Dividing words by days leaves no day for review
Splitting a whole word list evenly across the days you have left fills every single day with new words and leaves nothing for going back over what you already covered. This page sets aside one review-only day every so often and spreads the new words across the days that remain. Set the review cycle to 0 and the words are spread across the full period with no review day.
How the split works
The number of review-only days is the days left divided by the cycle length, rounded down. The daily load is the words left divided by the new-word days, rounded up, and that rounding makes the final day lighter. The page therefore shows the study days actually used and the final-day load separately, and prints the check that the daily load times the earlier days plus the final day equals the words left.
Scope
How many repetitions a word needs before it sticks is not covered here. For repetition counts from a per-round retention rate use the flashcard repetition calculator, and for problem sets use the daily question load calculator.
Frequently Asked Questions
It creates one review-only day for every 7 days left, rounded down, and no new words are learned on those days. The review load for one such day is the words covered over the previous 6 days.
Because the daily load is rounded up. The rounding pushes a little extra into the earlier days, so less is left for the last day, and sometimes the list finishes a day early.
Lengthen the cycle or the period. When the days left are close to the cycle length, the review days eat almost the whole period and no day is left for new words.