Exam Study Planner
Pick your exam date and count your subjects. The planner works backwards: syllabus audit and past papers early, weak-topic passes in the middle, timed papers and the error log late - with the hours per day your remaining time implies.
Study guides hand out generic timetables that ignore your date. This planner lives on your countdown, highlights the current phase, and shows the arithmetic that tells you what is no longer possible - before you spend a week discovering it.
How to use
- Enter the exam date and subject count; the plan regenerates from whatever today is.
- Read the highlighted phase and run only that phase; early green-topic study is comfortable and useless.
- Bookmark the page - the tab title keeps the days remaining, and the last-new-topic date is the hard deadline inside the deadline.
Frequently asked questions
How many weeks should I study for an exam?
Six weeks is the comfortable standard: syllabus audit, two passes on weak topics, two timed past papers and a taper. Two weeks still works - but the plan collapses to papers and error log, and green topics ride on luck.
How many hours a day should I revise?
Whatever the remaining days demand - roughly 30 hours per subject spread across your time. Four hours of focused retrieval daily beats ten hours of rereading, and the figure that matters is what survives sleep, not what the timetable says.
Should I study my strong subjects first?
Almost never. Red topics get your best hours; green topics get evenings or nothing - they already pay. The exception is confidence: one short green warm-up before hard work is morale, and morale is infrastructure.
When should I stop learning new material?
48 hours before the exam, hard stop. Late new topics arrive with two reviews at best - recall theatre instead of knowledge - and they displace consolidation sleep that would have made everything else stick.