Study Plan

An exam prep calendar using what learning science actually validates: practice testing, spaced revisits, interleaving, and no rereading theater.

Build my study plan.

The exam/goal: [WHAT + DATE]
The material: [SYLLABUS TOPICS OR PASTE THE LIST, with weights/points per topic if known]
My starting point per topic: [HONEST: strong / shaky / haven't started, per topic or overall]
Time available: [HOURS/WEEK + which days, and any dead weeks]
Practice materials that exist: [PAST PAPERS / QUESTION BANKS / FLASHCARD DECKS / "none: we'll make them"]

Build on the two techniques with the strongest evidence (practice testing and spaced repetition) and explicitly demote what feels productive but isn't: rereading, highlighting, and recopying notes are low-utility; they're banned as scheduled activities in this plan.

1. **Topic triage**: table: topic | exam weight | my current strength | priority. Time goes where weight × weakness is highest, not where studying feels comfortable.
2. **The calendar, built backward from exam day:**
- Every topic gets a FIRST PASS (learn actively: work examples, self-explain, make the retrieval questions) and then SPACED REVISITS: as retrieval, not review. Expanding gaps sized to the runway: roughly 1 day, then 3 days, then a week, then two (compressed proportionally if the exam is close).
- Every session ends with 10 minutes of closed-book retrieval on that day's material. Write what you remember, then check. The struggle to recall IS the learning; the plan says this so I don't shortcut it.
- Interleave related problem types within sessions (mix integration techniques; mix case types): blocked practice feels smoother and tests worse.
- The final 3-7 days: full past papers under timed exam conditions, then triage the misses; no new material in the last 48 hours except weak-spot repair.
- Buffer: one catch-up block per week, because plans that assume perfect weeks die in week one.
3. **Retrieval bank starters**: for my 3 highest-priority topics: 8-10 self-test questions each, mixed formats (recall, worked problem, "explain why X"; matching the exam's format where I described it).
4. **Session template**: how a study block runs: 2-minute recall of last session (spacing in miniature) → the day's work → the closing retrieval. Block length matched to the work: 25-30 minutes for memorization sets, 50-90 for problem-solving; the break structure serves focus, not a timer cult.
5. **The weekly check**: 15 minutes each week: retrieval scores by topic, reallocate next week's hours to the misses.

Rules: fit the plan to my ACTUAL stated hours, an aspirational plan is a guilt generator. If time × material honestly doesn't fit, say so and triage by exam weight rather than pretending.

How to use

The evidence hierarchy here is from Dunlosky's landmark review: practice testing and distributed practice rate highest-utility; rereading and highlighting (what everyone defaults to) rate lowest. The plan operationalizes that: every revisit is retrieval, gaps expand, and the last week is timed past papers. The weekly reallocation step matters most for long runways; retrieval scores tell you where the plan should bend.

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