This planner turns the time you actually have into an editable revision plan. You list your available study blocks, list the topics you want to cover with the minutes each needs, and it fills the blocks, reserves breaks and tells you plainly if the workload does not fit.
It never invents extra hours. If there is a gap, you see the gap.
How do I use it?
- List your blocks. Give each a label, its length in minutes, and a date if you want one. Use Add row for more blocks and Remove for ones you do not need.
- List your topic goals. For each, write the topic, the minutes you need, and your exam date if you want the planner to respect it.
- Set the break rule: the longest study run and the break after each run. The default is 50 minutes of study, then a 10 minute break.
- Press Build plan. Print and Download text save the result, and Reset returns the starting example.
Use realistic minutes. A topic that needs two hours of practice should be entered as 120, not 60 in the hope that it will go quickly.
Example walk-through
The planner opens with three 30-minute blocks and one goal: Quadratics practice, 120 minutes. Each 30-minute block is shorter than a 50-minute run, so all 30 minutes count as study. That gives 90 usable minutes against 120 needed.
The result is titled Conflict: the plan does not fit. It places 90 minutes across the three blocks and reports that 30 minutes cannot be placed, with a reminder to add blocks, reduce the goal or move the lowest priority topic.
Now make two changes. Set the two blocks to 60 minutes each by removing one block and editing the others, and change the goal to Quadratics practice, 60, then add Trigonometry, 40.
A 60-minute block holds 50 minutes of study and a 10-minute break, so two blocks give 100 usable minutes against 100 needed. Quadratics takes 50 minutes of the first block and 10 of the second, and Trigonometry takes the last 40 minutes. The conflict disappears and the result reads as a plan.
How do I read the result?
- Usable study time against needed time: the headline check. If the first number is smaller, expect a conflict.
- The block table: what goes in each block, any break, and any minutes left unused.
- Coverage gaps: each topic that could not be fully placed, with the missing minutes, or a note that every goal is covered.
- Assumptions: how the planner ordered things, which you can change by editing dates and rows.
If a goal has an exam date, the planner will not use a block dated after it. A short goal with an early date can therefore leave a late block unused, and that is worth noticing.
What are the limits?
The plan is only as good as the numbers you type. The planner does not know your school calendar, holidays, school exams or any teacher’s availability, and it does not guess them. Confirm real exam dates with the official timetable through your exam centre.
It does not judge how long a topic should take. That is your decision, and a teacher or your own past practice is a better guide than a default.
Which lessons explain the output?
Read build a revision plan from available blocks and identify overload before adding lessons for the thinking behind the conflict message. Choose realistic tasks when the exam feels close helps with deciding what to cut.
To keep official dates separate from school dates, see official exam timetable versus school calendar. If you are weighing short help against ongoing study, read focused revision tuition versus ongoing tuition.
Once the plan is realistic, teachers in our online one-to-one tuition can work on the topics that matter most. The tools page has more planning aids.