Post Step 1 Review overload

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Hello,

Finished Step 1 and was wondering what people do if they gave up Anki during dedicated. I don’t start rotations until Mid-March which is when I plan on starting Anki again. I currently have a ~7500 review burden that will only go up.

My current plan is to use the delay-overdue feature to get my reviews to a reasonable amount on my first day of reviewing and then stay consistent going forward. I understand this defeats the purpose of Anki but I don’t see another feasible option.

Curious if there are other ideas or people generally do something different.

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Hello,

This is reasonable, I’ve done the same before. It’s not optimal but it’s better than just leaving them

You can also create a custom study then filter them by descending intervals, so you see the one’s that have the largest interval first (they are usually easier) so that can help you get started as well

Another option, if you’re noticing that you’re getting many of them wrong because you’ve forgotten them, is to reset the cards back to new. Then you can do them again that way

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Thanks for responding.

I think this might be better for me rather than reseting. I have like 10k cards post suspending Step1.

Only thing I worry about it my retention changing because and leading to some problems with FSRS showing cards too often, but I guess we shall see.

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@Ahmed7 , I wanted to get your thoughts on this actually…

Starting rotation in a couple weeks and really haven’t kept up with Anking in ~3 months. I have 10k cards matured. Is it feasible to just forget the entire deck and start over? I’m thinking it’s not a bad idea because I can start fresh and don’t want to screw up my retention with cards that were due months ago but delay-overdueing will falsely have them due now.

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I had this same issue, at first I didn’t reset the cards and it led to me just forgetting a ton of cards.

Then I reset them and It has helped a lot. For any cards that I really know I just either click Easy or Good, and like you mentioned, this won’t mess up your retention.

It’s ultimately up to you, you can still go through them bit by bit and clear the backlog but you’ll have to be brutally honest and click Again when you get it wrong and Good if you get it right.

The forget option will cause more card burden however since you’re relearning the cards again but if it’s something that you think will benefit you, then you can do it. It worked out for me and I’d rather know the material more rather than vaguely know it and get it wrong on an exam or when asked by a Dr for example

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Okay thanks, I’m going to reset it then. It’ll be nice to have a fresh start rather than struggling through old reviews. I appreciate your help!

Last 2 things I was curious about.

  1. Should I not touch my FSRS settings? And just recalculate the parameters after the minimum amount of reviews? Or do I reset FRSR to default?

  2. I’ve seen the Anking video on his timeline of doing new cards for rotations but curious if you followed that workflow or had another strategy?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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If you will reset all your cards, then it would make sense to reset your FSRS parameters. Although you can keep your old one if it’s working fine for you since it probably learned your retention

I reset mine for a clean start since I had 2-3 years of Step 1 reviews and found it wasn’t really accurate for my use case

This is what I’m doing, so I had Psych first, then OBGYN, then peds. So I would start doing Psych and make sure I finish all the cards then before the next rotation, try to get started on those cards to make sure I’m not clueless before the rotation starts lol. I mainly did the !Shelf tag, but also unsuspended some from Sketchy and resources by rotation and subject tag (it will increase your card load a lot so only unsuspend more if you really need it)