Turn a list of topics and an exam date into a day-by-day revision plan
Everyone writes the timetable that gives every topic equal time, then discovers in the last week that the two they understand least got the same three hours as the one they already knew. Rate your confidence honestly and this weights the plan against your weak topics and spaces them out.
A topic you rate 1 out of 5 gets five times the sessions of one you rate 5
A topic waits its own rating in days before it returns, so a 5 comes back every fifth day and a 1 comes back daily
Every topic gets one final session in the two days before its exam
A standard .ics, so the plan lands in the calendar you already use
How to use it
- Add each topic with the exam it belongs to, the date of that exam, and how confident you feel from 1 to 5.
- Say how many revision sessions you can manage a day. Three is realistic for most people, five is a lie.
- Read the plan. Weak topics appear more often and everything gets a last look before its exam.
- Export to your calendar, or just work from the list.
Questions
How is the weighting worked out?
Each topic gets a weight of six minus your confidence, so a 1 carries five times the weight of a 5. Those weights are turned into a share of the sessions available between now and the exam. It is deliberately simple, and it is honest about being simple: the value is in rating yourself truthfully, not in the arithmetic.
Why not just revise everything equally?
Because equal time is time spent on what you already know, which feels productive and moves nothing. Weighting towards the topics you rated low is the whole point, and it only works if the ratings are honest rather than optimistic.
What if I fall behind the plan?
Change a confidence rating or the sessions a day and the plan rebuilds from today. There is no guilt state and nothing tracks whether you kept to it, because a planner that scolds you gets closed.
How is this different from the deadline planner?
The deadline planner is about coursework with a hand-in date and an amount of work. This one is about revision, where the work is open-ended and the question is what to look at today rather than when to start.