Best approach to mature cards 3 weeks before exam
Hi guys, I've got a deck of about 4000 cards for my fellowship boards. At this point I'd say around 2500 are mature, even of the remaining 1500 that are still 'young' I wouldn't be surprised if at least 50%+ of those were mature enough for exam purposes if not for me just wanting to see if I could nail them perfectly and hence hitting again (I've probably seen all cards many many times now over the past 4 months of non-stop studying so nothing that comes up is unfamiliar).
My exam is 20 days away so at this point I'm wondering if I should shift gears to some extent and try to hone in on the young cards, anki is currently feeding me about 200 reviews a day which I don't think will chip away at as many cards as I'd like before the big day though I recognize that ultimately you can't rush the process, frankly I just need to see everything and pass the exam, it doesn't matter to me if I don't remember it a week after the exam what matters is that I know it as well as possible on the day off.
Questions:
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Would it be worth creating a filtered deck at this point, setting it to capture all cards with < 20 day intervals and then blitzing through those? Note my cards can be a bit dense and self made and it's a hard short/long answer fellowship exam, so my review times per card average 30-40 seconds. On a good day I can get through like 600-700 cards in a full day of studying and it's exhausting.
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Should I have anki reschedule based on my filtered deck or does that screw up the algorithm?
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If I adopt this approach what do I do about the mature cards that come due?
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I'd ultimately like to focus on what I'm weaker at and free up some time to read up on guidelines etc. and other practice content I need to sharpen up.
Posted Feb 17, 2026, 3:23 AM UTC