Exam plan and today's plan
The Exam plan turns "the exam is in three weeks" into what to do today. It is built from your own progress, so it changes as you study.
Set it up
Open Exam plan and pick your block. Under Settings:
- Exam date: the block's official date is filled in when there is one. You can set your own instead (it syncs with your account).
- Study time a day: how many minutes you have; 60 to start with. Today's plan is sized to fit it.
- Target score: the mock-exam score you're aiming for; 70% to start with.
- Usual study time: used only for the calendar file.
Add to calendar downloads a calendar file with your study sessions and the exam. Plan my week with Alfond asks the study assistant to turn the plan into a week (signed in).
Today's plan
A checklist of what to do today, also shown on Home. Items tick themselves off as you study; you don't have to tick anything.
What goes in, roughly in this order:
- Cards and figure labels that are due. These always get a place.
- Close to the exam, a timed mock exam.
- Questions you missed before, to retry.
- From two weeks out, your weakest topics and questions.
- Until the last few days, new cards and labels, an unread chapter and a short quiz.
New material is spread so you see all of it before the next phase. Miss a day and the rest is spread over the days left; nothing piles up on one day.
Phases
| Days to the exam | Phase | The plan focuses on |
|---|---|---|
| 15 or more | Learn | new material, reading, quizzes |
| 4 to 14 | Strengthen | your weak spots |
| 2 to 3 | Mock exams | timed mocks and reviews |
| 1 | Final review | due reviews and the weakest subject's summary |
| 0 | Exam day | a summary or two to skim |
Readiness
Readiness (0–100) is how prepared you are for each subject, from:
- how well you know its flashcards and figure labels,
- your quiz accuracy, and how much of the bank you've covered,
- how many chapters you've finished.
A part the subject doesn't have is left out. A perfect score on one small section doesn't count as knowing the whole bank: coverage matters.
The block's readiness is the average of its subjects. Once you've sat mock exams, they count for 30% of it.
Mock exams and the projection
Mock exams are the timed exams from the Exam section. After two mocks on different days, the plan draws your trend and projects a score for exam day, against your target. Sit one starts the next one.
Weak spots and your class
- Weak spots lists the topics you keep forgetting, the questions you miss most and the labels that keep slipping, each with a one-tap drill.
- Your class (signed in) shows your readiness against your cohort's average, once at least 3 classmates have one.
The exact formulas are in the developer docs, if you want to check a number.