Why plan the whole term at once?
Because exams arrive together. Planning each one separately, a week before, means they compete for the same evenings. Putting everything on one calendar on day one shows you where the crunch weeks are while there's still time to do something about them.
Step 1: Put the whole term on one calendar
Open the Calendar and add each course:
- Upload the syllabus, timetable or exam schedule. PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text or a photo or screenshot, up to six files at once. Nibit finds the classes, exams, deadlines and tasks.
- Subscribe to your course calendar. If Canvas, Google Classroom, Moodle or your department gives you a calendar link, paste it in and Nibit keeps it up to date.
- Import an .ics file exported from another calendar.
Check what Nibit found before it's added. Unclear dates are flagged, weekly classes become one repeating series, and holidays become no-class days. See Turn your syllabus into a calendar for every detail.
Step 2: Start a plan for each exam
Every exam you add from a syllabus gets a Plan for it button. Press it, or open the Study planner and start a new plan.
Give the plan your syllabus, pasted or uploaded, and optionally your study materials and the notes you already have on the subject. Nibit reads the syllabus and breaks the course into topics, weighting each one by how much of the exam it's likely to cover.
Step 3: Tell it how much time you really have
Be honest here, because a plan you can't keep is worse than none:
- Study days: which days of the week you'll study for this exam.
- Total study time per day: from 15 minutes to 4 hours.
- Time per session: 25, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes.
- Preferred start time.
As you set these, the planner shows how many sessions fit before the exam, "Room for up to N sessions", so you can see straight away whether the time is enough. To estimate total hours, multiply your daily study time by the number of study days before the exam.
You can also tell it how ready you feel and what format the exam takes.
Step 4: Find out what you don't know yet
Choose how the plan finds your weak spots: a short diagnostic quiz, where any topic under 65% becomes a focus; picking topics yourself, starting from the weak areas Nibit already knows about; or covering everything equally. Focus topics get the most sessions and the earliest practice.
Step 5: Generate the plan
Press Generate my plan. Nibit places learn, practice and review sessions on your calendar, with a mock exam near the end:
- Sessions fit around your classes and other timed events, inside your daily time, never past 11pm and never on exam day.
- Short reviews come back three and seven days after you first learn or practise a topic.
- If you have more than one plan, they share your daily time instead of doubling it.
- If not everything fits, Nibit tells you how many sessions didn't, so you can allow more time.
The plan page shows a countdown to the exam, every session week by week, the topics with their weights, and how ready you are.
Step 6: Check in once a week
Open each plan at the start of the week:
- Readiness shows how ready you are for the exam, which topics are holding you back, and how that changed this week.
- This week shows sessions done, time studied, quizzes taken, and sessions missed and moved forward.
- Missed a session? Nibit moves it to your next free study day automatically, around your calendar as it is now.
- Term got busier? Change your study days or daily time and the plan replans. Replanning is free.
As your quiz and flashcard results come in, the plan adapts: topics you've mastered get fewer sessions, and topics you're still weak on get extra practice before the mock.
A semester checklist
- Week one: add every syllabus and timetable to the calendar.
- Week one: start a plan for each exam, with honest daily times.
- Every week: open each plan, do the sessions, and let it replan.
- Two weeks before each exam: check readiness and add time if a topic is still weak.
- Final week: reviews and the mock exam, nothing new.
Questions people ask
Is the study planner free?
The free plan includes one new study plan a week and five study sessions a week, plus one AI read of a syllabus or timetable for the calendar. Subscribing to calendar feeds and importing .ics files is always free. Pro removes the limits.
Can I plan several exams at the same time?
Yes. Each exam gets its own plan, and they share your daily study time so a day is never overbooked.
Does it send me reminders?
Plan sessions are added without reminders. You can set a reminder on any calendar event, and it appears while Nibit is open.
Can I export the plan to Google Calendar?
Not yet. Events come into Nibit from files and feeds, but Nibit can't export to or sync with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.