Study Planner — A Day-by-Day Plan Up To Your Exam

1. About you

Your board or curriculum, your class or level, your stream, what you're preparing for (HSC 2027, BUET admission, NEET…), your paper format (multiple choice, written, mixed, or written plus practical), how you work (fast, balanced, thorough), and how many hours a week are already taken by school or coaching. There's also a free-text box — "I'm weak at organic chemistry and I have tuition on Fridays".

This step is what makes the time estimates worth anything. A chapter title alone doesn't say whether the paper is multiple choice or six-mark written answers, and that changes how long it takes by half. You can skip it, but the app tells you what skipping costs rather than pretending it doesn't matter.

2. Your week

How many minutes you can study on each weekday — weekends usually get more, Sundays less. You also set:

• Longest single session (90 minutes by default). Anything bigger gets split.
• One weekday kept free for catch-up, optional. Being ill for two days should cost you slack, not the whole plan.
• Days off — holidays, trips, family events — which the planner treats as unavailable.

The planner also deliberately leaves about 15% of every day empty. A plan filled to 100% of your stated capacity fails the first time anything runs long.

3. Your target

Your exam date (offered from your countdown, a subject's own exam date, or a competitive exam entry — always editable), the date you want the syllabus finished by, and how many revision cycles you want (usually 2).

This is the step most planners skip. Before a single block is placed, the planner compares how many minutes your remaining syllabus needs against how many minutes you actually have before your finish date — and does the same for revision, between the finish date and the exam.

If it doesn't fit, you're told plainly: how many minutes a day the syllabus really demands versus the number you chose, and the earliest finish date that actually works. You then negotiate — move the date, add hours, or cut scope — instead of being handed an impossible calendar you'd abandon on day three.

If you go ahead anyway, nothing is silently dropped. The excess is spread across your days and those days go red, so you can see exactly what the warning was telling you.

Chapters are laid out in teaching order, prerequisites first. Each chapter becomes:

• Learn blocks — the first pass through the material.
• Practice blocks — question practice alongside the reading. Large for multiple-choice papers, small for essay papers.
• Recall blocks — short spaced-repetition touchpoints.

Long chapters are split into sessions no longer than your maximum. Sessions are evened out rather than greedily maxed — 100 minutes at a 90-minute cap becomes 50 + 50, not 90 + 10, because a 10-minute orphan block isn't a study session anybody actually does. Parts are numbered so you can see where you are: Physics · Rotational Motion (2/3).

Days are also protected from becoming unusable:

• At most 2 subjects a day by default. One is monotonous and hurts retention; five is thrash.
• Never two very hard chapters on the same day — that's a day nobody finishes.
• Days read in a sensible order: mocks and fixed commitments first, then learn, practice, revise.

Chapters you've already partly finished get proportionally less time. Chapters marked complete or skipped in your syllabus tracker are dropped entirely. Subjects you flagged as weak get about 25% more time.

Roughly 1 day, 7 days and 21 days after you finish learning a chapter, the planner drops in a short recall block for it — 10 to 25 minutes.

This is what separates a study plan from a Gantt chart. Without it, everything you learned in month one is gone by month three. These recalls are deliberately cheap, and if the target day is already full they're skipped rather than forced — a missed touchpoint costs far less than an overbooked day that makes you stop trusting the calendar.

Once your finish date passes, the calendar switches to revision until the exam.

• Each cycle costs less than the last — roughly 55% of the original chapter time for the second pass, 30% for the third, 20% for the fourth. You genuinely do get faster.
• Weakest first. Within each cycle, chapters are ordered by how heavily they're examined, how hard they are, how little of them you've actually covered, and whether the subject is one you flagged as weak. A barely-covered, frequently-examined chapter is revised before one you're already at 90% on that rarely comes up.
• Chapters you deliberately skipped are not revised. You walked away from them on purpose.
• Mock papers are placed at 14, 7 and 3 days before the exam, up to 3 hours each. These are locked in place — sat under real conditions at a fixed distance from the exam, a mock is worth more than the study hours it displaces, so nothing is allowed to slide it.

If you want a deeper look at revision cycles on their own, see the Revision Planner.

Everything above is a starting point, not a verdict. You can:

• Drag a block to another day, resize it, reorder a day, add your own tasks, or delete blocks.
• Ask for a specific start time for a block, so a day with fixed commitments lays out on a timeline.
• Mark a day off — the work moves out of the way automatically.
• Push everything back from a given day by however many days you've lost.
• Skip a day entirely.

None of this costs an AI credit or waits on a server. Moving a task re-runs a calculation on your phone, so it's instant, offline and unmetered.

Anything you touch by hand is pinned. When the plan reshuffles itself later, it rebuilds around your edits instead of quietly undoing them. Days already in the past are never rewritten either — your record of what you actually did stays intact.

You will. The planner is built for it.

It tracks the work you owe from days that have already passed, and converts it into how many days behind you are — measured in your own average study day rather than in calendar days. Once you're about two days behind, it offers to repair the plan: one tap, free and instant, which re-lays everything still ahead of you around what you've actually done. Your pinned edits, your finished work and your history all survive.

The planner also learns your pace. If you use the focus timer, it compares your real minutes against its estimates. Once there's enough evidence, it knows whether its estimates run optimistic for you — and the plan fits better every week without another AI call.

Some students already know exactly what their week looks like — a coaching centre timetable, a routine they've worked out themselves. For them there's a second mode: type or paste your own schedule and the planner puts it on the calendar as written. It won't rearrange it or add work you didn't ask for.

You write it in plain language:

This week I want to finish Strength of Materials, Maths and Gas Dynamics.
Aptitude every day 1 hour 30 minutes.
9, 10, 11 Sept: Gas Dynamics class 8:00–10:20 PM.
My day starts 6:00 AM and ends 11:00 PM.

Then:

• You always see a preview first. Nothing is applied to your calendar until you accept it. A misread instruction costs you a glance, not a wrecked plan.
• Up to 14 days at a time. You plan the next stretch when the current one is nearly done.
• Editing and extending are separate. "Edit this schedule" rewrites the days still ahead; "plan the next stretch" adds days after your last planned one, leaving everything already on the calendar untouched.
• Finished work is never lost, in either case. Before it replaces anything, the app tells you exactly how many un-ticked blocks are at stake.
• Your instruction is remembered, so changing your plan next week is a tweak rather than a retype.

The two modes — guided and self-written — are deliberately never mixed inside one plan, and switching between them archives the old plan so it's always one tap from coming back.

Layered on top of all this: "finish these three chapters of Chemistry by Friday."

A target takes a title, a due date, and a scope — whole subjects, or individually picked chapters. The planner then reserves that stretch of days for that scope, and pushes the rest of the syllabus to start after it. Because the two windows don't overlap, nothing competes for the same days.

• Inside a target window, the usual variety rules are relaxed — cramming several subjects into a few days before a test is exactly what you asked for by setting a tight deadline.
• You get a live feasibility preview as you pick the date, showing both whether the target fits and what it does to the rest of your syllabus. It's free, so you can adjust it as much as you like.
• One target at a time, which is what keeps your calendar a single timeline.
• If the due date passes with work unfinished, that work isn't lost — it jumps to the front of the syllabus queue and is taught first on the very next rebuild. If you delete a target instead, its work simply rejoins the syllabus at its normal place; you walked away from the deadline rather than merely missing it.
• When a target ends you get a one-time summary — and setting the next one for the leftover chapters takes a single tap.

The planner isn't a separate island:

• Today's blocks appear on your home screen and in the Diya tab, so "what do I owe today" is answered in one place instead of three.
• Ticking a block moves your syllabus percentage. Finishing one of a chapter's three blocks moves that chapter to 33% everywhere in the app.
• It works the other way too. Mark a chapter complete or skipped in your syllabus and its leftover blocks settle themselves, so they don't haunt you as permanent overdue work.
• The focus timer feeds it. Start a task from the timer and the real minutes are recorded against it — which is what powers the pace calibration.
• Every version is kept. Any rebuild, mode switch or regeneration archives the previous plan first, and you can restore an earlier version at any time. The undo is itself undoable.

The Study Planner is part of Diya AI Pro. If your subscription lapses, your plan stays fully visible and fully editable — only new AI generation is paused. Nobody's three-month study calendar disappears because a card expired. And if an AI generation ever fails, the app falls back to its own estimates and still builds you a working calendar rather than an error screen.