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Revision Timetable Maker

Enter your subjects, topics, and exam dates to generate a prioritised study schedule with spaced reviews.

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How the planner works

  • Topics with low confidence are scheduled first and receive more review sessions.
  • Subjects with earlier exam dates receive more sessions per week.
  • Spaced review sessions (Week 2, Week 4) are added automatically for each topic.
  • Sessions never place the same subject in consecutive slots.
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Frequently asked questions

How does the study planner work?

Enter each subject with its exam date, add specific topics and confidence ratings, then generate a full timetable. Topics with low confidence are scheduled first and more frequently. Subjects with earlier exam dates receive more sessions per week. Each topic gets a first-pass session plus spaced review sessions at Day+7 and Day+21.

How often should I update my schedule?

Update every Sunday evening: review what you completed during the week, carry forward any missed sessions, and add extra review sessions for topics you found difficult. Regenerating the full schedule each week is better than trying to manually patch an outdated one — the algorithm rebalances priority based on current exam proximity.

How does spaced repetition work in the planner?

Each topic gets a first-pass session when it is introduced, then automatic review sessions at Day+7 and Day+21. These intervals match the first two rungs of a typical spaced repetition schedule. The planner calculates these timings automatically so you don't need to track review dates manually.

How many subjects can I add?

You can add as many subjects as you need. The priority algorithm adjusts automatically — subjects with earlier exam dates receive proportionally more sessions per week. For very large subject lists (8+), consider grouping related topics under one subject heading to keep the schedule manageable.

Why most revision timetables are abandoned by week two

The classic failure is the colour-coded grid drawn up on a Sunday, allocating every waking hour for six weeks. It feels productive to make and it is dead within days, because it assumes a version of you with no illness, no bad nights, no other deadlines and no variation in energy. The first missed slot makes the whole grid wrong, and a plan that is wrong gets ignored.

A timetable that survives has slack built into it, is organised around topics rather than hours, and expects to be revised. This planner builds from exam dates backwards and prioritises by your own confidence ratings, which means it puts time where you are weakest instead of where you are comfortable.

Confidence ratings are the useful part — and the hard part

Rating your own confidence honestly is genuinely difficult, because the topics that feel most familiar are often the ones you have re-read most rather than the ones you know best. Fluency is a poor signal of knowledge, and it systematically misleads in the direction of complacency.

A better way to rate a topic: try to explain it, out loud and without notes, as though to someone who has not studied it. Where you stall is where the gap actually is. That takes two minutes per topic and produces far more accurate ratings than introspection — and it is retrieval practice in its own right.

Spacing, and revisiting the plan

The planner spreads each topic across multiple sessions rather than blocking it into one, because the spacing between reviews does more for retention than the total time spent. Seeing a topic three times across three weeks beats seeing it three times in one afternoon, even though the effort is identical and the afternoon feels more productive. To see how the gaps change with your deadline, use the spaced repetition schedule.

Update confidence ratings weekly and let the schedule re-prioritise. A plan that never changes is not being used. For the reasoning behind the intervals, see the spaced repetition course; for mixing subjects within a session rather than blocking them, the interleaved scheduler.

Common questions

Is this a revision timetable generator, a planner, or an app?
All three descriptions fit — it is a free revision planner that generates a timetable from your subjects, confidence ratings and exam dates, and it runs in the browser rather than as an app you install. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed. If you want it on a phone, add the page to your home screen; if you want it on a wall, use the print option, which is what most students actually do with a revision timetable.
How do I make a revision timetable?
Enter each subject with its exam date, then add the specific topics for each subject and rate your confidence 1–5. Input your available study hours per day. The planner generates a prioritised schedule that puts low-confidence topics first, weights subjects by exam proximity, and schedules spaced review sessions at Day+1 and Day+7 intervals.
How often should I update my study schedule?
Update every Sunday evening. Review what you completed, carry forward missed sessions, add new review sessions due this week, and adjust priorities based on upcoming exam dates. A rolling weekly update beats a fixed 8-week plan because it adapts to actual learning progress.
How does spaced repetition work in the study planner?
Each topic gets a first-pass session plus two review sessions at Day+7 and Day+21. The planner calculates these automatically based on when you first study each topic and distributes them across your available schedule weeks. Low-confidence topics receive more review sessions than high-confidence ones.
How many subjects can I add to the study planner?
You can add as many subjects as you need. The priority algorithm ensures subjects with earlier exam dates and lower average confidence receive more sessions per week. Each subject needs its own topic list — scheduling at the topic level produces more actionable sessions than vague subject blocks.

Keep going

Spaced Repetition courseWhy the gaps matter more than the hours.Interleaved schedulerMix subjects within a session.Flashcard makerTurn weak topics into retrieval practice.