No no no, you still flag questions and they go into your 'stack' as soon as you've seen the questions. When you log into beta, you just hit 'do questions' right there on the front, and it'll give you questions from all your flagged material in a prioritized manner. You set your own goal on how many to do. Though what you describe is a nice way to review if you're finding yourself weak on a certain subject.
Yes, this has been an issue ever since the beta launched.
I would say use your best judgement. When I run into things like that I'll usually rank it 1 lower than I would have otherwise. Eventually when you start seeing questions a few times, they get spread out as you rank some of them 3s and 4s while others you rank 1s or 2s. In all honestly I feel like it helps me drive home the info better when I see it together the first few times. I am a huge fan of beta. Just have to adapt to it a bit.
I am doing 120 + 30-40 new questions every day. Currently 60 % banked with 76% mastery. I do find it difficult to estimate the rate at which one should flag, since some topics are much heavier in questions than others.
I made an equation that I use to calculate how many. I do (150 x %flagged) +50. The most I'll do is 200/day so this works for me. Once I have 100% flagged I will be doing 200. Right now I have about 38% flagged, so I do 107
Not using it right now, but whenever this happens I usually chat them and get a response pretty quickly.
Personally I'd give it a month, or at least a few weeks, but others might disagree.
If you're going to do it I'd get it early. At the beginning try to use the calendar system and flag stuff with classes. If you start with the beta you're going to get flooded wth things from every subject.
I'm not sure you understand how beta works? You should only see material you've flagged when using beta.
That's weird. My friend started a few months before summer and flagged two topics. He said after those two topics ran out on the "do questions" tab, questions started popping up from all sections because he didn't have enough questions flagged to support it. Once he had more topics flagged it never happened again, but I figured that's what it was. I switched to beta early on, so admittedly it never happened to me. I've just heard of a few times where that has happened without enough topics flagged
Yeah that only happens if you run out of flagged questions, but 2 weeks into flagging actively, you definitely won't run out of questions anymore. So yeah that's only because 2 topics were flagged.
I should have clarified, I meant use the calendar system for like 2 weeks until you get enough flagged
Tbh I wouldn't recommend waiting as long as a month unless your first month will be fluff stuff like genetics, etc. The earlier the better with Firecracker. I waited until ~November of first year and wish I had just committed from the beginning.
Not really in coursework but def in my long-term retention (ie, retained stuff I flagged that year in Firecracker and not as much what I had learned earlier).
Also, beta now has a "legacy mode" that pretty-much maintains the calendar as far as I can tell for those interested. I haven't tried it so I'm not 100% but I believe that's what it is.
I did it along with anatomy so it wasnt a chore for me. Most of the questions I rarely see because it's been so long since I've had anatomy and most are 4s/5s
I personally think it really depends on who is editing the section. For example, when going through respiratory it seemed like firecracker was straight out of Rapid Review Path. Some sections however are basically first aid in flashcard form.
Sometimes it is irritating when I see something I havent seen in awhile that I know I knew it at one point and now I don't, but firecracker came up with this whole algorithm based on "what the most successful test takers do", so I trust that if I do more questions than 80 (which is what they recommend) then it is a bonus. I just couldn't justify taking so much time away from classes/research to work on firecracker for 2-3 hours every day. At some point I might increase it, but I think if I max out at 200 that should be plenty.
I usually hear people using it outside of dedicate. Certainly Ive never heard of anybody trying to add NEW cards during dedicated.
I had a question about this. 80 cards per day wouldn't get you through everything unless you didn't have reviews to deal with. So lets say you are doing micro and you want to flag a topic with 20 cards but it gets folded into a million reviews. How do you make sure that you at least see those 20 cards first and then continue to see them as reviews with more frequency than a million ancient review cards.
