Free beta:SeRiouS/spaced repetition program for law students
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:46 pm
Hi all,
For the past year or so, I've been actively working on creating a spaced repetition platform specifically designed for law students. It's called SeRiouS (short for Spaced Repetition Systems, http://www.spacedrepetition.com).
If you don't know about spaced repetition, it's a technology that allows users to remember important information at a much, much higher rate than they would if they used traditional methods. So, what I did was create hundreds of electronic flashcards for the topics most often tested in core courses (Evidence, Property, Con Law, Crim, Torts, and Contracts) and the multistate bar. I also vetted the cards with experts in those specific subjects. The site, upon launch, will also include the ability for you to create separate "decks" for other courses you're taking that aren't specifically tested during 1L or the MBE (for example, Patient Law). Users can create and share decks with classmates, to set up the equivalent of a course/professor specific flashcard bank.
With SeRiouS, users should remember about 92% of the information they study (contrast that with the 25% or so remembered 1 day after cramming). The studies also show that this tends to improve exam performance by up to 1/2 standard deviation (for long, boring reasons, I think it's likely more than that, actually). As you can imagine, that sort of boost would make big differences on grades, and in likelihood of bar passage.
In any event, I plan to launch "for real" in April and I've set up a landing page for anyone interested in a free beta test to enter their email addresses. The plan is for this software to be free for now - at least through the bar exam - so folks can try it out. I anticipate it will be very helpful for both folks taking the bar, and students preparing for year-end exams. Feel free to message me with questions or post them here.
I look forward to your feedback!
And, of course, please sign-up to beta test over at http://www.spacedrepetition.com.
For the past year or so, I've been actively working on creating a spaced repetition platform specifically designed for law students. It's called SeRiouS (short for Spaced Repetition Systems, http://www.spacedrepetition.com).
If you don't know about spaced repetition, it's a technology that allows users to remember important information at a much, much higher rate than they would if they used traditional methods. So, what I did was create hundreds of electronic flashcards for the topics most often tested in core courses (Evidence, Property, Con Law, Crim, Torts, and Contracts) and the multistate bar. I also vetted the cards with experts in those specific subjects. The site, upon launch, will also include the ability for you to create separate "decks" for other courses you're taking that aren't specifically tested during 1L or the MBE (for example, Patient Law). Users can create and share decks with classmates, to set up the equivalent of a course/professor specific flashcard bank.
With SeRiouS, users should remember about 92% of the information they study (contrast that with the 25% or so remembered 1 day after cramming). The studies also show that this tends to improve exam performance by up to 1/2 standard deviation (for long, boring reasons, I think it's likely more than that, actually). As you can imagine, that sort of boost would make big differences on grades, and in likelihood of bar passage.
In any event, I plan to launch "for real" in April and I've set up a landing page for anyone interested in a free beta test to enter their email addresses. The plan is for this software to be free for now - at least through the bar exam - so folks can try it out. I anticipate it will be very helpful for both folks taking the bar, and students preparing for year-end exams. Feel free to message me with questions or post them here.
I look forward to your feedback!
And, of course, please sign-up to beta test over at http://www.spacedrepetition.com.
