Memory Boost is a daily retrieval practice quiz, bespoke to every individual pupil, consisting of five questions from the TUTOR question bank.

Questions are drawn from Goals that pupils have completed 1 day, 2 days, 6 days, 30 days and 90 days ago. This spaced repetition pattern is well-known to improve long-term memory.

By drawing the questions from the pupil’s own pattern of work, every pupil has a quiz specifically aimed at improving their own memory.

Pupils unlock the Memory Boost feature once they have completed 5 Goals on TUTOR (the first Memory Boost quiz is available the day after the 5th goal is completed).

Note: It is important that pupils continue completing Goals alongside completing their daily Memory Boost. More on that in the 'How do we get the most out of Memory Boost?' section below!

Once unlocked, a pupil can complete their Memory Boost quiz once per day, with the quiz resetting overnight.

To complete their Memory Boost quiz, pupils:

When a pupil completes their Memory Boost quiz for the day, the Results Breakdown section populates to show the Goals that were covered in the day's Memory Boost quiz, indicating which Goals pupils might want to:

Following these actions allow pupils to watch Instructional Videos & Example Walkthroughs, as well as answering as many questions as they want on that specific Goal with the 'Quiz Me' feature.

Any Goal answered incorrectly on a Memory Boost quiz is put at the top of the pile for the next day's quiz, so the pupil has the opportunity to immediately implement their freshly topped-up knowledge!

When a pupil completes their Memory Boost quiz for the day, their Memory Boost streak information is updated, including: today's completion status, their current streak, and — when appropriate — their longest streak too!

A streak is reset when a pupil does not complete their Memory Boost quiz on a day.
​E.g. If a pupil has completed their Memory Boost on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday they have a Current Streak of 3. if they do not complete it on Thursday, then their Current Streak is reset to 0.

Note that a broken streak does not impact the Memory Boost's availability for pupils. No Goal content is skipped by the Memory Boost as a result of missing a day.

You can review their Memory Boost activity, along with all of their other learning activity in TUTOR, on your Virtual Display dashboard page. On the Virtual Display page, select the Memory Boost icon and you can see:

As Memory Boost is based on Goals pupils have completed, it is important that pupils continue to learn and complete new Goals. For the Memory Boost spaced repetition to be optimised, we would recommend that a pupil with typical usage should complete around 1 new Goal per day.

If pupils do not continue completing new Goals, then Memory Boost might not have sufficient Goals at the ideal spacing intervals to draw from, so will instead need to draw from other completed Goals in their 'waiting' phase in order to provide the pupil with their day's Boost to continue their streak.

When a Goal has passed its final repetition (at 90 days), it remains selectable to the Memory Boost if there aren't sufficient Goals at the ideal spacing intervals. This is to insure that once the Memory Boost is unlocked, it is not locked again due to a pupils successful knowledge retrieval.

We are really excited about the impact of Memory Boost on your child's long term implementation of their maths learning. If you have any further questions about how it works, please do get in touch with our friendly support team: support@completemaths.com