Settings for a new study period

[Bjorferry]

Hi everyone,

I am a medicine student from Sweden that is frequently using anki for my studies, but unfortunately not in the best way possible for optimal learning. I’m starting a new course in pathology in two weeks and I received pre-made decks for the whole course from an older student at the same university. In other words, if I know every card I’m more than well prepared for the exam. In my previous courses where I’ve used anki it feels like I haven’t got a grip of the settings. Sometimes I get overloaded with review cards and sometimes they never show again so I have to do custom study sessions where I have to flip through every card…yeah I guess you understand. So now I turn to you guys for the optimal settings!

The decks contain a total of 1800 cards which is divided into smaller sections that corresponds to specific lectures (see the picture). “Vecka 1” is for example Week 1. I will approximately do 40-70 new cards each day (mon-fri), but at the same time I want to have time for reviewing cards. There will be 11 weeks from the start of the course to the exam.

Please help med with the optimal settings! Thanks!

[ferophila]

What are your current settings? Have you tried Anki Simulator to evaluate your workload with your current settings? Can you handle the current workload? 1800 cards for one course seems a lot to me.

[Bjorferry]

I’m currently going with the original settings. Haven’t tried anki stimulator. I mixed some with the different intervals but it wasn’t getting any better…

[Bjorferry]

I am also having problems with rebooting the decks. Right now I have due cards, but I haven’t flipped a single card. I guess the history of the progress is taken from the guy that created them. Any easy way to reset?

[cqg]

You can import your deck (without scheduling information) and then import again, you can use the forget command, it you can try an add on:
https://docs.ankiweb.net/exporting.html
https://faqs.ankiweb.net/resetting-progress-in-a-deck.html