Statistics
Progress percentages
The percentage shows how much of the material available to you is already known. The denominator is all the material at your level, not just what you have happened to touch. So reviewing words you already know does not move it: it rises only when you master something new.
Why the denominator is all the material
If the denominator were only what you had worked through, anyone who took on five words and learned all five would score a full hundred per cent. Such a figure says nothing about command of the language and cannot be used to compare tracks with one another.
So the percentage answers "how much of what is available do I know", not "how well am I doing with what I took on". That makes it honest but unhurried: moving it noticeably means mastering a noticeable share of the material.
What counts as "known"
Words at the two highest stages count as known. Words at the middle stages count as being learned: work on them is under way, but they do not enter the percentage yet.
Hence a familiar picture: you study every day, words climb the stages, and the percentage sits still for a while. It moves in one go once the accumulated words cross the line.
Why tracks have different denominators
- Words, grammar and radicals are measured against the material at your level.
- Writing is measured against what you already recognise: you can only write what you have learned to read, so writing naturally trails.
- Phrases are measured against the whole published set, since they are not tied to a level.
Because the denominators differ, percentages across tracks should not be added up or compared directly — each answers its own question.