Overview
Prepry organizes each exam's question bank into three statuses: New, Learning, and Learned. These labels tell you at a glance which questions you haven't seen, which you're actively working on, and which you've mastered. This system applies across ARDMS®, ARRT®, and CCI® ultrasound exams as well as the ARRT® radiography exam.
Why the statuses exist
The statuses are not bookkeeping. They drive what you get shown next.
As questions move to Learned, our engine pushes them toward the back of the queue and pulls the questions you struggle with toward the front. So by your seventh or eighth pass through a bank, most of what you see is material you have previously gotten wrong, not material you already know.
That is the whole point: your study time concentrates on your weak areas automatically, without you having to track which topics those are.
New
What it means: You have not attempted this question yet.
How it changes:
After your first attempt, correct or incorrect, the question is no longer New.
It moves to Learning, meaning you have engaged with it but have not yet shown mastery.
Learning
What it means: You have attempted this question at least once and are still working on the concept.
How it changes:
A question stays in Learning until you show consistent mastery.
Mastery rule: answer correctly on two consecutive attempts.
Answer incorrectly at any point and it stays in Learning. You need two consecutive correct attempts to move it forward.
Why two in a row instead of one? Because a single correct answer is not proof you know something. On a four-option question you can guess right one time in four, and you can also recognize an answer you have seen recently without understanding it. Requiring two consecutive correct attempts filters out both the lucky guess and the short-term recall, so Learned means learned.
Learned
What it means: You have either mastered the question through repeated correct answers, or you have told us it is too easy to be worth more of your time.
A question moves to Learned in either of these ways:
Automatic mastery
You answer correctly on two consecutive attempts. This is the primary path.
Self rating (manual)
In Quiz Builder or Study Blocks you can rate questions by how well you know them.
Mark a question Easy and it moves straight to Learned.
Rating yourself honestly is worth the effort. Every rating you give sharpens what the engine shows you next. If you rate nothing, the algorithm still sorts your questions in the background, but it is working from your answers alone rather than your answers plus your own read on what you actually understand.
Challenge Mode
Challenge Mode is now the default when you answer questions in Prepry. It changes how a question is presented, and it exists for one reason: to make you retrieve the answer instead of recognizing it.
How it works
The question appears without the answer options. You decide first: I know this or I don't know this.
If you say you don't know it, Prepry walks you through the options one at a time. For each one you decide whether to keep it as plausible or eliminate it.
You commit to an answer, then see whether you were right along with the full explanation.
Why it works this way
When all four options are visible from the start, it is easy to scan them, feel a flicker of familiarity, and pick the one that looks right. That is recognition, and it is much weaker than what your exam actually demands.
On test day nobody hands you a hint. You need to pull the information out of memory cold. Challenge Mode forces that same retrieval every time you practice, and the option-by-option elimination step trains the reasoning you will use on the questions you are unsure about.
It also gives you an honest read on yourself. Saying "I know this" and then getting it right is a genuinely different signal from getting it right after staring at the choices. That distinction is the difference between feeling ready and being ready.
You control it
Challenge Mode, confidence rating, sounds, and animations can each be switched on or off in your settings. If you prefer the classic all-options-visible layout, turn Challenge Mode off and keep studying the way you like.
Quick rules
New: not attempted yet.
Learning: attempted, but not mastered.
Learned: correct twice in a row, or self rated Easy.
Learned questions get shown less, so your queue fills with what you still need.
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