TrueLearn SmartBanks

Cannot highlight on mobile, makes it hard to review questions, bc you have to reread the whole question. UWorld mobile has a feature where pressing and holding and dragging lets you highlight on mobile, wish TrueLearn could implement that.

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If it had a highlight option it would be 5 stars easily

I’ve only been using TrueLearn for a little while since I recently started anesthesia residency, and while the TrueLearn questions and explanations for the Anesthesiology ITE/Boards seem good, the app leaves a lot to be desired, including a couple of critical features. 1) The option to download your quizzes so you can study on the go without an internet connection. AMBOSS has offered this feature in their QBank app for several years and it is extremely useful. Whether you’re in the airport, on a flight, on a vacation, on a long car ride, in a dead-zone within your hospital, etc. AMBOSS lets you download quizzes so you can use some of your precious spare moments to study, but the TrueLearn app is completely inoperable as soon as you lose your internet connection. The TrueLearn app seems like it doesn’t even cache the question(s) you were Currently studying so you can at least review the last question you did or finish the last few questions in the quiz you were already taking. 2) A mechanism for providing specific feedback on questions or explanations in the app. The only feedback you can give in the app is a thumbs up or thumbs down for the “quality” of a given question. There should also be a mechanism for users to provide some free-text feedback on questions, even if it has to be categorized by the user first by choosing an option like “incorrect answer” or “typo in question”, “typo in explanation”, “missing information”, “technical issue”, “unclear explanation”, etc. For example, if a question is good and almost everything in the explanation is correct and helpful, but there’s a significant typo in the explanation, then a thumbs up or down is not sufficient to clearly communicate the issue with the question and it will take longer to identify and correct the issue with that question.

I had heard from previous reviews and others the app was not worth using but they re-vamped it recently and its great! It has all the functionality of the website with some extra convenience and features. The content of the questions and explanations is great practice.

I’ve been using TrueLearn app to study for a while now and it's pretty solid. The questions are tough, but the explanations are super helpful and even when I miss, I usually get them right the second time. I like that I can make my own quizzes and choose only questions I have gotten wrong before. It's definitely helping me feel more prepared for the real thing.

Being able to have access to my question bank while on rotations has been really helpful so that I can squeeze in prep time even if I’m not on my laptop. I like that all my work carries over between my computer and the app and I can see my main performance information.

So much better with app overhaul. Easy to use and looks really nice. Keeps crashing now when taking notes during exam reviews. Possibly since iOS 18 just came out.

I like the interface but I’ve noticed two flaws so far. It gives a demo to tap twice on an answer choice to strike through it but then it doesn’t show that that answer choice is striked through until it shows your answers at the end of the quiz. It also at times is stating that I am getting some questions incorrect then stating that they are correct

Great work with the new update 08/2024. App works flawlessly. Highly recommend.