Recently Ive found I am struggling to get through my reviews. I used to clear them to 0 almost daily but over the christmas break Ive sort of stopped and they are sitting at ~370.
On top of this I havent been doing new lessons for a while either and feel sort of frustrated because my progress has somewhat stagnated.
I want to continue learning but life has made this difficult recently and I cant spend hours a day on reviews.
Has anyone got any tips for me at all please? 
Thanks in advance.
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When that happens I try to incrementally chip at it until itâs under control. At least try to do enough daily reviews to keep the backlog stable and, if you feel like it, do a couple dozen more. In a few weeks you should be back on track and ready to tackle more lessons.
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âDonât let perfect be the enemy of goodâ.
I think itâs common (around our level, depending on prior Japanese exposure) to hit a plateau or a wall, and to feel overwhelmed. My opinion: as simias mentioned - chip away at the reviews; slow down with WK and open up on more interesting study (SatoriReader, for example); donât be hard on yourself. Maybe good to target small daily study blocks, instead of outcomes.
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Mantain your apprentice items around 100 
How to do that?
Donât do new lessons when your apprentice items surpass that value (100) and/or when you see in your schedule more than 200 reviews for the current day.
Off course, you will not be advancing at 1 level per week, but one level every 9 or 10 days is perfectly feasible with this approach.
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Since youâre not doing new lessons, is it because youâre making a lot of mistakes? Or are you getting mostly all correct and itâs just that a bunch of cards happen to be scheduled to come back up?
If itâs just because of scheduling, keep at it and eventually itâll fix itself. You can even do new lessons if you keep the apprentice count low.
If itâs because youâre getting a lot wrong, what do you do when you get something wrong? (especially if you realize youâre getting it wrong multiple times)
Do you
- Go into the card drill down to see what words itâs in? (This is for kanji cards)
- Read the mnemonics again
- Read sample sentences (This is for vocab cards, but you can also use it for kanji cards by using a dictionary or you can use WKâs search to find the vocab that uses the kanji that has the closest matching meaning)
- Write it by hand (if youâre the type to find it helps things stick)
Stuff like that does take time so it will slow you down, but sometimes slowing down in the short term can help speed things up in the long term.
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