How do ghosts actually work?

Bunpro
#1

Hey there,

I’ve been using the app for nearly a most and it helped me really improve my grammar. I thought I was starting to get used to it, but earlier this week my ghost reviews pile started to increase dramatically. From my understanding of them, ghosts reviews come from concepts you have trouble grasping and/or reviews you didn’t complete in time. I’ve got 60ish vocab ghosts and I’ve no idea where they’re from. Those are not words I failed during reviews, is there something I’m not understanding?

If it’s worth mentioning, I’m following the JLPT N5 deck for vocabulary and since I already know a lot of the words in it I tend to fast forward them to adept instead of starting at beginner, to still get sentence practice and catch any multiple meanings I didn’t know. Could I be creating unwanted ghosts by doing this ?

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#2

By default, a ghost is created when you get a review wrong two times in a review session. You can adjust this in the settings.

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#3

Thanks for your answer. It’s quite weird because I can say for sure I did not get two wrong answers in a row for most of these words… I can’t seem to find ghost reviews settings on mobile, maybe it’s desktop only ?

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#4

Looks like you have the settings turned “On” for Grammar, which means they will show up on even one wrong answer.

You shouldn’t be getting Ghosts for Vocab as it looks like you’ve set it to Off.