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Pushing cards ahead

#1
As I was on vacation for about a month, without internet access, I have fallen too behind on my reviews to have any hope of catching up. I started over.

Since I have by no means forgotten all of my cards, would it be OK to push several hundred of the cards ahead a few stacks?(the ones that I'm REVIEWING[i.e. not forgotten yet? they used to be in the high stacks{so no damage will be caused i guess...}], as opposed to RELEARNING)...
Edited: 2008-08-19, 5:22 pm
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#2
I am wondering the same thing.

I reached 1350 kanji in June, then left my ideal study environment and routine and haven't reviewed since. Now all 1350 are due to be reviewed even though I'm sure I know hundreds of them.

What should I do?
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#3
You would have been better off just reviewing your large expired stack. You might fail a lot of them, but the ones you remembered would have stayed in high stacks. Why start over?
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#4
Eh, it's too late to not start over now.

I was about 1350 in, and my fail stack was about 250. It probably would have been about 600 when I finished. Also, the scheduling would be messed up.
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#5
Messed up as it was, it would have been better than starting over.

At this point, pushing them ahead is bad. Pushing cards ahead without really reviewing them will create a huge mess for you.

If you're going to start over, just start over. Do 50 or 100 per day for a while and deal with the large review stacks as they come.
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#6
Just take a few days a review them all without adding new ones. It won't be as bad as you think.
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#7
There's a clear moral to be learnt here (which I learnt the hard way):

NEVER TAKE A BREAK!

Not adding NEW kanji is acceptable, but you MUST review EVERYDAY.

or else you'll regret it later on....

Save holidays until you finish RTK :-)
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#8
Well...I was away from a computer --- a forced break.
I was very careful not to miss even a day. I missed one on the way, and it took a good little while to catch up.
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#9
I did that a few times. The first one when I switched to mnemosyne. The other one when I erased my deck by mistake. The third one when I mixed my RTK and sentences deck. Well, it sucked but I'm alive and kicking.
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