Revision timetable
Enter your exam date, your subjects and how much time you have: the tool builds a day-by-day timetable with spaced reviews and past papers in the final days.
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For GCSEs, start six to eight weeks before your first paper: you sit many subjects and each needs several passes. For A-levels or university finals, eight to ten weeks is safer, because the content is denser and spaced reviews need time to work. Starting early is not about working longer hours; it lets you meet every topic more than once.
With only two or three weeks left, the generator still works: it shortens the learning phase, keeps at least one past-paper day and drops reviews that would land after the exam. When time is short, favour the topics that carry the most marks.
Give each subject a difficulty from 1 to 3 based on how confident you feel and how much it counts: a subject rated 3 gets roughly three times the time of a subject rated 1. The timetable then mixes two or three subjects a day instead of whole days on one, which keeps recall effortful and stops you drifting into autopilot.
Rate honestly: your current level matters more than how important the subject feels. A few starting points:
Rereading feels productive because the page becomes familiar, but familiarity is not memory. Testing yourself without notes, through practice questions, blank-page recall or flashcards, forces your brain to retrieve the information, and every successful retrieval strengthens it. That is active recall; combined with reviews spaced out over time, it is the best-supported revision method in the research.
That is why every first pass in the timetable schedules reviews one, three, seven, fourteen and thirty days later. A review lasts fifteen to thirty minutes: close the book, write down everything you remember, check it, then rework only the gaps.
In the final week, stop learning new material. The timetable fills those days with past papers under timed conditions, followed by marking against the mark scheme and a list of every mistake. The night before is a light recap only: your summary notes, your mistake list, then stop. A full night of sleep consolidates more than two extra hours of cramming.
Exam boards such as AQA, Edexcel and OCR publish past papers and mark schemes for free: use the most recent ones for your specification. For university finals, ask your department or check your module page for previous years’ papers.
Do not try to catch up by doubling your hours: that is the fastest route to giving up. Update your details and regenerate the timetable from today instead. If time is tight, lower the difficulty of subjects that are already solid, remove a rest day, or accept that you will not cover everything and keep the topics worth the most marks.
Your inputs are saved on your device, so the same timetable is waiting when you come back. Missing a day or two changes very little; if you are more than a week behind, re-rate every subject before regenerating.
Yes. It works entirely without an account and without limits: generate, print, copy or export as many timetables as you like. A Study-Genie account is only useful if you then want quizzes or summary notes made from your own course material.
No. The timetable is calculated in your browser, and your inputs are stored only on your device so they are there next time. Nothing is sent to our servers.
Around one and a half to two hours on school days and three to four at weekends is plenty for most students in the final six weeks. Beyond that, focus drops: starting earlier beats revising for longer.
Yes. The export button creates an .ics file you can import into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook: one all-day event per revision day with the sessions listed, plus your exam day.
They are your spaced reviews: a topic first learned on a Monday comes back on Tuesday (+1d), Thursday (+3d) and the following Monday (+7d). Each review is shorter than the original session and done by testing yourself without notes.
Yes. Pick an exam type to prefill plausible subjects, then edit the list freely. If your papers are spread over several weeks, enter the date of the first one: the timetable stops the day before.
Revision timetable: how to plan the 2 to 4 weeks before an exam
A revision timetable works best built backwards, starting from the exam date. Here is how to split two to four weeks by topic, interleave subjects, place practice papers and keep going when you fall behind.
Spaced repetition, explained simply
Reviewing something at growing intervals takes fewer hours than rereading everything the night before, and the memory lasts far longer. Here is the mechanism, the intervals, and the traps.
Active recall: test yourself instead of rereading
Rereading your notes feels like learning. Testing yourself shows what you actually know. Here is how to run active recall on a real chapter, step by step.
Turn your own notes into quizzes and summary notes for your recall sessions.
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