Borui Academy

Memory Curve · 记忆曲线

Never forget
what you learned.

We use the SM-2 spaced-repetition algorithmto schedule each card's next review at the exact moment before you'd forget it. Email reminders bring you back without nagging. Optional AI-managed Discord group for the social-motivation boost.

The problem

You forget 75% of what you learn — in 6 days.

That's the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve (1885), confirmed by every modern learning study since. Without scheduled review, by the time May exams arrive you've quietly lost most of November's material.

  • Re-reading notes does not fix this — it feels familiar but you can't recall.
  • “Mass cramming” the week before the exam works for 24 h then craters.
  • What works: review just before you forget. Hard to do by hand.

Without review — Ebbinghaus curve

Memory drops fast — the steepest loss happens in the first 24 hours.

The fix

Show me the card right before I'd forget it.

Each time you answer a practice question, we tag it with how hard it felt. The SM-2 algorithm (used by Anki, SuperMemo) computes the optimal next review date — usually 1, 3, 7, 16, 35, 80 days out, doubling as you master it.

Day 1

first encounter

Day 3

rough recall

Day 7

getting easier

Day 16

reliable

Day 35

long-term

Day 80

permanent

(Intervals shorten if you mark a card “hard”; lengthen if “easy.” Fully adaptive to your memory.)

How it works

1

Practice

Answer a MCQ, FRQ, or concept card. After grading, rate how hard it felt: Again / Hard / Good / Easy.

2

Algorithm schedules

SM-2 computes the next-review date based on your rating + this card's history. Stored as a memory-curve card per topic.

3

You get reminded

Dashboard shows "X cards due today". Email digests Mon/Wed/Fri. Optional Discord ping. You re-test in 60 seconds.

Email reminders

We email you exactly when reviews are due — never more.

One digest, three days a week. Skip a day? The next email picks up where you left off — no scolding, no streak shaming.

  • Schedule Mon / Wed / Fri at 7 PM your timezone
  • Frequency cap Never more than 3 emails / week
  • Personalized Shows your top 3 weakest topics + 1-click resume link
  • Quiet mode Toggle off anytime in Settings; spaced review still works

5 cards are due — about 6 minutes of review

Wednesday · 7:02 PM

AP Calculus BC

L'Hôpital's rule · indeterminate forms

3 cards

CSCA Math

Trigonometric identities · sum/diff

1 card

AP Physics 1

Free-body diagrams · friction

1 card
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#ap-calc-bc-study · 247 members
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Annie 7:14 PM

Stuck on the 2024 FRQ #3 part c — anyone? 😭

Borui Academy Tutor BOT 7:14 PM

That problem expects the chain rule + implicit diff. Try this:
1. dy/dx from the implicit relation…
2. plug in x = 1, y = 2…
Want me to walk through step 3?

M

Marcus 7:16 PM

just solved this one yesterday — yeah it's ch3 trick

AI-managed Discord

Coming soon

An always-on study group + an AI tutor that never sleeps.

Join the Discord server for your subject. Per-channel AI tutor bot answers questions 24/7, cites the chapter, and pulls in the exact past-paper context. Real students chime in too.

  • AI tutor GPT-class model fine-tuned on the chapter content + past papers
  • Peer cohorts Bucketed by subject + exam date — find people on your timeline
  • Daily rituals Bot pings the channel with one daily warm-up + weekly mock results
  • Moderated AI auto-removes spam / chat heroics; human mods for tone

Free for all members during launch. Premium-only after general release.

The science

Not a productivity hack. It's well-established cognitive science.

Spaced repetition is one of the most replicated findings in learning research — from Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885) to Bjork's “desirable difficulty” (1994) to the SM-2 algorithm (Wozniak, 1987) that powers Anki and SuperMemo. We adapted SM-2 to grade per-question cards inside each course, with email + Discord nudges layered on top.

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