# Scaling the 6583 review wall - Once more unto the breach!

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**Created:** [June 2, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/scaling-the-6583-review-wall-once-more-unto-the-breach/51734 "2021-06-02T02:10:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/scaling-the-6583-review-wall-once-more-unto-the-breach/51734/74 "2021-07-03T06:21:41Z")

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I’m going to suggest this is a losing game (if the goal is bringing the reviews back down to zero and using the SRS like it’s intended.) Your accuracy is not high enough and the re-reviews of failures aren’t prompt enough for it to work. Your most-frequent review intervals can’t work for your worst items, because there is no way for you to see that 4-hour review in the next 4 hours or even the 24 hour review in 24 hours, with thousands of other items in the way.

You could try jump-starting back to a level playing field by temporarily defeating the SRS, brute force learning all the items in short-term memory, getting the reviews done, then restarting the SRS method.

> [@How to kill a giant review backlog](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-to-kill-a-giant-review-backlog/39552):
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> Or should I say, one way to do it, but it worked for me. Maybe it will help someone else. Background: So I took a trip to Japan, in which I took the JLPT N5 exam. I had studied quite a bit for it, and after it was over, I felt a little burnt out. I decided to take a couple of weeks off studying as a reward. Then, life happened, and a couple of weeks turned into longer than that. I lost the habit. At some point, I just avoided it because I knew my review count was not going to be pretty. In a…

Unfortunately, I don’t think even that is going to work at an hour a day. You need to bring the pile to zero before you forget everything again, and that means you need to get it all done within a day or two. It probably means setting aside a big chunk of time for that (and then again when the waves come back, but they get smaller and smaller)

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