In the PQRST study method, which step involves checking your understanding and retention by quizzing yourself on the material you have read?

### Why this is right In the PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Self-recite, Test) method, the Test step checks whether you can recall and use what you have studied. Quizzing yourself makes gaps in your understanding visible, so you know what to review. ### The concept PQRST is a sequence for studying written material. You Preview to see the topic’s main ideas, then create Questions to guide your reading. You Read to find answers, and Self-recite by trying to explain or recall the ideas without looking at the text. In the Test step, you quiz yourself to check understanding and retention, meaning how well information stays in memory. A summary can help you organize the ideas, but making one is different from testing whether you can remember them without support. ### The other options - **A. Preview**: This means surveying the material before studying it closely. It can help you see the main topics, but it does not check what you remember. - **B. Question**: This means forming questions to guide your reading. It is tempting because questions can later become quiz prompts, but creating them is not the step that checks your retention. - **C. Summary**: This means putting the main ideas into a shorter account. It may help organize what you read, but a summary alone does not show whether you can recall the material unaided. ### Watch out A summary and a self-quiz can both involve putting ideas into your own words. The key difference is that a test checks what you can retrieve from memory, rather than simply condensing the material. ### Terms - **PQRST**: Preview, Question, Read, Self-recite, Test. A study sequence that moves from surveying and reading material to recalling and checking it. - **Self-recite**: Trying to explain or recall information without looking at the source. - **Retention**: How well information remains available in memory over time. ### Remember When a study step asks you to quiz yourself and check what you can recall, it is the Test step.