# 📌 Checkpoint: spacing and practice design

By Better Wise



## Quiz

1. Which statement best describes the spacing effect?
   - The same number of reviews produces much better long-term retention when spread over time than when massed together.
   - Spacing only helps when you reread the material instead of retrieving it.
   - Spacing means reviewing a card every few minutes until it feels easy.
   - Reviewing more often in a single long session is the fastest way to build long-term retention.
2. You review a card and recall it easily within a few seconds, with no hints. According to the lesson's decision rule, what should happen to its interval?
   - Keep the planned gap unchanged.
   - Stretch the gap, for example double it.
   - Suspend the card because it is too easy.
   - Reset it to one day and retry.
3. A card that has lapsed repeatedly, commonly four or more times, and is not sticking is called a ____.
4. Why does a bloated card with four facts fail even when you review it often?
   - The back of the card is too short to hold the answer.
   - Long cards are always scheduled too far apart by the algorithm.
   - Cards with many facts are automatically suspended after one review.
   - You can recall some parts and still feel you knew it, so you cannot tell which piece was missing and nothing gets repaired.
5. What extra demand does interleaved practice add compared with blocked practice?
   - Choosing or discriminating which method applies before executing it.
   - Executing a known method faster and more smoothly.
   - Mixing completely unrelated subjects to keep sessions interesting.
   - Reviewing the same item many times in a row.
6. When recall only works under the exact conditions of study, such as one desk or one time of day, the learner has developed ____ dependency.
7. Which of these are recommended ways to handle a missed review day? (Select all that apply.)
   - If a card fails at review, reset its interval to the shortest step of one day.
   - Cap the catch-up at about one normal slot and let the rest wait.
   - Do the missed reviews first, then keep the rest of the week's reviews in place.
   - Stack the whole backlog into one long two-hour session to clear it.
8. Audit your own review system for this module. In a few sentences, describe your four-week review schedule, one flashcard you rewrote into atomic cards, and one session you converted from blocked to interleaved practice. Then rate your answer against the rubric.


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## Contents

Part of [🧠 Learn How to Learn: Build Lasting Knowledge and Learn Faster](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster.md)

- **🧩 Memory Foundations and the Rereading Trap**
  - [🧠 How memory works: encoding, storage, retrieval](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/how-memory-works-encoding-storage-retrieval.md)
  - [✍️ Why rereading feels good: fluency illusion vs active recall](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/fluency-illusion-vs-active-recall.md) (sign-in required)
  - [⛰️ Desirable difficulty: why effortful learning sticks](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/desirable-difficulty-effortful-learning.md)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: memory foundations](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/checkpoint-memory-foundations.md)
- **🗓️ Spacing, Flashcards, and Interleaving**
  - [🗓️ Spaced repetition: design a review schedule](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/spaced-repetition-review-schedule.md)
  - [🃏 Flashcards that work: atomic cards, cloze, leech control](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/flashcards-atomic-cards-cloze-leech-control.md)
  - [🔀 Interleaving and varied practice](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/interleaving-varied-practice.md)
  - [📌 Checkpoint: spacing and practice design](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/checkpoint-spacing-and-practice-design.md) — this lesson
- **🎯 Metacognition, Elaboration, and Your Learning Project**
  - [🖼️ Elaboration and dual coding: connecting and picturing ideas](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/elaboration-dual-coding-encoding-depth.md)
  - [🤖 Metacognition and AI-generated practice questions](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/metacognition-and-ai-generated-practice-questions.md)
  - [🛠️ Project: build a 4-week learning and retention plan](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/project-four-week-learning-retention-plan.md) (premium content)
  - [🏁 Checkpoint: metacognition and retention planning](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/checkpoint-metacognition-retention-planning.md) (premium content)
- [Course cheatsheet](https://everwise.study/courses/learn-how-to-learn-build-lasting-knowledge-and-learn-faster/cheatsheet.md) (premium content)