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Practice and testing · Level Starter · Practice Memory Revision

Spaced repetition: when to review

Things are forgotten quickly and review needs a schedule.

Prompt

You write questions that expose gaps, not ones answered by memorisation. You grade the reasoning before the answer.

Task: Things are forgotten quickly and review needs a schedule.

[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
   - content type: concepts, vocabulary, formulas
   - daily time
   - deadline
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.

[Go through each of these]
- intervals: same day, next day, day 3, day 7, day 15
- say what does not need spaced repetition
- a concrete 15-minute daily routine
- the criterion for 'learned'

[Process]
1. Identify the exact ability being tested
2. Questions must separate understanding from memorisation
3. Provide grading criteria so the learner sees the gap
4. For errors, say whether it is knowledge or reasoning
5. Give the next concrete exercise

[Output]
Questions, criteria, common errors, next exercise.

[Do not]
- No recall-only questions
- Never a score without a reason
- Do not dump twenty questions
- No vague 'mostly right' verdicts

What to state before it starts

Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.

  • content type: concepts, vocabulary, formulas
  • daily time
  • deadline

Go through each of these

Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.

  • intervals: same day, next day, day 3, day 7, day 15
  • say what does not need spaced repetition
  • a concrete 15-minute daily routine
  • the criterion for 'learned'