Thanks for helping me look into it! 
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what is the recommendation for how many itens in SRS levels and ghosts?
For example, at the moment am I at
Last Session 86.9%
and
any tips how to handle this? So far I am not paying attention to those and I would like to maybe change?
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Hi @evandcs,
To be honest, this is typically up to personal preference depending on how much time you have and when you can study. Obviously, the more you have in the lower SRS stages (and ghost reviews) the more reviews you’re going to be doing. So regardless of your accuracy if you’re getting too many reviews to keep up with, it becomes a pain doing that many reviews on short time.
As for accuracy, I generally stick to 85% being the general number I watch for. If it drops below that number, then personally I’d lower the amount of new words I’m learning and vise versa. There’s no perfect number though, and really it comes down to how you feel when you’re reviewing.
If you want something to help guide you, here’s maybe a good question to ask yourself:
Do you have a hard time starting your review sessions (procrastination/putting it off)?
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If yes: Cut down on the amount of new items you’re learning so review sessions are shorter and accuracy is
higher. This will make review sessions feel less of a chore. -
If no: Keep doing what you’re doing! Or, slightly increase the amount of new items you’re learning if you feel
like your accuracy is to your standards (for me this would be anything above 85%).
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thank you so much for the help guideline.
Just did last review session and dropped to 82 
(そんな and そういう are my new nightmares!)
So, no new grammar points while I dont increase to 85% at least。
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Hi.
It’s my forth day studying here and it’s great, but there’s one thing that i’ve encountered twice already and would like to know if there’s anything I can do about it.
I already use Wanikani and the fact that the intervals here (4h, 8h…) match is extremely convenient as I can do the lessons and reviews for the day back to back.
However unlike Wanikani which seems to round down to the hour (A lesson done at 8:50 will get reveiwed at 12:00), here it seems to round down to the half hour (the review will appear at 12:30).
So what happens is I will get here for my reveiw at 12:00 only to find that I’ve got to wait 30 mins.
This is frustrating because it makes it much harder to schedule my day, as being a few minutes late or maybe taking a few minutes extra on a lesson could cause my schedule to be 30 mins out of whack later on in the day.
So my question is, Are there any ways around this? I’ve looked through the settings and couldn’t find anything but maybe a script?
Thanks
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I don’t think they have any way to change how their srs works. But I think you’re focusing too much on this truly. You don’t have to do a review the second it comes out and I believe most of us do reviews in 1 - 2 batches per day. I mostly just do them in the evening and don’t worry about what is piling up but some people bust some out in the morning and then once again in the evening. So personally I think you’re focused to much on it but that being said if you search the forums the site creators are pretty nice and you can request for the feature. I believe the forum post is this: : : Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request - #1414 by jamesrender
Like I said I think you’re fixating on it to much, which is fine it’s your life. But this site is about learning not micro-managing
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This is something that’s just going to be impossible to manage as you continue to add more and more points. Things are never going to line up perfectly because (assuming you use ghosts) that’s going to move points’ times around super often. When you put that + real-life stuff popping up, I think your best bet is to just get around to them when you can. I think I usually have at least 1 point every hour/half-hour, but I simply don’t have the time (nor even want to lmao) refresh bunpro every 30 minutes.
Everyone’s different though! My schedule that works for me is do reviews at 10AM (when mornings + early morning reviews pile up = 30% of my load), do one at 5 or 6PM (fluctuates) then the bulk of my reviews are from 8-10PM so I may just do it twice during then or just once at 10. I suppose if you really wanted to, you could just not do reviews during a certain time so they pile up at a suitable time for you? Ghosts will still mess things up, but may help out a little bit if you’re finding yourself stretched too thin. Also, maybe just check reviews at XX:30 going forward because you’ll know that’s all there is for the hour?
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Thanks for the answers!
Yea, this is a nice and very simple solution!
Just to clarify, I’m not trying to get every review as it appears, only the first two reviews for new items
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Ah, gotcha! The first second review for a new point comes 4 hours after you finish the first, the third 8, etc. As you get in your groove here, you’ll start adding points at the same time and then you’ll see the next review for it at the same time. I personally like to do mine around 3 or 4PM so I see the next one once before I sleep and then hopefully by tomrorow my brain still remembers it when I wake up.
Pretty soon you’ll just start finding what works for you and it’ll become second nature without even thinking about it. It’s oddly fun!
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You can do what I do, have ghost mode on and get everything wrong all the time, then you get to see grammar points frequently! 
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Hi, I would like to change my forum username to match my username (GrymSylvar) on the main website. I’ve followed the guide earlier in this thread, but there’s no pen to change it.
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Hey there! I went ahead and changed it for you. 
I hope you’re enjoying your time with Bunpro and the forums!
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Hi, I would also like to change my forum username on here to match my username (DonUnko). I also tried to follow the guide but I couldn’t see any pen to change it.
Many thanks in advance!
Hello ,
new here ^^
it is normal that for the review , i get grammar point of stuff i didn’t yet study
exemple i have ru-verb study , and on the review it ask negative form that i have yet to study on bunpro
a little bit annoying when you try to give the right answer
nt : when i got it wrong , showing grammar point don’t show me the right grammar point of the review
That might just be a review point that has both normal and negative reviews built in. A few of the early reviews are very condensed and it’s honestly kind of frustrating but you just have to grind through them. And occasionally they do show the wrong review. I don’t know why it does that either. Site isn’t perfect but it’s still very good.
If you keep having problems with the point you can go to it’s forum post [ click the button that says “ask a question” ] and it will take you to a discussion about that particular question. There someone probably asked about your issue, and if not you get to let people feel smart by asking them 
Are you following any path on the site? Or are you just adding points at random? The website follows along one particular path with regards to the example sentences. If you use the Bunpro path, the example sentences won’t show you anything you haven’t learned, although this won’t be the case with other paths because that would require a million different example sentences aaaand no one has time for that.
This really isn’t a problem after N5 though, but like learning any language, there’s some things that can’t be avoided. Welcome though!
Thanks for answering , no i didn’t add point at random , just following the path of the website ,
today study , was the negative form , so i learn them either way
like say supernut ,it is a bug i think ( i have done right after the study my review and it was negative form of verb , no 4 H waiting time :DD )
Yes hello please I have a question.
This sentence is from だけでなく | Japanese Grammar SRS
The question isn’t about how the grammar point works but a word at the end
彼氏が料理だけでなく、家事も出来るから、凄い助かる。
Not only can my boyfriend cook, but he can also do housework, so it is really helpful.
My question is about this part : 凄い助かる
The website says it means “it is really helpful.” And I’m sure that’s what it means.
Now I use yomichan which I’m sure a lot of you do and when I select it I get this.
Here is a jisho link: 凄い - Jisho.org
The first result is terrible. And yes the second result is amazing. Which is basically opposites.
Alright the question. How am I really supposed to figure out which definition is good for which part beyond context. It’s something I struggle with and this sentence is just an example. But what’s a good method for figuring out which definition is good. Because when I got the review and tried to self translate it I thought the sentence meant it “Wasn’t helpful” that he did that. Which is just so far off from the spirit of the sentence that that is just a failed translation on my part.
So please, if you got any tips, what’s a goodish method of knowing what they mean beyond just knowing already.
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English has this issue too, actually:
The best way to get better at determining the correct context is by inputting more native material. I’ve found that it’s often unproductive to worry about stuff I don’t know day to day - I’ll just create an anki card and move on.
すごい in particular is used frequently in anime and daily conversation (my tutor uses it like every other sentence). There’s also やばい which has a similar contradictory definition.
As far as getting context from this particular sentence, you have だけでなく which sort of implies that the first half of the sentence goes with the second half. It wouldn’t make sense if the first half was “he’s a good cook” and then the second half was “but he’s terrible at helping”
Anyway, I hope I helped
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Ya english does have a bunch of words like that too.
I was kind of hoping some elder language learned just had some hidden trick that might help me. Oh well >:)
I’m sure hearing the tone of the person would make this one obvious.