Revision timetable maker for exams that are actually coming
Enter your subjects, the hours you genuinely have, and your exam dates. Get a day-by-day revision timetable you can start tonight — free, and without signing up.
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Build your revision timetable
List your subjects, pick how much time you really have, and add your exam dates. No sign-up needed.
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A timetable built around your real week
Most revision timetables fail because they assume you have eight free hours a day. This one starts from the hours you actually have.
Add your subjects and exam dates
List every subject, paper, and module — plus the topics you already know are weak. Add coursework deadlines so they do not ambush you.
Say how much time you really have
Be honest about the hours, the part-time job, and the days you will not revise. A timetable you ignore is worth nothing.
Get a day-by-day plan
You get a plan that spaces subjects out, front-loads your weakest topics, and leaves room for the week going wrong.
Built for the exams you are actually sitting
The same planner, framed around the timetable you are really working to.
GCSE
Nine or ten subjects and two exam-heavy months. The planner spreads papers out instead of leaving a subject untouched until the night before.
A-level, AS and Scottish Highers
Fewer subjects, far more depth. Plan for essay practice and past-paper technique, not just re-reading your notes.
University exams
January and May exam blocks, several modules at once, and lecture recordings you never went back to. Plan the catching-up, not just the revising.
Resits and repeats
August resits and repeat papers give you a short, specific window. Plan around the topics that actually cost you marks last time.
What is a revision timetable maker?
A revision timetable maker turns a list of subjects, an honest number of free hours, and a set of exam dates into a day-by-day revision plan. It is the same job a wall planner does, except it does the arithmetic for you: how many sessions each subject can realistically get, which weak topics need to come first, and where the gaps are. Scholarly's version is free to use and does not ask you to sign up before it gives you the plan.
Why most revision timetables get abandoned in week two
The classic failure is a colour-coded grid that assumes a perfect week: no shifts at work, no illness, no Thursday you simply cannot face Chemistry. Then one day slips, the grid stops matching reality, and the whole thing gets quietly binned. The fix is to plan for the week you actually have — fewer hours, deliberately left empty slots, and a plan that survives a bad day. Tell the planner about the part-time job and the football, and it will build around them instead of pretending they do not exist.
Spacing beats cramming, and a timetable is how you get it
Revisiting a topic several times across weeks produces far more durable recall than one long session the night before — this is spaced practice, and it is one of the most consistently supported findings in learning research. The awkward part is that spacing is an admin problem: you cannot space anything if you do not know when you will next see the topic. That is precisely what a timetable is for. Choose the spaced option and the plan will bring subjects back around rather than finishing them once and never returning.
Plan the revision, then actually do it from your own material
A timetable tells you that Tuesday at 7pm is Biology paper 1. It does not do the Biology. This is where a plan on its own runs out of road: you sit down at 7pm, open a 60-page PDF, and re-read it passively for an hour. Turning that same PDF, lecture recording, or set of class notes into revision cards, a quiz, or a condensed set of revision notes gives the session something to actually do — active recall instead of highlighting. Scholarly builds all of those from the material you already have.
Exam boards, terms, and the bits people forget
Whether you sit AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas, CCEA, SQA, or the Leaving Certificate, the planning problem is the same shape: several papers, uneven confidence, and less time than you would like. Two things routinely get left out of timetables and then hurt. The first is coursework and NEA deadlines, which land in the middle of revision and steal whole weekends. The second is past-paper technique — knowing the content is not the same as being able to write it under time pressure. Put both on the timetable explicitly.
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Revision timetable questions
Is this revision timetable maker free?
Yes. You can build a revision timetable on this page without signing up or entering a card. A free Scholarly account adds the study material itself — revision cards, quizzes, and notes generated from your own PDFs and lecture recordings.
How many hours a day should I revise?
Fewer than most timetables assume, and consistently rather than heroically. Two to three focused hours a day that you actually complete beats a plan for six that collapses by Wednesday. Enter the hours you honestly have — including your job and your days off — and the plan will fit the exams around them rather than the other way round.
When should I start revising for GCSEs or A-levels?
Earlier than feels necessary, because spacing is what makes revision stick. Starting a few months out lets each topic come round more than once, which is far more effective than one intense pass in the final fortnight. If you are already close to the exams, choose a shorter window and the plan will prioritise your weakest topics instead of pretending there is time for everything.
Can it plan around my part-time job and days off?
Yes — that is what the preferences box is for. Tell it about shifts, training, a long commute, or that you do not revise on Sundays, and it will build the timetable around them. A plan that ignores your real week is the plan you abandon.
Does it work for university exams and resits?
Yes. Set the window to match your January or May exam block, list your modules, and add the exam dates. For August resits and repeats, choose a short window and name the topics that cost you marks last time so they get planned first.
Does it work for Scottish Highers and the Leaving Certificate?
Yes. The planner does not care which awarding body you sit — list your subjects and papers, whether that is National 5, Higher, Advanced Higher, or Leaving Certificate, and it will build a plan around your dates.
What should I actually do in each revision session?
Something active. Re-reading notes feels productive and mostly is not. Test yourself: make revision cards from your notes, generate a quick quiz from the chapter, or condense a lecture into revision notes in your own words. Scholarly can create all of those from the material you already have, so a session has a task rather than a vague instruction to revise.
Is my material private?
Everything Scholarly makes is built from material you upload yourself. Scholarly is not a note-sharing site. Nothing you upload is published to other students, added to a public library, or made searchable by anyone else — your workspace is yours, and that is the core difference from note-sharing platforms. For the full detail of how Scholarly handles uploaded content, including data use and retention, read our privacy policy.
Now give the timetable something to do
A plan tells you when to revise. Scholarly turns your PDFs, class notes, and lecture recordings into the revision cards, quizzes, and notes you revise from.
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