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What is a flashcard?

Cards with a prompt on the front and the answer on the back, for practising recall rather than recognition.

Enter term–definition pairs and get a print-optimized layout that folds and cuts into real double-sided flashcards. Used for sight words, language vocabulary, science terms and exam prep — and as polished study-aid printables in TPT and Etsy stores.

How to make one

  1. Enter your prompts, one per line — a question with one answer, not a topic.
  2. Turn the border on if you are cutting them out by hand.
  3. Export, print on the heaviest paper your printer takes, and cut.

The settings that matter

Front text
The prompt. One question per card — a card asking about three things is an essay question.
Border
Draws the cut line. Make it heavy if children are doing the cutting.

What people use it for

Questions

Why do flashcards work?

Not repetition — retrieval. Being asked and having to pull the answer out of your head does more than reading the same fact five times. Which means the card has to ask something: a card showing the answer next to the question has become a reading exercise.

What paper should I use?

The heaviest your printer takes. Thin paper shows the answer through the card, which defeats the purpose. Hold one up to a window before printing thirty.

How should they be reviewed?

Space them. A card you got right comes back in three days, then a week, then a fortnight; a card you got wrong comes back tomorrow. Three boxes and a rubber band does this well enough.

Print it or play it

Export as a US Letter PDF for print, or as PNG/JPG for image-based layouts. Amazon KDP supports multiple trim sizes, including 8.5 × 11 inches for applicable books; build the final interior to the trim size you selected and keep raster artwork at 300 DPI. There is also a grid-only export if you are dropping the puzzle into your own page layout.

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