Free revision planner for students

Tell it your exam date and your topics. It builds your revision plan day by day, with the reviews spaced so things actually stick.

Your plan lives on your device. We don't store it, and we don't ask for your email.

Your exam, your topics

Five things. Then you have a plan you can start today.

The day of the exam itself. Nothing is scheduled on it.

Defaults to today. Change it if you are planning ahead.

Study days

Tick the days you can actually study. All seven are ticked by default.

Be honest. Thirty minutes a day beats a six-hour plan you abandon.

Subjects and topics

For each subject, either write your topics one per line, or just give a count. Then say how confident you feel — the least confident subject gets the most minutes.

It takes about two minutes to fill in.

How this plan works

The plan is the systems already written on Thynq, applied to your dates. Nothing invented.

Reviews spaced 1-3-7

You learn a topic once, then test it the next day, in 3 days, and in 7 days. That is a practical starting schedule, not a rule from a research paper. After a week, stretch the gap for topics you recall easily and shorten it for the ones you forget.

Tests, not re-reading

Every review in the plan is labelled Test. Cover your notes, answer from memory, then check and correct. Re-reading feels easier and does less.

Reviews before new topics

Each study day starts with what is due, then takes on new material. If new material always comes first, reviews get pushed to later, and later never happens.

Subjects mixed, not blocked

Two sessions of the same subject never sit back to back when another subject has work due that day. With one subject, the plan just spaces that subject's topics.

What the plan will not do

The last week is reviews only and the day before the exam is question lists and past-paper mistakes only. The plan never predicts a grade, and it will not tell you a topic is done. A plan you follow beats a perfect plan you don't.

Where the method comes from

  • Spacing beats cramming. Cepeda and colleagues (2006) reviewed the research on distributed practice and found spaced study beat massed study, with the best gap growing with how long you need to remember.
  • Testing beats re-reading. Roediger and Karpicke (2006) found students who tested themselves remembered more a week later, even though re-reading felt more effective at the time.
  • Mixing beats blocking. Rohrer and Taylor (2007) found mixed practice beat practice grouped by type a week later, even though grouped practice felt easier during the session.
  • Two techniques are worth the time. Dunlosky and colleagues (2013) rated ten common techniques and gave a high utility rating to only two: practice testing and distributed practice. Re-reading was rated low.

Read the systems in full: spaced repetition, how to make a revision timetable, the exam week plan, the weekly study planner, and the Pomodoro technique. The 25/5 timer is a practical timer, not a science-derived number.

If you fall behind

Everyone does. The plan is built to survive it.

  • Missed a day? Do the missed reviews first today, then whatever new topic is next. The plan counts the missed reviews as overdue and says so.
  • Reviews piling up? Clear the oldest six, then stop. Skip today's new topic rather than skip the reviews.
  • Too far behind to catch up? Rebuild the plan from today with fewer topics. A shorter plan you finish beats a bigger one you abandon.

Questions

No. There is no sign-up, no email and no account. Your plan is saved in your own browser, on your device, and a Clear my plan button deletes it.

The planner switches to triage. With under a week left, 1-3-7 spacing is not possible, so it stops new topics after the second study day and puts your weakest subjects and past-paper mistakes first. It cannot cover everything, and it does not pretend to.

Nothing breaks. Missed reviews move to your next study day and are counted as overdue, and the plan tells you to clear them before any new topic. A review done a day late is still a review.

Yes. The plan, the Today view and the timer are built for a phone first, with large tap targets. You can tick a session off with one thumb.