I can’t tell if there’s something I need to switch in settings or not, but it looks like I currently have about 640 total sentences in my SRS. The other day I had a full load and completed about 400 over the course of the day, getting it down to around 200. I log back in today, and the reviews are back to around 500. Is this normal? I won’t lie, it affects my motivation a bit.
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How did you even get to this point? I can’t imagine what you’d have to do to get it to such an insane number 
Well, other than going on vacation, in which case I’m afraid you’d have to just grind through it.
Also, a good advice would be to remove grammar points that you find particularly difficult. Just open their page and then press the reset and then remove button. This would not only remove the grammar point, but also all associated ghost reviews. This has helped me a lot in the past. You can re-add those grammar points later when you are back to normal numbers.
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I agree with @Kuromaku about removing particularly hard items. Also, you should set your Ghost Reviews to Minimal. As it is, every time you get a review wrong you’re just compounding the problem.
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I’ve been in the 600+ reviews before; mostly because I added many lessons but only reviewed on weekends. Overall, you just got to grind it to kill ghosts and put items in a higher streak tier. It will eventually go down. I spread mine out over a few months so I could keep adding lessons and let SRS do it’s tormenting magic until started wising up on my mistakes.
I think the review count can be a big distraction to potentially degrade the BP experience and hurt motivation. In the end it’s really just a number. I highly recommend NOT skim-reading your example sentences and trying to blast through the review piles just by key words. Also, watch out for the override button as a temptation to kill the the review pile. I did not reset anything and personally preferred the variability from a large review pile. For smaller review piles, I’ve found I can sometimes remember the grammar point just by the content of the sentence which is something that I don’t want. Of course resetting is up to you but this was my preferred route.
Also, I’m not necessarily recommending this, but I’ve been writing my own SRS flash cards for my challenged grammar points. I’ve found that even if I can answer correct inputs through BP based on English translation, I was having challenges on the comprehension side which was evident during the JLPT test drill workbooks when I had to choose the grammar. I just started this but I can see the extra exposure is helping already. I’ve been lazy in recent weeks but the writing/speaking practice has always been a big help for added consistency within BP.
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Thanks for all the replies. I guess I still don’t understand how the site works exactly, i.e. what ghosts are. I wanted to get all the grammar points for n3 in advance so I was doing 3 study points a day, that must be it.
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