What is the Review Threshold?

Your review threshold is the number of reviews you can complete every day, consistently, over a long period of time.

If you are assigned more reviews than the set threshold, the system will prevent you from learning new content to help prevent you from being overwhelmed by reviews the following day.

At the bottom of “Today’s studies” on the My Journey page, you will find a section that displays the number of reviews waiting for you the next day.

This is labeled "Tomorrow's Reviews", followed by some numbers:

The first number is how many reviews you have tomorrow, and the number on the right is your review threshold.

In our picture above, there are 44 reviews tomorrow, and the threshold is 100.

Since there are fewer reviews than our threshold, the number will be green and we can continue to study and add to the reviews for tomorrow if we so choose.

Or we can take a break and call it a day.

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You can continue learning new Japanese until you hit the review threshold, or choose to wrap up your studies at any point before that.

Many students take review-only days once or twice a week to help ensure a steady review workload, and some try to do new Japanese content every day.

It's good to experiment with both of these approaches and see what works best with you!

Once the number of reviews reaches or goes over the threshold, you will be unable to learn new Japanese content until the reviews are back under the threshold.

This is both to prevent you from becoming overwhelmed by too many reviews the next day and to help you solidify what you have learned the previous day more effectively.

Sometimes, we consistently have more or less time than our review threshold allows for, so we want to adjust it.

Adjusting the review threshold

You can change your review threshold by pressing the "Adjust Threshold" button at the bottom right:

This will bring you to a screen where you can select one of the default options, or set your own:

If you're using the Custom value, you will be able to set any number of reviews down to a minimum of 5, which is how many reviews you need to advance your Days Studied (when you have that many available to do).

You can set it however high you want, but we generally recommend being careful when doing so. The higher your daily reviews are, the more effort and time it will take to get through them.

That said, it's good to experiment with several settings to see what works best for you.

Just keep in mind that consistency is key. No need to rush and risk burnout in most cases ^^

Happy studies!