes it further out (1, 3, 7, 14, 30, then 60 days). Recalling it twice in one sitting does not count twice. Hard brings it back tomorrow. A miss drops it one step and brings it back later in this session so you relearn it today. Keyboard: space flips, 1 = don't know, 2 = hard, 3 = know it, arrows move.

How to use the flashcards

The deck holds 1,100+ cards across the six NCE domains. Each card has a term, a name or a question on the front and a short answer on the back. You can study all of them or one domain at a time, and the deck keeps track of which cards you know and which you are still learning.

A session, step by step

  1. Choose a domain, or all cards. Then choose Due today, which gives you the cards your schedule says are due plus 20 new ones, or All cards to work straight through.
  2. Read the front and say the answer out loud before you flip. Producing the answer is the practice; recognizing it after you flip is not.
  3. Flip with a tap or the space bar, then rate yourself honestly: Don't know, Hard or Know it. Skip moves on without a rating.
  4. Stop when Due today is empty. "Nothing due right now" means every card you have seen is scheduled for a later day.

How the schedule works

The flashcards use successive relearning. A card counts as known only after you recall it correctly on three separate days, and each correct day pushes it further out: one day, then three, seven, fourteen, thirty and sixty. Getting a card right twice in one sitting counts once. Hard brings the card back tomorrow. A miss drops it one step and brings it back later in the same session, so you relearn it today instead of next week.

A worked example. The front reads "Rogers: core conditions." You say "congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy," flip, and the back matches, so you press Know it. The card comes back the next day. Recall it then, and again on a third day, and it counts as known and moves to longer gaps. If you blank on it, press Don't know: it drops back a step and shows up again a few cards later, before the session ends.

A few minutes of due cards every day does more than one long session a week, because the spacing is what makes the memory last. The full study session on the how to study page starts with about eight minutes of due cards before the lesson.

Without an account you can try 20 cards. Signing in with Google unlocks the full deck and saves your known and learning progress to your account, so it follows you to any device. You can also print any set as fold-and-cut cards, or review the deck hands-free in listen mode. Preparing for the NCMHCE instead? Use the NCMHCE deck, which is written for the case exam. To see how the practice items and their explanations read before you sign in, open the free sample questions.