Three exams, one week, no plan
The exam is in a week and you do not know where to start
Revision goes wrong in a predictable way: you spend the first four days on the chapter you already understand, because it is the comfortable one, and meet the chapter that decides your grade on the night before.
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What this will not do
It cannot tell you what will be on the exam, and it will not pretend to. It works from what you tell it the exam covers and from your own course materials.
How it works, step by step
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Give it the date and the scope
What the exam covers and when it is. If you have a course outline or a past paper, upload that too.
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Get a plan built backwards from the date
Rather than a list of topics, it is an order, with the heaviest material early enough that discovering you do not understand it is still recoverable.
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Practise, with worked solutions
Generated questions on each topic with the full working shown, not just an answer key. Answer keys tell you that you were wrong; working tells you where.
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Take the ones you got wrong into a session
The questions you failed are the most valuable material you have. Bring them to a session with Johnny and find out whether it was a gap or a slip, because they need completely different fixes.
Questions people in this situation ask
What if the exam is tomorrow?
Then skip the plan and go straight to a live session on the two topics you are least confident about. A plan for tomorrow is not a plan, it is a list.
Can it use past papers?
Yes, upload them. Past papers are the best signal available about what a course tests, as opposed to what its outline says it covers.