Effectively, using flashcards is a repetition strategy.
Flashcards engage “active recall”. In other words the student who prefers and uses this method is trying to remember the concept from scratch rather than simply staring at the passage in your textbook.
Flashcards utilize your metacognitive faculties,
Flashcards allow for confidence-based repetition, a practice proven by decades of research to be the most scientifically optimized way to improve memory performance,