How we build your plan

How a plan is calculated

You enter an exam date, a start date (today by default), the hours you can really study on each weekday, any blackout days, and your own estimate of how many hours each topic still needs. The planner turns that into a week-by-week schedule.

Available hours are the sum of your weekday hours from the start date up to the exam date, minus blackout days, minus the review buffer you keep at the end, minus any practice-test blocks the exam defines. If your topics need more hours than are available, the plan tells you the exact shortfall and offers three ways to close it: add hours, move the date, or reduce scope.

Topic hours are spread across your study days. ‘Steady’ fills every day at the same rate; ‘front-loaded’ puts more work early and a lighter week before the buffer. Each topic is cut into study sessions about one day long, and the sessions of all topics are spread evenly over your period, so topics rotate and most days hold one topic (two when a session ends mid-day). Hours are rounded to quarter hours.

The review buffer at the end is not left empty: each buffer day’s free hours become a review block for mixed questions and weak spots, after any practice test that day. Review blocks are not counted in the hours your topics need.

When you check off days and press ‘Re-plan from today’, completed work is kept, missed work is redistributed into the days you still have, and the shortfall math runs again from today.

Everything runs in your browser. There is no server and no account; the plan is saved only on your device when your browser allows it.

What we deliberately do not do

We do not publish ‘recommended study hours’, pass-rate figures or score predictions — none exist from the official organizations, so you enter your own estimates and the planner sticks to arithmetic.

We do not set the credit-window rule for CPA candidates; that comes from your state board. The default of 30 months is editable.

Exam differences are real, not labels

Each exam supplies its own data: NCLEX-RN uses the eight Client Needs categories with official percentage ranges; CPA plans its four sections sequentially with one exam date each and a credit-window check; the MCAT schedules 7.5-hour full-length practice tests in the second half of your period; the LSAT uses the real 2-to-1 split of Logical Reasoning to Reading Comprehension and 3-hour practice blocks.

Official sources

Every exam fact on this site comes from these pages, checked on the date shown.