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Study Schedule Maker & Timetable Generator

Give it your exam date, how many hours of studying you still need to do, and how hard the material is. It tells you how many hours a day that takes on your own - and, next to it, how much less that actually needs to be with targeted spaced review instead of re-reading everything cold.

Compares flat study time against spaced-review time

Your exam

Add these to also get a day-by-day new-vs-review breakdown below.

Your study time

Enter your exam date and hours needed, then generate.

This is the same idea Encodr's feed runs on every day - it just does the resurfacing for you automatically instead of a one-time printout.

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Why the Encodr number is lower

Studying on your own usually means re-reading notes and chapters you already half-know, right alongside the material you actually need first exposure to - most of that re-reading time is spent refreshing things you weren't about to forget yet. Spaced review only resurfaces something right as it's about to fade, using increasing gaps (1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 21, 30, 45, 60, 90 days) instead of flat re-reading. That's why the same retention takes measurably fewer hours when review is targeted instead of blanket - the harder and denser the material, the more low-value re-reading there is to cut. If you list topics above, the table below also spreads first exposure to each one across the earlier part of your time, then schedules review passes at those same gaps before your exam.

Study schedule maker FAQ

Is this a study timetable generator or a study plan maker?

Both. Enter your exam date and total hours to get a daily study time target, and list your topics to get a day-by-day timetable that says what to learn new and what to review on each day.

How do I make a study schedule for an exam?

Work backwards from the exam date: estimate the hours the material needs, spread first exposure to each topic across the earlier days, and leave the later days for review passes at growing gaps. This tool does that arithmetic for you.

Is the study schedule maker free?

Yes. It runs in your browser, needs no account, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

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