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[JackShephard MD]

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New medical education website rooted in an adaptive learning platform. Looks impressive, check it out.

Cheers.

 

[nabilesmail]

I think that one part of learning is to be active. I usually will spend time thinking about a question if I recall some level of it rather than 1ing it and moving on

I also do about 200-270/2hrs, Just depends on the questions and if they are majority old or not

 

[Triplet]

I've been really enjoying the new system. Has there been any updates on whether there will be a Anki-style button for cards that we would like to see in the next 1 minute or 10 minutes rather than the next review session? Previous thoughts on this board have talked about something like a 0 button that guarantees we will see the card again within a certain amount of minutes later. The current system I notice is repeating some cards that I rate as 1, but not all, so therefore I have little control of which ones I actually want to see in the same review session. Further, some have suggested just using the "skip card" option but I find that I can't keep skipping the card if I want to see it again as my card stack gets reduced. It's very likely my memory is horrible, but for some of the cards that have large answers, and are specific, I can never remember if I look at it once per day, so I've currently had to write out these specific cards into Anki to drill into memory, AND then go back to Firecracker to review. I wish there was a solution to this.

LASTLY, a pedantic request, but can it be made so that the subject tree does not completely collapse when we are in the Study Something Specific mode? It is a bit annoying to have to constantly re-expand everything each time I've finished one topic review.

Otherwise, I'm really enjoying the changes and look forward to what is to come, thank you!

 

[Ophthoseidon]

I've been really enjoying the new system. Has there been any updates on whether there will be a Anki-style button for cards that we would like to see in the next 1 minute or 10 minutes rather than the next review session? Previous thoughts on this board have talked about something like a 0 button that guarantees we will see the card again within a certain amount of minutes later. The current system I notice is repeating some cards that I rate as 1, but not all, so therefore I have little control of which ones I actually want to see in the same review session. Further, some have suggested just using the "skip card" option but I find that I can't keep skipping the card if I want to see it again as my card stack gets reduced. It's very likely my memory is horrible, but for some of the cards that have large answers, and are specific, I can never remember if I look at it once per day, so I've currently had to write out these specific cards into Anki to drill into memory, AND then go back to Firecracker to review. I wish there was a solution to this.

LASTLY, a pedantic request, but can it be made so that the subject tree does not completely collapse when we are in the Study Something Specific mode? It is a bit annoying to have to constantly re-expand everything each time I've finished one topic review.

Otherwise, I'm really enjoying the changes and look forward to what is to come, thank you!

There currently is a skip card button. The hotkey for it is k. j is previous, k is next. If you hit "k" it will go to the next card. If you exit out of the do questions mode, the cards you skipped will be the next cards in your review. Those cards are part of your 300 anyway so say you skip 3, once you get to card 298 the 3 cards you skipped will be the last 3 cards, since they are core cards in your review. It's not as easy as a rate 0 button, but it is a way you can see the same card repeatedly in the same day

 

[Triplet]

Right, but at least from what I've noticed by using that skipped card option, I can either only do it once, or once I get towards the end of the deck, it won't let me skip it again in that same review. For example, I just went to study a specific topic, and there was a set number of times I could skip that card and it seems dependent on how many I have left to review. For something that has an answer as a long list, I generally need to see it 3-4 times in a review session within a short time interval before I can confidently say that I could answer that question tomorrow.

As it stands we're using the skip option as a workaround for this feature. Like the skip button, it wouldn't change Firecracker's card review algorithm, it would be just some button, whether it's a 0, or some other hotkey that's a timed interval in minutes (or something you can set on your own) that allows you to review it as many times as you'd need in a single review before committing it into the firecracker algorithm.

 

[Ophthoseidon]

Right, but at least from what I've noticed by using that skipped card option, I can either only do it once, or once I get towards the end of the deck, it won't let me skip it again in that same review. For example, I just went to study a specific topic, and there was a set number of times I could skip that card and it seems dependent on how many I have left to review. For something that has an answer as a long list, I generally need to see it 3-4 times in a review session within a short time interval before I can confidently say that I could answer that question tomorrow.

As it stands we're using the skip option as a workaround for this feature. Like the skip button, it wouldn't change Firecracker's card review algorithm, it would be just some button, whether it's a 0, or some other hotkey that's a timed interval in minutes (or something you can set on your own) that allows you to review it as many times as you'd need in a single review before committing it into the firecracker algorithm.

I'm not disagreeing with you, I was just giving you suggestions for what you could do now in case you didn't know about it. It would be a nice feature to have

 

[pacman2018]

I think that is what they should change the "1" to. I hardly ever use it (mostly stick to 2-4) unless I truly have never seen the info before. Obviously I should have seen all of the info since I have gone through and flagged the topic and would have seen it then.

 

[whoohoo]

Hi all,
While using FirecrackerMD, I noticed my number of daily assigned cards changed from 340 to 250 in one day (basically, when I logged back in and looked at the settings page, my daily number was reduced). I haven't changed my goal score or my test date....

Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[nabilesmail]

Hi all,
While using FirecrackerMD, I noticed my number of daily assigned cards changed from 340 to 250 in one day (basically, when I logged back in and looked at the settings page, my daily number was reduced). I haven't changed my goal score or my test date....

Has this happened to anyone else?

This also happened to me! 270-> 250 as well!

 

[Ophthoseidon]

Hi all,
While using FirecrackerMD, I noticed my number of daily assigned cards changed from 340 to 250 in one day (basically, when I logged back in and looked at the settings page, my daily number was reduced). I haven't changed my goal score or my test date....

Has this happened to anyone else?

It's trying to tell you not to have 285 as your goal score lol 😛 But no, I haven't heard of this happening to anyone

 

[pacman2018]

mine went from 290 to 300 to 250. no change in goal or test date...

 

[qtpai]

They seem to have capped daily review at 250. After a certain hoped-for Step score, the recommendation for daily review will not go above 250, no matter how much you increase the score.

 

[Ophthoseidon]

They seem to have capped daily review at 250. After a certain hoped-for Step score, the recommendation for daily review will not go above 250, no matter how much you increase the score.

Mine is still above 250 as of this morning

 

[whoohoo]

They seem to have capped daily review at 250. After a certain hoped-for Step score, the recommendation for daily review will not go above 250, no matter how much you increase the score.

How dare they... haha

Keith, can you shed some light on the reasoning behind this? I feel like this goes against the purpose of spaced-repetition, which is to make sure you review ALL cards that you are likely to forget that day.... not just the top 250.

 

[nabilesmail]

Mine is still above 250 as of this morning

For recommended under settings, or current? If yours was above >250 before, itll stay like that as your daily to do, but in settings, it will recommend 250

 

[Ophthoseidon]

For recommended under settings, or current? If yours was above >250 before, itll stay like that as your daily to do, but in settings, it will recommend 250

You're right, it says recommended to do 250, but my daily to do is 300. Why isn't that synced?

 

[Blue Blood]

How dare they... haha

Keith, can you shed some light on the reasoning behind this? I feel like this goes against the purpose of spaced-repetition, which is to make sure you review ALL cards that you are likely to forget that day.... not just the top 250.

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the new program uses adaptive repetition while legacy uses spaced repetition. Keith can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how I took it. Which would explain how you can change the card count.

 

[Ophthoseidon]

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the new program uses adaptive repetition while legacy uses spaced repetition. Keith can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how I took it. Which would explain how you can change the card count.

Those are the principles, but the adaptive system is not in place yet.

 

[Blue Blood]

Those are the principles, but the adaptive system is not in place yet.

I know what you mean but I'm pretty sure it's a soft roll out of the adaptive algorithm. I can't quote my PMs since it's a TOS violation but that's what's happening I think based my my emails and PMs w/firecracker.

I'm still not sure If I want to stick with legacy or the new one. Well see how well received these changes are.

 

[13132]

After a long internal struggle I have decided to pull the plug on Firecracker. Its algorithm doesn't work for me, and I can't find the right balance of old and new material. I have been a heavy user since April, and I averaged ~300 cards per day. I had almost all 5s on 40% of the material, but I've had enough. This is separate from why I am stopping, but I also think the card suggestion for a certain score is really questionable and a gimmick to make people reliant on the program. It recommended that I do 240/day for a 220 and 250/day for every score above a 235. Sounds pretty suspect to me...

My biggest complaint of all is that you can't edit the cards. I have started making Anki into FC, and I like this because it allows your brain to phrase and organize answers so that you remember them. It is just a much more active process. I also love the flexibility of Anki's algorithm and the ability to make custom cards.

Just the opinion of someone who tried really hard to make this program an integral part of my plan. Didn't work for me, but I can see why many people like it. I wanted to post this to say don't be afraid to quit stuff that isn't working for you even if you have paid for it.

 

[FA5297]

I'm also interested in the data behind the card suggestion, and for the program in general. Besides this paper (from which all their advertised charts are derived), I haven't been able to find much. I'm no statistics major, but there does seem to be a correlation between number of cards completed, number of new topics seen, and step scores. I'd be interested in other people's thoughts on this, as well as potentially more data, if it exists.

 

[theKeithF]

Hi everyone! Major apologies for the radio silence. I was on the road for a good while, and when I got back, I had to immediately move into a new apartment. Between this, lots of Firecracker MD and Firecracker DO product enhancements, and a few rounds of Mortal Kombat (hey - a guy needs some down time once in awhile), I haven't been able to get back to you all as quickly as I'd like. Promise to be better about this going forward. Anywho - I'll reply to all of the specific questions soon, but I want to first shed some light on the adaptive algorithm since this seems to be the source of most of the curiosity (and understandably so).

The algorithm is currently adaptive in one major way: We always recommend the highest priority questions for you to review first in your daily quizzes. So within the questions you have recommended each day, you are always recommended the questions that you are at the greatest risk of forgetting first (we are working on including a unique visualization of this in the prioritization tab on Today's To-Dos). However, right now in Firecracker MD and Firecracker DO we're assigning you a fixed number of questions to review each day based on your desired exam score and how much time you have until your exam date. These starting numbers are generated based on correlations with past Firecracker student usage and success. It is by no means a gimmick, but it certainly isn't perfect due to its inflexibility - your daily goal doesn't currently change with your performance or topic marking. But that is about to change.

Very soon (think weeks, not months) we are adding a second, more advanced adaptive layer: Your recommended number of weekly questions in Firecracker MD/DO will fluctuate based on the number of high priority questions that you have each week. The number of high priority questions you have each week is a function of your level of usage, performance on your quizzes, marked content, and the priority levels of your marked content (Urgent, Current, Past). We've been using the first three weeks of Firecracker MD/DO to understand how students are using the new app, especially to understand how different students mark topics as Urgent, Current, or Past. Now that we have a solid understanding of this, we're implementing both a variable weekly question count and a variable percentage of questions from Urgent, Current, and Past based on which questions are highest priority in each group. We actually launched the latter of these two yesterday. You can read about it here, if you're interested.

These first three weeks of Firecracker MD/DO have been critical for understanding how to implement the second aspect of our adaptive features in the new system, and we're constantly working to give you a more efficient review system. You're all super bright, so I'm not surprised you have these thoughtful questions; in fact, I was completely expecting them once we launched. I just want you to know that our plan all along was to release these major adaptive layers incrementally so as to ensure that it was optimally tuned to the way in which students are using the platform. I promise we're taking very measured and meaningful steps here. Cheers!

 

[nabilesmail]

Hi everyone! Major apologies for the radio silence. I was on the road for a good while, and when I got back, I had to immediately move into a new apartment. Between this, lots of Firecracker MD and Firecracker DO product enhancements, and a few rounds of Mortal Kombat (hey - a guy needs some down time once in awhile), I haven't been able to get back to you all as quickly as I'd like. Promise to be better about this going forward. Anywho - I'll reply to all of the specific questions soon, but I want to first shed some light on the adaptive algorithm since this seems to be the source of most of the curiosity (and understandably so).

The algorithm is currently adaptive in one major way: We always recommend the highest priority questions for you to review first in your daily quizzes. So within the questions you have recommended each day, you are always recommended the questions that you are at the greatest risk of forgetting first (we are working on including a unique visualization of this in the prioritization tab on Today's To-Dos). However, right now in Firecracker MD and Firecracker DO we're assigning you a fixed number of questions to review each day based on your desired exam score and how much time you have until your exam date. These starting numbers are generated based on correlations with past Firecracker student usage and success. It is by no means a gimmick, but it certainly isn't perfect due to its inflexibility - your daily goal doesn't currently change with your performance or topic marking. But that is about to change.

Very soon (think weeks, not months) we are adding a second, more advanced adaptive layer: Your recommended number of weekly questions in Firecracker MD/DO will fluctuate based on the number of high priority questions that you have each week. The number of high priority questions you have each week is a function of your level of usage, performance on your quizzes, marked content, and the priority levels of your marked content (Urgent, Current, Past). We've been using the first three weeks of Firecracker MD/DO to understand how students are using the new app, especially to understand how different students mark topics as Urgent, Current, or Past. Now that we have a solid understanding of this, we're implementing both a variable weekly question count and a variable percentage of questions from Urgent, Current, and Past based on which questions are highest priority in each group. We actually launched the latter of these two yesterday. You can read about it here, if you're interested.

These first three weeks of Firecracker MD/DO have been critical for understanding how to implement the second aspect of our adaptive features in the new system, and we're constantly working to give you a more efficient review system. You're all super bright, so I'm not surprised you have these thoughtful questions; in fact, I was completely expecting them once we launched. I just want you to know that our plan all along was to release these major adaptive layers incrementally so as to ensure that it was optimally tuned to the way in which students are using the platform. I promise we're taking very measured and meaningful steps here. Cheers!

Any plans to not max out the daily # at 250? I know I can just click review more, but I really would like my set amount above that.

 

[Daitong]

Hi guys,

Am I the only one that has had this issue? I'm an M1 and I've been doing the cards religiously since school started ~month ago (150+ cards a day), but for the past few days I've only be assigned to do like 20 cards or so. I thought it was an issue because it didn't give me an option to 'Get Ahead/Review More' (so I've had to use the study something specific), and I messaged FC about it, but they say I've marked my cards so high (4s and 5s) that I "don't need to do as many cards"?

Is this the way it should be set up? I really like the program choosing a set of 150+ cards for me to do, even if I've reviewed them somewhat thoroughly.

 

[Guero]

Hi guys,

Am I the only one that has had this issue? I'm an M1 and I've been doing the cards religiously since school started ~month ago (150+ cards a day), but for the past few days I've only be assigned to do like 20 cards or so. I thought it was an issue because it didn't give me an option to 'Get Ahead/Review More' (so I've had to use the study something specific), and I messaged FC about it, but they say I've marked my cards so high (4s and 5s) that I "don't need to do as many cards"?

Is this the way it should be set up? I really like the program choosing a set of 150+ cards for me to do, even if I've reviewed them somewhat thoroughly.

As with all advice, please take this with a grain of salt, but the resounding consensus is to focus on your current classes and any extracurriculars you have going on while holding off on step prep until M2 at the *very* least. Try to focus and do well on your exams now, learning the material before attempting to solidify it.

I'm an M2 taking my step in April 2016. And I just started firecracker a few weeks ago with a goal of 40 cards covering my weakest M1 areas. I'll increase and add material after I've learned it. Anyway, good luck! 🙂

And thanks to everyone for creating this thread. I still haven't tried the new algorithms but look forward to switching soon. I'm amazed by some of you doing 200+ a day, though. Wow!

 

[maroaj9]

Hi guys,

Am I the only one that has had this issue? I'm an M1 and I've been doing the cards religiously since school started ~month ago (150+ cards a day), but for the past few days I've only be assigned to do like 20 cards or so. I thought it was an issue because it didn't give me an option to 'Get Ahead/Review More' (so I've had to use the study something specific), and I messaged FC about it, but they say I've marked my cards so high (4s and 5s) that I "don't need to do as many cards"?

Is this the way it should be set up? I really like the program choosing a set of 150+ cards for me to do, even if I've reviewed them somewhat thoroughly.

I completely agree with this post. Firecracker should set the standard for a minimum amount of cards required, but should not be effectively setting a maximum amount of cards. If your daily recommendation is to complete 150 cards, then 150 cards should be available everyday. It doesn't matter how many cards I rate as 4 or 5 or how many cards I did the day before, there is always 150 cards at the top of the stack that I am at most risk to forget (regardless of whether or not that risk is low).

 

[abolt18]

Hi guys,

Am I the only one that has had this issue? I'm an M1 and I've been doing the cards religiously since school started ~month ago (150+ cards a day), but for the past few days I've only be assigned to do like 20 cards or so. I thought it was an issue because it didn't give me an option to 'Get Ahead/Review More' (so I've had to use the study something specific), and I messaged FC about it, but they say I've marked my cards so high (4s and 5s) that I "don't need to do as many cards"?

Is this the way it should be set up? I really like the program choosing a set of 150+ cards for me to do, even if I've reviewed them somewhat thoroughly.

If you're running out of cards, I'd say flag more to adjust for the difference. It means you're charging right ahead so either flag more material, or enjoy the small #of questions that day.

 

[nabilesmail]

@theKeithF Can you please address the 250 card/day cap in settings?

 

[masaraksh]

Why not just download Brosencephalon Anki deck and rip though that, than pay up the *** for firecrackhead

 

[smarts1]

@theKeithF Do you have a plan to add in an area where we can all of the topics we marked as urgent and change their urgent setting? My school has an integrated curriculum so I flag a lot of stuff that's going to be on my exams in random content areas, so it's a pain to have to go look for all of the topics I've marked as urgent after my exams and mark them back as current.

 

[nabilesmail]

@theKeithF Is there a chance you can implement a way to Edit Questions (and even answers). Often times, a question asks a specific thing and the highlighted answer obviously answers the question, but sometimes it also includes other important/pertinent information that has no other cards. When I get these questions, I forget to think about that factoid, and thus I am using no active recall of it. I'd like to be able to edit questions so I can also include questions about those facts in the stem. Also, many questions ask "What are the 4 symptoms of X Disease", which is great- I like things to be very specific so that I know how many things i should be able to recall. However, every now and then, a question fails to specify and just Asks "What are the common"- Once again, without the number, I'm not actively recalling each symptom I would like to and cant formulate my own mastery of the topic since I just end up reading the card and going "Oh Yeah".

By doing these two things, I tend to not count cards as 4's+ because I forget to include answers to those facts on my own. By constantly rating these cards 3's much more often than other/specific cards, I end up wasting a lot of time in mastery due to formatting errors rather than learning errors.

 

[whoohoo]

I think the Firecracker MD is great so far. I really appreciate the way we can see how we are doing in each section. The interface is great. Here are a couple points I think could help make Firecracker better...

1. The 1-5 scale is great but I think if I score something a "1," I should see that same card later that day. Waiting a day or more is too long to hammer in some of those hard to remember cards.. I still find myself using ANKI as a supplement, which kind of goes against the whole mission of Firecracker which is to consolidate materials into a single source.

2. I appreciated the adaptive learning system, but the user should be in control of how many cards he/she does each day. The current design allows you to "keep going," but I want a solid number to achieve each day that is aligned to my own study habits.

 

[justabanana]

1. The 1-5 scale is great but I think if I score something a "1," I should see that same card later that day. Waiting a day or more is too long to hammer in some of those hard to remember cards.. I still find myself using ANKI as a supplement, which kind of goes against the whole mission of Firecracker which is to consolidate materials into a single source.

I feel really strongly in favor of this.

I sometimes am left frustrated by little specific factoids that I know I've marked with a '1' a million times, but it never sticks because the interval at which I see it again (24 hours..) is just too long for me to retain it. I actually just started a little "firecracker" notecard pile on my desk for specific little things that don't stick in my brain seeing them once a day. B-vitamin info has been the main culprit here, but the steps of glycolysis are also in there. I'm only a few weeks into firecracker so I'm a bit worried this is going to be a problem for me. It's not an issue with broader facts and concepts, but specific stuff that I'm either just learning or that I'm re-learning from a long time ago just don't work for me with the current timing.

If there was a feature that allowed you to review all the cards you marked with a 1 that day, that would be glorious. I think overall it would make firecracker a much better tool for me personally. I'm sure there are others ways to approach this as well, but just a "Review the cards you marked with a 1 today" option would be amazing.

 

[Blue Blood]

I feel really strongly in favor of this.

I sometimes am left frustrated by little specific factoids that I know I've marked with a '1' a million times, but it never sticks because the interval at which I see it again (24 hours..) is just too long for me to retain it. I actually just started a little "firecracker" notecard pile on my desk for specific little things that don't stick in my brain seeing them once a day. B-vitamin info has been the main culprit here, but the steps of glycolysis are also in there. I'm only a few weeks into firecracker so I'm a bit worried this is going to be a problem for me. It's not an issue with broader facts and concepts, but specific stuff that I'm either just learning or that I'm re-learning from a long time ago just don't work for me with the current timing.

If there was a feature that allowed you to review all the cards you marked with a 1 that day, that would be glorious. I think overall it would make firecracker a much better tool for me personally. I'm sure there are others ways to approach this as well, but just a "Review the cards you marked with a 1 today" option would be amazing.

I am also in favor of forced, same day review of 1s. That said there is a feature where you can review all your ones for the day or 2s. 3s. Etc. I just wish it was forced for 1s.

 

[Triplet]

1. The 1-5 scale is great but I think if I score something a "1," I should see that same card later that day. Waiting a day or more is too long to hammer in some of those hard to remember cards.. I still find myself using ANKI as a supplement, which kind of goes against the whole mission of Firecracker which is to consolidate materials into a single source.

I want to jump on this bandwagon again in order to get an updated response from @theKeithF. I know you are getting bombed with questions, but this issue has been brought up many times throughout this thread. I currently take screenshots of the cards I continually miss and put them into Anki so that I can repeatedly review them until I have drilled them in enough. A simple fix is to add a 0 button or change the 1 button and allow users to specify a time interval in which a card should be seen again (ideally 10 minutes or less but allowing the user to decide is even better).

 

[TheRobin]

I want to jump on this bandwagon again in order to get an updated response from @theKeithF. I know you are getting bombed with questions, but this issue has been brought up many times throughout this thread. I currently take screenshots of the cards I continually miss and put them into Anki so that I can repeatedly review them until I have drilled them in enough. A simple fix is to add a 0 button or change the 1 button and allow users to specify a time interval in which a card should be seen again (ideally 10 minutes or less but allowing the user to decide is even better).

In Legacy, after you finish going through questions, you get a question summary with a breakdown of questions you marked as 1, 2, 3, etc. You then have the option of retaking questions. Is this not a thing with Firecracker MD?

 

[qtpai]

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[AlbinoHawk DO]

In Legacy, after you finish going through questions, you get a question summary with a breakdown of questions you marked as 1, 2, 3, etc. You then have the option of retaking questions. Is this not a thing with Firecracker MD?

I think what this person means is that they'd like to get the card again in 10 minutes or 30 minutes while doing other cards instead of just waiting until the end and doing just the wrong ones again after finishing.

 

[CyberMaxx]

In Legacy, after you finish going through questions, you get a question summary with a breakdown of questions you marked as 1, 2, 3, etc. You then have the option of retaking questions. Is this not a thing with Firecracker MD?

yeah, this is what I used to do in legacy, I'm hoping it will make it over to the new system soon.

 

[whoohoo]

Would also be useful if the questions could be filtered by time.

In other words, I want to be able to review all the "low (e.g. 1 and 2)" cards that I reviewed and rated this week. Just a thought...

 

[nabilesmail]

@theKeithF Can you please a respond to our questions/suggestions, a couple of which are critical like the 250 cap and the 1-5 scale

 

[justabanana]

Don't know how I never noticed, but there is definitely an option to review according to what rankings I gave cards, in the "Study Something Specific" portion of the new FC. I'm satisfied, though I definitely wouldn't complain if they reintegrated 1's into the same session that you mark it as a 1.

 

[StevensBibi]

Does anyone like Firecracker Legacy more than this new FC that they now have?

 

[deecee90]

Does anyone like Firecracker Legacy more than this new FC that they now have?

Trust me you're not alone. I switched over to Firecracker MD for a while but now I'm using Legacy mode right up until Step 1. Change is good but I'm not sure this change was.

 

[nabilesmail]

I think the 250 cap is ridiculous. My recommended card limit is 250 for a step score range of 230-270 lol, it only drops to 240 cards/day if I want a Step score <230. Like dafuq lol

 

[StevensBibi]

Trust me you're not alone. I switched over to Firecracker MD for a while but now I'm using Legacy mode right up until Step 1. Change is good but I'm not sure this change was.

Yeah, the problem I have with it is that this studying with FC MD just takes too long now. I can't afford to spend 3 hours a day on FC, you know. I felt that with Legacy, it maybe wasn't drilling you as much with questions, but it still accomplished more or less the same thing.

Why do you like Legacy more?

 

[nabilesmail]

Yeah, the problem I have with it is that this studying with FC MD just takes too long now. I can't afford to spend 3 hours a day on FC, you know. I felt that with Legacy, it maybe wasn't drilling you as much with questions, but it still accomplished more or less the same thing.

Why do you like Legacy more?

Really? How much do you have flagged? Right now 250 cards/day is the "official cap". If you look earlier in the thread, people that had more than >80%flagged were given 350-600 questions/day depending on mastery.

 

[Guero]

Just switched to MD and also have a 250 recommendation. What are your test dates; and how long have you guys been using it? I'm just now starting serious use/prep for an April test...

 

[Daitong]

Can some one comment on how the cards/day is calculated? It seems that as I flag more, my target cards per day on the 'settings' page goes up (instead of 180 cards for a 250 score, it goes up to 190).

Is it based on level of mastery in how you rate the cards (1->5) or by volume flagged?

Or both?

 

[Ophthoseidon]

Can some one comment on how the cards/day is calculated? It seems that as I flag more, my target cards per day on the 'settings' page goes up (instead of 180 cards for a 250 score, it goes up to 190).

Is it based on level of mastery in how you rate the cards (1->5) or by volume flagged?

Or both?

Right now the algorithm only considers your target score and test date. It is not fully adaptive. It probably changed once October hit since you're a month closer, but that is just a guess

 

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I was a Firecracker Legacy user with 147/2158 topics flagged and I was getting around 120-150 questions a day. I had always finished my questions by the end of the day. Once I transitioned over to Firecracker MD and set up my goal (which was 250 questions), I flagged a few more topics and completed the relevant review questions that night

The next day, it only gave me 24 questions for the entire day. That 24 questions came from what I recently marked, none whatsoever from my previous progress on Legacy. The next day, it only added 7 more questions on top of that, nothing from my old cards.

My Firecracker Legacy account question is piling up after 2 days (277 questions now), which is concerning since I'm intentionally ignoring it for Firecracker MD.

But on Firecracker MD, I have not received any questions that I flagged back in legacy, such as the ones I flagged as 1s and 2s. I also thought I was supposed to receive 250 questions a day (as set by Firecracker's goal target) but I only had 24 questions, then 7 the next. The goal set was 250 cards/day yet I only got 31 total for that day. If I didn't flag enough, shouldn't the difference (250-31=219 cards) come from my old deck in Legacy?

Is this how it is supposed to be?