Hello everyone,
when I have some words to review I usually press the blue button placed on the top of the courses. If for example, I have 100 words to review and I click that button, I obtain differents numbers of words to review, in different review sessions of 28, 34 and so on.
What does the numbers of words in each review session depend on?
Thanks in advance xD xD
Are you sure about that? You should always get the same number of words in each review session. However, anything you get wrong, will be repeated a few more times during the session. By default, I believe you get 25 words per review session, but you can change that at http://www.memrise.com/settings/learning/ - I set mine to 10 so I always get 10 (or fewer, if there are fewer than 10 total to review in a course).
It might also help to say which memrise app you’re using: web, iOS, or Android. Maybe they behave differently on this, though I think they should all respect your setting for number of items per review session.
I have the same problem. I will be reviewing 4 courses, and I will have in total, say, 100 words. But instead, It will break it by course into 30, 20, 10, 40. So I have to press Review 4 different times. Sometimes it mixes them together, but most of the time it doesn’t work this way.
When you start using Memrise, your items to review per session counter is set to be at 10.
However, you can change that in settings (maximum number is 100 items per session).
Keep in mind that, if the course you are reviewing has only 9 items to review, you will get 9, not 10.
Another thing to keep in mind: if you answer incorrectly on one of the items, it will be repeated several times (I think is somewhere around 3 or 4).
The Table after you finish reviewing session shows how many questions have been asked including those repeating ones.
If you choose to review levels, instead of whole course, you might get lower amount of items than you had in your settings. This is because generally levels are made up of 25 words each (I think it’s an average), so if your number of reviews per session were to be 10, you would get 2 normal reviews and 1 shorter one.
That sums it up. It might be that there is some kind of bug or that the rules work differently for phones (which I doubt), but it should be quite right.
We can’t know if this is a bug or not without knowing what your review settings are and in how many courses the words to be reviewed are located.
Let’s say you have set your items to review per session to 50 and you have 90 items to review in 5 courses each, for a total of 450 items that need reviewing. You’ll get, I think, 5 reviewing sessions of 50 items and 5 reviewing sessions of 40 items.
This explanation taken from a post by @lurajane in the old forum, with some things left out. I don’t feel like searching for that right now. It’s doubtful I’d be able to find it now anyway.
Edit: found the post:
(Re-posted to fix error)
If you have courses with fewer than 100 words needing review, Memrise will give you review sessions smaller than 100 words.
If you are using the “water all” feature, Memrise may assemble a review session from multiple courses, but apparently only when the words fit nicely within the session. Example: You have two courses, with 25 words to review in course A and 35 words to review in course B. Memrise combines them into a 60 word review session. BUT, if the two courses have 25 words and 80 words to review, they don’t fit into a single session, and Memrise will give you a 25 word review session from course A, and then an 80 word review session from course B. Memrise doesn’t make a 100 word session by dividing the 80 words from course B.
Posted by lurajane Feb 16 (3 months ago)
I’m not the original poster. But, if I have words set to review to 100, and I have 200 cards in total to review, across 4 courses. Let’s say 50 in each course. I will get 50 cards for review each time. That begin said, it isn’t really an inconvenience for me personally, but I definitely can say that it occurs.
Hello again
Thanks for your answerrs, all of them are really interesting. I have just had curiosity for that feature of Memrise, and I was wondering how the review items are combined in each review session.
I don’t think that is a bug and It is not an inconvenience for me either.
Thanks again xD
I have a different question about review words. I have been away from a few languages for a number of months because I am concentrating on just one language now. Consequently, the number of review words has gone to over 1,000 in one class. Is there: 1) A way I can stop the review words accumulating each day. 2) A way to delete the accumulated review words without having to start the class over from the beginning?
No, Memrise does not handle “overdueness”.
If you have paused for months, the best probably would be to transfer all courses over to Anki with the Memrise2Anki exporter.
AnkiSRS is more powerful, supports overdueness out of the box and you can use the Anki application browser and ordering for different stuff.
For example you can create special filtered decks, where one supports the overdueness filter, which shows you the words which are more important (shorter in SR interval) sooner than those which have a longer SR interval.
Cooljingle’s Memrise user script “Catch Up Review” is disabled and does not work anymore because of a Memrise code update several months ago.
This would have been your best option, to kick those intervals further back out from the “standard Memrise SR intervals”, if you still know some words.
I would NOT reset the course and start from scratch, as you may still know some words with higher SR intervals (e.g 90 or 180 days).
On the web portal you can set the review word count to 100.
With the “Infinitive learning” user script from Cooljingle you can catch up pretty easily (polls the next batch of 100), or stop reviewing before you hit the 100 words count…
To get the review backlog queue down to zero in the most easy way is to use:
I am not really a fan both of those, since I was using Cooljingle’s user script “all typing” for reviews on the web portal for avoiding false positives (marking words to know and push back the SR interval, but actually NOT knowing the word 100%).
If you do not want to switch to AnkiSRS and prioritize reviewing words by filters or ordering, personally I would just try to run 3-4 100 word sessions with “all typing” (=RECALLING) per day and see how fast you can get the huge backlog down.
If it takes more than a few days / weeks…who cares…
The missing of all/some “useful features” can not make Memrise to one’s favourite platform.
Basically you can only use Memrise web portal, if you do daily or weekly reviews…