For MBBS, B.Tech, LLB, B.Com and PG students in India
You watched the lecture. You read the notes. Will you remember it in the exam?
Paste a YouTube lecture or upload your PDF notes. Ormma turns them into quick questions and tells you what to revise each day, right before you'd forget it.
Free to use. Works in your phone's browser. No credit card.
What happens to your notes after the lecture?
Read something once and most of it fades within days. Revise it just as it starts to fade, and it stays until the exam.
In this illustration, scrolling moves time forward from lecture day to exam day. Read once, the handwriting fades day by day until only a few fragments are left on exam day. In the second half the same notes are revised with Ormma on days 1, 3, 7, 14 and 24. Each revision brings the writing back, the gaps between revisions grow from one day to ten, and almost all of the notes are still there on exam day.
Date Lecture day
Anatomy: diaphragm
Nerve supply: phrenic (C3, C4, C5)
“C3, 4, 5 keeps the diaphragm alive”
Sensory at the rim: lower intercostals
IVC at T8, oesophagus T10, aorta T12
Mnemonic: I 8 10 Eggs AT 12
Irritation → pain at shoulder tip
Right dome higher (liver below)
Hiccups = spasm of the diaphragm
How much you remember
That's exam day, with no revision.
or keep scrolling
Same lecture. Same exam. Two outcomes.
Read once
a few fragments left
Revised with Ormma
5 short revisions, still there
Try it on three cards Takes about a minute. No signup.
An illustration of the forgetting curve, first measured by the psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885. Real rates depend on you and the subject.
You already know this works. You just never had a name for it.
Solving previous year papers
Every senior tells you to solve past papers instead of re-reading the textbook. It works because you have to pull the answer out of your own head. That's called active recall.
Your multiplication tables
You learned them years ago and still know them without thinking. You didn't cram them in one night. You repeated them, spread out over years. That's called spaced repetition.
Ormma does both for everything you study. It asks you questions instead of making you re-read, and it spaces them out so you revise each topic just before you'd forget it.
Try it. Three cards, about a minute.
This is a flashcard: a question on the front, the answer on the back. Read the question, answer it in your head, then check.
Pick your course
Card 1 of 3
Which nerve supplies the diaphragm?
Say your answer in your head before you check.
How Ormma works
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Add what you're studying
Paste a YouTube lecture link, upload a PDF, or paste text from your notes.
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Ormma writes the cards
In about a minute, the key points become question-and-answer cards, ready to revise.
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Revise a little every day
Open Ormma once a day. It shows only the cards you're about to forget, and keeps track of your progress and streak.
The way most students study is the way that works least.
In 2013, five psychologists reviewed the research on ten popular study techniques and rated how useful each one is. Here's how the common ones scored.
Ormma is built on the two that scored highest. Every card is a small test, and every test is scheduled for you.
In another well-known study, students who tested themselves on a passage remembered more of it a week later than students who re-read it, even though the re-readers felt more confident. (Roediger and Karpicke, 2006)
Report card: study techniques
| Technique | Rated usefulness |
|---|---|
| Re-reading | Low |
| Highlighting | Low |
| Summarising | Low |
| Practice testingevery Ormma card | High |
| Spaced practiceevery Ormma schedule | High |
Source: Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan and Willingham (2013), “Improving Students' Learning With Effective Learning Techniques,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Made for courses with a lot to remember
MBBS, BDS, Nursing and NEET PG
Anatomy relations, drug side effects, biochemistry pathways: the details that decide MCQs and vivas.
B.Tech and GATE
Formulas, definitions and concepts from NPTEL and YouTube lectures, kept fresh until the semester exam.
LLB and judiciary exams
Articles, sections, landmark cases and the principles behind them.
B.Com, CA and CS
Formats, standards, definitions and tax rules you need word for word.
Any course with a lot to remember
If it's in a lecture or a PDF, Ormma can turn it into cards.
Ormma means memory.
It's the Malayalam word for memory. We're building Ormma in India, for the way students here actually study: YouTube lectures, PDF notes, and exams that cover the whole syllabus.
Questions students ask us
I've never used flashcards. Is this complicated?
No. A flashcard is a question on the front and the answer on the back. You read the question, try to answer it in your head, then check. Ormma writes the cards for you and decides which ones you see each day. If you tried the three cards above, you already know how it works.
How is this different from reading my notes again?
Reading your notes shows you the answer. Ormma asks you the question first, so you have to pull the answer out of memory. That effort is what makes it stick. Keep your notes; Ormma turns them into questions.
What can I make cards from?
Paste a YouTube lecture link, upload a PDF, or paste text from your notes or any article. Ormma reads it and writes question-and-answer cards in about a minute.
How much time does it take every day?
That depends on how much you add. Ormma only shows the cards that are due today, so you never have to revise everything at once.
Is Ormma really free?
Yes. You can create unlimited decks, revise with spaced repetition and use all core features for free. No credit card needed.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. Ormma runs in any phone or laptop browser. There's nothing to install.
What happens to the notes I upload?
Your files travel over an encrypted connection and are used to make your cards. We never sell your data.
Your exam date is fixed. How much you remember isn't.
Add one lecture tonight. Ormma will tell you when to revise it.
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