This worksheet turns your own facts into an order for what to review or discuss first. You enter the facts; the tool only does the sums and shows its working. It is a study-planning aid, not a ranking of subjects.
What does the worksheet do?
For each subject you enter four things:
- Requirement: Not checked yet, Verified: required or Verified: not required. Leave it on not checked until you have looked at the course, school or exam board page yourself.
- Gap: from 0 (secure) to 5 (big gap), your own judgement.
- Interest: from 0 to 5.
- Weights: how much the gap counts and how much interest counts, plus the study hours you have each week to share out.
The score for each subject is gap × weight for gap + interest × weight for interest. Subjects are then sorted, and your weekly hours are shared out in proportion to each score.
How do I use it?
- Start with the three sample subjects or change the names to your own. Use Add a subject for more.
- Set each requirement honestly. Choose “required” or “not required” only after checking an official source. Otherwise leave it as not checked.
- Enter the gap and interest for every subject, each from 0 to 5.
- Adjust the weights if you want gaps to count more or less than interest. Both cannot be zero.
- Enter your weekly study hours and read the plan. Download it as text if you want to keep it or bring it to a conversation.
How do I read the plan?
The plan lists subjects in suggested order, with a badge for each: Required (verified by you), Requirement not checked, not assumed compulsory, or Verified not required. Next to each subject are its score and its share of your hours, and the working is shown so you can see where every number came from.
Verified required items come first, because you confirmed them. After that, order follows score. Interest mainly separates subjects whose needs are similar, since the default weights make a gap count three times as much as interest.
If any subject is still unchecked, the plan tells you which ones to look up. Treat that as a short to-do list before you rely on the order.
Example walk-through
The worksheet opens with these sample rows, weight 3 for gap, weight 1 for interest, and 6 hours a week.
| Subject | Gap | Interest | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 4 | 3 | 4 × 3 + 3 × 1 = 15 |
| Chemistry | 2 | 5 | 2 × 3 + 5 × 1 = 11 |
| English | 3 | 2 | 3 × 3 + 2 × 1 = 11 |
The total is 37. Mathematics gets 15 ÷ 37 × 6 ≈ 2.4 hours. Chemistry and English each get 11 ÷ 37 × 6 ≈ 1.8 hours. Mathematics comes first because its gap is biggest.
Now suppose you check and find that English is a verified requirement for the course you want. English moves to first place in the list, because a verified requirement comes before score. Its hours still follow its score, so the tool shows the order and the hours separately.
Assumptions and limits
- Unknown requirements stay blank. The tool never assumes a subject is compulsory.
- Gap and interest are your own ratings, so the plan is only as honest as they are.
- It is not a ranking of subjects, not an admissions-chance tool and not an automatic recommendation to book tuition.
- Your data stays in your browser on this device.
Where to read more
To check what a course actually asks for, read checking actual future course requirements with the receiving institution. For choosing where to begin, see which subject to enquire about first, and for why a popular subject is not always your priority, subject demand and personal need.
The worksheet sits with the other learning tools. Once you know your first subject, the subject directory links to each learning guide and tuition page.