Learning · ~2 minutes

Turn cramming into a spaced plan.

Give it your topics and exam date, and it builds a review schedule around the two techniques that actually work: spacing (reviews at expanding intervals) and retrieval (recalling from memory, not rereading). It's the applied version of studying the way the research says.

When is your exam or deadline? What topics do you need to cover?

About this instrument

What this does — and what it doesn't

Applies
Spacing & retrieval

The two highest-impact study techniques in the research, turned into a concrete schedule: reviews at expanding intervals, each one an act of recall rather than passive rereading.
Method
Expanding-interval schedule

Each topic is introduced, then revisited at growing gaps (roughly a day, a few days, a week, two weeks), interleaved with your other topics and capped by a final review before your exam.
Gives
A day-by-day plan

A dated list of short sessions labelled Learn, Recall, or Final review — so you always know what to study and, just as importantly, how to study it that day.
Limits
Honest limits

It can't measure how well you know each topic or do the recall for you, and it assumes roughly equal weight per topic. It's a scaffold for good habits, not a guarantee — the effort is still yours.

Questions

Before you begin

How does the planner decide when to review?

It uses expanding intervals — the spacing effect. After you first learn a topic, it schedules reviews at growing gaps (about a day, then a few days, then a week or two), so you revisit material just as it starts to fade. Topics are interleaved across days rather than blocked, and each ends with a final review near your exam.

What should I actually do in a review session?

Recall from memory, not reread. A 'Learn' session is your first pass through the material; every 'Recall' session after it should be active retrieval — close the book and try to reproduce the key ideas, then check. That struggle to remember is exactly what strengthens the memory.

What if I miss a day?

Don't worry about it — just pick up the next session. Consistency over the whole stretch matters far more than hitting exact dates, and the spacing effect is forgiving. The schedule is a scaffold to keep you spacing and recalling, not a rigid contract.

Is my data saved anywhere?

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Method & limits

How the study plan is generated

The planner does not predict grades or calculate a cognitive score. It takes your topic list, today's date, and exam date, then schedules learning and recall sessions using expanding review offsets of 0, 1, 3, 7, and 14 days where the available window allows. Topic start points are spread across the preparation window so the plan does not intentionally place every new topic on the same day.

This is a deterministic scheduling heuristic built around spaced retrieval. It does not know the difficulty of each topic, your prior knowledge, school timetable, or how long a session will take. A dense exam window may therefore require manual adjustment, and difficult topics may deserve more repetitions than the default schedule creates.

Use the output as a scaffold: keep active recall as the core activity, move sessions when real constraints require it, and add practice problems or longer review blocks for topics that remain weak.

Interpretation standard: this tool is educational and planning-oriented. Its internal percentages, bands, or observations are not clinical measures or representative population percentiles.

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The science behind this instrument

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How should I use this result?

This is an educational task or self-assessment, not a diagnosis. Read the instructions above for the format and approximate time. Scores describe this task or your reported preferences; research on the underlying concept does not validate this implementation.

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