# Tips to Increase Review Correct %?
**URL:** https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815
**Category:** Tips & Tricks
**Created:** [November 23, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815 "2018-11-23T00:58:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@vesper39](https://community.wanikani.com/u/vesper39)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/1 "2018-11-23T00:58:46Z")
I’m currently level 20 and have been averaging 8 days per level. I’ve notice that my Review Summaries are beginning to lower as I’m forgetting lots of vocab in the guru/master stage.
I used to consistently get 90+% correct on Reviews but now i’m sliding down to mid 80s. Should I be taking a break from new levels to study older kanji/vocab to get my percentage back up? Do you all ever review words that are not yet up for review by the app itself?
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### Author:  [@jprspereira](https://community.wanikani.com/u/jprspereira)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/2 "2018-11-23T01:06:02Z")
From my own Guide to WK, one very solid way of fixing your situation:
> [@My Journey of 368 days (+ The Ultimate Guide for WK open\_book )](https://community.wanikani.com/t/my-journey-of-368-days-the-ultimate-guide-for-wk/31318/2):
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> - [**Self-Study Quiz:**](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-self-study-quiz/13191) Have you ever wished to review a certain type of items from a specific level? This is it. This script allows you do an extra and personalized reviewing of any items you learn on WK. Do not worry, as this script will not influence the SRS level of items.
> - [**WaniKani Open Framework Additional Filters:**](https://community.wanikani.com/t/userscript-wanikani-open-framework-additional-filters-recent-lessons-leech-training-related-items-and-more/30512) This script serves as an upgrade to the Self-Study one I mentioned above. Basically, it will add filters such as “most recent items learned” and “leeches” (most difficult items for you) to your Self-Study script. For the distance of just a couple clicks, you can get all the extra reinforcement on the items you need the most 🙂
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One simple trick that I also recommend is always reviewing for yourself the items you got wrong after you finish a review session (by looking at the results page).
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/3 "2018-11-23T01:17:13Z")
I just want to add that it’s perfectly normal for your review accuracy to drop. As the material gets more difficult and your workload increases, it’s not surprising. But the tips @jprspereira gave are good for minimizing the drop in accuracy.
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### Author:  [@Doncanor](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Doncanor)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/4 "2018-11-23T04:02:21Z")
Note that, IMO, you shouldn’t self-review items with a high SRS level. At that point, you’re expected to know them fairly well. If you need to review an item one week before it reaches Enlightened or Burned to get it right, it’s extremely doubtful you know it well at all.
It’s usually Apprentice items you’d want to review anyway, but if one of your leeches ends up at Master+, you should leave it alone until it’s back to Guru or Burned.
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### Author:  [@rhet](https://community.wanikani.com/u/rhet)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/5 "2018-11-23T04:40:54Z")
Read more Japanese. Mid-20s kanji are all very common. If you see them actually get used it helps them stick a lot better.
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### Author:  [@Darcinon](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Darcinon)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 7:35am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/6 "2018-11-23T07:35:00Z")
If you need to review something more, get it wrong 😁
SRS is the study method, not the test that you have to study for in order to pass and get a passing grade.
(Unless you’re trying to level up fast, but even then only your new apprentice radical and kanji correctness matters.)
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### Author:  [@OmukaiAndi](https://community.wanikani.com/u/OmukaiAndi)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/7 "2018-11-23T09:59:00Z")
SRS is meant to make memorization more efficient, not more effective. if anything, come across or, failing that, review items more often.
wanikani tries to provide you with the minimum exposure
needed to remember things, but it’s always better to see them more often. that’s also why they strongly recommend reading in their guide.
of course, if you review something shortly before you burn it, you need to follow up with more exposure later, but you’ll want to do that anyway, because “burn” doesn’t
mean “finished, you’ll remember this forever now”. it means “ok, we’re fairly certain you’ll remember thisfor a while, until you hopefully see it somewhere else”.
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### Author:  [@plantron](https://community.wanikani.com/u/plantron)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/8 "2018-11-23T11:01:09Z")
They sell pills to increase your review correct percent but be careful. If your review correct percent is still high after four hours, contact your physician or pharmacist.
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### Author:  [@temeraire](https://community.wanikani.com/u/temeraire)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/9 "2018-11-23T12:05:37Z")
> [@plantron](#):
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> They sell pills to increase your review correct percent but be careful. If your review correct percent is still high after four hours, contact your physician or pharmacist.
Joke aside, there ARE pills that can help you with concentration and memory.
- Caffeine pills are a good alternative to coffee and doesn’t stain your teeth or give you stomach aches, for the sensitive little flowers out there.
- Omega-3 (fish oil) are cheap and do wonders for brain functions, if everyone on earth should take one supplement, that’s it. I’m convinced the global IQ would rise by 2 points.
- Sunflower Lecithin pills contribute to the health of the brain membrane, and are pretty cheap as well.
- And, of course, multivitamins are always good.
None of these are going to make you the Limitless guy, of course, but taking them did improve my concentration and reduced the brain fog that typically comes with a full time job or similar.
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### Author:  [@plantron](https://community.wanikani.com/u/plantron)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/10 "2018-11-23T12:21:42Z")
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### Author:  [@jprspereira](https://community.wanikani.com/u/jprspereira)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/11 "2018-11-23T12:23:31Z")
> [@temeraire](#):
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> Sunflower Lecithin pills contribute to the health of the brain membrane, and are pretty cheap as well.
No, they don’t 👀 ALA has a poor DHA/EPA conversion rate.
> [@temeraire](#):
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> Caffeine pills
It only works if there’s no heavy tolerance to coffee. Otherwise, it’s just gives that quick awakening.
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What about… water? Most people don’t drink enough of it. It hurts way more to be dehydrated than what caffeine/etc gives as a benefit.
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### Author:  [@RoseWagsBlue](https://community.wanikani.com/u/RoseWagsBlue)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/12 "2018-11-23T12:27:49Z")
> [@jprspereira](#):
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> What about… water?
… and sleep too. I see people on the P\_\_\_ thread, apparently for 24 hours at a time. 🙂 It has to take your memory ability down. (If a person can whiz through levels _without_ sleep, how much better would that person do _with_ sleep?)
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### Author:  [@OmukaiAndi](https://community.wanikani.com/u/OmukaiAndi)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/13 "2018-11-23T14:58:33Z")
you bet lack of sleep impairs your memory. when i hit lvl 24, i had 2 stressful weeks after me and was deeply tired. not enough sleep makes you operate on autopilot with terrible concentration.
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### Author:  [@Doncanor](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Doncanor)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/14 "2018-11-23T19:02:33Z")
With exposure I want to improve my awful listening and grammar skills. If I fake burn items I’m pretty sure I’ll have to focus on them too all the time, and at that point it’s like why did I even bother studying the word anyway.
I started BunPro a week ago and I’m terrible, but the constant mistakes I make help me understand the lessons better when I actually bother reading them 😅
> [@OmukaiAndi](#):
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> you bet lack of sleep impairs your memory
From what I’ve read, the brain will transfer your useful short-term memories into the long-term memory as you sleep. Having good sleeping nights can help a lot when studying.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/tips-to-increase-review-correct/33815/15 "2019-11-23T19:07:41Z")
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