Learning & progress · 2 min read
The daily drill: five questions built from your own record
Five minutes a day, drawn from what you actually missed: how the five are chosen, what answering one changes, and what it costs (nothing).
What it is
The daily drill is five multiple-choice questions, once a day, at /drill or from the tile on your Home page. It is free on every account, including free accounts, and it unlocks nothing and locks nothing. It exists because rereading is a weak way to remember something and being asked is a strong one.
The same five questions stay put all day and are the same on every device you sign in to. Come back later and you can reread them; you will not be handed a different set.
Where the five come from
Two are questions you got WRONG inside a lesson. Two come from the public question pool, in the categories your own answers say you are weakest in. One is something you got right at least a fortnight ago: the spaced repeat, there to check that it stuck.
If you have not answered enough checks yet for any of that (a new account, say) the drill fills the gaps from the public pool so it is always five questions. Only the multiple-choice checks can come back this way; decision scenarios and matching grids are not four-option questions, so they are left out.
What answering one changes
A drill answer is written back to the same record the lesson keeps. Get a question right and it stops being a miss everywhere at once: it leaves the lesson's review list, it stops pulling that category toward weak in your recommendations, and it will not be in tomorrow's drill. Miss it and it stays in the rotation and comes back around.
This is the one place an answer can replace an earlier one. Inside a lesson the first answer is final, so that clicking around a scenario cannot erase a miss. A drill sitting is a deliberate second attempt, days later, on a question you were shown because you missed it, so it counts.
What it is worth
Finishing a drill counts the day toward your learning streak and banks a flat four minutes of learning time, once per day. Seven different drill days earns the Seven Drills badge.
There is no penalty for skipping a day, no countdown, and no way to lose anything by not showing up.