Wondering about how many items everyone has in the apprentice stage for Bunpro. I have about 20 in there right now, what about you guys?
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I was about to say 9, but realized some moved up to the next SRS “stage” 3-5 one. I have 2 currently right now and will be adding more in a bit. I like to keep mine under 15 after I stopped studying for three months and had about 40 in SRS 1-2 review hell lol trying to speed my way back to N3 after I did a full grammar reset
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Currently 0. Just need to do a bit more reviews hehe, after spending my time mainly learning new grammar and making notes hehe. Btw it was worse before at one point, I had 1000+ reviews… haha
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I try to only keep about 3 in there at a time. And I just don’t add anything more until they’re gone.
Which is good for me because I sometimes need to reset items that I had forgotten.
It might be too slow for a lot of people but I’m not in a race and would rather ease myself into it.
20 seems like it would intimidate me personally because I’m kind of dumb so it takes a while to learn each one and I think I wouldn’t be able to learn that many at once.
My reviews available per day doing this are normal around 70-100 which is doable for me. I don’t really like seeing a huge number pile up all at once (kind of why I wasn’t huge on wanikani)
Anyways have fun 
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mine is like this
SRS 0-2
3
SRS 3-5
22
SRS 6-8
154
SRS 9-11
197
SRS 12
657
Ghosts
25
dont know if it is slow or acceptable.
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Am I seeing this right? 773 ghosts? Are you just friends with them 
?
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Yeah we have parties all year long 
haha
Yeah, just because for a time I did 20 to 30 reviews and that was it. I mainly concentrated on writing notes on new grammar… I had 1400+ reviews at one point, I think… Since January, I started to do more reviews. Hopefully in 2 months, there will be 0 parties haha
@evandcs Yeah, its actually great. I wish I had only 25 ghosts!
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In all honesty I don’t think there is a slow or acceptable! As long as you are happy with it and meeting goals you set without burning out terribly think it’s perfect.
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This is my one currently. I usually do a couple of points a week, whenever i feel the number of reviews is too low or im not struggling with any points. I tried to go faster in the beginning but my brain turns off if there are too many reviews at once.
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Generally no more than 3 grammar points since that is how many I add each morning, and they’re usually at the next stage at the end of the day. But now I also add 9 vocab items, so generally no more than 12 total, unless some errors knock a couple down to join them for the day.
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Did you take a long break somewhere and recently started adding items again? Interesting!
Nope no breaks, lately I doubled my work load with Bunpro in a vain attempt to finish all grammar points by the end of the year.
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My strategy is to maintain about 40 ghosts. When I knock it down I add more items.
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I currently have 10. I generally have no more than 13: 10 vocab items and 3 grammar points
As a rule, I only take on lessons when the number of SRS stage 1, plus my ghosts, equals less than 10. I’ve been burned bad on review overload with WaniKani before, and learned my lesson from that…
I’ve been doing pretty good about not spawning too many ghosts, since I’ve only just started the N4 stuff but have a lot of previous experience with the language, so I tend to cycle between having 7 to 12 Stage 1 items at a time.
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So you will have more regular exposure to characters or points that you have trouble remembering. Because if you get an item wrong a few times in a row, it falls down a level
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(0-2)0
(3-5)23
(6-8)177
(9-11)396
(12)154
(ghost)33
I’ve been pushing hard, targeting N2 this July. My plan has always been to maintain ghosts around 35-45. Although I’m going to hold off on N1 until after the July test.
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Here’s mine! I like to take it slow as I’m juggling with 3 different SRS systems.
The best thing for retention is to “respect” the SRS timings to the best of your abilities, and getting burnt out bad doesn’t help with that.
My advice to anyone is that the right number of items is the one you’re comfortable with. Never mind if you’re “too slow” or “too fast”, you’ll keep progressing as long as you keep moving.
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