Study schedule and revision timetable maker — free, no sign-up
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Sources checked on by Alexandre Doumergue, founder of Paced.
Reviews on D+1 D+3 D+7 D+15 D+30 D+60 D+120 D+240
Your plan appears here once the page has loaded the dates.
How the maker builds your timetable
A revision timetable generator, a revision planner or a study timetable maker needs the same four things as a paper plan: subjects, topics, hours and a date. What this one adds is the arithmetic a study plan generator usually leaves out — every review placed on its day, and every week counted:
- Topics, not hours of “biology”. A topic is something you can learn in one sitting (30 minutes to 2 hours): a chapter, a lecture week, a type of problem. Subjects are lists of topics.
- First studies rotate between subjects (A1, B1, C1, A2…) and are spread over the study days of the first two thirds of the time you have, so that no subject waits two weeks for its turn and the last third holds reviews only.
- Each topic gets reviews on the pace you choose. Light: D+2, D+7, D+21, D+60… Standard: D+1, D+3, D+7, D+15, D+30… Intensive: D+1, D+2, D+4, D+7, D+12… Reviews are shorter than the first study (for a 1-hour topic: 18 min, 16 min, 13 min, 11 min…) because a review is recall, not relearning.
- Nothing is scheduled on or after the exam. Reviews that would fall after it are dropped, and the maker says how many. A review that lands on a day with no hours moves to your next study day.
- Every week is added up and compared with your hours. A week over budget is shown with the number of minutes it is over.
Why reviews and not just a timetable of subjects: spreading study over time improves retention compared with massing it (Cepeda et al., 2006), and recalling beats rereading (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006). A timetable that only shares out hours between subjects leaves both to chance. For one topic at a time, the spaced repetition calculator gives every date and length.
An example: five subjects, six weeks
The maker above opens with this plan: 5 subjects of 6 topics each (30 topics), 1 h per first study, exam in 6 weeks. Available: 2 hours on weekdays, 4 hours on Saturday, Sunday off — 14 h a week. The maker spreads the first studies over the first two thirds of the study days: 8, 7, 8 and 7 new topics in the first 4 weeks, nothing new after. Its calculation, starting on a Monday, each review counted on its day (13 reviews that fall on a day off move to the next study day):
Your study timetable, week by week
| Week | First studies | Reviews | Total | Fits 14 h? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 h | 3 h 10 | 11 h 10 | yes |
| 2 | 7 h | 5 h 58 | 12 h 58 | yes |
| 3 | 8 h | 7 h 04 | 15 h 04 | no, over by 1 h 04 |
| 4 | 7 h | 7 h 15 | 14 h 15 | no, over by 15 min |
| 5 | 0 | 4 h 45 | 4 h 45 | yes |
| 6 | 0 | 2 h 21 | 2 h 21 | yes |
On the Standard pace, 132 reviews fall before the exam; on Light, 83.
When the plan does not fit
Weeks 3 and 4 are over on the Standard pace: the reviews of the first weeks arrive on top of the new topics. The usual fixes, which the maker recalculates on the spot:
- Light pace for the subjects you already know well. The whole plan on Light peaks at 13 h 16 a week and fits every week, with fewer reviews.
- Start a week earlier, so that 8 new topics a week at most become 7.
- Shorter topics: 45-minute first studies instead of 60.
- More hours on one day, if that is real.
The last two weeks hold only reviews (4 h 45 and 2 h 21): that is where past papers and timed practice go.
Exam countdown: what is left, week by week
An exam countdown is more useful with the work next to the days. For the same example, at the start of each week: the days left to the exam, and the study still to do from that week on, reviews included. Our calculation:
| Week | Days to the exam | Study left |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 42 days | 60 h 33 |
| 2 | 35 days | 49 h 23 |
| 3 | 28 days | 36 h 25 |
| 4 | 21 days | 21 h 21 |
| 5 | 14 days | 7 h 06 |
| 6 | 7 days | 2 h 21 |
With 7 days to go, 2 h 21 of reviews are left: the countdown slows down at the end, which is why the last weeks can hold past papers. The maker above runs the same calculation on your own dates.
Breaks, days off and catch-up time
- Days off are days off. Set Sunday to zero and nothing lands on it.
- Breaks inside a session are up to you: the maker plans minutes per day, not a minute-by-minute grid. A common rule is a short break every 45 to 60 minutes.
- Leave slack. Plan 10 to 15% under your real hours, so that a missed evening can be caught up within the week.
In a survey of 324 undergraduates, self-testing and scheduling one's study were associated with grades, low performers studied late at night more often, and all students — low performers most — were driven by deadlines (Hartwig & Dunlosky, 2012): a correlation, not a promise. The method step by step is in how to plan revision; several exams on different dates are in the finals study schedule.
Print it, put it in your calendar, or open it in a spreadsheet
- Print (A4 or Letter): the week table and every dated pass, without the rest of the page — a study schedule template filled with your own plan.
- Calendar file (.ics): every first study and review as an all-day event. In Google Calendar, import it on a computer from Settings, Import & Export; imported events are a copy, so re-import after a change.
- CSV: one row per pass with a header row (subject, topic, pass, offset_days, date, minutes), to open in Google Sheets or Excel. In Notion: Settings, Import, CSV, then map each column to a property.
Keep the plan and let it move
A printed timetable is right on the day you print it. After that, a missed evening shifts nothing on paper. Keep this plan in Paced opens it in Paced, without an account: your subjects, your topics on the days the maker gave them, your hours and your exam date come with you, and the plan moves what you missed inside the hours you have. Paced plans on its own paces: a 2-3-5-7 plan opens on Intensive, and paces set per subject become the plan's pace — the maker says so under the button before you leave.
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Paced keeps the timetable alive: it places every first study and review inside your real week, moves what you missed, and warns you before a week goes over. The web plan is free for up to 8 active topics, 7 days ahead, with no card; the iPhone and iPad app needs Plus. Try it without an account.
Questions
Is this study schedule maker free?
Yes. No sign-up, no email: the plan is calculated in your browser, and nothing you type is sent to us or stored on our side. A link to your plan carries it after the # of the address, a part browsers do not send to a server.
How does the maker build my revision timetable?
From your subjects and the topics in each, the hours you have on each day and the exam date: it places first studies and spaced reviews, then adds up every week. The method behind it, step by step, is in the guide on how to plan revision.
Does the maker show which weeks go over my hours?
Yes. Every week is added up, reviews included, and compared with the hours you gave for that week; a week over is marked with the minutes it is over, and the summary counts them. Change a pace, the start date or the hours and it recalculates on the spot.
Can I make a study timetable with breaks?
Set days off to zero hours and nothing lands on them; within a day, take a short break every 45 to 60 minutes. The maker plans minutes per day, not a minute-by-minute grid.
Is there a study schedule template I can print?
Make your own here instead of filling a blank revision timetable template: print it on A4 or Letter, download a calendar file (.ics) for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, or a CSV for a spreadsheet or Notion.
What happens after the exam date?
Nothing is scheduled on or after it. The maker counts the passes that would have fallen there, so you can start earlier or choose a tighter pace if they matter.
Sources
- Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3), 354–380. Meta-analysis of 839 assessments in 317 experiments: the gap that maximises retention grows with how long you need to remember.
- Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249–255. On tests two days and one week later, practising recall beat restudying the same text.
- Hartwig, M. K., & Dunlosky, J. (2012). Study strategies of college students: Are self-testing and scheduling related to achievement?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(1), 126–134. Survey of 324 undergraduates: self-testing and scheduling were associated with GPA; low performers studied late at night more often and all students were driven by deadlines.
- Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4–58. Review of 10 techniques: practice testing and distributed practice rated high utility; rereading and highlighting low.
- Google (2026). Import events to Google Calendar. support.google.com. Import works with .ics and .csv files on a computer (Settings → Import & Export); imported events are a copy, not a live feed.
- Notion Labs (2026). Import data into Notion. notion.com. CSV import: Settings → Import → CSV, then map each column to a property; or “Merge with CSV” from a database's ••• menu.