How it works
Licento is quiz-based learning, backed by research into practice testing and spaced repetition, with the guidance around it: a plan up to your exam date, a readable picture per part so the weakest one gets the time, and mock exams in the format of the real exam.
Sample question 1 of 3
You have one evening to prepare. Which will leave you remembering the most a week later?
Testing yourself makes you pull the answer out of memory, and that effort is what makes it stay. In study after study, practice tests beat reading the same pages again, and highlighting barely helps. It is why Licento asks the question before it shows the answer.
Sample question 2 of 3
Your exam is in three weeks and you have six hours to study. How do you spend them?
The same hours spread over days beat the same hours in one go: coming back to something after you have half forgotten it is what makes it last. Whether the gaps grow or stay the same matters far less than having them. It is why what you miss in Licento comes back over the days up to your exam.
Sample question 3 of 3
Two kinds of question on your exam look alike but need different answers. How do you practise them?
Mixing makes you decide which kind each question is, which is exactly what the exam asks of you. The gain is clearest where the kinds are easy to confuse; for material that does not look alike, mixing adds little.
Your result
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Test yourself, spread it out, mix what looks alike: these are the three habits the research behind this page supports. Below is how Licento builds them in, and the studies they rest on.
The method
Quiz-based learning, and the guidance around it
The app does three things for you, and each one states what it rests on.
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Tailored practice
The same question keeps returning until it sticks. Going through something once is not practice.
You are quizzed, not made to reread. What you miss comes back at growing intervals; what you master comes back less often. Every question has the form of the exam, and every explanation points to the article or paragraph the answer follows from.
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See the weak parts
The lowest bar relative to its own line decides the result — not the average.
Every part of the exam has its own threshold, and yours are measured separately. That way you see which part is holding you back while your average looks good. Where the sample is too small, the screen says so instead of showing a percentage.
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Mock exams in the real format
The path runs from today to your exam date and ends in the mock exams.
The material sits as one spine on your home screen and the path runs up to your exam date; nothing is scheduled after the day of the exam. At the end come the mock exams: the same number of questions, the same time and the same scoring as the real exam.
What this rests on
Backed by research into practice testing, spaced repetition and interleaving. We do not sum that up behind a quality mark; the studies themselves are listed below so you can read them.
- Yang, Luo, Vadillo, Yu & Shanks (2021) — Testing (quizzing) boosts classroom learning. Psychological Bulletin 147(4), 399–435
- Adesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan (2017) — Rethinking the Use of Tests: A Meta-Analysis of Practice Testing. Review of Educational Research 87(3), 659–701
- Latimier, Peyre & Ramus (2021) — Educational Psychology Review 33(3), 959–987
- Brunmair & Richter (2019) — Similarity matters: A meta-analysis of interleaved learning and its moderators. Psychological Bulletin 145(11), 1029–1052
- Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan & Willingham (2013) — Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques. Psychological Science in the Public Interest 14(1), 4–58
What we do not claim
That research is about those mechanisms, not about Licento: nobody has measured this app. We also say what contradicts it — interleaving mainly helps between confusable categories, and growing intervals have not been shown to be better than fixed ones.
Where the questions come from
Every question rests on a fact, and every fact on the law, decree or syllabus it comes from, checked against it by two independent reads.
How it works
Day one
In the app you take the 15-question check, with no account needed, and immediately see a first picture: which part looks weak, still from a small sample. To keep that result and go on, you make a free account with your e-mail address. Then you read the book's free chapter and start where the check says you need the most time.
The day of your exam
In the run-up you sit mock exams in the format of the real exam: the same number of questions, the same time, the same scoring. Nothing more is scheduled after the date of your exam — the path stops where the exam begins.
What is free, and what the course adds
Free, without paying: the 15-question check, which needs no account, and with a free account one chapter of the book and one full mock exam per exam. Buying an exam keeps its whole book and your scores for good, and comes with a period of Premium, which opens the lessons, the practice up to your exam date and the other mock exams.
A question about an answer? Every question has a button to report it.
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We do not quote a pass rate and we do not carry a quality mark. How much this app changes your result, we do not know, because it has never been measured.