Does the review time change between levels?

[bartw]

I only just started using WaniKani and thought I understood the review sytem after reading about it in the FAQ and forums. But now that I got to level 3 I noticed the wait time from apprentice 4 to guru for the radicals is significantly longer than 24 hours while in the first levels I believe this was 22 hours.

For reference I could do both radicals and kanji from lesson to guru in around 4 days for the first two levels while I still need 24 more hours to unlock kanji for level 3 while still doing reviews a few times a day.

So may question is basicly the title: ‘does the review change between levels?’

[Rowena]

The first two levels were accelerated; from lvl 3 onwards the normal times apply

[alo]

Only for the first levels:

For Level 1 & 2 the SRS timings are accelerated for the Apprentice stage.

Apprentice 1 → 2 hours → Apprentice 2
Apprentice 2 → 4 hours → Apprentice 3
Apprentice 3 → 8 hours → Apprentice 4
Apprentice 4 → 1 day → Guru 1

Here are the normal stages:

Apprentice 1 → 4 hours → Apprentice 2
Apprentice 2 → 8 hours → Apprentice 3
Apprentice 3 → 1 day → Apprentice 4
Apprentice 4 → 2 days → Guru 1
Guru 1 → 1 week → Guru 2
Guru 2 → 2 weeks → Master
Master → 1 month → Enlightened
Enlightened → 4 months → Burned

WaniKani’s SRS Stages

Also, there’s an hour grace period for longer intervals so the 1 day for A3 to A4 is actually 23 hours.

[bartw]

Thanks for the awnsers! Guess I’ll just wait for today since I don’t really have any reviews for today