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Days left, turned into a plan

Enter your exam date and the hours you realistically study, and this works out your remaining study hours, splits them across the phases that are left, and shows what has to be true at each checkpoint for the plan to hold.

It plans against the hours you enter. Most candidates overstate these, and a plan built on hours you do not have fails in the first fortnight.

A countdown that only shows days is mild anxiety with a number attached. Days multiplied by the hours you actually study is a budget, and a budget can be allocated.

Inputs
Exam date, realistic daily hours
Output
Remaining hours, split by phase
Phases
Build, consolidate, mock, taper
Warns
When the plan does not fit
01

The four phases, and roughly what each needs

  • Build. Covering material you have not yet learned. Ends when the syllabus is covered at least once, however shallowly.
  • Consolidate. Targeted practice and spaced revision on what is weakest. The longest phase and the one most often skipped.
  • Mock. Full-length papers at increasing frequency, with review time between them. Needs more calendar than most candidates allow.
  • Taper. The final week or two. Revision only, no new material, and less volume than instinct suggests.
02

When the arithmetic says it does not fit

Sometimes the honest output is that the remaining hours do not cover the remaining syllabus at any reasonable pace. The tool says so rather than producing a schedule that quietly assumes nine-hour days.

That is uncomfortable and it is actionable: drop the lowest-weight topics deliberately, or reconsider the target. Both are better decisions than discovering the shortfall in the last month.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.

How many hours should I have left to be on track?

It depends on your exam and how much of the syllabus you have covered. The useful output is not a target number of hours but whether your remaining hours cover your remaining syllabus at a sustainable pace.

How long should the taper be?

A week or two of revision only, at lower volume. Learning new material in the last fortnight rarely helps and often displaces revision of things you already half-know.

What if there is not enough time?

Drop the lowest-weight topics deliberately rather than running out of time on them by accident. A deliberate gap is a strategy; an accidental one is a surprise in the exam hall.

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Checked by the Product desk on 1 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.

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