Doing core2k now and if I recognize an audio clip right away but don't really think about the kanji of the word, is that a pass? Should I remember the kanji that make up the word too or just how to say it?

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If you know the reading and the meaning of the vocab word its a pass. If you don't know one of those its a fail. Leave kanji meanings alone for RTK.

See my post in this thread for more info.

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=11367

Easy: 1-3 seconds
Good:4-6 seconds
Fail: 7+ seconds or a messup in reading

For sentence cards, add 3 extra seconds to the interval.

I'm curious, how exactly are your cards set up? Just audio of the word on the front? Or am I misunderstanding? Because I'm a little confused. I don't often hear about people using that kind of a set-up for Core.

zurisu Wrote:I'm curious, how exactly are your cards set up? Just audio of the word on the front? Or am I misunderstanding? Because I'm a little confused. I don't often hear about people using that kind of a set-up for Core.

A variety of ways. It could be audio of a sentence with a word I'm suppose to know or it could be a sentence and when I read it to myself, the audio plays when I click show answer.

Xanpakuto Wrote:Easy: 1-3 seconds
Good:4-6 seconds
Fail: 7+ seconds or a messup in reading

For sentence cards, add 3 extra seconds to the interval.

This is probably an okay guideline, but no matter how you grade, make sure you are grading so you make use of each grading in some sort of degree.

Meaning, you don't always want to rate with the same grade if possible. You want to occasionally use Hard, Good, and Easy where applicable. If you don't ever use each grade, your going to have drastic interval shifts if you ever do want to use them.

Keep in mind, if you mark something as Easy, you should be able to remember it by the time it comes up for review again. But let the algorithm do it's job and don't grade too harshly. It's all about finding the correct balance. Sometimes it's a good idea to turn the interval times display off and just trust Anki to do it's thing.

There's no universal answer to this question, it depends on the deck (in my experience, with RtK it's OK to go with "Easy" a lot, with vocab it's not).

Luckily, after a couple of weeks you can just use your success rate to improve your delays. If you fail more than 15% of answers, you need to start pressing Hard and Good more often in place of Good and Easy. Only if your success rate is above 90%, should you be considering using "Easy" more. If there's an even bigger variation (you're under 75% success rate, or above 95%), you should consider using a different (easier/harder) deck.

I'm doing vocab. I don't wait more than 2-3 seconds to answer cards. I just fail cards that don't come to me naturally. I don't pick easy, unless it really is an easy question.

Otherwise, you're just setting yourself up to fail the card the next time it comes up. It's better to err on the side of "good" than "easy". If you pick easy in error, you have to start over (that can mean 3-4 extra reviews). That's a costly error. If you pick "good" in error when you could've picked "easy", it costs almost nothing (less than half a review). Same with Hard vs. Good. Better to err on the side of Hard. With vocab, I press "hard" about a third of the time (because my success rate is relatively low: barely 80%)

Sometimes I recognize/understand the word easily but when I look at the whole sentence, there are a few grammar things that don't make sense to me. Should I ignore that and just focus on the word?

learningkanji Wrote:Sometimes I recognize/understand the word easily but when I look at the whole sentence, there are a few grammar things that don't make sense to me. Should I ignore that and just focus on the word?

If you're reviewing vocab, grade the vocab. If you're reviewing grammar, grade the grammar. Don't mix up the two.

Regarding title "What should I know before I press Easy or Good in anki?"

Addon: Card Info During Review

This addon shows the ease of each card. From it I've learned:

Again: -30% ease
Hard: -15 % ease
Good: keeps ease
Easy: +15% ease

Note the modifiers, viewable in options. "Interval modifier allows you to apply a multiplication factor to the intervals Anki generates. At its default of 100% it does nothing; if you set it to 80% for example, intervals will be generated at 80% of their normal size (so a 10 day interval would become 8 days)." (Anki Manual)

Ease is the interval e.g. 'good' at 250% ease with 8 day interval becomes 20 days
And then the modifier is multiplied, in this case it's 100%.

From the manual

Quote:Reviewing
When a card has been previously learnt and is ready to be reviewed again, there are four buttons to rate your answer:

Again marks your answer as incorrect, and asks Anki to show the card more frequently in the future. Please see the lapses section for more information about how lapsed reviews are handled.

Hard shows the card at a slightly longer delay than last time, and tells Anki to be more conservative when scheduling the card in the future.

Good tells Anki that the last delay was about right, and the card easiness doesn’t need to be adjusted down or up. At the default starting easiness, the card will be shown again approximately 2 1/2 times longer than the previous time - so if you had waited 10 days to see the card previously, the next delay would be about 25 days.

Easy tells Anki you’re finding the delays too short. The card will be scheduled further into the future than Good, and Anki will be more aggressive in its scheduling of the card in the future. Because Easy rapidly increases the delay, it’s best left for only the easiest of cards. Usually you should find yourself answering Good instead.

Like learning cards, you can use 1-4 on the keyboard to select an answer. Pressing the spacebar will select Good.

Now to answer the questions "Doing core2k now and if I recognize an audio clip right away but don't really think about the kanji of the word, is that a pass? Should I remember the kanji that make up the word too or just how to say it?"

Depends on what you're looking to learn / the type of deck. The criteria is up to you. I probably can't answer the above questions, because I'm not sure how your decks are set up. But I assume with vocab the focus is on the word's meaning or reading, while the sentence serves as a backup or to give contextual meaning to the word (this may vary). The Anki Manual and Supermemo's 20 rules of formulating knowledge has some good advice on adding and reviewing cards.

Quote:Best Practices
Different people like to review in different ways, but there are some general concepts to keep in mind. An excellent introduction is this article on the SuperMemo site. In particular:

Keep it simple The shorter your cards, the easier they are to review. You may be tempted to include lots of information just in case, but reviews will quickly become painful.

Don’t memorize without understanding [...] Likewise, imagine you’re studying a computer course. If you attempt to memorize the mountain of acronyms, you’ll find it very difficult to make progress. But if you take the time to understand the concepts behind the acronyms, learning the acronyms will become a lot easier.