A practice test against the clock
Pick your topics, set the difficulty and sit it before your teacher sets one.
Making a practice testFlashcards
Make flashcards from your own book, without typing a single card
Photographing your chapter takes ten seconds. Typing it out as cards takes an evening. StudyWorld reads the chapter, turns it into questions that quiz you, and keeps coming back to the ones you get wrong.
In short
StudyWorld does not hand you an empty deck to fill. You upload a photo, pdf, Word file or PowerPoint of your chapter and get questions out of it: multiple choice, true or false, open answers and matching. What you get wrong comes back more often, what you have mastered moves to the back.
What you actually get
Example from a biology chapterQuestion
Where in the cell does photosynthesis take place?
Answer
In the chloroplasts, the green organelles in the leaf cell.
Why
The chloroplasts hold the chlorophyll that captures light. Get this one wrong and StudyWorld returns to the same idea in a different question.
Four kinds of question, mixed
- Multiple choice
- True or false
- Open answer
- Matching
What are flashcards, and why do they work?
A flashcard is a question on one side and the answer on the other. You read the question, answer it from memory, and only then check. That small act of retrieving something yourself is what makes it stick: it is called active recall, and it beats reading the same page a third time.
The other half of the trick is timing. A card you always get right does not need to come back tomorrow; one you keep missing does. Spread out that way, the same half hour of study is worth a lot more.
The catch is the making. Twenty pages is a hundred cards, and typing them is an evening of work that feels like studying without being studying. That is the part StudyWorld takes over.
From chapter to questions
Three steps and you are practising
No deck to fill, no card to format. What you need is a readable photo of the pages you have to know.
- 01
Upload your chapter
Photograph the pages with your phone, or upload the pdf, Word file or PowerPoint your teacher handed out.
- Photo
- Word
- PowerPoint
- 02
StudyWorld reads it and writes the questions
It works from your pages, not from general knowledge, so nothing turns up that your teacher never covered. A chapter takes a few minutes.
- Your own material
- A few minutes
- Summary included
- 03
You practise, and it follows your mistakes
Every answer is tied to the concept behind it. Miss one and the topic comes back, phrased differently. Get it right often enough and it moves to the back.
- Adaptive
- Per concept
- Spaced review
Type the cards yourself, or let the chapter do it
Making cards by hand
- An evening of typing before you have practised once
- Every card comes up as often as every other
- You only make cards for what you noticed yourself
- A typo in the answer is something you learn too
- One deck per chapter, and then you start over
StudyWorldAdaptive
- A few minutes between uploading and your first question
- The topics you miss come back more often
- The questions come from the whole chapter, not from memory
- The answer arrives with an explanation from your own pages
- Every upload counts towards the same picture of what you know
Same half hour, more of it spent practising.
Getting more out of it
Five things that make questions stick
These hold whether you type your cards yourself or let them be written for you.
Say your answer out loud before you look
Saying it is harder than recognising it, and that difficulty is the point. Only check once you have committed to an answer.
One fact per question
A question with three facts in it hides which one you missed. Short questions show you exactly what is still weak.
Use your own words
Repeating the sentence from the book proves you can read. Saying it differently proves you understood it.
Short sessions, often
Twenty minutes today and twenty tomorrow beats forty minutes tonight. Your sleep does part of the work.
Spend your time on what you get wrong
Going over what you already know feels productive and changes nothing. StudyWorld sorts that for you, but the habit helps anywhere.
More than a stack of questions
One upload brings the rest of it along.
A summary in plain language
The same chapter written the way you wish the book had written it.
Making a summaryBuilt for dyslexia
Questions and answers read aloud, and a typeface that is easier on the eyes. At no extra cost.
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Everything free for the first 7 days, without payment details. What you make stays yours.
See pricingFrequently asked questions
- Can I make flashcards from a photo of my book?
- Yes. A readable photo of the page is enough, and you can upload several at once. A pdf, Word file or PowerPoint works the same way.
- Do I get cards I can flip, or export to Quizlet or Anki?
- No. StudyWorld does not build a deck you can export. You get questions out of your chapter and a record of which concepts you have mastered, and you practise them here.
- Is it free?
- You can start for free: for the first 7 days you get everything in StudyWorld Unlimited, without payment details. After that, everything you made stays and you can keep practising. Making something new needs Unlimited. The pricing page has the prices.
- Does this work for French or English vocabulary?
- Yes. Upload the word list and you get questions on it, including matching exercises. It works the same for terms in biology or history.
- How long does one chapter take?
- A few minutes for the reading and the questions. Twenty pages is not instant, but you can close the tab and come back.
- Are the questions really from my own book?
- Yes. They are written from the pages you uploaded, not from general knowledge, and StudyWorld says so when something you ask about is not in your material.
Stop typing cards. Upload the chapter.
Make a free account, upload one chapter and see what comes out before you decide anything.
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