Interleaved retrieval · Year 13 Economics
A pit stop is a four-question retrieval starter, run at the start of a lesson. Unlike a normal recap, it's built on interleaved retrieval practice: instead of only reviewing what you just taught, you deliberately reach back to several earlier points in the course — a topic from last lesson, last week, last month, and last year — in the same four minutes.
Retrieving spaced-out material is harder than reviewing what's fresh, and that difficulty is the point: it's what makes the memory stick and builds the connections between topics that exam answers depend on.
The four slots always mean the same thing — last lesson, last week, last month, last year — but which question fills each one is up to you. Every school sequences its scheme of work differently, so pick whichever topic from the bank actually was covered last lesson, last week, etc. for your class.
Type a class (e.g. 13A) in the bar above the cards. Once you've run a pit stop with the class, click Mark as used (above the cards, or top-right in Present mode) to log its questions — previewing or printing on its own doesn't count, and the last mark can be undone. The question picker then shows when each question was last used with that class, and pushes anything inside the Avoid repeats window to the bottom of the list, faded. History is stored in this browser only.
Save a pit stop by name to reuse it, or Copy link — the current pit stop is kept in the page address, so a link opens the same four questions for a colleague.
Build the pit stop, then hit Present to put it on the board full-screen. Students answer in black pen; click a card to reveal the model answer and mark corrections in purple.