I don't have that one on my list, but I do have Ezekiel 18:24 in my review queue, which is a doozy!
24 But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.
Thanks for the clarification guys. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with my verses yet. Some of them I am ready to stop seeing ha! I think my closest is at 95% with an interval of 5 months. I think I'm a month or two into it, so I guess I don't have to decide anytime soon. Regarding the 85% threshold, that is the lowest percentage I have been able to get without it triggering a practice or loss of progress. I'm not sure if that is the actual threshold, however, just what I've observed.
So if I'm understanding correctly, if you select the see again in 12 months option, and then twelve months later get below the 85% threshold, you will lose your fully learned status? But if you get it above the 85% after a year, it stays learned? And the same is true of the test again? In other words, the only danger of seesaw is if you fail the next test under either method?
So I have a question. When you finish your verse, you get a popup asking you to stop seeing it or see it again in a year, right? How does the seesaw occur then? Are you guys saying that if you choose the one year option, it does not count the verse as finished? Perhaps I am unclear on what buttons you see when you finish a verse, and what the consequences are for hitting said buttons.
I am looking for other peoples advice that have been here for a while on an issue I've noticed. Today, my reviews brought up John 4. I did poorly on verse 35, and I ended up getting 0% on the review. But because my percentage is at 91%, my next review is at 3 months. If I got 0% today, chances are good that I'm going to get 0% on that same verse three months from now. This basically means that I'll never master this verse. How do you guys handle this?
Ah, I see. I probably should have done that as well. My favorites so far are John 1 (the prologue), John 6 (the bread of life narratives), and John 9 (the blind man confronting the Pharisees).
You should be at about 88% based upon your start date on the website. Even if you get a verse 100% correct every time, it will still take a year to reach 100% on the verse. My highest verse is at 95%, and my current interval for that verse is five months. But I also started several months before you.
As far as memorizing goes, my most recent process has changed a bit. I've decided to bump my daily total from one verse a day to two verses a day. If I do that, I should be able to memorize the New Testament in 10 years. Right now, I look at my current active chapter in John (10). I begin by starting with verse one no matter what is due. I toggle it to test me, and I test on that chapter until I get to my new verses for the day. I do my two verses, and then I go back to my dashboard and select review again on John 10.
Once my known verses get to 40%, I stop reviewing them every day. So for example, John 10:1-10 are at 40%, so I edited my group to start with verse 11. Because of this, when I review John 10 again, it starts with verse 11. I will constantly adjust my group based upon my percentages. I used to just do the reviews every day until I finished the chapter, but I found that pushed out my interval too far on those early verses. When those verses would come around again, I would have forgotten them. Stopping at 40% seems to be the sweet spot for me.
Back to John 10. After I've clicked Review and started with verse 11, I toggle the chapter to test for each verse. I then go all the way to the review of my two new verses. I repeat this process until those two new verses of the day reaches around 20%. At that point, I go and do my other reviews. I do not touch John 10 again until the next day. Doing it this way strengthens my initial understanding of the new verses without hurting me on future reviews.
My other chapters that are due all sit in my review queue every day because I set the last verse of every chapter to remain under a 24 hour interval. So I look through my review to see which chapters show two or more verses due, and then I do those reviews. At this point, I look at how long I've been reviewing and how many reviews I have done that day. I have set my review maxes to one hour or one hundred reviews, whichever comes first. If I have not reached that goal for the day, or I feel like doing more, then I will pick one of the chapters with one verse due and review that whole chapter. There are some days, however, when I am not really feeling it or my schedule is hectic. On those days, I'll skip all my reviews and just do the new verses. But no matter what, I do my two verses.
With the above process, I typically review between 95% to 100% accuracy. Some verses, however, refuse to stick. For example, John 5:20-31. For these verses, I add these verses in groups of four as a separate set of individual verses. So, for the above example, I have one for John 5:20-23, 24-27, and 28-31. (These have separate timers from the originals, but do not add to your verse total). I then review those sets of four in order every time they come up for review. (If they get out of order, I skip the verses until the correct one is due, then test on it.)
Hopefully something within this wall of text will be useful to you or others on this website.