How Raysheo works — recall, apply, pass

Law papers are not marked on what you can recite. They are marked on whether you can take a set of facts, find the issue, state the rule with its section, cite the authority and apply it. Raysheo is built around that order of work, and every subject in the app runs on the same engine.

Recall comes first: flashcards on spaced repetition, so a provision, an ingredient or a leading case returns just before you would have forgotten it. Apply is the part most notes skip — writing real exam answers and marking them line by line against a model. Pass is what happens when both hold: the progress chart tracks recall against application separately, because knowing the section and being able to use it are different skills, and the exam rewards only the second.

Below, the four ways to study each unit, and the three things that hold a semester together — a timed mock, a planner that counts backwards from your paper, and progress you can actually read.

Four ways to study, and a plan that decides between them.

Flashcards that ask, not tell

A card gives you a set of facts and asks you to decide. You answer out loud, reveal, and rate how well you knew it. A scheduling algorithm decides when it returns — and shows you the interval, the ease and the card’s whole history, because a black box is hard to trust.

Spaced repetition, fully transparent

Questions with a reason attached

Immediate feedback, then the part that matters: why the right answer is right, which provision and case it rests on, and why the tempting wrong answer tempts people. Anything you miss goes back into the queue.

No answer key without an explanation

Written answers, structured

Practice questions with model answers set out as issue, rule, authority, application, conclusion. You plan yours first, then mark it against a checklist. Guided practice — nothing is auto-graded, because a machine cannot read your reasoning.

The only thing that moves your application score

Revision notes for the night before

Four concise notes per unit, with every ingredient broken into numbered elements, because that is the shape an exam answer needs. A high-yield toggle strips it to what actually gets asked. Each unit also has a chapter reading for when you need the whole story, not the summary.

Bare act quoted, not paraphrased

Timed mock papers

A full paper against the clock, no feedback until you submit, flagging and free navigation. Results lead with a diagnosis of what cost you marks, not a bare score.

A planner that counts backwards

Set the date of your paper. The units are distributed across the days that remain, weak ones get a second pass, and you get a finite daily checklist rather than a calendar to interpret.

Progress worth reading

One chart: recall against application. It tells you whether you are learning or only recognising, which is the difference between a pass and a good result.