Exam Countdown & Study Planner
Days left until your exam, how many of them are study days, and the hours a day your syllabus actually needs to fit in them.
Formula
Hours a day = (topics × hours per topic) ÷ study days remaining
Privacy
Every figure you type stays in this page. Nothing is uploaded, stored or logged — your marks and attendance are nobody else’s business.
Tips
- Reserve the revision days before you plan anything else. A syllabus finished the night before is a syllabus you have read once, and reading once is not knowing.
- Be honest about hours per topic. Most people take roughly twice as long on the first pass as they expect, and the estimate is the part of this calculation you control.
- Days a week matters more than hours a day. Six days at three hours beats three days at six, because the gaps between sessions are where forgetting happens.
- If the hours a day come out above about six, the plan is already broken. Fix it by cutting the topic list rather than by promising longer days.
- Re-run it weekly. The value of this is watching the required hours climb when you lose a week, early enough to do something about it.
Frequently asked questions
How many hours a day should I study?
The honest answer is: however many the syllabus and the calendar leave you, which is what this works out. If the answer comes back above six or seven hours a day, that is a signal to change the plan rather than to attempt it — sustained study at that level for weeks is rare and usually collapses.
Why reserve revision days?
Because covering material and being able to recall it under time pressure are different things, and only the second one is examined. The buffer here is taken off the calendar before study days are counted, so it cannot quietly get spent on new chapters.
Does it count weekends and holidays?
Days left is every calendar day. Study days are that figure scaled by how many days a week you said you can work, so setting five gives you weekdays only. It does not know your public holidays or your other exam dates.
What if I am already behind?
Then the required hours a day will say so, which is the useful part. Cut the topic list to what actually appears on the paper, drop the hours per topic for the ones you half know already, and re-run it. A plan that admits it is not going to work is worth more than one that does not.