[First, I would be remiss if I didn’t say – you should enable FSRS. You don’t need to worry about all of those other intervals and modifiers.]
Anki will schedule the cards you need to see more often, and the cards you don’t need to see less often. Your job is to make sure you get the New cards introduced at a fast enough pace that they can be scheduled as Reviews. That’s mostly arithmetic – Settings for using Anki to prepare for a large exam - Anki FAQs .
It sounds like you’re planning to keep up with your due Reviews while you’re introducing New cards (in this first 27 days), so you should expect that your daily workload will be about 8-10x your daily New card limit.
If you’re stuck on this metric of a guaranteed “2-3 times” – you might need to meddle a bit more to make that happen. The easiest way would be with learning steps. You’ll have to decide whether you want those 2-3 reviews to be on the first day, in the first couple days, or just to be scheduled normally as Anki already will.
For the most part? I wouldn’t.
But if you’re not ready to trust the algorithm yet – on any given day, you can build a Filtered deck based on just about anything you can search for. The basic for you would be deck:ThatDeckName is:review – all cards in that deck that have already been introduced ad New and graduated to Review. You could narrow that further by specifying that you only want cards you haven’t studied in X days, or that aren’t due for X days, etc. [Pro-tip: Build your search filter in the Browse window, so you know what you’ll get, and then Edit > Create Filtered Deck.]
In those Filtered decks, you should leave reschedule-based-on enabled. Anki will take into consideration that they are being studied early, but they will be scheduled better if FSRS knows how you’ve done each time you’ve seen them.
I’m not sure how to answer that. Anki is for things you want to memorize. If you don’t want to memorize it, you don’t need to study it in Anki. (Consider that when you’re looking at your 1900 cards …) But Anki isn’t trying to get you to the (unattainable) goal of “perfect retention.”
With the default Desired Retention of 90%, you should have a 90% chance of getting each card right when you study it. If you maintain that, it will translate to around 95% average Retrievability on the day of your exam.
General advice for beginners –
- Read Getting Started, so you know what Anki can do – and Studying, so you know how to use it. Skim the rest of the manual if you have time, so you will know where to find things when you want them later on.
- Enable FSRS.
- Set one short (5m-20m) learning step and relearning step.
- Optimize your FSRS parameters (and then come back monthly to re-optimize).
- Study all of your due cards every day – no backlogs, no long re/learning steps to carry cards over to the next day.
- Don’t introduce New cards at a faster pace that you can keep up with the reviews on. [Expect that your daily workload will be 8-10x your daily New card limit.]
