Race to Your Goal! December 2020 JLPT

[Cathm2]

Up to level 8 today. 14 days and 8 hours - I expected that as had to go onto vacation mode with lack of wifi.

[zvandervort]

WKStats says the quickest I can make to to level 60 is 11-07-2020, so that should give me a little wiggle room. Thanks for making this thread. I’m totally in.

[Ornantius]

Just got to level 17
Took 7 days + 22 hours.

[tetraflu0ride]

I’m, uh, doing bad. Things got crazy at my restaurant and now I’m sitting here at 1529 reviews. Where do I even staaaaaaaart?!

[Saimin]

Ah, too bad! That won’t go away in one day. But i’d just do a certain amount of reviews each day that you can do without getting tired and demotivated, and take it one step at a time. In two weeks, it could all be down to 0 don’t despair, you can do this!

[FennelFox]

Welcome! Thanks for joining us!

[damiannovotny]

Hi I’m damiannovotny and my current level is 40.

[krysta84]

300 reviews to go.
I decided to tackle 50 a day, meaning tomorrow I should reach 250.
Obviously, I’m not getting them all right, so a lot of them drop in level and so my review pile tomorrow is looking to be 380 again, which is more than 50 reviews a day.
I should probably do a set tonight then.

[Karakayn]

Oh welcome back ! I was looking your profile few days ago and was sad you didn’t continue because you have the same level as me !

Take it in small steps and you will definitely coming back and do it !

Good luck !

[Karakayn]

Good job !

You inspired me with your small batchs, I had like 300 lessons a month ago and I am nearly to 0 now , it’s my smallest lessons/reviews combo I ever had for 3 months.
So good luck with your review/lesson too, you can do it

[krysta84]

Yay, that’s looking good. I hope to reach that too before January.
Right now I’m at 199 reviews to go. I went a bit overboard because I reached some words I remembered well, and was on a roll.
Means tomorrow my review pile will hit around 280 again (instead of 350 or so) and it will continue to improve.

Current status:
100 in apprentice (that’s what happens if you fail guru)
264 in guru (that’s looking better than it was)
289 in master
1113 in enlightened
991 burned (almost 1000 yay, probably tomorrow evening because a few enlightened are on the way.)

One step at a time, we will conquer this mountain!

[Kuvshinova]

I want on hiatus after starting my postgrad research. Sitting at 700+ reviews on vacation mode, afraid to turn it off again

Also:

@tetraflu0ride

Things got crazy at my restaurant

You own a restaurant!?

[jprspereira]

@Ilyasaur

afraid to turn it off again

Do you need help?

[Kuvshinova]

@jprspereira

Do you need help?

Help? What? I’m not crazy, I p-promise!

[jprspereira]

@Ilyasaur

Help? What? I’m not crazy, I p-promise!

@Ilyasaur, @tetraflu0ride and anyone with a pile of reviews to catch up:

• Don’t do any lessons. It’s okay to be longer in a level. You don’t want to throw more wood to a fire
• Slow and steady wins the race. Do x reviews every day that you have time for and reduce the pile bit by bit. If you do huge amounts in 1 day, that same amount will come back to you at the same time again. It will be extremely painful to deal with it later, so it’s better to prevent it instead.
• Use this reorder, as it prioritizes the reviews there are most overdue.

@seanblue

What does “overdue” mean?

An item’s overdue percentage is how much time has passed since the review became available divided by the length of the SRS interval. Here are two simple examples:

• An Apprentice 1 item has been available to review for 1 hour.
  • Since the Apprentice 1 interval is 4 hours, the overdue percentage is 1/4 = 25%.
• A Master item has been available to review for 3 days.
  • Since the Master interval is 30 days, the overdue percentage is 3/30 = 10%.

[UNSUPPORTED] [Userscript] WaniKani Prioritize Overdue Reviews (reorder script)

What is it? This is a new reorder script, which will prioritize giving you “overdue” reviews. This approach was modeled after iKnow’s review algorithm, but with some (user-customizable) randomness thrown in to minimize the chance of hurting your long-term retention. In general the review items considered overdue will show up for review before the items not considered overdue. See the settings section below for more details. How to Install? As always, make sure you have a script manager ins…

[krysta84]

@jprspereira

If you do huge amounts in 1 day, that same amount will come back to you at the same time again.

I actually am doing less reviews a day, exactly for this reason. I got overwhelmed a month or so ago, because of my first levels going so quickly due to my prior knowledge are now up for burns. (I think I’m currently at level 8 or so for burns, and it’s starting to get harder.)
While at the time it wasn’t a problem, all these reviews piling up does take a lot of my time. Once I get my reviews under control, I’ll continue my lessons 5-10 at a time, no more. Slow, because I have other study methods to keep up.

We got this. One at a time.

[fearthefall]

I’m on level 15 now! Somehow, it seems like a huge milestone. Almost 25% of the way there!

It’s always a bit hard to see all those new lessons come in, especially when they were so low before, but I’m chipping away slowly but surely!

Edit: For some reason, I didn’t get my level 14 email when I got to 14. Now that I’m on 15, the email has shown up. Of course, it scared me into thinking I was a level lower than I thought, so I had to check again. Nope, still on level 15. Weird about the emails though.

[Voi]

Try going into settings and toggling the send level up emails off then on again. That seems to have helped people before.

[SiriusTimeKeeper]

hey is it too late to join? I am level 1 right now ;/// a Japanese newbie

[febLey]

And another level down. 9 to 10 in 8 days and 15 hours.
If I can keep up that pace I could be 60 before end of March 2021, that’s when I’m going to travel to Japan.
That isn’t a must for me, but would be really nice.