Course correcting my barge of daily reviews (help needed)

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Two related topics I’m looking for feedback on.

  1. I have more reviews than I want.
  2. I once read advice on here that from WK LVL 01-20 one should use “number of apprentice” as a threshold for doing new lessons. It said that after LVL 20 one should use a different approach. I don’t remember if they even said what that new approach should be. Does this make any sense to anyone?

Expanding on point 1…I have been lowering the amount of lessons I do, but my reviews keep climbing. So, is there a rule-of-thumb about how long it takes to see relief? Or what number of lessons to do per day to have a typical number of reviews given one’s current WK level? Any formulas? I feel like I’m course-correcting a barge with delayed response time and I don’t want to crash into a the banks of too- many/little reviews.

At this point, I’m not really suffering. I’m not sure what the optimal number of review for me is. I like a 24-day level cycle, but I think I’m ok giving that up for some relief in order to spend more time practice reading, and listening. WK is taking a large percentage of my available practice time time. I’m facing 90-150 reviews every day.

Am I right in assuming that a constant number of lessons per day will always mean an increasing number of reviews per day as you go through the levels? So if I want a mostly constant number of reviews, I have to slowly do less and less new lessons?

Thanks.

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I’m at level 33 and have gotten my daily review count down from >100 to under 70 per day. This took a couple of months:

  1. pick a target number for daily reviews. I picked 80.

  2. stop doing lessons for a week or two until you make it to a little bit under that target, in my case 70

  3. start doing lessons again - I went down from 15 lessons to 9 per day

  4. spread your reviews throughout the day, e.g, 8am, 12pm, 8pm - feels less overwhelming than one large batch per day

I can level up in ~20 days with my current routine of 9 lessons per day.

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assuming you’re getting enlightened items, you multiply the lessons you’re doing by eight (that’s how many srs stages there are, not counting new and “burned”) to get the minimum number of reviews you need to do every day to stay even
for example, i’m doing ten lessons most days (i slow down a bit as i get to the end of a level), meaning ideally i should be doing eighty reviews per day (i’m not… :sweat_smile: )
if you have a preferred number of reviews, divide that by eight to get how many lessons

edit:
oh, but i don’t know how the math works out with the first apprentice being only four hours :thinking:
probably the same…

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