How to Use Quizlet Spaced Repetition
Quizlet uses your recall rating to decide when to show you a flashcard again. With its Spaced repetition study method, you can finish today’s review in a 30-card set before you’ve seen all 30 cards.
Turn on spaced repetition in Quizlet Flashcards
- Open your set on the Quizlet website and select Flashcards.
- Open Options, select Study method, and choose Spaced repetition. Larger sets may already have it selected.
- Try to answer the prompt before you flip the card. Check your answer, choose a recall rating, and keep going until no more cards are due.
Quizlet documents this as a website-only study method. If you’re on a phone, look for it on the Quizlet website in your browser. Quizlet’s spaced repetition instructions
Pick a rating before you move on
Say the answer to yourself before flipping. In this French vocabulary example, the prompt is a word you might use to describe a room, and the answer is its English translation.
| Rating | What you remembered | When the card may come back |
|---|---|---|
| Repeat | You answer “the floor” for le plafond. The back says “the ceiling.” | Within a few minutes |
| Hard | For le tiroir, you picture pulling it out of a desk and eventually think of “the drawer” before flipping. | Soon |
| Okay | You take a moment to recall “the shelf” for l’étagère. | Usually after about a day |
| Easy | You see la porte and immediately think “the door.” | Usually after four days or longer |
If “the ceiling” only comes to mind once you see the back, Repeat still fits. If you work it out before flipping and it takes effort, choose Hard. The timings are Quizlet’s guidance for each rating. Quizlet’s recall ratings
Set a pace for new cards
Open Options in Flashcards and look for New cards per day. This setting controls how many cards you start reviewing with spaced repetition each day. Cards you’ve never reviewed with this method are marked New, even if you’ve seen them while browsing the set.
Leave time for cards that are already due. If five new cards show up and seven older ones are due, that’s twelve different cards to answer, plus any that come back during the session. Try a number you can manage on a busy day. If sessions keep running long, lower the setting to introduce fewer cards. How to choose a daily new-card count
When today’s review ends
Quizlet has no more cards due for that session. Some cards can still be waiting for their first review or a later review date. If your quiz covers the whole set tomorrow, you can keep browsing in Flashcards today. Start from the beginning and try each answer before flipping.
| What you need today | What to choose |
|---|---|
| Review the cards Quizlet has scheduled | Spaced repetition in Study method |
| Go through every card for tomorrow’s quiz | Browse cards in Study method |
| Practice a few terms you keep mixing up | Study a hand-picked set of starred terms |
Check what comes back tomorrow
Try this with the 30-word set. Set New cards per day to five, then finish the scheduled review. Jot down one or two terms you rated Repeat or Hard, such as le plafond and le tiroir.
Open the same set in Spaced repetition tomorrow.
- If either term comes up, note whether you could answer it before flipping.
- Look for cards marked New.
- Time how long it takes to finish the scheduled review.
Keep the setting steady for a few sessions so you can see how five new cards fit alongside due reviews. Use the time you actually spent to decide whether to adjust it.
The walkthrough is based on Quizlet’s Help Center, checked on November 11, 2026. The vocabulary examples and practice routine are illustrative. AI assisted with the article and generated the illustration.