Revision timetables usually fail in the same way: the first subject gets all the early energy, the hardest one keeps getting postponed, and the day before the paper is spent starting something new.
Enter your subjects, your dates and how many sessions a day you can genuinely sustain. The plan rotates subjects so nothing is left until there is no time for it, turns every third pass into active recall, and reserves the final day for review.
Spending three consecutive days on one subject feels organised and means everything covered first has weeks to fade before the paper. Interleaving between subjects retains more, even though it feels less comfortable while you are doing it.
Rotation also protects you against the standard failure of running out of days with one subject barely opened. If time runs short, the shortfall is spread across everything rather than concentrated on whichever subject you happened to schedule last.
Every third pass over a subject is marked as active recall: close the notes, write what you remember, then check what was missing. It is deliberately harder than reading and produces most of the actual learning.
It also gives you honest information. Reading a chapter tells you nothing about whether you could reproduce it in an exam hall; attempting to reproduce it tells you precisely which parts you cannot, and that is what should drive the next session.
Three or four focused sessions a day is a substantial amount of genuine study. Plans built on eight collapse within a week, and then the timetable becomes a source of guilt rather than a tool.
Set the number you could manage on an ordinary day rather than your best one, and account for what the calendar actually holds — classes, a part-time job, travel home, festival days. A plan that survives contact with your week beats an ambitious one abandoned on day three.
The plan keeps the last day for reviewing weak topics only. Starting new material the day before rarely helps and tends to unsettle your confidence in everything you did know.
Use it to skim what you have already recalled successfully, sort out the practical details, and sleep. Sleep consolidates what you studied, and arriving rested is worth more than the marginal content gained by working through the night.
Three or four genuinely focused ones. Plans built on many more are usually abandoned within a week.
Interleaving retains more than long single-subject blocks, and it stops any subject being left until there is no time for it.
Closing your notes and writing what you remember, then checking what was missing. Harder than rereading and considerably more effective.
Set the date of your first paper and list the subjects it covers, then build a fresh plan for the next. Papers a few days apart are better handled one at a time.
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