Base Camp
Base Camp
- Best used
- In short bursts, often
- Progress
- Stays in your browser
Connections
3–5 minSixteen tiles, four groups. The trap is the lesson.
Category discipline — genre vs product vs franchise vs platform, load-bearing vs decorative, cause vs text. Six puzzles, each built around a mistake examiners flag.
Crossword
5–15 minThe vocabulary, arranged so you have to retrieve it.
Recall of the terms you need to spell correctly under exam conditions. Five word banks — genre basics, theory, media language, the three texts, or everything at once.
Cloze
4–8 minFill the gaps — first in the concepts, then in real paragraphs.
The concept passages test terms. The paragraph passages remove the analytical verbs and connectives, so you feel the difference between Merit and Excellence register in your own hands.
Pack Your Ten
6–10 minAlone's real gear list. Choose ten. Find out what got you.
The load-bearing convention argument, played rather than read. You will discover for yourself that the constraint is what generates the drama — and that line without hooks is worth nothing.
How to get anything out of these
Read the feedback, not the score
Every activity explains itself after you finish. The note under a Connections group, or under a cloze blank, is usually a sentence you could put straight into an essay.
Getting it wrong is the mechanism
Retrieval works because it is effortful. A puzzle you fail and then understand will stick far better than a page you highlighted.
Short and often beats long and once
Five minutes here three times a week will do more for your recall than an hour the night before.
No points, no badges, no streaks