Hey everyone! Hope you’re all doing great! I’ve got a quick question for you. I’m studying for the JLPT N4 exam, and I’m trying to figure out which level of “SRS Strictness” to use. I’ve set it to 0 because with Anki, I get a FAIL or PASS ADD ON, so if I don’t remember something, I just start over from scratch. I think this approach works really well for memorizing Kanji and vocabulary, but I’m not sure if it’s worth it for grammar. Any thoughts? Thanks a bunch!
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I think that rather than it being about kanji or vocab or grammar, it’s more about the actual review type. If you are just doing recognition based reviews, where you are testing if you know something based on sight/if you can read it, then that approach can work well for some people. I have used it myself in the past with reasonable success.
However, when you’re doing manual input type reviews when there can often be more than one correct answer in any given situation, I feel like this approach would be far too strict, and you’d have to kind of game the system for it to work for you. By that I mean you’d have to intentionally use the back button if you are guessing incorrect grammar points simply because you know more than one appropriate grammar point that could work in that situation. Then once you guessed the right one, you’d have to ask yourself ‘did I actually know this, or did should I realistically fail it intentionally to reset the progress’. This means that the one that controls your SRS would moreso be you rather than Bunpro. If you can trust yourself to do this accurately, then I think it’s totally fine to do it that way!
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Also with Anki you are seeing the exact same card every time during the srs process. With bunpro, the “card” changes. You have several possible phrases where the grammar may change slightly, and the vocab may be used with a different nuance.
So making it go back to 0 may be very frustrating because you will make minor mistakes for sure.
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