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Enter a course, its credit hours, and whether it's mostly memorization or mostly concepts, and get a recommended daily study time spread evenly across the course length - instead of guessing and finding out at midterms.
Updates live as you typeEnter your course details to see a recommended load.
Encodr is built for exactly the retention-heavy half of this - a spaced-repetition feed that keeps memorization-heavy material from needing last-minute re-cramming.
Get started freeThe baseline is about 35 minutes a day per credit hour or unit, which lines up with the rough "2 hours of outside work per credit hour per week" rule many schools use, spread across a normal study week. Retention-heavy courses - anatomy, pharmacology, vocabulary-heavy language courses, anything that's mostly memorization - get a 30% bump, since forgetting curves need repeated exposure that conceptual problem-solving doesn't. The total is then spread evenly across the course's length in weeks, with a 20-minute daily floor (below that, a course isn't worth a standing daily slot) and a ceiling so a very high unit count doesn't recommend something unsustainable - split load like that across multiple shorter sessions a day instead.
A concrete plan for spreading first-pass learning and review across the weeks you actually have.
The idea is old, simple, and almost always explained badly.
Where the rule comes from, when it overshoots, and when it badly undershoots what a course actually needs.
Enter your exam date, hours needed, and difficulty to see how much less time targeted review actually takes.
Open tool →See the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve for cramming vs. spaced review, and where each review session resets your retention.
Open tool →Enter your current grade, the final's weight, and your target grade to see the exact score you need on the final.
Open tool →Calculate your unweighted and weighted GPA (honors +0.5, AP/IB +1.0) side by side - not just pre-med, works for any transcript.
Open tool →Enter total questions and the passing percentage to see exactly how many you can miss and still pass.
Open tool →Enter deck size and your new-cards-per-day pace to see when first exposure finishes and your steady-state daily review load.
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