posted by intelliadmin on April 28, 2012 | 7 comments
I have a question...Just joined Popup Chinese, and loving it.

But something strange happens sometimes. I have it set to ask me 25 questions for the popup, and many times it will start out like this:

Before we continue, 25 questions to review

OK

Then it asks 3 (Could be more ) questions and then says I am done.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

Thanks
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murrayjames on April 28, 2012 | reply
Hi intelliadmin,

How many lessons have you studied? If you've only done a few, the system may not have enough unlearned words for 25 questions. Words you answer correctly will show up less often. It sounds like you learned most the words you studied so far, and should do more lessons to add more.

You're right, though; the system isn't accurate about the number questions it asks you.
trevelyan on April 28, 2012 | reply
Sounds like a bug, or at least unexpected behavior. I've just logged in to your account and tested it out and it doesn't seem to be causing any problems. Browser and OS?
intelliadmin on April 28, 2012 | reply
Usually on Mac OX, with Chrome.

During the day I keep re-reading lots of the same articles, and have lots of popup tests...so it could be possible it is running out of vocab. Right now I have about 5 pages of vocab.
intelliadmin on April 28, 2012 | reply
More info..

Chrome Version: 18.01.1025.165

OSX Version: 10.7.3

Just went to view a transcript, and a popup test started. It said for 1 second that it would have 25 questions. A second later (Without pressing anything) it says "Congratulations on a perfect score!"
trevelyan on April 29, 2012 | reply
Thanks -- I'll take a look a bit later today. Have been looking at Kate's problem but having trouble replicating it. Hopefully this might help.
trevelyan on April 29, 2012 | reply
Problem solved: when studying in wordlist mode Popup Chinese suggests words for review depending on your SRS schedule. So if you only have two or three words to study, it will only give you two or three rather than the number you might have requested on your settings page.

This led to a problem (now fixed) in situations where people had fewer words to review than their default requested review size. In these cases the system would start at the default size, and then cut to the "victory screen" once everything was reviewed. This has been fixed by making the system properly identify the number of words left to review when studying from SRS vocab.

There was also a minor issue that was resulting in the popup review not loading for a subset of users that has been fixed as well.

intelliadmin on May 2, 2012 | reply
Excellent. Thank you for the quick support. Really appreciate it :)