Let AI Teach Me · Using Alice

Let AI Quiz Me Right Now

Empty-state prompt five is a mock interview on this page’s title — one question at a time, from easy to hard. After this page you’ll use it to see which sentence you can’t retrieve.

You just read this page from top to bottom. The title made sense, the paragraphs connected, and none of Alice’s notes stopped you. Your mouse is already heading for the next page, and you’ve already told yourself: I’ve got this one.

Don’t flip yet. Try answering three details without looking back: where the mock interview opens, how many questions she asks at a time, and what she does first when you drift. Those lines felt familiar a minute ago. Saying them yourself may not come as fast.

Two states are mixed together here. Following along means that while the words are still on the screen, you can recognize what they say. Retrieving means that after the words leave your eyes, you can still say empty-state prompt five is the “mock interview”, and that she asks only one question at a time.

Following along is not proof you can retrieve it.The page keeps handing you the words. Reading them again only makes them more familiar. You still have no result that points to which sentence you can say yourself, and which one you only nodded at while it was in front of you.

The way to split those two states is to let the question appear first, then see whether you can pull the answer out of your head. If you can answer, you have something to remember. If you drift, the drift shows up. If you can’t retrieve a single sentence, you also know which stretch to go back to.

So the direction has to flip. While you read, Alice talks and you receive. While she quizzes you, you talk and she points.She doesn’t smooth the answer for you. She waits for you to say it.The demo below puts the right, drifted, and “I don’t know” paths on the same question. Click each one.

Try it once · watch Alice ask only one question at a time, then follow your answer
Alice asks five questions in a row about Let AI Help Me Decide: Does This Advice Fit Me?, from easy to hard
How do you want to answer these five this round
After any question plays, click a branch on the left to change how you answered it and see what follows.
0These you retrieved yourself
0These she answered in short
0These went on the catch-up list
The left shows one question at a time. You choose how to answer it.
After Play, the first question appears alone. The next one will not bring its answer in early.
The right keeps what you retrieved, and what you still need to go back over
Answers you said yourself
You have not said an answer yourself yet.
These will go on your next catch-up list
Nothing to go back over yet.
Pick how you’ll answer this round, then play the five questions and watch the two records on the right.
Right and drifted answers both went through your mouthA right answer goes straight to the next question. When you drift she probes first; after you fill it in, this one still counts as retrieved by you.
Say you don’t know all the way, and the catch-up list is as long as it getsAfter five questions you’ve read every short answer she gave, and not one answer came out of your own head.
Teaching sketch: the questions, probes, and short answers are simplified for the demo. The counts are added by the demo so you can see the two paths.
Why hearing it again still can’t tell you which sentence you know

When you stall, the cheapest move is to let her say it again. The same stretch comes back in different words, and you’re still reading. She can keep rephrasing forever, and this path never tells you whether you know it.

Letting AI quiz you right now flips the direction: you talk.If you’re right, you go straight to the next one. If you drift she probes first, pointing at the drift: nothing in that answer was false — it was written for whose situation?She only gives a short answer when you say you don’t know.

That probe beat matters. She doesn’t drop the full answer on top of yours. She shrinks the gap to one sentence. You have to say it again before you can tell whether you were missing a concept, a cause, or the step of putting this page’s judgment into your own scene.

The right side of the demo leaves two records: what you retrieved, and what you still need to go back over. The first shows what can already come out of your head. The second gives the next review a starting point.The value of one quiz is splitting what you know from what only looks familiar.

Open the sidebar now: how this mock interview starts and ends

Stay on the lesson page you want to check. Open Alice and leave the input empty. In the empty-state prompts, number five is “mock interview”. It starts asking around this page’s title. That’s the only per-page self-check on the site.

Once you tap it, questions come one at a time, from easy to hard. Answer from what you remember. If you drift, take her probe first and fill it in; if you really can’t retrieve it, say “I don’t know”, and only then does she give a short answer.After five questions, the page gives a recap and a catch-up path.

To quit midway, just say “stop”. How this page’s body reaches her: see Point at This Page and Ask AI. You don’t list the five questions first. Alice asks them one by one from this page’s title.

Roediger and Karpicke spelled out the retrieval-practice effect in 2006: pulling it from memory once sticks better than reading it again. That effect is unpacked in Close the Material and Let AI Quiz Me Once. Having her grill you like a layman: see Let AI Grill Me Like a Layman.

When you read, she talks. When she quizzes, you talk.