The checkpoint: retrieval, not recognition

A concept can feel learned and still not be yours. Recognising the right answer in a list is easy; producing the form from nothing is the test that predicts whether it survives in real speech. That difference — retrieval versus recognition — is why this checkpoint exists.

Every three to five completed lessons, a short, low-stakes assessment asks you to recall and produce exactly the rules and terms those lessons introduced. Nothing older, nothing you have not seen — just the recent window.

The stakes are honest but real:

• Pass — the sequence advances. The concepts consolidated; keep moving.
• Any weak concept — the sequence holds. That concept is flagged for re-teach, and its reminder cards return to the front of your daily deck. Never move on over a shaky checkpoint: a wobble caught this week costs ten minutes, the same wobble found at the mock costs the exam.

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