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Study modes and decks

Your flashcards live in separate decks: personal, class and course. Learn what each deck holds, how joining a class switches decks, and how to switch back.

A study mode picks which flashcard deck you are reviewing. Each deck keeps its own progress. A card can be new in one deck and mastered in another.

The three kinds of deck

  • Personal: your main deck. It keeps every card you have ever earned, from every course.
  • Class: one deck per class you join. It starts fresh when you join.
  • Course: a deck for one course, like MCAT or SAT. You create it yourself. It only holds that course’s cards.

What happens when you join a class

  • Joining a class starts a new class deck.
  • If you were in your personal deck, you switch to the class deck automatically.
  • Your personal deck is not deleted. It keeps every card and all your progress.

How to switch decks

  1. Open Flashcards.
  2. Find Study mode at the top.
  3. Pick a deck, or choose New course study mode to make one.

Where new cards go

When you unlock a topic’s cards, they go into your personal deck, your class deck, and that course’s deck if you have one. They never go into a different course’s deck.

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