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Ready-made decks for the facts every student has to memorize. Flip through them right here — no sign-up — or save one to your account and study it on your phone.
NCLEX · 27 cards
Free NCLEX lab value flashcards: normal ranges and critical values for electrolytes, CBC, ABGs, coagulation, renal and liver panels, glucose, and drug levels.
MCAT · 24 cards
Free MCAT amino acid flashcards: all 20 amino acids with three-letter and one-letter codes, side-chain classification, the essential nine, and key pKa facts.
AP Biology · 24 cards
Free AP Biology Unit 1 flashcards: water properties, hydrogen bonding, the four macromolecules, and functional groups, for the AP exam.
AP Psychology · 26 cards
Free AP Psychology research methods flashcards: variables, experimental design, sampling, reliability and validity, ethics, and descriptive statistics.
Spanish · 24 cards
Free Spanish flashcards for the most frequent verbs: meaning plus the key irregularity or stem change for ser, estar, tener, hacer, ir, poder, decir and more.
Organic Chemistry · 24 cards
Free organic chemistry flashcards on functional groups: structure, IUPAC naming, and key reactivity for alcohols, carbonyls, acids, esters, amides and amines.
Microbiology · 24 cards
Free microbiology flashcards on the Gram stain: why cells stain purple or pink, plus key gram-positive and gram-negative pathogens and their diseases.
AP U.S. History · 24 cards
Free APUSH flashcards on the founding documents: Declaration, Articles of Confederation, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federalist papers, and key compromises.
SAT · 24 cards
Free SAT math flashcards for the formulas the test does not give you: slope, quadratics, the circle equation, exponent rules, trig ratios, and percent change.
AP Chemistry · 24 cards
Free AP Chemistry flashcards for the polyatomic ions you have to memorize — name to formula and charge, plus the -ite/-ate, hypo-/per- and bi- naming patterns.
Anatomy · 27 cards
Free flashcards for the 12 cranial nerves — number, name, sensory or motor or both, main function, classic mnemonics and how each nerve is tested clinically.
Pharmacology · 26 cards
Free pharmacology flashcards on drug name stems — -olol, -pril, -statin, -conazole and more. Each card gives the class a stem signals and what it does.
Biology · 25 cards
Free biology flashcards on cell organelles and structures — nucleus, mitochondria, ER, Golgi, lysosomes and more, plus prokaryote versus eukaryote differences.
Psychology · 24 cards
Free psychology flashcards on cognitive biases and heuristics — confirmation bias, anchoring, availability, sunk cost, hindsight bias and more, with examples.
Statistics · 24 cards
Free statistics flashcards defining the core terms — p-value, Type I and Type II error, confidence interval, central limit theorem, correlation and power.
Why pre-made decks work — and where they stop
For the memorization layer of a course — lab values, ion charges, cranial nerves, vocabulary — a good pre-made deck saves you the hours of card-building that stand between you and actually studying. These decks cover exactly that layer: the canonical facts that show up on the exam no matter which professor you have.
What they can't cover is your own class — the specific emphasis of your lectures, the notes you took, the chapter your professor cares about. That's the other half: Cram builds decks from your own material with AI and schedules every card with spaced repetition so it's still there on exam day.
How to actually use one of these decks
The failure mode with a pre-made deck is treating it like reading material — flipping through all 25 cards once, recognizing every answer, and concluding you know it. Recognizing an answer and producing one are different skills, and only the second is what an exam asks for.
- Answer out loud before you flip. Even a wrong attempt beats a passive reveal — the effort of retrieving is what makes the card stick. This is active recall, and it is the whole reason flashcards work at all.
- Cut what your course doesn't cover. Save the deck, then delete the cards outside your syllabus. A 20-card deck you finish daily beats a 30-card deck you abandon.
- Add your own cards next to them. The deck covers the canonical layer; your lectures are the part only you can supply. Keep both in one deck so they come up together.
- Cap the new cards, not the reviews. 10–20 new a day is sustainable. See how many flashcards per day for why the review load is the number that bites.