The med student whose Anki reviews weren't enough.
Explain-back caught the gap Anki couldn't. I recognized the mechanism but couldn't teach it.
Explain-back caught the gap Anki couldn't. I recognized the mechanism but couldn't teach it.
David had been running 800-card Anki reviews daily since first year. He was hitting 92% recall on his cards. His NBME practice scores plateaued at 205.
He added Brainback's explain-back workflow to his Sunday study session. He picked ten concepts a week and explained each back in his own words. Haiku consistently scored him a 2 or 3 on concepts he thought he knew cold.
Three months later his NBME scores climbed to 228. His Step 1 came back in the 240s. He attributes the jump to the explain-back workflow catching the gap between recognition and production.
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NBME lift
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Other students who put the workflow to work.
“I turned off ChatGPT for a semester and used Brainback for problem sets. My final exam average went up 18 points.”
“It's the first AI I've allowed on my kids' devices without a fight. Because it doesn't hand them the answer.”
“My first practice MCAT score was a 495. My real MCAT was a 517.”
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