WeSolve+ is best for converting outlines and casebook PDFs into that discipline, and this guide covers the element card, the test card, and the standards layer.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Paste law school notes, get cards
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This browser tool uses text rules, not AI: definition lines become cards, others become fill in the blank. The app reads whole outlines and casebook PDFs, and its cards carry reasoning.
Element cards: the checklist, one card per box
Card the rule as an overview, negligence's four elements in order, then card each element with its own definition and its own failure mode: duty and its special relationships, breach and its reasonable person, causation split into actual and proximate, damages and what cannot be recovered. Exam answers are graded element by element, and the deck should fail element by element too, the biology pathway rule practicing law. The one-card-per-box discipline is what turns issue spotting into a walk down a known list.
Test cards: prongs with their weights
Doctrines arrive as multi prong tests, and each prong cards separately with what satisfies it and what flunks it: strict scrutiny's compelling interest and its narrow tailoring, adverse possession's open, notorious, continuous and hostile. Add the application card, front gives facts, asks which prong is contested, because exams rarely contest every prong at once and the skill is finding the live one. Prong cards plus a contested-prong drill mirror the essay's actual anatomy.
Terms of art: card to function, not to Latin
Consideration, hearsay, scienter, estoppel: legal vocabulary cards to function the way world history carded devshirme. Front asks what work consideration does, back says it separates enforceable bargains from gratuitous promises. The definition alone is recitation; the function makes the term usable in analysis, and analysis is the graded act. Latin tags, res ipsa, mens rea, card with a plain English translation and one canonical example each.
Distinctions the exam lives on
Actual against proximate cause, hearsay against its exemptions, void against voidable, joint tenancy against tenancy in common: law's confusable pairs card as contrasts with the deciding question on the back. What decides void against voidable is whether the contract ever existed or exists until avoided, and the card should say so in one line. The psychology lookalike lesson applies with the stakes raised, because law exams manufacture wrong answers precisely from these near twins.
Standards of review and burdens: who must show what
Appellate and constitutional questions turn on standards: de novo for law, clear error for facts, abuse of discretion for management, and the scrutiny ladder for rights. Card the standard with its trigger, what gets de novo review and why, and card burdens as who-must-show-what fronts, preponderance against reasonable doubt against clear and convincing. Standards cards are short, mechanical and disproportionately tested, the closest thing law school has to free marks.
Where this sits in WeSolve+
Outlines and casebook PDFs become decks through the pipeline, misses feed weak topic analysis, and the schedule keeps first year doctrines warm through finals and beyond. Exam bound students pair the deck with LSAT prep for the entry gate. Siblings: US history cards the same cases for their significance where law cards them for their tests, English vocabulary sharpens the register instinct, and the index holds the rest.
Sources used on this page
- Law
- Negligence
- Duty of care
- Proximate cause
- Consideration
- Hearsay
- Strict scrutiny
- Adverse possession
- Standard of review
- Burden of proof (law)
- Mens rea
- Res ipsa loquitur
- Void contract
- Voidable contract
- Estoppel
- Issue spotting
- Flashcard
- Spaced repetition
- Testing effect
- Active recall
- Forgetting curve
- Leitner system
- Desirable difficulty
- Distributed practice
- Metacognition
- Study skills
- Retrieval-induced forgetting
- Long-term memory
| Pattern | Front | Back |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Negligence's elements, in order? | Duty, breach, causation, damages |
| Element | Proximate cause limits to? | Foreseeable results |
| Prong | Strict scrutiny demands? | Compelling interest, narrowly tailored |
| Contested prong | These facts: which prong is live? | The one the facts strain |
| Term to function | What work does consideration do? | Separates bargains from gifts |
| Standard | Questions of law get? | De novo review |
What should law school flashcards cover?
Rule overviews with one card per element, test prongs with satisfiers and flunkers, terms of art carded to function, confusable pairs, and standards of review.
Why one card per element?
Exam answers are graded element by element: the deck should fail the same way, so the schedule targets the element you actually lose.
What is a contested-prong card?
Facts on the front, the live prong on the back: exams rarely contest every prong, and finding the live one is the essay skill.
How do terms of art card best?
To function: what work the concept does in analysis, with Latin tags carried by plain translations and one canonical example.
Why card standards of review?
Short, mechanical, disproportionately tested: the standard with its trigger is the closest thing to free marks.
Does this connect to LSAT prep?
The LSAT page covers the entry gate; the deck itself serves law school doctrine from your own outlines.
Last updated: 2026-08-15