Built so that board preparation sticks.
We build question banks the way memory research says they should be built, and we are explicit about how each question gets made.
A strange gap in board preparation.
The question banks are excellent at telling you what you do not know, and indifferent to whether you still know it on the day that counts. The usual advice is to go through the bank a second time, which is another way of saying the first pass did not hold.
Proa was built to close that gap: the same standard of questions and explanations, with a retention system attached to them.
- DueMissed on Feb 12First return · interval 6 days
- DueRight on Feb 20, low confidenceSecond return · interval 14 days
- DueMissed twice, Jan 30Third return · interval 3 days
- Apr 2Right on Mar 2Fourth return · interval 31 days
Founders
Manu Vergara
Founder · Method
Memory world record holder and MSc in Neuroscience. He designed the encoding and retrieval system Proa runs on, and since 2021 has taught it to hundreds of physicians preparing for specialty exams.
Seiji Senda
Co-founder · [Cargo]
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How a Proa question is made.
Written
By a board-certified physician in the specialty, against the official blueprint of the exam.
Reviewed
By a second physician, for clinical accuracy and exam fidelity.
Audited
The explanation is checked against a fixed list of the failures that make a practice question useless.
Encoded
The facts worth retaining are encoded and added to the retrieval schedule.
Hundreds of physicians. Entire syllabi, retained.
Since 2021 we have worked with hundreds of physicians preparing for specialty exams. With this method they memorized complete syllabi and went on to excel in their specialties. Proa puts that same system inside a question bank.
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How Proa makes it stick.
The three mechanisms, the evidence behind them, and what they look like inside the bank.