Hi,
It seems like to review all words pending to review from all my finished courses I have to:
Is there not a function to review all pending words from all my courses in one sweep? Or did I miss this function somehow? If not, how does the above make any sense?
Thank you.
There is nothing like reviewing words across all courses regardless of the language/subject. Wouldn’t make much sense IMHO either.
However, on the web, you can filter the course list to show only courses of a given language and then review across all courses of that language:
Thank you. Not sure why you state it wouldnt make much sense, though.
A fixed task on my (and probably most other students) every day agenda is to repeat all pending items before eventually going to study new items. After all, thats the essence of learning and the core mechanism of any spaced repetition tool like Merise, isn´t it?
So would it not be natural to have this as a functionality, like a “review all pending items” button?
The only alternative is to go through all past courses and do the same manually. I wonder how that makes sense?
Or maybe I misunderstand the concept somehow. Should I not go through pending reviews every day?
I was rather referring to the fact that a random review over several languages would probably make things all too complicated. But you’re right, I don’t see why the “Review” button shouldn’t be there when no filter has been applied.
@MemriseSupport, @ale_c: shouldn’t this be fairly easy to implement?
There is no concept that could be generally applicable, I suppose - learning concepts/strategies are as individual as humans and unless learning is our primary occupation, time is probably limited. 
As you can see on my screenshot, I don’t generally review all items up for review.
Personally, I always review “open items” for all courses I’m still working on and for some courses I finished (those finished not too long ago or those with content I’m particularly interested in).
If I wanted to always review all words up for review, I’d probably be busy for at least 5-6h/day. And my word-count is ridiculous compared to many others … 
Thanks again.
I indeed didn´t think about what happens if someone is learning different topics/languages. Of course then a “general reviews” should better not mix things to ask a french word just before a spanish one.
This sentence makes me wonder, though. In general thats exactly the situation space recognition should prevent compared to a “just always repeat everything” approach.
i.e. even with a very huge number of active items, as most of them are usually already well known, they are only scheduled for repetition after long intervals, so that statistically they don´t really influence daily work load.
Of course that only applies if one is strict enough to execute reviews regularly (e.g. daily). Else items start to accumulate quickly
Yes, you’re right. But from what I have read, it seems that the max. SRS-interval as implemented by Memrise is 180 days which kind of defeats the purpose.
@MemriseSupport can you confirm that Memrise will bring up any word after 180 days again? I’m not really sure whether that’s true and I’ve seen all sorts of statements on this subject …
Hi @Beutelfuchs,
As @Olaf.Rabbachin mentioned, it’s not possible to review all the items you have to review in one go. This hasn’t been something that we’ve seen requested (likely for the reasons you’ve given here of it being confusing to study multiple languages in one session) and as such we have no plans to implement it.
You can, however, do this with any courses listed under the same language using the filter on the top of the homepage, as kindly shown in Olaf’s screenshot.
I’m not sure I completely understand your last question @Olaf.Rabbachin. Are you asking if a word comes up for review after a 6 month break and you get it correct, will you ever be asked to review it again? If so, the answer is yes, it will be lined up for review again in 6 months.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Memrise team.
Hi @MemriseSupport
Thanks for the clarification. It would be nice to have this functionality in the app of course as I dont study on the web.
Somehow I would still wonder how I could be the only one seeing this as a problem.
E.g. there are 7 courses for french. One day I will have studied through all of them and then I will want to keep these words in mind. So that means to all the time switching 7x times through all french courses to check for pending reviews and to execute them. Is this really how the app is intended to be used?
I think the question was about the maximum time frame used by the space recognition algorithm of Memrise. I.e. once a specific word reached “maximum memorization”: How long will it take until it will be scheduled again for review?
Or does the algorithm keep this time increasing indefinitely?
Can we please get an option for this in the account settings so that we can adjust the maximum review cooldown?
I’d like words to be lined up for review again no later than 3 or 4 months. I think 6 months is too long…
