A two-week plan for any exam

Two weeks is enough time to do this properly, if you use the time in the right order. Most last-minute plans fail the same way: all the new material lands in the final three days, so there’s no time left to practise it, and the night before turns into a reread of everything.

Here’s a structure that avoids that. It works on paper, and it’s the same shape Cramby uses when it builds a plan for you.

Start with the date#

Before planning a single day, collect three things:

1. 1

   The exam’s scope

   Which units, chapters or lectures are in. Check the syllabus and any review sheet, then list them in teaching order.
2. 2

   Your honest starting point

   Mark each topic: haven’t learned, shaky, or solid. A 10-question quiz per topic is more honest than a gut feeling.
3. 3

   Time per day

   Pick a number you’ll actually keep, even 45 minutes. A plan you follow beats a heroic plan you drop on day three.

Days 1–8: learn and check#

Spend roughly the first 60% of your days on anything you haven’t learned or that’s shaky, in teaching order: later topics often build on earlier ones. End every session by testing yourself on what you just covered, even briefly.

From day 2 onwards, start each session with ten minutes of review on earlier days’ topics. This is where spacing begins: the first review of each topic lands a day or two after you learned it.

Days 9–13: mix and stretch#

No new material now. Switch to practice: mixed question sets that jump between topics, weakest topics first. Mixing feels harder than doing one topic at a time, and that’s the point: on the exam, nobody tells you which chapter a question is from.

Let the gaps grow. A topic you practised on day 9 and got right can wait until day 12. A topic you got wrong comes back tomorrow.

Day 14: rehearse, then rest#

Do one short mock under exam conditions, timed and closed-book, then review only what it shows you missed. Stop early. Sleep consolidates what you’ve learned, and a tired brain on exam morning undoes more than an extra hour of study adds.

When you fall behind#

You will miss a day. When it happens:

• Don’t try to do two days at once. Shift the remaining learning forward and squeeze the practice phase instead.
• Protect the last two days. A rushed final mock still beats no mock.
• Drop the lowest-value practice first: topics you’re already solid on.

Let Cramby plan it#

In Cramby, choose Plan for an exam, pick the lessons and the date, and set your minutes per day. You get this shape automatically: learning first, practice at growing gaps (weakest concepts first, with lessons mixed together), a daily flashcard review when cards are due, and a short mock on the last day.

Your Today card on the home screen shows what’s next, and if you miss a day, the plan rebuilds the rest from your current mastery, not from where you were supposed to be.