How to

How to study here.

This page is for you. The other page is for Claude, Grok, or Gemini if you connect one.

What this is

Elenchus is a stack of cards you answer, not a page you reread. You try the answer first. The number at the top of every page is how much you still remember, written as meters on a mountain. The picture in the header is that number. You cannot fake it.

First five minutes

  1. Open Library. The Texas driver handbook is already there — all 84 official Appendix C questions. Why Texas? Best state in the country.
  2. Open the deck. Pick a chapter, or study the whole book.
  3. Start with Learn if you are new to the material. That is multiple choice with believable wrong answers.
  4. When a card feels familiar, use Drill (flip) or Write (type the answer). Those two never show the multiple-choice options.
  5. Come back tomorrow through Review. It only asks what is due.

The four ways to study a set

  • Learn. Four choices. One is right. The other three are written to sound possible. This is the only place those wrong answers appear.
  • Drill. A flip card. Read the front, say the back, then turn it over. No list of choices.
  • Write. Type the answer. Close is not enough if a number or a duty is wrong.
  • Match. Pair fronts with backs. Good for a fast pass through signs or short facts.

Review is the daily pile — every card the schedule thinks you are about to forget, from any deck. Memory shows the schedule itself.

The number at the top

That number is a . 0.00 m means Mount Wycheproof awaits you. Color starts at the first mark (1.00 m). Harder cards, and cards that still stick weeks later, count for more. A new set also shows how many meters it is worth if you master every card — so you can see the climb ahead.

The mountain in the header

Everyone starts on in black and white. That first picture is the only freebie. When you earn a peak, the photograph turns to color and you can pick among a few real shots of that mountain. You cannot put Everest in the header until the cards say you are there.

Your computer and your phone

Sign in with Google or email if you want the same decks on a Windows PC, a Mac, and a phone. Studying on the phone does not need Claude, Grok, or Gemini. Open the site. That is the whole phone setup.

A tutor, if you want one

Claude, Grok, or Gemini can ask you about a card, or turn a question you just asked into a new card. They are not the answer key. The card is. You do not need a tutor to finish the Texas handbook.

If you do connect one, start in the classroom. Haiku leads from the browser. Gemma on Voical only coaches after cards exist. Wire-up lives on Connect. The tutor has its own how-to.

Making your own deck

New deck — empty, or paste lines of questions and answers. You can also ask a connected tutor a question and let it file the card. Pictures, GIFs, and YouTube links you add show up in the three plates on the library. A YouTube watch, share, shorts, or youtu.be link plays in the card with captions on when the video has them. Paste the link. You do not pick a type.

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