The relationship between lessons and reviews not an obvious one. The idea is that you do fixed amount of lessons every day, and over time, as those same learned items come back after a day, two, than week, two weeks, month, and eventually four months, you get gradually more reviews. But it should go up only slowly. I even made a post about my observation:
You shot yourself in the foot by doing too many lessons, without knowing how the future reviews will haunt you. Even worse, you went over your ideal amount, and reached very high fail rate. Here is a topic that explains how much MORE workload that adds:
OK, so how to handle it?
- you can stop doing lessons, although I think you should still do at least few (1-5) to keep the habit
- you don’t need to do all reviews in one go, there is a “wrap up” button that ends review session early, use it when you get tired, than do more later
- you can also reset your level to lower number to return some reviews back and redo lessons again, this time slower, you don’t need to go all the way to level 1
And here are some indicators to watch out for into the future:
- success rate after review session, aim at 90-95%, if it is low, reduce number of lessons
- number of items in apprentice level (once everything settles down) should be around 7-10 times the number of lessons you are doing every morning, if this goes up, take less lessons until it goes down
- you don’t need to do reviews as they come up, it is OK to let them wait until you have time, but you should do reviews at least 2-3 times per day
- any change will have noticable effect in about a week, don’t expect changes the next day
Keep in mind that slow and steady wil get you much further. This journey will take you years, no need to rush. Good luck.