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2016 JLPT Anki Challenge - ariariari - 2015-12-07
One of my best tools in preparing for the JLPT this year was simply to post the monthly change in the number of mature Anki cards I had. I did this over in the 2015 JLPT N3 thread, some other people joined in, and it wound up being a real motivator for many of us. A major surprise for me personally was that, even in months when I felt that I had not made progress, or had maybe even taken a step backwards, the number of mature cards went up. This did wonders for my motivation. I think it also helped to have a cut off date - the date of the exam.
So I thought I'd run that part of the thread again (since I'm planning to take N3 again), but this time open it up to a broader audience:
December 7, 2015 (the day after the exam):
Mature grammar cards: 476
Mature Kanji cards: 684
Mature vocab cards: 4,500 (such an even number!)
Total mature cards: 5,660
My anki goals, at least right now, are two-fold:
1. Grammar. My grammar is weaker than my vocab. So I'm going thru a great N4 review book and adding example sentences on points that I'm rusty on or just flat out missed the first time around. After that it's on to an N3 grammar book.
2. Vocab. I'm trying to be more disciplined with this than I've been in the past. In retrospect, I feel like I took a bit of a "tabehoudai" approach to vocab in anki in the past. So while the stats in this deck flew up, it crowded out time I could have spent reading or listening to native material. Perhaps that was OK in the beginning, but now that I can read at least some material online, I want to spend more time with that than with anki. Right now I have this set to add only 2 new cards a day.