Onfire has given a lot of good advice here. One thing that both he and I do is to, in the case of a new set in which one verse is added at a time, I wait until all verses in the set have been added before I begin reviewing them regularly. I agree with onfire on this point; in my own view, in this way the verses can all progress as a group.
I personally (and here I emphasize the word personally) prefer using a spreadsheet, for these primary reasons:
1 -- I can set my own intervals for any set. Perhaps Learn Scripture thinks I can wait 6 months to review a set, but I believe that I will have forgotten a lot of it by that time; so perhaps I set an interval of 90 days instead.
2 -- Using a spreadsheet, I no longer have any problem with those "crippled verses"; meaning specifically, in a set of 10 verses, perhaps 9 of them are at around a 90% progress percentage, but one of them is at 55%, due to a lower review score. Learn Scripture will have that set appear on my review queue much sooner because of that one verse at 55%. This clutters the review queue. So, I personally, have decided not to worry about those crippled verses. As onfire said, not every verse will reach 100%, unless one limits himself to a smaller number of verses according to one's own ability to memorize; I would rather cover a larger number of verses, and accept the fact that some of them will take a very very long time to reach 100%, or perhaps they never will.
3 -- I set my own intervals in this way: my spreadsheet has a column for all the sets which I am currently reviewing. There is also a column titled "Date of last review". The next column is for the inteveral. Here I input the number of days for the interval. The next column is for the date of next review. I then input a formula, Date of last review + number of days for the interval = date of next review.
Then, I sort the spreadsheet when necessary, so that the whole sheet is ordered by that Date of Next review. In that way, all of the sets which are due today appear together.
In this way, I ignore Learn Scripture's review queue, and have established my own according to what I feel are my own abilities to memorize.
Yes, there is a lot of work in initially setting up the spreadsheet, but it is work which pays off in the long run -- again, in my own opinion :) Of course I understand that not everyone will want to go this route.
I realized that I was guilty of not reading your comment very carefully, regarding how your review list is daunting.
I'll only say it's a problem I've experienced too, because I was too enthusiastic at the beginning, for me back in 2015, and started too many verses. It's not easy as a beginner to anticipate what your review queue will look like 6 months or 1 year on.
I use a spreadsheet now instead of the review list, and I choose what sets I will work on from that spreadsheet.
In your own case would it help to perhaps to focus on 2 or 3 specific books of the Bible, or 5 or 6 passages, and work on those for a while until they are off your review list? What I mean is to in some way, "let go" of the review list.
I'm not trying to tell you what to do, only offering "food for thought" and hoping that it will be helpful :)
I'll try to clarify :) Each verse in a set of verses has it's own progress percentage. Suppose that there are ten verses in the set, and before your review, each verse has a progress % of 90. Then you go to review. If they are all due today, and you get a 100% review score for 9 of them, those 9 will each advance to 95%. But if there is one short verse that has perhaps only six words, and you get 3 of them wrong (this can happen easily when one is using the first letter method) then your review score will be 50%. That 50% review score will then crash the progress percentage down to something a lot lower.
No ... PeterP was referring to an individual verse within a passage going down, or having a reduction in its progress percentage. Not the entire passage :)
Normally, when you a review a set where some verses are due and others are not, the verses which are not due appear as text, so that you can read them and continue in the flow of the passage.
In that scenario, the Test instead of learn option is available, so that you can be tested also on those verses which are not yet due, if you wish.
I agree with MarkAnthony and with JDJDJD, and just want to say treeswallow, just keep pressing on. Taking the time to pray before reviewing your verses is important. Perhaps making it a point to go slower and to lower the number of verses you review. But mainly I want to say, to just keep pressing on. Emotions change all the time, but the word of God does not change. Psalm 1 talks about how the person who meditates on the Lord will be like a tree planted by streams of water. It yields its fruit in its season. Fruit doesn't come instantly :) It comes in its season. So my advice for myself, 'cause I need it too!! and for you is to keep on and wait patiently for that fruit to grow.
Interestingly, after I read the verses in Jeremiah 17:5-9, I happened to be working on Isaiah 1:4. Both Is 1:4 and Jeremiah 17:5, in both of those the Lord refers to the sin of turning away from the Lord in one's heart. People may have the appearance of being religious, but what is the condition of my heart? Do I turn away from Him, or have I turned away from Him? In my opinion, it is very important to frequently pray and examine ourselves in this way. Am I just "going through the motions"? Or do I love the Lord with all my heart?
10) it's also worth noting, that if your set is a public set, the fact that you have begun learning on it will appear on the news screen every time you click "Learn" for that passage. I don't mean when you click review from the review queue, but when you go to the list of sets as I mentioned in point #3 above -- when you click "Learn", that will result in that information appearing on the news feed, if your set is public.
9) <edit> The option, "Test instead of read" will *not* appear in any case when all the verses are ready for review. It will only appear if and when some of them are not ready for review.
1) go to your list of verse sets (I'm using a PC; on my browser, the username appears at the top right and then from that there is a drop down menu. Choose "Verse Sets". 2) Find the set you want to review, click the link; 3) scroll down and click "Learn". 4) Next to the progress percentage for the first verse in the set, top right of the screen, you will see three parallel bars forming a small square. Click on that. 5) Then you'll see some options for your review of that set. One of those is "Test instead of read". Tick that box. Then you can test yourself on each verse in the set, even if it's not due for review.
6) Some folks prefer not to review fully learned verses because if you end up with a low score on the review, it can radically lower the progress percentage. Thus, your fully learned verse will no longer have that status, and perhaps go back to 80, 70, even 50%, depending on how poor your test score is.
7) My own experimentation has shown, that if you test a fully learned verse and your result is at least 90%, then the verse will retain its fully learned status.
8) I hope that's helpful, but I'm sure other folks here will have their own input :)
I believe what you have proposed is quite possible; that is, that there is a kind of bonus added to the progress percentage when you score 100% on the review. Yes, I see that as a possiblity. Thanks for taking the time to analyze that and I'm sure others will have some input than mine.
And yes, the fact that the progress percentages are (as far as we can tell) rounded up or down makes our analysis of the situation a bit trickier to carry out ..