Flashcards· Study

Flashcards that show up at the right time.

Cereby pulls the key terms out of your notes or slides, builds a deck with a hint on every card, and plans spaced review sessions before your exam.

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Cereby on iPad: a flashcard deck on cell organelles, front of the first card
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Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Yale University
Princeton University
Columbia University
California Institute of Technology
Duke University
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
Vanderbilt University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Michigan
University of Notre Dame

A deck from your own material, not a stranger's

Shared decks are written for somebody else's class. The terms are close but not quite your professor's, the definitions skip the detail your exam asks about, and you spend an evening fixing cards before you can study them. Cereby writes the deck from what you were actually assigned: the slides from Tuesday's lecture, the chapter PDF, the notes you typed in class.

Ask in chat for flashcards on a topic or attach the file, choose how many cards you want and how hard they should be, and the deck appears in your materials. Every card has a front, a back and, unless you switch it off, a hint, so you can nudge yourself toward the answer before flipping instead of giving up and looking.

Cereby on iPad: a flashcard deck on cell organelles, front of the first card
  • 5 to 50Cards in one deck
  • 3 levelsEasy, medium or hard
  • HintsOn every card unless you switch them off
  • OCRScanned pages are read too
Example

What a card looks like

Three cards from a deck built off an organic chemistry lecture on substitution reactions.

  1. Front

    What decides whether a substitution goes SN1 or SN2?

  2. Hint

    Think about the carbon the leaving group is attached to.

  3. Back

    Mostly the substrate. Tertiary carbons favor SN1 because they form a stable carbocation. Methyl and primary carbons favor SN2 because a backside attack is not blocked. The nucleophile and solvent tip the balance for secondary carbons.

  4. Front

    Does an SN2 reaction keep or flip the stereochemistry?

  5. Back

    It flips it. The nucleophile attacks from the side opposite the leaving group, so the center inverts, like an umbrella turning inside out in the wind.

  6. Front

    Which solvent speeds up SN1: polar protic or polar aprotic?

  7. Back

    Polar protic, like water or ethanol. It stabilizes the carbocation and the leaving group while they are apart.

How it works

Flashcards in three steps

  1. Attach what you're studying

    A PDF, a slide deck, a Word doc, a photo of the whiteboard or a note you already have in Cereby. Or just name the topic.

  2. Pick the size and difficulty

    Anywhere from 5 to 50 cards, easy, medium or hard, with hints on or off. Cereby pulls the key terms and builds the deck.

  3. Flip, mark and review

    Flip each card, peek at the hint if you need it, and mark it right or wrong. Your score is saved, so the next deck can aim at the cards you missed.

When students use it

Made for weeks like these

  • Anatomy terms that all sound the same

    Build a deck per region of the body so the brachial plexus does not blur into the lumbar plexus the night before the practical.

  • Vocabulary for a language class

    Paste the chapter's word list and get cards with a hint for each, so you practice recalling the word rather than recognizing it.

  • Licensing exam review

    Upload your NAPLEX or NCLEX review notes and work through them a deck at a time between shifts.

FAQ

Flashcards: common questions

If your question isn't here, ask anything in the chat. A real person answers.

PDFs, PowerPoint slides, Word documents, spreadsheets, plain text and images you upload, plus any note already in Cereby. Scanned pages are read with OCR. You can also ask for a deck on a topic with no file at all.

Your next exam starts here.

Bring your syllabus. Cereby learns your schedule, tracks what's due and turns every topic into the video, podcast, quiz or deck you'll actually study from. Free to start, no card required.

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