Term Planning
Study Planner
Plan a whole term, not just the week before an exam. Set your subjects, mark which ones need the most work, and say how much time you actually have. You get a week-by-week plan that works around half term.
Already inside the exam run-in? A term plan is the wrong shape for that — use the revision timetable generator instead, which works backwards from your exam dates.
Your term plan
14 teaching weeks · 8h a week · 112h across the term
Every week
| Subject | Per week | Whole term |
|---|---|---|
| Maths | 3h 26m | 48h 4m |
| English | 2h 17m | 31h 58m |
| Science | 2h 17m | 31h 58m |
Week by week
- Week 1w/c Mon 7 Sept8h
- Week 2w/c Mon 14 Sept8h
- Week 3w/c Mon 21 Sept8h
- Week 4w/c Mon 28 Sept8h
- Week 5w/c Mon 5 Oct8h
- Week 6w/c Mon 12 Oct8h
- Week 7w/c Mon 19 Oct8h
- Half termw/c Mon 26 OctBreak
- Week 8w/c Mon 2 Nov8h
- Week 9w/c Mon 9 Nov8h
- Week 10w/c Mon 16 Nov8h
- Week 11w/c Mon 23 Nov8h
- Week 12w/c Mon 30 Nov8h
- Week 13w/c Mon 7 Dec8h
- Week 14w/c Mon 14 Dec8h
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A term plan and a revision timetable are not the same thing
Most students only ever make the second one, and they make it late. A revision timetable works backwards from a fixed set of exam dates and is about coverage — every topic touched before the paper. It is the right tool from roughly February in Year 11, or March in Year 13.
A term plan does a different job. It sets the weekly rhythm from September so that the content is already learnt once when revision starts. Students who arrive at February having consolidated each week are revising; students who did not are learning the course for the first time under a deadline. That difference is usually worth more than the timetable itself.
How the weekly split works
Your weekly budget is five school nights plus two weekend days. That budget is divided between subjects in proportion to the priority you set: a subject marked needs most work gets three shares, keeping up two, and ticking over one. Every minute you entered is allocated — the split never quietly rounds your total up or down.
Half term is shown as a break rather than absorbed into the surrounding weeks, so the plan tells you how many teaching weeks you genuinely have. That number is almost always smaller than people assume: an autumn term is about 14 teaching weeks, not 16.
Reset the plan at half term
Priorities set in September are guesses. Once the first assessments come back you know which subject is actually behind, which is rarely the one that felt hardest. Come back at half term, change the priorities, and rebuild. If you want a grade estimate to set them from, run your marks through the grade calculator, and check what your target grades are worth at university with the UCAS points calculator.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a study planner and a revision timetable?
A study planner covers the whole term: the weekly hours you put into each subject alongside lessons, homework and coursework. A revision timetable covers the run-in to a specific set of exams and works backwards from the exam dates. Use a study planner from September, and switch to a revision timetable roughly three months before your first paper.
How many hours a week should I study outside lessons?
In Years 10 and 11, one to two hours on a school night and two to three at the weekend is a realistic term-time load — around 10 to 15 hours a week including homework. In Years 12 and 13 the expectation is higher: schools typically ask for four to five hours per A level per week. Build the plan around hours you will actually keep, not the hours you wish you could.
Should I give every subject the same amount of time?
No. Split by how far each subject is from where you need it to be, not evenly. This planner weights each subject by the priority you set, so a subject marked as needing the most work gets roughly three times the weekly minutes of one that is ticking over. Review the split at each half term — priorities change once mock results come back.
When should I start planning the term?
In the first two weeks of September, before deadlines start landing. A plan made in week one is one you can adjust; a plan made in November is damage control. Set it up once, then re-check it at half term and again at the start of each new term.
Are the term dates on this page my school's term dates?
No. Term dates in England are set by each local authority and academy trust, so they vary by a few days between schools. The dates shown are a typical 2026/27 England pattern to start from — change the start date, end date and half term to match your own school calendar before you build the plan.
What should I actually do in a study session?
Active recall and past questions, not re-reading notes. In term time a good session is: 10 minutes recalling last week's topic from memory, 30 to 40 minutes on new content or exam questions, then 10 minutes writing down what you got wrong. Passive re-reading feels productive and moves grades least.
A plan is easier to keep with someone checking in
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