Cloze deletion
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Cloze deletion is a sentence with an important keyword missing and replaced with [...].
For example:
Q: The capital of Sierra Leone is [...] A: Freetown
In incremental reading, cloze deletions are generated from topics that have a form of a sentence or a simple paragraph. Cloze deletions are always items with the deleted part forming the answer.
To create a cloze deletion do the following:
- make sure a topic contains a short sentence only
- select an important keyword in that sentence (e.g. Freetown in the example above)
- press Alt+Z or choose Remember cloze
See also:
- Video demonstration (exemplary application)
- Incremental reading (manual)
- Cloze deletion interval
This glossary entry is used to explain SuperMemo, a pioneer of spaced repetition software since 1987