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To prepare for the FAA instrument written and oral exam component of the checkride, I built an Anki deck (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2105122272) with the following principles in mind, all of which favored cloze cards.

* Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules

* Anki Guide for Medical Students https://drwillbe.blogspot.com/2011/08/anki-guide-for-medical...

* How to make high quality Anki cards quickly https://managingmedicine.org/2013/05/14/how-to-make-high-qua...

* Anki Tips: What I Learned Making 10,000 Flashcards http://rs.io/anki-tips/

By default, Anki will show you only a few cards per day. Following suggestions from med students who have to absorb a lot of information quickly, I made the following settings changes:

* Options > New Cards

  * Steps (in minutes): 1 360
  * Order: Show new cards in random order
  * New cards/day: 9999
  * Graduating interval: 1 day
  * Easy interval: 2 days
  * Starting ease: 250%
  * Bury related new cards until the next day: UNCHECKED
* Options > Reviews

  * Maximum reviews/day: 9999
  * Easy bonus: 130
  * Interval modifier: 100
  * Maximum interval: 36500
  * Bury related new cards until the next day: CHECKED


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