Practice after a quiz: retry and flashcards
The minute after a quiz is the one minute a class genuinely wants to know the answers. Every student who finishes gets two ways to use it: redo only the questions they got wrong, or go through the whole set as flashcards.
4 min read
Before you start
- A quiz shared with Show answers set to “At the end” or “After each question”. On “Never (score only)” there is nothing to practise with.
- Nothing to switch on. It appears by itself on the results screen.
- 1
Where your students find it
It sits on the screen they land on when they finish, under their score, headed Practise now — “Lock it in while it's fresh. Practice doesn't change your score.”
Two tiles: one for the questions they missed, one for flashcards of the whole quiz. Both are optional, and neither affects the mark you already have.
- 2
Retry: the ones they got wrong, until they get them right
This takes only the questions they missed and asks them again, shuffled. A right answer removes it from the queue. A wrong one gets “Not yet — it'll come back”, the correct answer, the explanation, and then goes to the back of the queue to reappear later.
It ends when every question has been answered correctly once, with “All caught up: you got every one right.” A student who scored full marks sees the tile greyed out and labelled “Nothing to retry, you got them all.”
This is the closest thing here to the spaced-repetition effect: getting an answer wrong, seeing why, and being asked again a minute later is worth more than reading the answer key once.
- 3
Flashcards: the whole quiz, at their own pace
Every question becomes a card. Tap to flip, and sort it into Got it or Still learning. Anything marked “Still learning” returns later in the deck; the counter at the top tracks how many are known and how many are left.
On a laptop it is all keyboard: space flips the card, the right arrow is “Got it”, the left arrow is “Still learning”. Fill-in-the-blank cards show the sentence with the gap, and multiple-choice cards show the options underneath.
- 4
Using it in the room
The useful move is to give it five minutes rather than letting the lesson end at the score. Share the quiz, let everyone finish, then say out loud that the retry button only asks the ones they got wrong — most classes will not find it otherwise.
It also works as homework: the link keeps working after the lesson, so a student can come back to the same results screen and practise again, as long as responses are still open.
You cannot see who practised, and that is deliberate
Practice runs entirely in the student's browser. Nothing is sent back, nothing is recorded, and no part of it appears in your results. That keeps it genuinely low-stakes — but it means you can't use it as evidence anyone revised, and you can't set it as a task you'll check. If you need something measurable, share a reteach set instead.
Common questions
Does practising change a student's score?
No. The score from their attempt is fixed once they finish. Practice is a study tool that runs afterwards and never writes anything back.
Can I turn it off?
Not on its own, but setting Show answers to “Never (score only)” removes it along with the answer breakdown, since both depend on the answers being revealed.
Why are some questions missing from the flashcards?
FAQ-style questions are left out: they are a question with a full written answer rather than something to recall, so they make poor cards. Every other type is included.
Does it work offline or on a phone?
It needs the page to have loaded, but the practice itself runs in the browser with no further requests. On a phone the cards are tap-to-flip and the two sorting buttons sit under the card; the keyboard shortcuts are hidden.
Does a student's practice progress save if they close the tab?
No. Each session starts fresh, and the deck reshuffles. Reopening the results link and starting again is the intended way back in.
What to do next
Still stuck? Email support@aiquizmaker.co and tell us what you were trying to do.