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Flash cards and practice trial are an in effect economic aid for learn word , dates , and other data point requiring rote memorization . I ’ve long been a lover of iFlash , but today ’s Gem , Cram , is also deserving considering .
Cram let you create examination and browse them using a Mail - like windowpane with a leaning of folders on the left , the list of tests in the selected folder to the right , and a preview and summary of the selected test at the bottom . A useful Example mental testing scope creates a sampling trial to help you take how to habituate the programme .
To create a new examination , you click the New push , give the test a name and verbal description , and choose your option : whether questions should be asked indiscriminately or in succession , whether the order of multiple - choice solvent should be randomized , and whether or not the test should have a time demarcation line . Then click the Edit Questions clit to bring your questions .
Answers must be multiple - choice — with one or multiple right answers — but the question can be just schoolbook or can include an image or an audio file . An interesting choice is the Answer Bank . If you ’ve get many questions to enter , and some of those motion have the same answer as other question , you’re able to first enter a list of answers , one per line , in a individual text boxwood . When make the question , you could then choose the correct answer from your tilt alternatively of have to retype common answers .
Once you ’ve created a test , Cram ’s Flash Cards mode let you take the test ’s questions and right resolution using a flash card - corresponding interface . When you ’re quick to be quiz , Test mode represent the questions in an electronic - trial run format , letting you pick out from among the potential answers using either the keyboard or mouse .
At the end of a test , you see a summary that includes the date and time ; your score ; and a list that includes each motion and the correct answer and your result for each . Cram saves these results , letting you go back and catch past trial detail at any sentence by clicking the Progress button . The main test list also display your average and eminent score for each run , as well as the date of your last practice academic session for each test .
you could well duplicate trial or divide them into small-scale examination , although I wish you could take multiple mental test and then bulge out the test fashion to be tested on the combined content — this would make it well-heeled to split up a larger subject into smaller , focused written report part , but still test on all of them together . I ’d also care to see better keyboard control , and it would be great if you could import data from , say , a spreadsheet or text edition file .
However , you could download pre - made tests from the Cram Test Portal orQuizlet.com — the latter hosts M of barren test — and you could upload your own tryout to the Cram Test Portal for other Cram users to download . There ’s also an iPhone - app version of Cram ; you may sync your test and flash carte du jour from the Mac variation to your iPhone .
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[ Dan Frakes is a Macworld senior editor . ]
