I already asked before about grading a word you have never seen, and now I marked them unknown so I can get enough exposure to it during reviews to have it really sink in. But I was wondering something since I have every type of review enabled. Sometimes it starts out with the writing and the definition for a while and the first time I see these I mark them wrong for the aforementioned reason. But after a while it introduces the rest of the types of reviews, like reading and tone. Now it says new word and it's the first time doing this type of review technically. Since I've seen it so many times in the other types of reviews I get it right on the first try easily but I still feel obligated to mark it as wrong. Because I worry that if I mark the word as known it will push it too far out and I won't know all of the different parts of the word as well as the other. What should I do in this scenario?

That sounds pretty reasonable to me. If you're not confident that you actually know something, go ahead and mark it wrong. I like to mark things wrong even if I knew them, but had a little bit of doubt.

James

I do exactly as you do, SpokeLee, except sometimes I mark it as "so-so" if I've seen it before. The only new words I mark as green nowadays are katakana words in Japanese (unless they're really funky).

Personally, unless I definitely know a word when it's added as a new word, I mark it unknown/red/1. If I'm pretty close I might give it a so-so/yellow/2, but that's only words that I'm pretty familiar with already in real-world Chinese. If I definitely know it I'll give it a 3, but even then I often go for a 2 just to let it run through a few times in the first few days for posterity's sake.