I recently switched to reading reviews because I think it’s much better for understanding. But there are some sentences in which I’ve horribly misunderstood the meaning of the rest of the sentence, but got the grammar point in question correct. I usually just mark it as correct anyway, unless I incorrectly understood the grammar point in relation to the sentence. My logic is that my understanding of the other points which I have wrong will more than likely be tested at some point as well, so they don’t really matter; regardless, something about it feels like cheating, so I just want to get some confirmation: Is this the right approach?
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If it’s something you haven’t learned yet, I’d ignore it until it comes up as a lesson of its own.
If it’s something you’ve already learned, but didn’t recognize in this specific sentence, you could make a separate card for it. Either using BP ghosts feature, or in Anki.
If it’s something you’ve learned but forgot completely, I’d pass this sentence, and then go to that forgotten item and fail it instead.
SRS is is a tool, not a test. There’s no cheating, just deciding if you want to spend more time on this particular sentence or on something else instead.
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I don’t usually pass a card if I don’t understand the sentence, just the odd time when it’s a weird sentence that I don’t like
Ive found sometimes Bunpro’s example sentences throw words at me that I don’t know, so usually I’ll just look em up real quick to see if I can apply the new word (or even multiple) to the grammar im learning. If I cant do that, then I know that I dont really know it that well (since I cant apply it to that many words), so ill just mark it wrong.
But now that im a ltitle more advanced, I run into that issue less. Still happens a bit tho
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Personally, beyond even Bunpro, I think SRS cards should test on 1 specific thing/item and only 1. If you get the reason why the card exists right, then it’s a pass.
If it’s a vocab card and you got the meaning and the reading, that’s a pass.
If it’s a grammar card and you got the meaning/reading(if kanji) right for that grammar point, then it’s a pass.
That’s just me though, I know a lot of people like to do it differently. Which is also totally fine.
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So you have three options:
- only test yourself on the grammer point. which ‘feels like cheating’
- do vocab a head of grammar, so don’t start the N4 grammar deck until you finnished the N4 vocab deck.
- study somewhere else. Japanese like a breeze, Jo-Mako, Jalup(Nihongo Lessons) give you the grammer and vocab to understand the example sentences (from begining until ‘fluent’ not specificly for JLPT, but probably high N3 low N2 ish). Jalup is what I used, but all three look cool to me
Well, if you can maintain your pace with good concentration at the same level in both cases I don’t think it really matters.
If you got the meaning wrong, just read it again and try to make sense after you’ve seen the correct translation, cool if you can, ok even if not, it’s still work and understanding will come this way.