How are long-term Review Forecasts calculated?

Bunpro
#1

I have a general idea of how they are calculated, but I’m hoping to understand more fully.

I’m trying to be fairly aggressive (for me) with my new lessons and reviews, but also want to keep it manageable. I’ve been doing around 200-250 reviews per day (do-able), but when I look at the review forecast 1-2 weeks out, it shows I will have nearly 600 twelve days from now.

It seems that figure might be showing what my reviews would be by that date if I didn’t keep up with them everyday.

I know that with an SRS, it is probably taking into account how many reviews I am answering correctly. But I just don’t know if there is a better way for me to know if I am maintaining the pace that I am comfortable with. Hopefully that makes sense.

My Forecast settings are set to:
Daily
Grammar & Vocab
Total Reviews

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#2

Try changing it from total reviews :sparkles:I don’t remember what the other option is rn, but total reviews shows you, well, the total. Like today+tomorrow+the next+and the next = shown review count. This option is nice when you want to see how much you’ll have to do on a given day if you do no reviews until then.

You’ll want the other option if you only want to see the amount of reviews scheduled for that day, and only that day. It’ll be something like “new reviews”

Welcome to the community :tada::tada:

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#3

Thanks!

I appreciate the feedback. I see how changing it from Total Reviews to New Reviews adjusts the figure, but I guess I’m still not understanding what “New Reviews” are. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve tried searching through other topics that discuss review forecasts, but haven’t found anything specific that defines the difference between Total Reviews and New Reviews. In my mind, a “New Review” would be a new grammar or vocab point that I study, but how would the system know what I am going to do before I do it…

I’m probably overthinking it.

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#4

They call it “new reviews” as in new for that day, not counting the ones you do/don’t do the previous days, not an accumulation of xdays (like total reviews). You have x number of new reviews due

So for the same week on either setting, it would look like this

Total reviews -
Monday 50 Tuesday 60 Wednesday 80

New reviews -
Monday 50 Tuesday 10 Wednesday 20

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#5

ohh-i-get-it
That totally makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation!

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