Additional studying?

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@Ahrou

I read from somewhere that extra studying can be bad when learning with SRS.

This is erroneous information. Here is a summary of the scientific study on the topic by @MegaZeroX Bottom line: the more you see an item the better your retention. You just need to be careful not to do it just before the review.

There is no such thing as cheating yourself in SRS

First: what is this thread about? Well, something I’ve seen regularly posted in the WK forums is that doing any reviews outside of the scheduled ones will actively harm your learning, which sounded strange to me. I spent much of today delving into research of the field, and the post below is my findings. There will be a tl;dr at the end of the post. Let me give a disclaimer. I don’t do research in this area, nor do I know anyone that does. This is primarily just what I got from reading two meta…