Allocate limited study time by exam date, importance, current mastery, energy, and uncertainty
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Build a realistic dated exam revision schedule from the supplied constraints.
Exams, scope, weights, formats, and mastery evidence:
[exams]
Dated availability, commitments, sleep, travel, energy, and unavailable days:
[availability]
Methods, session length, materials, accommodations, daily load, and fallback needs:
[preferences]
First calculate usable study blocks without reducing stated sleep or overlapping commitments. Flag missing or impossible constraints. Prioritize by exam proximity, consequence, topic weakness supported by evidence, prerequisite dependency, and forgetting risk. Use active recall, practice under exam conditions, error review, and spaced revisits; limit passive rereading. For every block specify subject, exact topic, activity, duration, material, and a concrete completion check. Include short breaks, at least one buffer block, and lighter work before each exam. Do not fill every available minute. Provide a minimum viable version for disrupted days and explicit rules for rescheduling unfinished work without silently overloading later days. End with total minutes by subject and a coverage audit against the exam scope.
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Exams and scope
Biology, Sep 8, 40 multiple-choice questions, cells 30%, genetics 40%, ecology 30%. Last quiz: cells 82%, genetics 55%, ecology 76%. History, Sep 10, two source analyses and one essay; industrialization and reform movements equally weighted. Teacher feedback: evidence selection good, thesis and time control weak.
Real availability
Sep 1-7. School weekdays until 16:00; commute and dinner until 18:00. Free 18:30-21:00 Mon-Thu, but Tuesday music 19:00-20:00. Friday unavailable. Weekend 09:30-12:00 and 15:00-17:00. Sleep 22:30-06:30. Energy best early evening and weekend morning.
Methods and limits
45-minute blocks with 10-minute breaks, maximum 2 hours on school nights and 3.5 hours on weekend days. Use class notes, textbook questions, two biology practice papers, and three history sources. Need one buffer block. If a day fails, give a 25-minute minimum version.
Example output
Priority rationale: genetics receives the earliest repeated blocks because it is the weakest measured biology area and carries 40%. History thesis and timed execution receive repeated practice; evidence selection gets maintenance rather than equal time.
Sep 1 18:30-19:15 — Biology, genetics: closed-note retrieval map of inheritance terms, then check against notes. Complete when every correction is marked with a reason. 19:25-20:10 — genetics textbook problems; complete 8 and log error type.
Sep 2 18:30-18:55 — minimum-compatible history thesis drill using one source. Music remains untouched. No second block.
Sep 3 18:30-19:15 — Biology practice paper 1, genetics and cell items timed. 19:25-20:10 — review every error and write one prevention cue.
Sep 4 18:30-19:15 — History source analysis timed. 19:25-20:10 — compare to rubric and rewrite only the thesis and weakest evidence link.
Sep 5 — unavailable; no work assigned.
Sep 6 09:30-10:15 — Biology mixed retrieval. 10:25-11:10 — genetics transfer questions. 11:20-12:00 — ecology maintenance. 15:00-15:45 — History timed essay plan plus introduction. 15:55-16:40 — rubric review.
Sep 7 09:30-10:15 — Biology practice paper 2 targeted set. 10:25-11:10 — error repair. 11:20-12:00 — light final recall only. 15:00-15:45 — buffer for one unfinished high-priority block; otherwise history thesis drill.
Fallback rule: on a disrupted day, do 25 minutes of the first block's retrieval or timed task and record what remains. Move at most one unfinished block into Sep 7 buffer; replace a lower-priority maintenance block rather than adding time. Coverage audit: all biology areas appear, with extra genetics spacing; both history units must be represented in the selected sources. Confirm exact history source-to-unit mapping because it was not supplied.
Why this works
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Hard availability and load limits keep the plan executable instead of aspirational.
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Completion checks and buffers expose progress while absorbing normal disruption.
Check the result
Does every block fit a real dated window without sacrificing sleep or commitments?
Are weak and high-consequence topics supported by evidence rather than guessed?
Are buffer, minimum viable plan, and rescheduling rules usable when disruption occurs?
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