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Well, if your reviews are building up, it's probably time to take a break from learning new terms. If you're not learning new ones, and they're still building up, then that would mean you're getting a lot of questions wrong (like, more than half) 
Either way, don't learn any new terms and work on reviewing the ones you have, they will go down eventually, even if you're getting half of them wrong, I promise.
It might seem like an issue to stop learning new terms, but learning new ones and getting rid of old ones is a disastrous path to take. You'll never get anywhere. It's more important to focus on mastering the vocabulary you already learned than learning new vocabulary in that you're never going to master 
I hope that makes sense. The default mastery level review spacing is supposed to make it so reviews go down eventually, not up. If they're increasing too fast then you're probably doing something wrong
You can reset the mastery levels to make them available for review again, if that's what you want to do. You can go to Advanced Search > Filter by "My Words. Tap the "Add Filter" at the top, filter by 90%-100% mastery, and you should now see all the level 9 terms. (Screenshot added for clarification.) Under "Actions," you can change the Mastery Level of the terms to something else.
Also, as far as I'm aware, automatic quizzing seems to stop after level 9 because Renshuu assumes you have mastered the term. You may see it once a year or so to ensure you've actually retained the info. (I can't confirm this, though.)
No, terms always review, even if you've "mastered" them. This is because, unless you're using/seeing those words outside of Renshuu regularly, you will never truly master a word to where you will never forget it. Of course, assuming you're meaning to use Japanese someday, you won't use Renshuu forever, and you'll switch to speaking/consuming Japanese and you will become fluent, and all of those words will become part of your memory forever, like words in your native language. But until then, it's probably best to review them at some point.
Mathematically, your reviews should not be getting bigger from level 9 terms. Like I said before, it's the new terms, the ones you have to review often, that are tipping the scale. Even if you have 1000 level 9 terms, that would only be 1-10 or so a day, which shouldn't be a big deal, unless you're... well... extremely lazy 
How a normal schedule would work, is, eventually you would learn all of the words there are in the schedule, and then eventually they would all get to level 9, and you won't have to review that schedule hardly at all. Like I already said, I think you are learning too many terms at once.
My first concern, which I've already said, but I'll say it again, is that you are learning too many terms each day. I want you to look at it this way, each level 1 term is the same amount of review as 240 level 9 terms. Does that make sense? Every time you learn new terms, it will raise your reviews the next day more than anything else.
My second concern is that you are using either too many schedules or you are using the wrong schedules. There's nothing wrong with having a lot of schedules. It's entirely doable. BUT, if you are learning new terms in all of these schedules all the time, and they are schedules that each have a ton of vocabulary, then you can't learn a ton of new terms at once. I already said earlier that 1000 level 9 terms would only be about 1-10 reviews a day. Are these schedules thousands of words each? Are you learning terms for all of them every day? Like I said, even if you learn many terms each day, eventually the schedule should run out of new terms and the reviews will gradually go way down. But if you never finish the schedule....
Can I be extremely unhelpful? That's a rhetorical question, I'm just going to be very unhelpful. 
I've set the days in-between reviews at level 9 to fifteen, and I've been doing these reviews for more than a month now. I haven't burned out my brain yet. I'll probably adjust the settings again someday, but at the moment I have no life and thus nothing better to do. I also listen to audiobooks while doing reviews, and I listen to audiobooks at almost two times speed.
I'm sorry for bragging, I can be very annoying.
I ended up setting the spacing for level 9 to 1800 days, i.e. 5 years, with level 8 being 270 days. The logic I applied here was that if I am able to retain the vector of an item after 270 days, I probably should be able to retain it after 5 years again - if not, it most probably wasn't a that important or widely used term to begin with. For the curious, here my complete setup of mastery level spacing:
I should add, that I do let renshuu keep track of each vector individually, i.e. if I get something right in the Kanji->Meaning department, this only raises the mastery level for that vector and leaves the one for listening or Meaning->Kana unchanged. This approach also means that I do see a term with Kanjis in it at least 5 times (the amount of vectors I study for a given term) before it completely graduated from one level to the next, which in turn also means that renshuu will on average still show me a given all level 9 term once a year for one of the involved vectors.
Mathematically, your reviews should not be getting bigger from level 9 terms. Like I said before, it's the new terms, the ones you have to review often, that are tipping the scale. Even if you have 1000 level 9 terms, that would only be 1-10 or so a day, which shouldn't be a big deal, unless you're... well... extremely lazy
How a normal schedule would work, is, eventually you would learn all of the words there are in the schedule, and then eventually they would all get to level 9, and you won't have to review that schedule hardly at all. Like I already said, I think you are learning too many terms at once.
Sorry, but i just don't think were on the same page here..
I'm not saying that my reviews are growing because of the level 9s.. yes I'm aware of how the "new" terms are the bulk of the study... your comments are extremely focused on the fact that I'm supposedly learning too many terms but I'm afraid you're missing the point of my post because in reality I'm only able to drip feed myself 1 term a day and a grammar or sentence exercise like once a week.. and it has nothing to do with my quizzing accuracy..
its the sheer build up of permanent volume that is the focus of my concern.. you're saying that 1-10 permanent vocab a day isn't that bad but your view is narrow.. 1-10 permanent vocab, 1-10 permanent kanji, 1-10 permanent grammar, 1-10 permanent sentences, all add up to time... and this is JUST the level 9 studies.. and sure a couple of words or kanji can be pretty quick, no doubt.. but sentences and grammar are much slower.. so in a 1 hour study block, your time becomes 50 minutes, then 40 minutes, then 30 minutes.. etc etc.. thats all..
Trust me, i understand that studying the terms brings down the overall time spent per day per word.. i understand the srs system.. the post was just an ask to see what other were doing to combat the inevitable problem we all face here.. all i want is to keep up with my studies and not stagnate in an avalanche of review.. but i appreciate your reply none the less, thanks 
For some perspective:
They say N1 requires knowledge of ~10,000 vocab terms. So if you had all 10,000 at level 9:
10,000/240 ~= 42 terms per day.
So that's close to the upper limit of how bad it could reasonably get for terms at level 9.
Of course, you can remove terms from schedules, and even retire entire schedules. The mastery data on the terms won't be lost if you are worried about that.
There's a pinned post which talks about when a schedule is "finished" here: https://new.renshuu.org/forums...
Correct if were just talking vocabulary.. 100%.. but with kanji, grammar, and sentences in the mix, it starts to add up.. and sure vocab and kanji are fairly quick, but reading and listening to grammar and sentences takes up a lot more of my time per exercise..
I ended up setting the spacing for level 9 to 1800 days, i.e. 5 years, with level 8 being 270 days. The logic I applied here was that if I am able to retain the vector of an item after 270 days, I probably should be able to retain it after 5 years again - if not, it most probably wasn't a that important or widely used term to begin with. For the curious, here my complete setup of mastery level spacing:
I should add, that I do let renshuu keep track of each vector individually, i.e. if I get something right in the Kanji->Meaning department, this only raises the mastery level for that vector and leaves the one for listening or Meaning->Kana unchanged. This approach also means that I do see a term with Kanjis in it at least 5 times (the amount of vectors I study for a given term) before it completely graduated from one level to the next, which in turn also means that renshuu will on average still show me a given all level 9 term once a year for one of the involved vectors.
yes! this is what I'm talking about.. so i was planning to do something similar (maybe not 5 years but maybe on scale with how many exercises are in the review to minimize time on them). Have you been here long enough to come back to any of the level 9s? how was your retention?
No no no. Reviews. Reviews a day. Not to compare, but I often have a lot more than 10 reviews on my schedules, (which a have quite a few of), and I get it done in less than 20 minutes. You say this is a problem we all face - but that's the issue - it's not. I have literally never heard someone ask about this before. Either you are doing a terrible job explaining, or you are having some weird issue I don't know how to help you with 
yes! this is what I'm talking about.. so i was planning to do something similar (maybe not 5 years but maybe on scale with how many exercises are in the review to minimize time on them). Have you been here long enough to come back to any of the level 9s? how was your retention?
Most I do retain just fine as these terms are then the simple, everyday kind of words that you just encounter everywhere or at least often enough. Those I don't retain rather turn out to be either less usedor items that I tend to mix up with others. Thanks to the SRS, those of course get nudged down some levels until I get a grip on those again - but I have to admit that for some of these terms I then also might actively decide to block/exclude them from further studying if I believe that the term is question is just too uncommon or specific in the usage that it is not relevant for me (i.e. any kind of vocab that is archaic or super specific for a context that I am unlikely to ever encounter based on my interests - the beauty of language after all is that should I ever do end up running into a person/text that mentions those specific words, I can still look that single word up or ask the person to explain what it is. I do not need to know 100% of the words, as I also do not know 100% of the words of my mother tongue and still am able to live my life just fine 
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