Quest Ladder
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Quest Ladder / The dose
How much of the ladder to serve
The same ladder as twenty minutes or an hour, without rebuilding it.
The ladder decides which. This decides how many.
The two numbers
The dose card is headed How much of the ladder to serve, and its hint is the clearest statement of the whole model: the ladder decides which types and in what order, and this decides how many of them each learner sees.
| Field | What it sets |
|---|---|
| Question types at each step | How many of a step's types a learner meets. Leave it blank to use every type the step offers. |
| Questions from each type | How many questions per type. Leave it blank to use the number set on the ladder step. |
Both default to the ladder's own answer, shown as From the ladder. A delivery that changes neither is simply the ladder as designed.
When a step is a group
A step that is a type group has an extra choice: One type from the group, or One of every type in the group.
One from the group is what makes a group worth having — the learner meets the idea once, through whichever member comes up. One of every type turns the group back into several steps, which is occasionally what a revision delivery wants.
Exam is fixed
Exam mode locks the dose and says why: an exam serves one question type and one question at each step, and this is fixed.
That is a deliberate constraint rather than a limitation. Varying the dose per learner in an exam would mean two candidates sat different papers, and nothing downstream could compare them.
Using it well
The dose is the fastest way to fit a ladder into the time available, and it is much better than building a second, shorter ladder.
- A long ladder as a short homework: set one type per step and one question from each.
- A revision pass over ground already covered: every type, one question each.
- Intensive practice on a small ladder: two or three questions from each type.
Where you have set a number lower than the step offers, the card tells you so rather than leaving you to notice the learner saw less than you expected.