Study Plan Generator

A study plan generator that spreads topics and schedules reviews

This study plan generator turns your exam dates, your list of topics or chapters and the hours you can study each day into a day-by-day revision timetable. Instead of cramming everything into the last week, it paces new topics evenly across the days you have, keeps the final days before each exam for consolidation, and books spaced-repetition reviews one, three, seven and fourteen days after you finish each topic — the reviews that make knowledge stick.

It works for school board exams, university finals, competitive entrance tests and professional certificates. Mark rest days, choose a session length that suits you and add timed mock tests before each exam. See the plan as a calendar or a list, tick off sessions as you go, add it to Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar with the .ics file, or print a checklist. Everything is calculated and saved in your browser.

How to use the Study Plan Generator

1. Set the start date, your study hours per day, the session length and the time you usually begin.
2. For each subject, enter the exam date, choose the difficulty and list the topics or chapters, one per line. Add more subjects as needed.
3. Tick your rest days, choose how many mock tests you want and whether to add spaced reviews.
4. Read the plan in the Calendar view (tap a day for details) or the List view, and tick sessions as you finish them.
5. Press Download .ics calendar to import the sessions into your calendar app, or print the plan / download it as a PDF checklist.

Study Plan Generator features

How the plan is built

1. Days from the start date to each exam are listed and rest days removed. The remaining days before an exam are that subject’s study days.
2. Mock tests are reserved first on the last study day before each exam (and two days earlier for a second mock).
3. About the last 15% of each subject’s study days (at least one day) are kept as a buffer for reviews, catch-up and mocks; new topics are paced over the rest. On learning day k of n the plan aims to have finished round(total × k ÷ n) sessions, which spreads topics evenly.
4. Each day, reviews that are due are placed first (they are half a session long, at least 15 minutes), then new learning, subject by subject in exam order, until the day’s hours are used.
5. A review that would fall on or after its exam is left out, and the page tells you how many — that is a sign the plan starts too late for full spacing.

Why spaced repetition and mock tests

Memory research since Hermann Ebbinghaus’s forgetting-curve experiments in the 1880s shows that we forget most new material within days unless we revisit it, and that reviews spread over increasing gaps — the spacing effect — produce far better long-term recall than the same time spent in one block. Testing yourself during a review (the retrieval practice or testing effect) works better than re-reading.

So treat each review as a quick self-test: close the book, write down what you remember or answer flashcards, then check. The flashcard maker is built for this. Mock tests under timed conditions train pacing and expose weak topics while there is still time to fix them.

Tips for a realistic revision timetable

• Be honest about daily hours. Two focused hours beat five distracted ones; use a Pomodoro timer inside each session.
• Keep at least one lighter or rest day a week to avoid burnout.
• If the page says sessions did not fit, start earlier or add time rather than ignoring the warning.
• Fit the plan around your classes: the timetable maker lays out your school or college week.