Step 1: Put every fixed date on one calendar
A revision plan that ignores your timetable falls apart in the first week. Before planning anything, get your classes, deadlines and exams onto one calendar, so you can see the time you actually have.
In Nibit, you can drop in a timetable, a syllabus, an exam schedule or an .ics file, even a photo of one, and it proposes the classes, deadlines and exams for you to check before they go on the calendar.
Step 2: List the topics and be honest about them
Write down every topic the exam can cover, using the syllabus or past papers as the checklist rather than your memory. Then sort each one into three piles:
- Don't know yet. You couldn't explain it to someone else.
- Half know. You recognise it, but you'd struggle with a question on it.
- Know. You could answer an exam question on it today.
Most people put too much in the last pile. A quick quiz on each topic is a better judge than your own sense of it.
Step 3: Use three kinds of session
Each pile needs a different kind of work, so give your sessions a type:
| Session | For | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| Learn | Topics you don't know yet | Read, make notes, make cards |
| Practice | Topics you half know | Questions, problems, flashcards |
| Review | Topics you know | A short quiz to keep them fresh |
| Mock | Everything | A full past paper, timed |
Weak topics should get the earliest and the most sessions, so they have time to move from learn to practice to review before the exam.
Step 4: Spread the sessions out
Studying a topic in several short sessions across the weeks works better than one long session the night before. Plan each weak topic to come back more than once, with a few days between.
Keep the last few days for review and at least one timed mock, not for learning anything new. Leave the day before the exam light.
Step 5: When you miss a session, move it
You will miss sessions. A plan that only works if you follow it perfectly isn't a plan. When one is missed, move it to the next free slot rather than skipping the topic.
Nibit's planner does this for you: give it an exam date and it plans learn, practice and review sessions around your weakest topics, and when you miss one it rolls forward.
What it costs in Nibit
Free accounts can make one study plan a week and start five study sessions a week, and reading a timetable into the calendar with AI uses the weekly AI import allowance. The quizzes, notes and flashcards a plan makes for each session come out of their own weekly allowances. Pro removes every limit. The full plans table is on the home page.