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How many days until your exam?
Enter your exam date and how much material you have: get your daily workload and a plan for your first week, with spaced recall. Free, no account needed.
Your course, not just its page count
This calculation only knows the volume. ASSIMIA reads your course: it turns it into study notes, flashcards and quizzes, and brings each concept back when you are about to forget it — sooner when you get it wrong, right up to exam day.
Try it freeHow the plan is built
The calculation starts from three things: your exam date, the amount of material and the time you have. It keeps the day before the exam for a light review, removes your rest days, then splits the rest into two phases.
- 1First pass, over the first two thirds of your study days: each day, a slice of pages to read actively and turn into notes.
- 2Spaced recall: each slice comes back on day +1, +3, +7 and +14. You test yourself from memory instead of rereading.
- 3Practice, over the last third: quizzes, past papers, mock exams, and any recall still due.
- 4Day before: a light review of the key points, and sleep.
Why finish the first pass early? Because testing yourself and spacing out your revision are among the best-established learning techniques in research (Dunlosky et al., 2013). A first pass that ends the day before the exam leaves time for neither.
Frequently asked questions
How is the number of pages per day calculated?
Your material is divided by the number of first-pass days: the first two thirds of your study days, excluding rest days and the day before the exam. When only three study days or fewer remain before that day, they are all used for the first pass.
Why keep days without new material before the exam?
Because testing yourself is what consolidates what you have read. The last days are for quizzes, past papers and spaced recall: that is when you find out what has not stuck yet, in time to fix it.
What if the workload is unrealistic?
Sort your chapters: what almost always comes up, what sometimes does, what rarely does. Master the first group, cover the second, and accept skimming the third. Adding time each day helps too, but not at the expense of the night before the exam.
Is what I type saved?
No. The calculation runs entirely in your browser: neither the date, nor the amount of material, nor your available time is sent anywhere. Only anonymous audience measurement counts visits to the page.