# Studying

> Study flashcard sets, take tests, review a feed, and track your performance.

Source: https://workroad.app/docs/studying

Flashcard sets contain terms and definitions. Create one at `/set/new`, then find your sets under Activities.

## Study a set

1. Open [Review](https://workroad.app/review) from Activities. Choose a subject or set if you want to narrow the queue, then **Start review**.
2. Try to recall the answer before revealing it.
3. Grade your recall honestly. The next review time changes with your rating:

- **Again**: you did not remember the answer.
- **Hard**: you remembered it with difficulty.
- **Good**: you remembered it without much effort.
- **Easy**: the answer was immediate and easy.

### Choose a format

- **Flashcards** gives you a classic pass over a set.
- **Memory** uses pairs for terms that are hard to retain.
- **Match** asks you to match terms with definitions.
- **Guess the term** gives you a definition and hints, then asks you to choose the term.
- **Sentence Scramble** asks you to rebuild a definition from its pieces.
- **Mixed study** combines several sets in one sitting and uses a format each term can support.
- **Tests** build an assessed attempt from your chosen material.

### Why nothing is due

The queue depends on the next review times, your subject or set filters, and your daily new-card and review limits. Review shows how many cards are left today. Check the filters or open **Study settings** to change the limits. **Start cram** lets you practise without changing the review schedule or counting toward your daily goal.

## Take a test

1. Open [Tests](https://workroad.app/activities/tests), then [build a test](https://workroad.app/test/new).
2. Choose notes or sets as sources, question types, the number of questions and an optional time limit. Choose **Build test**.
3. When the test is ready, choose **Start test**.
4. Answer the questions and choose **Hand in**. You cannot change answers after handing in.

After you finish, you receive marks and a review for each question. You can chat about answers you got wrong. WorkRoad stores your attempts. It also holds the timer and your progress on the server, so reloading during a test does not lose the attempt.

AI marks short answers when you submit. On a test WorkRoad's AI wrote, that is part of the test's [AI use](https://workroad.app/docs/plans).

## Use the feed

Opening the feed is free. When you reach the end of the deck, or choose **More cards**, WorkRoad's AI writes more cards from your notes, which counts as one [AI use](https://workroad.app/docs/plans).

The feed at `/activities/feed` is a vertical deck made from your own content. Each card contains one quiz, flashcard, or fill-in-the-blank interaction and names its source. Your answers update the same review schedule used by the set activities.

## Check performance

Open `/activities/performance` to see login and activity streaks, a review heatmap, and progression for each subject.

## Review scheduling

Every study format feeds the same FSRS spaced-repetition schedule. What you see next depends on how you did.

FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler) is an open algorithm by [Open Spaced Repetition](https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition). WorkRoad runs it through the MIT-licensed [ts-fsrs](https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/ts-fsrs) library. Its licence notice is in [THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt](https://workroad.app/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt).