Frequently asked questions
Studying, memorizing, using Fichea: the answers
Short answers to the questions students and parents ask, with a link to the detailed guide when there is one. Updated on .
Fichea in brief
What Fichea does, which courses it accepts and what it costs, in short answers. The prices quoted are those shown on 12 November 2026.
What is Fichea?
Fichea is a study site in French that starts from your own course. You import a PDF, a text, a Word file or a photo depending on your plan, and the AI turns it into a study sheet, a corrected quiz and flashcards. You can also ask a question about a passage of the course: the answer cites the excerpts it relies on.
See the public demo →How does Fichea work, step by step?
1. Import your course into a subject. 2. Fichea creates a structured sheet from it, to compare with the document. 3. Start a corrected quiz: each question is followed by an explanation. 4. If a passage stays unclear, ask Luna, the assistant, who answers by citing excerpts from the course. 5. Turn your mistakes into flashcards, reviewed with spaced repetition. The features available depend on your plan.
All Fichea tools →Which course formats does Fichea accept?
Fichea accepts PDFs, pasted text and Word files in .docx format, of which only the text is read. Course photos are accepted as JPG or PNG depending on your plan, and you reread the recognized text before creating the sheet. PowerPoint presentations, old .doc files and HEIC photos are not supported: export your slides to PDF first.
Study sheet generator →Is Fichea free?
Yes, a free account is available, with no credit card. It lets you start with your own courses, with limited features and volumes. The paid Plus and Premium plans increase these volumes and add features, such as web search to supplement answers. The exact details of each plan, free included, are on the Pricing page.
Pricing page →How much do Fichea’s paid plans cost?
The paid Plus and Premium plans are offered from €7.90 per month on the annual plan (price shown on 12 November 2026). A monthly plan with no commitment also exists, at a higher monthly price. The features and volumes included vary from one plan to another: see the Pricing page for the current price and the content of each plan.
Compare plans →Can you use Fichea on your phone?
Yes. Fichea is a website: open it in your phone’s browser and log in to the same account as on your computer to find your subjects, your sheets and your flashcards. There’s no app to install. An internet connection is required, because Fichea has no offline mode. To import a course photo, depending on your plan, it must be a JPG or a PNG.
Can you try Fichea without creating an account?
Yes, with the public demo on photosynthesis. It shows a prepared example in high school biology and earth sciences: a sheet, a question and the passage of the course that justifies the answer. It doesn’t require an account, but it doesn’t process your own document. To work on your course, create a free account, with no credit card.
Open the photosynthesis demo →Which levels is Fichea suited to?
Fichea is aimed mainly at middle school students, high school students and college students: brevet, bac, licence, BTS, BUT, prépa, health studies or competitive exams. It’s also used by adults in training. Since it starts from the course you provide, the level of the sheets and questions follows that of the document. In primary school, an adult prepares the materials and guides the child; no child account is required.
Fichea by level →AI, reliability and data
An AI can be wrong. Here is how Fichea shows where its answers come from, how to check a result and what happens to your documents.
Does Fichea’s AI make mistakes?
Yes, it can happen. A sheet, a quiz question or an answer may contain an error, an omission, an oversimplification or an imperfect citation, as with any AI tool. Fichea starts from your course to limit this risk, but checking is up to you: compare the definitions, dates and formulas with the document before learning them.
Fichea’s AI policy →How do I check a sheet or quiz created by the AI?
Keep your course open next to it. For the sheet, check every definition, date, number and formula, and add what’s missing. For the quiz, read the explanation for each question, even when you got it right, and check that it matches the course. If a question seems wrong to you, find the relevant passage: if it doesn’t confirm it, set the question aside and report it.
Create a quiz from a PDF course →Where do the answers come from when I ask a question about my course?
The answers from Luna, Fichea’s assistant, rely on passages from your documents: each cited source shows the document and, when possible, the page and the excerpt used, so you can reread the original text. With the Plus and Premium plans, you can turn on web search as a supplement. It stays optional: Luna can then complete her answer with web sources.
Ask a question about a PDF →Is using Fichea to study cheating?
No, as long as you use it to study. Testing yourself on your course with a quiz or flashcards is a way of learning, just like an exercise done at home. Cheating starts when you hand in as your own a piece of work written by an AI, or when you use it during an exam. Follow your school’s rules on AI.
Study with AI without cheating →What happens to the courses I import into Fichea?
The raw file sent at import is temporary: the privacy policy sets a goal of deleting it within 24 hours. The extracted text stays in your account until you delete the source, the subject or the account. For a generation, your instructions and the chosen excerpts are sent to the feature’s AI provider. Avoid importing secrets or health data.
Privacy policy →How do I report an error in a sheet or a quiz?
In a quiz, use the “Report the question” button shown during the quiz. For a sheet or an answer, write to the contact address given in Fichea’s AI policy, specifying the feature used, the content concerned and, if possible, the passage of the course to compare against. Each report is reviewed according to its nature. In the meantime, rely on your course: don’t study a concept that it contradicts.
AI policy and reporting →How do I delete my Fichea account and my data?
Log in on the web, export your data if you want to keep a copy, then open the Account area. Enter your current password, type the word SUPPRIMER and confirm. Your subjects, sheets, quizzes, flashcards and private files are then deleted; finalization can take up to two hours. Some accounting or pseudonymized data may be kept, as the dedicated page explains.
Delete your account →Study effectively
Method answers, valid with or without a tool. The durations suggested are benchmarks to adapt to your pace.
How do you study effectively?
Studying effectively mostly means testing yourself and coming back to your courses several times. The review by Dunlosky and colleagues (2013) ranks practice testing and spaced practice among the most useful techniques, while rereading and highlighting score low. In practice: a short sheet to understand, questions to test yourself, then your mistakes reviewed a few days later.
How to study effectively →How long should you study per day?
No duration suits everyone. A reasonable benchmark outside exam periods: 30 minutes to an hour a day in high school, a little more at university, in sessions of 25 to 45 minutes separated by breaks. Regularity matters more than length: twenty minutes every day often helps more than one long session the day before the test.
The Pomodoro method for studying →Is it better to reread your course or test yourself?
Testing yourself is generally more effective for retention. In the study by Roediger and Karpicke (2006), students who had tested themselves on a text remembered it better a week later than those who had reread it, whereas rereading gave a better result after five minutes. Reread once to understand, then close the course and try to recall the essentials.
Active recall →Is studying the night before an exam any use?
Yes, as long as you aim right. The night before, you won’t be able to learn everything: focus on the core concepts of the course and on the ones you miss, with questions rather than rereading. For example, do a quiz per chapter, go over your mistakes, then stop at a reasonable hour to sleep. For the next exam, start earlier, in small sessions.
Studying the night before an exam →How do you organize yourself to study alone?
Set regular slots during the week and a list of chapters to cover. For each chapter, sum up the essentials in a few lines, quiz yourself without looking at the course, then write down what you didn’t understand. Ask those questions to a teacher, a classmate or a tool that cites your course. Come back to your mistakes a few days later.
Studying alone, without a teacher →Where do you start when you have too many courses to review?
Start by taking stock: list the chapters, the date of each exam and what you already master. Then rank the chapters by their weight in the exam and your level, and tackle the ones that weigh heavily and that you know poorly. A quick test per chapter helps with this sorting: your mistakes show where to spend time.
Too many courses: where to start →How do you motivate yourself to study when you procrastinate?
Make the first step very small: open a single chapter and work for ten minutes, timer running. A precise task, like “answer ten questions on chapter 3”, is easier to start than “study history”. Put your phone in another room and note down each finished session. If the block lasts or comes with distress, talk to a professional.
Motivation and procrastination →Memorizing
The most frequently cited memorization methods, explained simply: what they involve and how to apply them to your course.
How do you remember your courses for longer?
To remember a course over the long term, try to retrieve it from memory instead of rereading it, and repeat the exercise at increasingly long intervals. These are the two techniques judged most useful by the review by Dunlosky and colleagues (2013). Start by understanding: a concept you can’t explain in your own words is hard to remember.
Remembering your courses →What is spaced repetition?
Spaced repetition means reviewing a concept at increasingly long intervals, just before you risk forgetting it, instead of studying everything at once. A well-remembered card comes back later; a missed card comes back sooner. It can be practiced on paper, with the Leitner box or the J method, or with software that calculates the review dates.
Spaced repetition and planner →What is the J method?
The J method is a way of planning spaced repetition: you review a course on fixed days after learning it, on day J. A common version schedules reviews at J+1, J+3, J+7, J+15 then J+30, but the intervals vary between versions. Write the dates in a calendar and test yourself at each pass instead of rereading.
The J method →How do you learn a course by heart?
Cut the text into short blocks and learn them one by one. Read a block, hide it, recite it or write it from memory, then compare with the original and correct. When each block holds, chain them together. Come back to it the next day, then a few days later. Keep rote learning for definitions, formulas, dates or quotations; for the rest, aim to understand and rephrase.
Learning by heart →What is active recall?
Active recall means retrieving information from memory before looking at it: answering a question, reciting a definition, writing down everything you know about a chapter. This retrieval effort helps you remember, which researchers call the testing effect. Quizzes, flashcards and the blank page let you practice it.
Active recall explained →How does the Leitner box work?
The Leitner box, described by Sebastian Leitner in the 1970s, sorts flashcards into several compartments, often five. All the cards start in the first one. A card you get right moves to the next compartment, reviewed less often; a card you miss goes back to the first, reviewed every day. Difficult concepts come back often, and mastered concepts less and less often.
The Leitner box →What is the blurting method?
Blurting means writing on a blank sheet everything you remember about a chapter, without looking at the course, then comparing with the document. Fill in with color what you forgot or misunderstood: these are the points to review first. Start again a few days later on the same chapter to check that the gaps are closing.
The blurting method →Study sheets
How to build a useful sheet, by hand or from a document, and when to prefer another format.
How do you make a study sheet?
Keep your course in front of you. Write the chapter title at the top, then the key concepts with a short definition for each, the dates, formulas or examples to know, and the links between ideas. Write in your own words, in short sentences. Finish with three or four questions you could ask yourself: they’ll be used to test yourself.
Guide: making a study sheet →Is it better to make your sheet by hand or generate it with AI?
Both are defensible. Writing your sheet forces you to sort and rephrase, which helps you understand, but it takes time. A sheet generated from your course removes the formatting step; you then have to reread it with the document and complete it in your own words. A mixed approach works well: generate the sheet, then annotate it.
Study sheet generator →How long should a study sheet be?
A sheet generally fits on one page, one side or both, for a chapter. If it overflows, split it by part of the course instead of writing smaller. The right length is the one that lets you reread the sheet in a few minutes and find your way back to the course from it. The details stay in the course; the sheet keeps the essentials.
Study sheets by subject →Study sheet or mind map: which to choose?
The sheet suits courses rich in definitions, dates and formulas that you need to recall precisely. The mind map shows the links between ideas around a central theme and helps you see the structure of a chapter. You can combine both: the map to understand, the sheet to memorize. Fichea creates sheets, but not mind maps.
The mind map for studying →How do you make a sheet from a PDF or a course photo?
By hand, first skim the whole document, spot the headings and the boxes, then write down the key concepts part by part. With Fichea, import the PDF, or the photo as a JPG or PNG depending on your plan: reread the recognized text, then start creating the sheet. In both cases, compare the result with the document before studying.
Turn a PDF into a sheet →What is the Cornell method for taking notes?
The Cornell method, designed by Walter Pauk at Cornell University, divides the page into three zones: a large column for the course notes, a narrow column on the left for keywords and questions, and a strip at the bottom for a summary of a few lines. To study, cover the notes column and answer the questions in the margin.
The Cornell method →Quizzes and flashcards
Which format to choose, how to create good questions and good cards, and what Fichea does or doesn’t do with Anki and Quizlet.
Sheets, quizzes or flashcards: which to choose for studying?
Each format has its role. The sheet is for understanding and organizing a chapter. The quiz checks that you can tell the right answer from the traps, and its correction explains your mistakes. Flashcards are for memorizing specific items, like a definition or a date, over several weeks. A simple order: sheet, then quiz, then flashcards on what you missed.
Review for a test with sheets, quizzes and flashcards →How do you create a quiz from your course?
By hand, write a question for each concept, the right answer and two or three wrong but plausible options, drawn from common confusions. With Fichea, import your course: it creates 1 to 24 questions per generation, as multiple choice, true or false or short answer, on three difficulty levels. Each question comes with its explanation.
Create a quiz from a PDF course →How many questions should a study quiz have?
For a chapter, 10 to 20 questions are often enough to cover the main concepts without wearing you out. Several short quizzes spread over a few days are better than a single very long one. If you miss a lot of questions, reread the relevant part of the course before starting again. In Fichea, a generation has 1 to 24 questions, which lets you go short or more complete.
How do you make good flashcards?
Put one idea per card, with a precise question on the front and a short answer on the back. Word the question so that you have to search for the answer, for example “Which organelle produces most of the cell’s ATP?”, rather than a single word to recognize. Split long lists into several cards. Answer from memory before turning the card over, then honestly judge whether you knew it.
How to make flashcards →Does Fichea work with Anki or Quizlet?
No, Fichea does not exchange cards with Anki or Quizlet: it imports no decks or sets, and exports no Anki or CSV file. Its flashcards are created from your course and reviewed in Fichea. You can use both tools in parallel, for example Fichea for course chapters and your Anki deck for vocabulary.
Fichea or Anki →What is the FSRS algorithm?
FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler) is an open spaced repetition algorithm. From your answers, it estimates for each flashcard the probability that you’ll remember it and schedules the next review at the moment that memory is likely to fade. Anki offers it as an option. Fichea uses it to schedule your flashcards and shows the reviews for the next 14 days.
AI flashcard generator →What should you do with your quiz mistakes?
Your mistakes are the most useful part of the quiz. Read the explanation for each missed question, find the passage of the course that gives the right answer, then note the concept to review. In Fichea, the mistakes review page for an attempt lets you turn a mistake into a flashcard, which then comes back with spaced repetition. Redo a quiz on the chapter a few days later.
AI quiz generator →Exams, midterms and competitive exams
Benchmarks for preparing the brevet, the bac, midterms, the Belgian blocus or a competitive exam. Fichea finds its place there for learning and testing yourself, never for writing in your place.
How do you study for the bac with your own courses?
Start from your teacher’s courses and documents, which follow your class’s syllabus. For each chapter: a short sheet, a quiz to spot the gaps, then flashcards on the definitions and landmarks. Also practice with past papers under time limits, because the bac’s written exams require writing. Fichea does not mark written papers.
Fichea for the bac →When should you start studying for the brevet?
A common benchmark: start reviewing the syllabus about two months before the exam, in short sessions, then speed up over the last three weeks with past papers. If you start later, give priority to the written exams and the chapters you master poorly. The brevet covers the cycle 4 syllabus, from the cinquième to the troisième.
Fichea for the brevet →How do you study for midterms at university?
Start two to three weeks ahead, subject by subject. Collect the handouts, slides and past papers available, then make one sheet per chapter. Test yourself with questions rather than rereading, and practice on the real format of the exam: quiz, short questions or essay. Keep the last days to go over your mistakes, and don’t sacrifice your sleep.
Studying for midterms →How do you succeed at your blocus in Belgium?
The blocus is the study period that comes before an exam session in Belgian universities. Start by estimating the time needed for each course, then spread it over the weeks available, keeping breaks and a day of margin. Each day, alternate studying a chapter and self-assessment, and keep time to sleep. The dates vary by university.
Succeeding at your blocus →How do you prepare for a second session or a resit?
First check which exams you have to retake and which grades are kept: the rules depend on your school. If you can see your papers, reread them to understand what cost you points. Then focus your studying on those subjects, testing yourself every day, and keep a few days of rest between the end of the session and the restart.
Second session and resit →How do you prepare for a competitive exam alone, without a prépa?
Start from the official syllabus and the jury reports, which describe what’s expected. Plan the preparation over several months, with spaced reviews and mock exams under time limits. For knowledge, Fichea can create sheets, quizzes and flashcards from your materials. It does not mark essays or synthesis notes: have someone read them over if possible.
Fichea for competitive exams →Is Fichea suited to IFSI studies?
Yes, for studying the teaching unit courses from your own materials. You can import a pharmacology or anatomy course, turn it into a sheet, then into corrected quizzes and flashcards for the definitions and values to know. Always check the content against your course, especially doses and figures. Fichea replaces neither your instructors nor your placements.
Fichea for IFSI →Do you need private tutoring to pass your exams?
Not necessarily. A private tutor helps mostly when the gaps are old, when you need to learn a writing method or when motivation depends on an appointment. If the student understands in class but forgets before the test, regular practice on their courses may be enough. The two can be combined: the teacher explains, and the student practices alone between sessions.
Private tutoring or studying alone →