Resetting N-Levels

I did the 1 month free trail, then came back to 100 reviews 3 years later when I bought an subscription. I didn’t refresh because
100 reviews aren’t too many
They were all n5 that I remembered
I kept studing, just not in bunpro.

While it wasn’t a problem for me, I could see your account automaticlly getting put on vacation mode when your subscription lapes. When my subscription expires in 10 more months, I’ll probably reset any n3-n1 grammer.

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I’ve resetted N5 at least twice, because japanese has a very low priority in my life so it’s the first thing I drop for many months when I’m busy otherwise. When I get back I like to refresh on all items instead of assuming I will just have remembered everything.

This time though it was really too easy. I added all N5 items in like a week or so and now that they’re all in Seasoned and Expert I feel like I’ve refreshed them enough. So much so that I’m considering setting them as ‘mastered’ manually.

I’d certainly appreciate any of the speedrun / rerun / remort functions mentioned so far. Or something like KameSame’s placement test:

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Maybe some sort of incentive for resetting would be nice. Similar to a prestige system in a game where people reset their rank, but get a new badge or title for example.

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I don’t feel like encouraging resets like that is a good idea. It’s not like everyone needs to reset, and in turn could cause people to become discuraged.

As for me resetting, yah I did once, back when I first finished n5, i still didn’t really understand anything so i fully reset it and started again. te second time around I feel I understand it far better.

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That seems like it’d be really nice to have for vocab!

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Yeah, I’m also going to support not encouraging resets. Enough people already have a problem of going over material they already know because it feels more comfortable (I know I certainly do) that encouraging it could actually hamper progress.

But a remort/etc. function would definitely be helpful, just as long as there are no reward incentives to actually use it. It’s better to reward people for actually learning a grammar point thoroughly the first time round IMO.

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Oh yeah, indeed! Come to think of it, I’d even say the priority to implement something like this for vocab is much higher.

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Just posting agreeing with not encouraging resets. As was mentioned, people should be rewarded for properly studying grammar points, not for resetting.

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I’ve reset at least a dozen or so grammar points over that last couple of years. Reset a couple more after I got back from my last Japan trip.

I’m like, yeah the program tells me it mastered that, but real world application tells me otherwise.

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Speaking of preventing resets, a function that returns 50 (for example) of the vocabulary example sentences that include a given grammar point so you can read through them / make them ghosts / etc., or let you work through them in some way (it’s late I haven’t thought this through well) would be seriously welcome.

Sometimes there are grammar edge cases within a point where there are only 1-2 example sentences in the grammar SRS and I find that really undermines how confident I feel with it.

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I chose I never even considered it, but it would be more accurate to say that I’ve never needed it, and I hope I never do, but it may be useful in some situations, like after taking a long break.

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I have reset individual JLPT levels multiple times.
Don’t think I’ve ever reset N5 though :thinking:

It’s often when I haven’t got many Reviews coming through, and I’m trying to pick up studying Japanese again.

Resetting singular Grammar Points that I feel I need to study doesn’t really work, because then they trickle through slowly, and I can guess what the answers are because I know I’ve reset them recently.

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I fall into a different category:
“I have thought about resetting but haven’t done so because I just want to keep going and don’t want to lose my progress.”

I have briefly considered it and it doesn’t seem pointless to do it - I can see the point of doing it.
As far as I know, despite never having tried, there is nothing technically stopping me from doing it.
But it just doesn’t seem like the kind of thing I want to do right now and I’d rather keep going with progressing from where I am.

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I only reset once, when I finished N4, the explanations were added a while later and I wanted to read them so I just did it all again.

But I think this would be a nice feature. There are certain items I feel I keep failing on previous levels, but I’m kind of too lazy to make a note of each one to reset them individually :sweat_smile:
Or to be able to sort grammar points by accuracy so its easier to decide which ones to reset (or cram).

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Thirding resetting by %correct threshold, that would be incredibly useful - both for grammar and vocab.

(Fun fact, autocorrect tried to replace “thirding” with “thirsting” and I don’t know how to feel about that.)

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