How the plan is worked out
Your first proper session on each topic is spread across the first 60% of the time you have, so you are not trying to learn everything in the last fortnight.
After you learn a topic, it comes back for a short review 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days later, as long as those days fall before the exam. Each topic also gets one final review in the last three days, staggered so they do not all land on the same evening.
The gaps get longer because each review makes the memory last longer, so you can wait more before the next one. That is the idea behind spaced repetition.
What a review should look like
- Keep it short: 10 to 15 minutes per topic is enough.
- Close your notes first. Write or say everything you remember, or do a few questions.
- Then open your notes and check. What you missed is what to look at again.
- Re-reading is not a review. If you did not have to pull it out of your head, it does not count.
Making the plan fit real life
If one day has too many sessions, group related topics together (for example, osmosis and diffusion as one line) and make the plan again.
If you miss a day, do not start over. Do the missed reviews the next day and carry on. A late review is still far better than none.
Questions
Why these intervals?
Gaps that grow over time are a common, simple way to space reviews. There is no single perfect schedule. Research on spacing consistently finds that spreading reviews out beats doing the same amount of study in one block.
Does the planner save my plan?
No. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Use Copy as text or Print to keep it.
How many topics should I put in?
Use the level you would revise in one sitting, such as 'Osmosis and diffusion' rather than a whole unit. Somewhere between 6 and 30 topics usually works well.
Other free tools
- Revision timerFocused blocks with a recall check at every break, so the break does some work too.
- Marks needed calculatorEnter the papers you have sat and the grade boundary you are aiming for. See what you need on the rest.
- Forgetting curveSee how much of a topic you are likely to keep, and how a few short reviews change that.
Need something to revise from? Browse the free study guides or turn your own notes into flashcards.