by KnowledgeBoy » Fri May 31, 2019 12:21 am
Hi Ernie,
Thanks for your response. I've been playing around with the settings for the last couple of days and I think you're right in suggesting the spaced repetition function. I get the wrong cards showing up more regularly which is perfect.
Im constantly adding cards via the spreadsheet set up. Every card has 5 sides of information I have to learn. The first card being the name of the point in London, for example, "London Bridge Station".
That is the first card I see, at which point my goal is to know it's road location. This is the 3rd card. In this case the road location is "Railway Approach"
The second card is the post code prefix to help me know it's general area if the point of interest has the same name as another point of interest somewhere else in London. In this case I skip that card because I know there is only one London Bridge Station.
The 4th card is where I need to know how to set down and leave the point of interest, as if I was driving a London Taxi. In this case, Railway Approach is a one way street, so I need to set down and leave on the left hand side of the road. In knowledge terms we have shorthand for this which is SDOL/LOL (set down on left/leave on left). Some points of interest have no restrictions, some have to be set down on the right, etc, etc.
The final card is my first available movements after leaving the point and details of how to set down the point. These can be as simple as...
"Left or Right Borough High Street" - in the case of London Bridge Station. But other points of interest have much more complex sections of road to remember. So this is usually the most detailed card.
As you can see, there is quite a bit to know about each point of interest. To complete the Knowledge we will have to have learnt in excess of 10,000 points of interest, and all the details about each one, like I described above. As you can imagine, it's quite an intense, and lengthy process!!
Anyway, I thought I'd give you a little insight into this unique qualification, of which the examination process takes on average 3/4 years to complete, but commonly takes people much longer, sometimes over 10 years!
As I add each new card to the spreadsheet, I then have to download it into the app via Google drive, but I haven't had enough chance to test whether the statistics are kept for old cards, even when downloading the newly updated set of cards. Will this be the case? If so that saves me a lot of trouble! For example, say I had 2000 cards that I had been revising, and I've recently added another 100 to the spreadsheet. When I download the updated spreadsheet to the app, with the 2100 cards, will the older cards still have all the info/statistics from the previous incarnation of that deck? As the app recognises it as a different deck, and just adds it to my deck list, at which point I need to delete the 2000 card deck to replace it with the 2100 card deck.
Sorry if this all sounds a bit confusing! It's very hard for me to describe!!
Thanks in advance!
Hi Ernie,
Thanks for your response. I've been playing around with the settings for the last couple of days and I think you're right in suggesting the spaced repetition function. I get the wrong cards showing up more regularly which is perfect.
Im constantly adding cards via the spreadsheet set up. Every card has 5 sides of information I have to learn. The first card being the name of the point in London, for example, "London Bridge Station".
That is the first card I see, at which point my goal is to know it's road location. This is the 3rd card. In this case the road location is "Railway Approach"
The second card is the post code prefix to help me know it's general area if the point of interest has the same name as another point of interest somewhere else in London. In this case I skip that card because I know there is only one London Bridge Station.
The 4th card is where I need to know how to set down and leave the point of interest, as if I was driving a London Taxi. In this case, Railway Approach is a one way street, so I need to set down and leave on the left hand side of the road. In knowledge terms we have shorthand for this which is SDOL/LOL (set down on left/leave on left). Some points of interest have no restrictions, some have to be set down on the right, etc, etc.
The final card is my first available movements after leaving the point and details of how to set down the point. These can be as simple as...
"Left or Right Borough High Street" - in the case of London Bridge Station. But other points of interest have much more complex sections of road to remember. So this is usually the most detailed card.
As you can see, there is quite a bit to know about each point of interest. To complete the Knowledge we will have to have learnt in excess of 10,000 points of interest, and all the details about each one, like I described above. As you can imagine, it's quite an intense, and lengthy process!!
Anyway, I thought I'd give you a little insight into this unique qualification, of which the examination process takes on average 3/4 years to complete, but commonly takes people much longer, sometimes over 10 years!
As I add each new card to the spreadsheet, I then have to download it into the app via Google drive, but I haven't had enough chance to test whether the statistics are kept for old cards, even when downloading the newly updated set of cards. Will this be the case? If so that saves me a lot of trouble! For example, say I had 2000 cards that I had been revising, and I've recently added another 100 to the spreadsheet. When I download the updated spreadsheet to the app, with the 2100 cards, will the older cards still have all the info/statistics from the previous incarnation of that deck? As the app recognises it as a different deck, and just adds it to my deck list, at which point I need to delete the 2000 card deck to replace it with the 2100 card deck.
Sorry if this all sounds a bit confusing! It's very hard for me to describe!!
Thanks in advance!