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Study Planner

Plan a study schedule across subjects before an exam date.

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About the Study Planner

The Study Planner converts the vague dread of an approaching exam into a concrete, day-by-day schedule. You pick an exam date and list your subjects with an estimated number of study hours for each. The planner immediately computes the days until the exam, the total study hours across all subjects, and the hours per day required to finish on time. Beneath those stats it builds a dated schedule — starting today — that distributes your subjects round-robin across the available days, filling each day with roughly the daily hour budget until every subject's hours are exhausted. Each scheduled row shows the date, the hours allotted, and badges listing which subjects get attention that day. Sensible limits are built in: schedules cap at 365 days, subjects with blank or non-positive hours are skipped, and choosing a date in the past triggers a clear alert instead of a nonsense plan. If the hours-per-day figure looks impossible, that is the point — the planner is designed to surface that truth early.

Study Planner examples

Input
Exam date 10 days from today; Mathematics 12h, History 8h
Output
Days until exam 10, total 20.0 h, 2.00 h/day, 10 days scheduled
Note: 20 hours over 10 days is 2 per day. Round-robin fills days 1-6 with Mathematics (2.0h each, 12h total) and days 7-10 with History (2.0h each, 8h total).
Input
Exam date 5 days from today; Chemistry 6h, Biology 4h, English 2h, Physics 8h
Output
Days until exam 5, total 20.0 h, 4.00 h/day, 5 days scheduled
Note: 20 hours over 5 days is 4 per day. Subjects are consumed in list order: day 1 Chemistry 4h; day 2 Chemistry 2h + Biology 2h; day 3 Biology 2h + English 2h; days 4-5 Physics 4h each.
Input
Exam date in the past, with any subjects
Output
Alert "This exam date has already passed"; stats show dashes
Note: The planner detects the negative day count, shows a destructive alert, and produces no schedule because no study time is available.

How to use the Study Planner

  1. 1

    Set the Exam date with the date picker.

  2. 2

    Review or edit the starter subjects (Mathematics, History) and their Estimated hours.

  3. 3

    Click Add subject to append rows for every exam topic you need to cover.

  4. 4

    Read Days until exam, Total study hours, and Hours per day in the stats row.

  5. 5

    Follow the dated schedule table, which lists each day's hours and subject badges.

Common use cases

  • Spreading revision across the three weeks before finals without last-minute cramming.
  • Working out whether two weeks is enough for four subjects before booking the exam.
  • Balancing daily study hours around a part-time job with a realistic per-day budget.
  • Building a school-holiday revision timetable for a child with mixed subjects.
  • Surfacing that a planned 1-hour-per-day routine cannot cover the syllabus in time.
  • Organizing certification-exam prep so each domain gets scheduled attention.

Best practices

  • Estimate hours honestly by subject difficulty, not by wishful thinking — the schedule inherits every error.
  • Check the hours-per-day figure first; if it exceeds what you can sustain, adjust the exam date or trim subjects before committing.
  • Leave buffer days between the last scheduled session and the exam for review and rest — the planner packs every available day.
  • Use round numbers of hours per subject so the daily breakdown stays readable.
  • Verify the exam date is in the future; a past date disables the schedule with an alert rather than computing a negative plan.
  • Revisit the plan mid-way: mark done hours, update the remaining estimates, and let the planner re-balance the rest.

Tips

  • List your hardest subject first so it gets scheduled before your energy fades.
  • Pad every subject's hours by 10-15% to absorb underestimation.
  • If hours per day looks scary, add one day of buffer by pretending the exam is a day earlier.
  • Use the date badges to plan around known commitments like work shifts.

Frequently asked questions

It walks the subject list round-robin, giving each subject its hours in the order you listed them until the day's budget is full, then moves to the next day. The first listed subjects tend to be scheduled earliest. To change priorities, reorder the list or edit the hours, and the schedule rebuilds instantly.

It is the total study hours across all subjects divided by the number of days from today up to and including the exam day. The schedule then targets roughly that figure for each day, though the final day of a subject can fall short. It is a planning average, not a promise that every day will be identical.

No. The planner treats every day between today and the exam as available, including weekends. If you want rest days, reduce your effective hours: estimate each subject with the reality that some days will be missed, or set the exam date earlier than your real deadline so the plan effectively compresses.

Scheduling stops as soon as every subject's hours are consumed, which can happen before the exam date if your daily budget is generous. The "days scheduled" badge shows how many days are actually used. Unused days act as free buffer — a healthy margin, especially for final review.

The hours-per-day figure rises accordingly, which is the tool's way of warning you. If it climbs to an unsustainable level, the schedule still distributes everything, but the honest fix is to trim subject hours, extend the deadline, or accept that some topics get less attention than planned.

No. Subjects and the exam date exist only in the current page session and reset when you refresh. The schedule table is generated live from your inputs. If you want to keep the plan, screenshot or copy the table — there is no export option, so capture it before you close the tab.

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