Features
I would love if there was a way to strike though answer choices. Highlight would also be great, but maybe more difficult on a phone.
Amazing
10/10 recommend, as an anesthesiology resident the app has changed the question game for me
Good tool
Really great study tool. Unfortunately drag and drop function does not work on either my iPad or iPhone
Favorite question bank
Well written questions, thorough explanations, and great illustrations. Well designed app. I reached out to customer service once and was quickly given a solution that greatly exceeded my expectations. I’ve used others like UWorld, Combank, and amboss, but for the price, quality, customer service, app, and all around package, TrueLearn has been my favorite and I keep choosing it over other banks for test prep. For what it’s worth, I wound up in a very highly regarded residency and TrueLearn was 80%+ of my question bank time for level one and two. Now I’m using it for level three and ITE prep.
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Great for the SEE/NCE
I was ecstatic to find out this existed for on-the-go studying! Great app with great feedback during quizzes. Love for SRNAs.
TrueLearn helps me Truly Learn ;)
TrueLearn (& Picmonic) has helped me tremendously during my studies. TrueLearn provides detailed explanations for both correct and incorrect answers and that makes this product better than a lot of other NBCOT study materials. I would like to see more updates for the iPad so we can have the same functionality across device.
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Greedy Business Practice
The questions and answer explanations are excellent. I’m giving it a one star review due to the fact that although you purchase a subscription for a set duration of time ( ex. 3 months, 6 months, a year) TrueLearn also secretly caps the number of questions you can do in that time frame. Keep in mind there are about 1000 unique questions, but they cap the number of times you can answer these questions in their “tests”. So I purchased I 6 month subscription expecting to be able to practice unlimited reviews during that time period, but I got a message today saying I have a question cap of 3850 reviews with my subscription and I am already at 2500 reviews. Very very greedy.
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Clean UI, but could use improvements
The UI is visually nice. I wish you could highlight and have the ability to hide question statistics.
Greedy Business Model
So in addition to buying a subscription for a length of time you also buy it for a limited number of question answers. So my program bought us all a 12 month subscription but I hit my question allowance in March and now will need to buy a second subscription in order to keep studying. Not cool.
Can’t create tests based on clinical subject
Overall, the app is decent. However, it is very frustrating that we are unable to create test based on clinic subjects like surgery or internal medicine on the app, but we are able to do so on a computer.
Needs to be optimized
My school assigned quizzes do not show up on the TL app on my iPad. This means my quiz lists differ between TL on the web, the app on my iPad, and the app on my phone (android). In addition, many charts do not show up on the TL app on my phone. In general, this is a great tool to use for exam prep, but needs optimization to correct these bugs. Please fix!!
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Can’t make test on app
Your not able to create test o the app and you should be able to copy and paste the answers for digital note taking.
No highlighting on mobile
Cannot highlight on mobile, makes it hard to review questions, bc you have to reread the whole question. UWorld mobile has a feature where pressing and holding and dragging lets you highlight on mobile, wish TrueLearn could implement that.
Err how do you highlight
Above
Almost perfect
If it had a highlight option it would be 5 stars easily
Missing crucial features that competitors offer
I’ve only been using TrueLearn for a little while since I recently started anesthesia residency, and while the TrueLearn questions and explanations for the Anesthesiology ITE/Boards seem good, the app leaves a lot to be desired, including a couple of critical features.
1) The option to download your quizzes so you can study on the go without an internet connection.
AMBOSS has offered this feature in their QBank app for several years and it is extremely useful. Whether you’re in the airport, on a flight, on a vacation, on a long car ride, in a dead-zone within your hospital, etc. AMBOSS lets you download quizzes so you can use some of your precious spare moments to study, but the TrueLearn app is completely inoperable as soon as you lose your internet connection. The TrueLearn app seems like it doesn’t even cache the question(s) you were Currently studying so you can at least review the last question you did or finish the last few questions in the quiz you were already taking.
2) A mechanism for providing specific feedback on questions or explanations in the app.
The only feedback you can give in the app is a thumbs up or thumbs down for the “quality” of a given question. There should also be a mechanism for users to provide some free-text feedback on questions, even if it has to be categorized by the user first by choosing an option like “incorrect answer” or “typo in question”, “typo in explanation”, “missing information”, “technical issue”, “unclear explanation”, etc. For example, if a question is good and almost everything in the explanation is correct and helpful, but there’s a significant typo in the explanation, then a thumbs up or down is not sufficient to clearly communicate the issue with the question and it will take longer to identify and correct the issue with that question.
1) The option to download your quizzes so you can study on the go without an internet connection.
AMBOSS has offered this feature in their QBank app for several years and it is extremely useful. Whether you’re in the airport, on a flight, on a vacation, on a long car ride, in a dead-zone within your hospital, etc. AMBOSS lets you download quizzes so you can use some of your precious spare moments to study, but the TrueLearn app is completely inoperable as soon as you lose your internet connection. The TrueLearn app seems like it doesn’t even cache the question(s) you were Currently studying so you can at least review the last question you did or finish the last few questions in the quiz you were already taking.
2) A mechanism for providing specific feedback on questions or explanations in the app.
The only feedback you can give in the app is a thumbs up or thumbs down for the “quality” of a given question. There should also be a mechanism for users to provide some free-text feedback on questions, even if it has to be categorized by the user first by choosing an option like “incorrect answer” or “typo in question”, “typo in explanation”, “missing information”, “technical issue”, “unclear explanation”, etc. For example, if a question is good and almost everything in the explanation is correct and helpful, but there’s a significant typo in the explanation, then a thumbs up or down is not sufficient to clearly communicate the issue with the question and it will take longer to identify and correct the issue with that question.
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Great for test prep and the app is clean
I had heard from previous reviews and others the app was not worth using but they re-vamped it recently and its great! It has all the functionality of the website with some extra convenience and features. The content of the questions and explanations is great practice.
Great for test prep
I’ve been using TrueLearn app to study for a while now and it's pretty solid. The questions are tough, but the explanations are super helpful and even when I miss, I usually get them right the second time. I like that I can make my own quizzes and choose only questions I have gotten wrong before. It's definitely helping me feel more prepared for the real thing.
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Really helpful to have on the go!
Being able to have access to my question bank while on rotations has been really helpful so that I can squeeze in prep time even if I’m not on my laptop. I like that all my work carries over between my computer and the app and I can see my main performance information.
iOS 18 update
So much better with app overhaul. Easy to use and looks really nice. Keeps crashing now when taking notes during exam reviews. Possibly since iOS 18 just came out.
