Cram for iPhone Video

Cram for iPhone Video Transcript

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>> Are you still using home-made flash cards to study for tests? Tell me you're not. For about $10, the iPhone app Cram let's you create as many digital flashcards and practice exams as you want. You'll never lose them, you won't have to remember to carry them around and think of all the treats it saves. I'm Jessica Dolcourt with CNET Download.com and we're about to look at version 1.0 of Cram. Cram takes a really simple concept digitizing your study materials and adds a collaborative element to make a pretty effective studying tool. After signing up for an account, you'll create a new test. You can do this online or on the iPhone itself. On the iPhone, you press New and then you type in your test name, after that you'll just press Add. For each new question, you'll write in multiple choice answers. If you just wanna use Cram for flashcards and not for taking a practice exam, you can just enter one answer. I personally recommend creating tests online, but this way does work. If you do enter the test online and you want to import it to your iPhone, click Import Test from the applications home screen then enter your Cram login information and press Login. One neat thing about Cram is that you can also import tests that other people create. To do that, enter in Cram as both the login and the password and tap Get All Tests. After you get all the tests you want Cram offers two study modes. You can either take a graded multiple choice test and or click study to enter into flashcard mode. You'll see just the question and can click anytime you're ready to see the answer. Those are the pluses, but there are a few minuses in Cram too. One is that you have to scroll through the alphabetical list to find tests when you're trying to import tests and it would be much easier to search for them using a search bar. I hope that comes soon. Another problem is that you can't always tell what the tests to import are actually about unless the person who wrote the title has written very descriptively. Also short tests are hardly worth the trouble. They become more too easy to memorize and when you get bored you'll just delete it anyway. If you and your friends aren't making study guides for each other, you may be better-off sticking to your own quizzes. So, Cram is one of those applications that's actually useful for exercising your brain cells and may be for helping you pass that impending exam. I'm Jessica Dolcourt. You've been looking at Cram for iPhone version 1.0. ^M00:02:22 [ Music ]