Overview
Falling behind is not usually a discipline problem. It is a triage problem. With fewer days than chapters, every hour spent on a low-weight topic is an hour stolen from a high-weight one — and most students spend it on whichever chapter they feel guiltiest about, which is rarely the one carrying the most marks.
The planner does the triage. You say how far behind you are, when the exam is, and how much time you can actually give it per day. It weighs each pending chapter by the marks it carries, sorts them into three tiers, and lays the survivors across the days you have left as specific tasks — not “revise Chapter 4” but “solve 10 previous-year MCQs on electrolysis”.
Telling it your situation
- Pick the paper. Your school subjects and any competitive exams on your profile both appear. A competitive candidate is planned as an exam candidate — JEE Main is a Class 11–12 paper whatever your school profile says, so no grade is invented for you.
- Choose the chapters you are behind on from the real syllabus list for that paper. Board, class and subject come from the curriculum map rather than a hand-typed list, so you cannot pick a combination that has no chapters behind it.
- Set the exam date. This is the number that drives everything else.
- Set your daily budget in minutes — honestly. Every scheduled day is capped at this number, so an optimistic figure produces a plan you will fail on day three.
What you get back
The plan has four parts:
| Part | What it contains |
|---|---|
summary | Two or three sentences of honest assessment — your actual situation and the strategy being taken. It does not tell you it will be fine. |
triage | Your chapters sorted into must do, should do and can skim. |
schedule | A day-by-day list, each with a focus chapter, two or three concrete tasks, and a minute budget. |
examTips | Three tactical tips specific to that subject and to being short of time. |
The triage: must / should / skim
| Tier | What it means |
|---|---|
| Must do | The chapters carrying the most marks. These get your real hours and your full attention. If you only finish this tier, you have protected the majority of the paper. |
| Should do | Worth marks, and worth doing if time permits. Attempt these after the must-do tier is genuinely secure, not alongside it. |
| Can skim | Read the solved examples only. Every chapter in this tier has to justify itself — the plan states why that chapter is skimmable given its weightage, rather than dropping it silently. |
Because each skim decision comes with its reason, you can disagree with a specific one and say so — see arguing with the plan below.
The day-by-day schedule
Each day in the schedule carries:
- A focus — one chapter or topic, not four.
- Two or three concrete tasks, written as actions you can start immediately: “solve 10 PYQ MCQs on X”, not “study X”.
- A minute budget that never exceeds the daily budget you set.
The timeline renders from today to the exam with a marker on today, so a glance tells you whether you are on schedule or slipping.
The test attached to each day
Each day's focus chapter is matched back to that chapter's question bank, so the day comes with a test you can actually sit rather than a suggestion to find practice somewhere. This is why the focus is stated as the exact chapter name from your syllabus list — a paraphrase would not match, and the day would silently lose its test.
Revision and full-mock days are the exception: they are labelled as such and pull from the whole subject rather than one chapter.
The last two days
The final two days of every plan are revision plus one full mock, never new chapters. Starting fresh material 36 hours before a paper reliably costs more than it earns: it is not consolidated in time, and it displaces the revision that would have secured what you already know.
When the exam is far away
The day-by-day schedule covers the final 21 days before the exam. If your exam is further out than that, the earlier period is handled as a single instruction in the summary instead.
This is deliberate. A schedule that assigns you a specific task on a specific day nine weeks out is fiction — you will miss days, your syllabus position will change, and the plan will be wrong long before you reach it. Come back and re-plan as the exam gets close.
Arguing with the plan
The first plan is a proposal, not a verdict. Tell it what is wrong in one line and it re-plans around that, keeping everything you did not ask to change:
- “I have a wedding on Saturday”
- “Physics is my weakest, give it more time”
- “I have already finished Trigonometry”
- “Don't skim Thermodynamics, it always carries 8 marks in my school’s papers”
You know your week and your school's question paper. The planner knows the marks weighting. Refining is how those two get combined.
More than one exam at once
Plans are stored per paper. A Class 12 student with a board paper and a JEE section keeps a separate plan for each, and switching between them shows the right one rather than overwriting. Refining a plan updates that paper's stored copy, so coming back to it later shows the refined version and not the original.
Exam tips
Every plan closes with three tactical tips written for that subject under time pressure — which question types to attempt first, what to write when you are unsure, where the cheap marks are in that paper. These are not generic study advice; they change with the subject and with how little time you have.
Working through it
Your plan is saved to your profile, so it is waiting tomorrow with today marked. Each item links to the surface that does that work — the chapter, its practice, its flashcards, a mock. It also feeds your daily plan, so the catch-up work shows up in your normal routine rather than living on a page you have to remember to open.
Troubleshooting
| Problem | What to do |
|---|---|
| No chapters appear for my subject | The subject may be keyed differently in the curriculum map. Pick the closest listed subject — the options come from the same map that answers for chapters, so anything listed has chapters behind it. |
| I have fallen further behind | Re-plan. A plan built for days you have already lost is worse than no plan. |
| A day has no test attached | That chapter has no question bank yet, or it is a revision or mock day. The tasks still stand. |
| The plan is too aggressive | Lower the daily budget and re-plan. The schedule is capped by that number, so it is the honest lever. |
| It skimmed something I know is important | Refine with that specific objection. Each skim decision carries its reason, so you can contest it directly. |
Common questions
Can I use it when I am not behind?
You can, but it is built for triage under pressure and it will tell you to skim things. For ordinary week-to-week study, learning paths and your daily plan are the better fit.
Does it know which chapters carry the most marks?
Yes, where the syllabus records it — the weighting is drawn from the chapter data rather than guessed from how long the chapter is.
Will it tell me I am going to fail?
It will give you an honest assessment, which sometimes means saying the full syllabus is not reachable in the days left. That is the information you need in order to choose what to protect.
What happens to the plan after the exam?
It stays on your profile until you make a new one for that paper. Nothing is deleted automatically.