How accurate should I be on my reviews?

Bunpro
#1

I’ve been using Bunpro for a couple of months, and finished learning all the N4 grammar points, so now I’m reviewing the N4 ones, and adding 3 new N3 grammar points each day. I’ve been finding the N3 grammar points much more challening and complex, and my accuracy is starting to suffer on the daily reviews-- on a good day I can get 80%, but today I only got 65%.

I’m asking because I’m a little concerned that at this rate, I may be trying to cram too much information at once without being able to retain it (since there are only around 200 N3 grammar points, if I actually learned 3 a day, I’d be done in 2 months, but as I understand it, no one has ever progressed from N4 level to N3 level in just 2 months). Do y’all think that I should make it only 2 new grammar points per day? Any tips for retaining the information better?

Thanks everyone!

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#2

I personally pay less attention to accuracy and more to ghosts - if I’ve got no ghosts or very few, I’ll add 2-3. If I’ve got a lot of ghosts, I roll it back to 1 or none a day.

While I’m doing that, I pay extra attention to my ghosts and read the supplementary grammar resources!

If I had to say for my own study, I’d probably slow down if I was ever going below 80% accuracy

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#3

I usually aim for about 80%. If it’s lower than that, it might not necessarily be that you’re adding too much (though that could also be a culprit). It could just be a matter of adding the points before you properly understand them. I find something that helps is making my own notes per each grammar point page and writing a couple example sentences. It really helps it stick.

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#4

What review style do you use? Accuracy can depend quite a bit on that, I guess fill-in?

Anyway, I think getting below 80% regularily (off days or even off weeks can happen) is a sign of something not reeeeaaaallly working for you, but it’s also not dramatic. Even if you woulnd’t change a thing, you would still progress in the end, it might just take longer and you might feel more frustration than necessary. And with SRS, if your accuracy goes down too much, your reviews might explode, adding to the strain.

There are a lot of things you can try and see what works nicely for you. Adding less (or even none) new lessons, until your accuracy goes up again. Switching your review type. Adding textbook exercises for every new or wrong grammar point. Focusing more on immersion and just doing minimal SRS. And probably a 1000 more things you could try.

The takeaway: while your accuracy is low and it’s indicating you’re not on your optimal path, you don’t need to worry about it, as learning still happens. Unless you’re frustrated, then you should try some new things :slight_smile:

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#5

It really depends on where your fails are. Are you failing on long term reviews (like 2 weeks or more) or is it the same 10 grammar points you get every day since they’ve never been retained?
If it’s the first, I would recommend some drills, but the better option is probably to read more, as I feel like a lot of the points only become “learned” when you spot them in real life.
For the second, it depends on your time and energy available for reviews. I’ve completed the N3 grammar points last week in around 3 week (with prior knowledge since I somehow passed N3 last summer) (but that speaks more about my hubris than anything else) and it’s a slog that is barely bearable. I would recommend slowing down if the reviews start to get over your capacity, it can snowball a bit. But if you have time, you can more or less power through, learning still happen, even if it’s at a slower pace and with more added frustration

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#6

Personally, I think three a day is fine. Maybe consider adjusting your SRS intervals?

SRS will work, and sometimes you need to just trust the process… There are ones that I am convinced that “oh, I will never get this one…”, but after it comes up several times, it starts to stick.

I wouldn’t worry about the percentage score too much, but more about whether you feel you are making good progress. Personally, I would say you’d want to be closer to 90+%, depending on how many review cards you get per day… 80% may be okay, I would be interested in what other have to say on it. But 65% seems low.

#7

Your percentage correct will fluctuate day by day depending on what specific reviews you get that day. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. You can check レポート | Bunpro to see your overall percentage correct broken down by level; that’s a better number to pay attention to.

#8

uhm normally i aim for 50% and if i can’t do that… well guess it’s time to cram all the vocab i dont know!
(this is a terrible idea please don’t do this)

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#9

For me, I used to check how many reviews I had each day. If I had less than 40 reviews pending, then I would add new grammar points until i was back or beyond 40 again, that way I balanced my workload to my progress. Dont get too hooked up on percentages, you got to start somewhere and inevitably get it wrong a couple of times. In case I had a grammar point I really wanted to pin-point, I would increase reading and translating sentences containing that particular grammar point.

As reference, after having completed and more or less mastered all reviews for N3, my average was 69% after 4k+ reviews. After resetting all progress and redoing less than 4k reviws - 84%. Actual JLPT N3 score - 89%. Not sure if I am insulting or complimenting myself here, but either way, repeating works, you just got to keep at it.