The Mnemosyne Project – Enhance your GRE Vocabulary

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:58:09 +0000

As an addendum to the usual order of things, I wanted to call your attention to a program I just discovered, one which may prove very useful in enhancing your vocabulary for the GRE literature and general tests. It’s called the Mnemosyne Project, and it makes use of algorithms and current research on memory and learning efficiency to present flash cards in an order that will help you to remember them. And yes, they have a flash card program of 700 difficult GRE vocab words. Here’s how they describe it:

Efficient learning

The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review. Difficult cards that you tend to forget quickly will be scheduled more often, while Mnemosyne won’t waste your time on things you remember well.

The software runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Memory research

While you use the software, detailed statistics can be kept on your learning process. If you want, these logs can be uploaded in a transparent and anonymous way to a central server for analysis.

This data will be valuable to study the behaviour of our memory over a very long time period. As an additional benefit, the results will be used to improve the scheduling algorithms behind the software even further.

I haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds pretty fascinating. It’s also open source, which is always nice.
You can read more about it, download the program and get the GRE vocabulary flash cards here.

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The Mnemosyne Project – Enhance your GRE Vocabulary