1. An apparatus, comprising: an interface configured to communicate with a memory, wherein the memory includes a plurality of blocks, and each block of the plurality of blocks includes a plurality of word lines; and a processing unit configured to: select a first word line of the plurality of word lines of a given block; check an order in which the first word line was programmed; perform. responsive to a determination that the first word line was programmed last in the given block, a correction process on the first word line; read stored data from the first word line to generate retrieved data responsive to a determination that the correction process has completed; and send the retrieved data to a host.