Hello all, I am using Anki to prepare for my medical school finals which are 27 days from now. Currently I have: 330 new cards, 70 in learn and 176 due. My main question is how to get through the new cards so that I have “learned” by the exam’s date. I would still have 70-80 new cards to add which …

Your current settings look fine to me. And 200 due cards isn’t a huge backlog so you shouldn’t worry. (I recently recovered from around 2.5K very slow to rep cards backlog in around a week.) I will only advise: Turn on FSRS Use review order descending retreivability which is better just in case y…

Little off-topic: Why is the descending retreivability better than easy cards first? I think the second one was suggested on Reddit as the best way to recover from a large backlog.

It depends on what you believe makes a sort order “good”. If you want to maintain the desired retention, go with descending retreivability. If you want a good knowledge/workload ratio, go with easy cards first. Well, actually easy cards first might just be the better option given that you increase t…

[image] sve2208: My main question is how to get through the new cards so that I have “learned” by the exam’s date. You can’t really have a “backlog” of New cards – but you can fall behind schedule, when you’re heading towards a deadline. In that case, you just need to re-compute your pace of …

I’m not sure how this question is Anki-specific. I would go through the new cards and reposition them so that the most difficult material is presented first, which will give you more time to study it. Your new cards/day will have Anki present you with all the new cards in one day. Assuming you have…

New-cards backlog: how to tackle to maximise retention

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