It isn't always 12 months later. If you review the whole passage and then click "Test instead of read", then you will be tested on that fully learnt verse -- perhaps much earlier than that 12 months. If your score is low enough, you'll be penalized, and it won't be fully learnt anymore. I'm not aware of 85% being the key percentage -- it's the first I've heard of that.
Part of the issue here is that (I at least) don't always evaluate everything going on in terms of percentages, what threshhold is necessary to keep something fully learnt etc., every time I test a fully learnt verse. Actually, as I said, I don't test on fully learnt verses anymore -- I simply review what is due. My own "see saw" experience took place about three years ago. I reached 300. Some fully learnt verses came due, I tested on them, failed, but then some others at 95-99% came up for review, I tested, got a good score, and then went back up above 300 again. That happened several times because I had many verses spread out over a period of about 3 years.
I hope that helps somewhat. It'll be much clearer to you once you experience it. You signed up on 20 August, so sometime this fall all this will become much clearer to you :) I don't pretend to be any expert -- but as I said, now I just leave them fully learnt, because I want to move on to other parts of the Bible.
In addition, if a person clicks "Test instead of read" then that "Fully Learnt" verse will be presented to you again for review, perhaps long before the 12 months are up. That's also how verses could become "unlearnt".
To Onfire, it's not a popup, it's one of three buttons on the lower right: Practice, See in 12 months, or Fully Learnt. If you press See in 12 months the verse could then when you review it regress and then becomes unlearnt, and thus, the "seesaw".
I just wanted to say, that a few years ago I too had that "see saw" situation. I had reached 300 verses fully learnt, but kept reviewing the ones fully learnt. There were maybe 5 or 6 times when I came up on the news feed that I had reached the number 300, and each time several people congratulated me. That was very kind of them, of course.
Then I decided to reset everything and start again ... something I wish now I had not done. (But all this reflects my own personal thinking, and is NOT intended to tell or not tell anyone what to do in their own case)
Fast forward to the present, my own intention now is to leave everything Fully Learnt as Fully Learnt, and to not review them anymore, so that I can bit by bit move on to other areas of the Bible which I want to incorporate here.
But I also think I totally understand you, (to Luli2016), in that you dearly want to keep those fully learnt as truly being just that, fully learnt!
So we will all rejoice with you in your see-saw adventure. As long as you are day by day growing in your knowledge and love of Him, it is all for the good! Praise God, He is so good, and I feel His kindness and goodness toward us all as I write this. Amen.
Thank you for sharing those thoughts janet23. I'll add, from my most recent chapter where I'm adding verses, John 11, where Lazarus is raised from the dead -- not after five or ten or thirty minutes, not after an hour or two hours -- but after FOUR DAYS of being in the tomb, Lazarus was raised from the dead and called back to life by Jesus Christ (verse 17 refers to the four days).
John 5 is so good. This is where I am up to in the book of John. What I have noticed in the book so far is how it is about the encounters that people have with Jesus. And in the current chapter I love how the man is called the sick man and after his encounter with Jesus he becomes the man who had been healed. A whole new identity. 😇
Also the amazing transformation in chapter 4 of the Samaritan Woman and the official and all his household and in chapter 3 where Nicodemus the teacher becomes the student.
Thank you for sharing those thoughts janet23. I'll add, from my most recent chapter where I'm adding verses, John 11, where Lazarus is raised from the dead -- not after five or ten or thirty minutes, not after an hour or two hours -- but after FOUR DAYS of being in the tomb, Lazarus was raised from the dead and called back to life by Jesus Christ (verse 17 refers to the four days).
Congratulations on the nine million! I too have wondered at times if my work process here is flawed. In a given passage of about 25 verses, I might be able to get half of them to fully learnt, but the other half "get stuck". Once a verse gets into the 90 percent progress range, you have to test at least at 95% to move it toward 100 with any significance. So, I keep a spreadsheet as a record of each passage, and try to rate its strength. The passages which are weaker I repeat more often ... that's my current process ...
The problem for me, ever since I joined this site, is that I always want to add more verses. And then a conflict ensues between dealing properly with memorizing new verses and also maintaining those which are "middle aged" and those which are nearing Fully Learnt. So, once again I'm attempting to slow down and add even none at all, but just to be satisfied with dealing with the ones I have added in some proper way.
Not saying that everyone should do that, no not at all. Just saying it's where I am at the moment.
I also did a total reset back in October 2019, but I don't recommend doing that. I ended up regretting having to start everything from zero again ... now my primary goal is to get each verse up to Fully Learnt. Having said all that, it's a great joy to come to this site, truly.