WeSolve+ is best for someone with a fixed date and their own material who needs the weeks between to produce something measurable. The tool below is the smallest version of that: paste what you are covering and it hands back questions you either can or cannot answer, which is the only honest input to next week's plan.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Material to a weekly check
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This tool uses text rules, not AI. It converts a week's material into questions whose answers are hidden, which turns a vague sense of having covered something into a list of things you could not produce. It does not plan your weeks and it does not know your exam date. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
Plan in evidence, not in hours
A week planned as six hours of chapter four ends with no way to tell whether it worked. The same week planned as be able to answer these twenty questions without notes ends with a number and a list, and next week writes itself from the list. This is the difference between a schedule and a feedback loop, and it is the single change that makes the difference between a plan that survives and one that quietly stops in week two. It is also what goal setting research keeps finding: specific and verifiable beats ambitious and vague, and hours are ambitious and vague.
Eight weeks out: coverage and a baseline
Two jobs, in this order. Sit one full paper cold, before you feel ready, because the score is not the point and the map is: it tells you which third of the syllabus is actually weak instead of which third you dislike. Then make the coverage list, every topic on the specification, marked can do, shaky, or have not started. Most people discover at this stage that two topics have never been taught, which is worth finding at eight weeks rather than at two. From here, weeks are allocated by the list rather than by the order of the book, and the shaky items get spaced rather than blocked, since the review of 254 experiments by Cepeda and colleagues found the same minutes spread across days beating the same minutes massed.
Two weeks out: papers and the wrong answer list
The work changes character here. Coverage should be finished, so the remaining time goes into full papers under conditions, each followed by a review that takes about as long as the paper. Anything you get wrong goes on a single list, and that list is the whole plan for the last fortnight; there is no need for a schedule beyond it. Resist the pull toward the topics you enjoy, which will be strong, because they feel productive and they are already the ones you can do. This is where study skills stop being general and become specific to what your own list says.
Two days out: consolidation, not new material
Starting a topic you have never touched, forty eight hours before, has a poor return and a real cost, because it displaces the review of things you nearly know. Spend the last two days on the wrong answer list, on formulae and definitions with exact wording, and on one timed paper no later than the day before. A short spoken recap is a reasonable use of the walk there, since by that point everything is second pass. Sleep is genuinely part of preparation rather than a lifestyle recommendation, since consolidation happens there and a night lost to cramming costs more than the material gained. Cramming does work in the narrow sense that it raises tomorrow's score; what it does not do is leave anything behind a week later, which matters when the next exam is on Thursday.
Why the plan usually stalls, and the fix that works
Two failures dominate. The first is scale: a plan that requires four uninterrupted hours meets a day with two, and rather than doing two the person does nothing, which is procrastination arriving through the front door with a schedule in its hand. Write the plan in twenty five minute units and the bad day still produces three of them. The second is the absence of a review point: without a fixed weekly moment to look at what the checks said, a plan cannot adapt and becomes a document you feel guilty about. Fifteen minutes on a Sunday, comparing last week's list to this week's, is enough.
Making the weekly check cheap enough to actually do
The reason people skip the check is that writing twenty questions takes longer than answering them. Upload the week's PDF, photograph the pages or take a camera shot and WeSolve+ writes the explained questions from that material, so the check costs a minute to produce rather than an hour. Questions you miss collect in their own list, which is the wrong answer list keeping itself, and cards return on a schedule so the spacing happens without you tracking it. At wesolveapp.com in any browser and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, free to begin. Figures on pricing, and exam specific pages under exams.
Sources used on this page
- Test preparation
- Cramming (education)
- Study skills
- Procrastination
- Goal setting
- Time management
- Test anxiety
- Spacing effect
- Active recall
- Testing effect
- Spaced repetition
- Cepeda et al., distributed practice meta analysis (2006)
- Cepeda et al., spacing and the optimal retention interval (2008)
- Roediger and Karpicke, Test-Enhanced Learning (2006)
- Karpicke and Roediger, the critical importance of retrieval (2008)
- Dunlosky et al., improving students' learning (2013)
- What Works Clearinghouse, organizing instruction and study
- The Learning Scientists, retrieval practice
- Retrieval Practice, the research library
- Anki manual, importing text files
- MDN, the details element
- MDN, the textarea element
- WeSolve+ on the App Store
- Sleep and learning
- Self-regulated learning
- Pomodoro Technique
- Kornell and Bjork, is spacing the enemy of induction (2008)
- Sleep deprivation
- Reminder
| When | The job | The common mistake |
|---|---|---|
| Eight weeks | Baseline paper and a coverage list | Starting at chapter one and never finishing |
| Six to three weeks | Close the shaky topics, spaced | Rereading the topics you already know |
| Two weeks | Full papers and the wrong answer list | Sitting papers without reviewing them |
| Final week | The list, formulae, exact wording | Starting something new |
| Two days | Consolidation and one timed paper | Losing a night to cramming |
| Every week | Fifteen minutes comparing lists | No review point, so no adaptation |
How far ahead should I start?
Far enough to sit a full paper cold and still have time to act on it. Eight weeks is comfortable for one subject; the baseline paper matters more than the number.
Does cramming work?
For tomorrow, yes, in the narrow sense that it raises the next day's score. It leaves very little behind a week later, which is why it fails anybody with more than one exam.
How do I plan a week?
In evidence rather than hours. Six hours of chapter four cannot be checked; being able to answer twenty questions without notes can, and the ones you miss are next week's plan.
What should I do the day before?
The wrong answer list, exact wording of definitions and formulae, and nothing new. Sleep is part of the preparation, not a reward for finishing it.
Why do study plans collapse in week two?
Usually because they were written in four hour blocks and a two hour day produces nothing instead of half. Twenty five minute units survive a bad week.
Is anything I paste here uploaded?
No. The conversion happens in your own browser and nothing is transmitted. Closing the tab ends it.
Last updated: 2026-08-15