The short version
- Pick a deck.
- Read him the question on screen.
- He answers out loud.
- Press Show Answer.
- Press Correct or Missed It.
- Press Next →.
That's the whole loop. Everything below is optional.
The decks
- Everything, shuffled — all 135 cards, all six areas mixed together. Best once he's solid on the individual decks.
- Levers, Torque & Gears — 25
- Fluids & Pressure — 17
- Basic Electricity — 20
- Math & Measurement — 31
- Spatial & Folding — 12
- Test Strategy — 10
Short on time? Fluids and Math & Measurement pay off fastest — they're almost pure memorization.
"Also counts as correct"
On most answers there's a green panel underneath with other ways of saying the same thing.
That panel is for the reader, not him. He'll answer in his own words, and it'll often sound nothing like the printed answer while being completely right.
Rule of thumb: if what he said means the same thing, mark it correct. The point is whether he knows it — not whether he phrased it the way the card does.
Marking
Marking and moving are two separate presses on purpose, so a misfire doesn't cost you a card.
- Pressing Correct or Missed It just tags the card — a colored badge appears in the corner. It does not advance.
- Pressed the wrong one? Press it again to un-mark, or press the other one.
- You can go ← Back to any earlier card and change its mark.
- The counter up top shows how many are marked; the gold bar fills as you go.
- Skipping a card without marking it is fine — it just won't count either way.
Getting around
- ← Back and Next →
- Full-size buttons under every card. This is the normal way to move.
- Swiping
- Swipe left for next, right for back. Same thing as the buttons, if you'd rather.
- 🔊 Read Aloud
- The phone speaks whichever side is showing — including the alternate answers. Useful if he's studying alone, or driving somewhere.
- Decks (top right)
- Back out to the deck list at any point. You'll lose the marks on the current run.
Tap mode
Button at the bottom of the deck list and under every card. Press it to cycle through three settings.
- Button only DEFAULT
- Taps do nothing. The answer appears only when someone presses Show Answer. Use this when she's holding the phone — no way to spoil a card by accident.
- Tap to flip
- One tap anywhere on the card flips it. Fastest, best when he's running it himself.
- Double-tap to flip
- Middle ground. Harder to trigger accidentally, slightly slower to respond.
Shuffle
On by default — cards come up in random order, which is how you actually want to learn them. Turn it off (bottom of the deck list) and they run in the printed order instead, which groups related cards together. Useful the first time through a new deck.
End of a deck
- You get a percentage and a count: correct, missed, and any left unmarked.
- Every missed card is listed out with its answer, so he can read back through them.
- Drill the N Missed reruns only the ones he got wrong, shuffled and unmarked.
- Run Deck Again starts the full deck over.
The loop that actually works: run a deck → drill the missed → drill the missed again → repeat until that pile is empty. Then move to the next deck.