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Quest Ladder / Repetition schedule
The repetition schedule: when to check they still remember
Bring a topic back at widening intervals, so it is still there at the end of the year.
Learned in April, gone by June, unless something brings it back.
What it does
Repetition schedule (optional for Quest Ladder) sets when a learner who has passed the mastery gate is asked about this topic again. The intervals are day offsets from the moment they first passed, and the ladder they are on next reads them to decide what is due.
This is the setting that turns a ladder from a checklist into something that keeps knowledge alive. Without it a topic passed in April is not revisited before the exam.
Setting the intervals
Under When to check they still remember, the heading Come back after… holds the list. Each row is a number of days: After n days. Add another check adds one; an empty schedule offers Add first check (e.g. 30 days).
Each number is days after they first pass, and the system picks the best-fitting interval when it schedules the next check. Widening gaps are the point — 30, then 180, then 365 is a common and defensible pattern.
Two checks are usually enough for a term and three for a year. A schedule with six intervals produces a learner who feels perpetually re-examined, and the later checks tell you little the earlier ones did not.
When there is an exam
Exam or course end date (optional) handles the case where a ladder targets a fixed finish. Some ladders do, and spacing can shorten so checks are not crammed into the last week.
- Respect the ladder's exam date when spacing checks — intervals that would land too close to the exam are skipped or shortened, so revision stays useful rather than noisy.
- Quiet days before the exam — no new memory check within this many days of the date, which avoids a last-minute pile-up.
- Catch-up checks per session — when a learner returns after a long gap, at most this many overdue checks appear at the start of one session.
The panel previews the effect in words, along the lines of exam in 90 days — next check would land around…, so you can see what your numbers do before a class meets them.
The date itself is not set here. It comes from the class or the delivery — see the class exam date.
If they fail a memory check
| Option | What happens |
|---|---|
| Reset to shortest interval (recommended) | The shortest interval is scheduled again and the topic is marked as needing re-verification. |
| Compress schedule (skip to next longer interval) | Progress is kept and the next check simply comes sooner. |
Reset is the honest default: failing a memory check means the topic was not as secure as it looked, and starting the spacing again is what the evidence supports. Compress suits a learner who is close and would be discouraged by losing everything, and it is the gentler choice for a long ladder.
The spaced review delivery mode is what actually puts these due checks in front of a class, and it needs a named learner to know whose gaps to fill.