Rule 01
Budget the week you have
Write down fixed commitments first — classes, work, travel, sleep, one social evening. Whatever remains is your real study budget. Plan to fill 70% of it.
Study plan
A week that survives contact with reality.
Roughly six hours of deliberate study across seven days, including two rest slots. It's smaller than most timetables students write for themselves — which is exactly why it tends to hold.
Monday
- 15 min card review
- 50 min lecture recall (Module A)
Tuesday
- 15 min card review
- 50 min mixed problems (Module B)
Wednesday
- 15 min card review
- Rest — no study
Thursday
- 15 min card review
- 50 min essay paragraph (Module C)
Friday
- 15 min card review
- 40 min past-paper questions
Saturday
- 90 min catch-up on whatever slipped
Sunday
- 30 min plan next week
- Rest
Rule 02
One artefact per block
Every block ends with something you could show someone: recall notes, solved problems, a paragraph. No artefact means the block didn't happen.
Rule 03
Protect the daily 15
The short daily review is the load-bearing habit. If a week collapses, keep this and drop everything else.
Rule 04
Reschedule, never delete
A missed block moves to the Saturday catch-up slot. When Saturday overflows two weeks running, the plan is too big — cut scope, not sleep.
Exam term: what changes
Four weeks out, swap new-material blocks for past papers under timed conditions, and move the catch-up slot to midweek so mistakes get fixed while they're fresh. Keep the daily review unchanged, keep both rest slots, and stop revising the night before at a fixed hour you decide in advance.