Study on a learning path studies the whole path in one session. It can cross several waypoints, mixing reviews and new items the way your study settings choose. You never have to pick the waypoint yourself.
What you study, and in what order
- Reviews first. Anything due on the waypoints you have unlocked, most overdue first. Locked waypoints wait until they open.
- Then new items from the first waypoint that still has some you have not seen, in the author's order. A waypoint you unlock early joins in right away, taking turns with it. New items in your settings counts per session, so every session brings up to that many, however many you studied earlier today.
- Then new skills for items you have already seen, such as listening to a word you have only read.
- Then practice on items you have studied that are not due, when your format asks for more.
If a session has nothing to show, it does not start: the start screen says why, and Edit settings lets you pick another format.
When the session moves to a different waypoint it says so, with the waypoint's name and its step number.
Why the next waypoint opens early
Seen
You have answered an item at least once in one of its waypoint's focus skills. Seeing an item is the first step, not the goal.
All seen
Every item in a waypoint has been seen. The next waypoint opens then, not at the goal, so new items keep coming while reviews build up the one before.
Well ahead on the learning path
When the new items are coming from well ahead of the last part of the learning path you have finished, the session says "You're well ahead on this learning path" once and asks whether to keep going. New items bring future reviews, and that is the only cost. Nothing is capped, and keeping going is a fine answer.
When the session ends
- On a Goal met card, Keep Studying carries on and Done ends the session. A Fully mastered card's Done ends it too.
- Done takes you back to the page you started from.
- Try again goes back to the learning path's start screen. Change settings if you like, and a fresh session starts from where the learning path stands now.
Extra practice is recorded like any other answer. A correct answer before an item's date still counts as a review: the gap to its next review grows a little less than on time, and its level can rise. Answering it again within 12 hours of its last review adds to your counts without moving its date or level. A wrong answer always counts, and it can bring the item back sooner.
A waypoint you paused
If you paused a waypoint, the session never skips past it quietly. When it reaches it, it asks whether to resume it. Resume it brings the waypoint back and carries on from there. Keep it paused skips it for this session only: it stays paused, it earns nothing, and you are asked again next time.