Gyaata
Spaced repetition for UPSC and SSC/banking aspirants
Your exam has a date. Your revision should be planned backwards from it.
Upload the notes and PDFs you already study from. Gyaata turns them into cards and places every review inside the window before the day you sit the paper — nothing is scheduled for after it.
Backed by
The part nobody else does
The exam date is a scheduling input, not a profile field.
The spacing research is clear that the right gap between reviews depends on how long you need to hold the material — which means a system that does not know your deadline is guessing. Move the date below and watch the schedule for a single card redraw itself.
0days
until your exam
A schematic of the mechanism, not a measurement of you — there are no numbers on either axis for that reason. Each mark is a scheduled review; the gaps widen while there is time and tighten as the date closes in, because a review placed after the paper is worth nothing. Nothing Gyaata schedules crosses that red line.
Who asks for your exam date
- AnkiNever asks
- Gemini NotebookNever asks
- SuperkalamTarget year only
- GyaataThe date, and it drives the schedule
What you are actually up against
None of these numbers are ours.
There is no Gyaata retention rate on this page, no hours-saved figure and no topper testimonial, because we have no data that would support one. What follows is published by the bodies that run these exams, and each figure names its source underneath it so you can go and check.
6.2%
of the candidates recommended in the Civil Services Examination 2022 had cleared it on their first attempt — 63 of 1,020.
Derived from the attempt-wise table in UPSC’s 74th Annual Report (CSE 2022). This figure moves year to year — it is not a constant.
81.2%
of them needed three attempts or more. The median successful candidate got there on the fourth.
Derived from the same attempt-wise table. UPSC prints the counts; the percentage and the median are our arithmetic on them, not figures the Commission publishes.
1 in 562
of those who sat the CSE 2022 paper were recommended — 5,73,735 appeared, 1,020 recommended.
UPSC’s 74th Annual Report (CSE 2022). Measured against applications rather than attendance it is 1 in 1,113; UPSC prints its own applicants-to-posts ratio of 1,111.25.
1 in 89
of those who sat SSC CGL 2025 were provisionally shortlisted — 15,118 from roughly 13.5 lakh who appeared.
Shortlist: SSC’s CGL 2025 result, which is provisional and subject to the Commission’s sliding mechanism. Appeared figure: the SSC Chairman quoted in the press — SSC publishes no attendance count, so that half is weaker than the other.
How it works
Three steps, and one of them is a date.
Bring the material you already study
NCERT, coaching handouts, reference books, your own typed notes. Gyaata reads the PDF and generates flashcards and exam-pattern questions from it. Reword anything that is not phrased the way you would say it.
Tell it when you sit the paper
Which exam, which date, which attempt. From that point the schedule is planned inside the window: nothing is placed after the exam date, and anything that would have landed later gets pulled forward.
Clear the queue, not a quota
A short session a day. Gyaata decides what is due. The gaps widen while there is time and tighten as the date closes in — a light day means the schedule is working, not that you slacked.
Inside
What you get after the first upload.
Plate reserved
The Gyaata dashboard: cards due today, days remaining until the exam date, and retention forecast curves per subject.
Dashboard — what is due, and how many days are left.
Plate reserved
A Gyaata review session: one card question shown, with grading buttons for how well it was recalled.
A review session — one card at a time, graded honestly.
Plate reserved
The retention forecast: decay curves per subject running forward to a marked exam day.
Retention forecast — each subject's curve, run forward to exam day.
Plainly
What this page will not tell you.
We publish no retention rate, no score improvement and no hours-saved figure. There is no dataset behind those numbers, here or anywhere else in this market.
The per-card memory model (FSRS) has been running in production since August 2026, underneath the exam-date window; before that every card climbed the same fixed ladder of intervals. We are not attaching a number to what that changed, because we have not measured one on our own users.
Speed Mode will not show you a percentile until enough drills have been completed, by enough different people, to work one out honestly. Until then it tells you that, rather than showing you a number it cannot stand behind.
Every figure on this page belongs to the exam, and names its source underneath it.
The essay
Why you forget
Hermann Ebbinghaus published the first map of forgetting in 1885, from experiments he ran on himself in 1879–80 and 1883–84. He memorised lists of invented nonsense syllables and measured how much time he saved relearning them later — savings, not recall. One participant, and material chosen precisely because it meant nothing. Murre and Dros reproduced the curve in 2015 and the shape holds; the percentages people quote off it were never a statement about your Polity notes. That distinction is what this product is built around, so we wrote the long version down.
Read the science of forgetting