One Week to Exam Day: A Plan That Actually Fits in a Week

A week is more time than panic makes it feel like — if you spend it retrieving instead of re-reading. Here's a plan that takes 30–45 minutes a day, uses every activity type for what it's best at, and leaves the night before the exam almost embarrassingly calm.

Day 1 — Build and skim (40 min)

Create the Module: upload the slides or chapter, select every activity including Mixed Match, set difficulty to Moderate. While it generates, make coffee. Then read the Notes once, top to bottom, no highlighting. You're building a map, not memorizing it.

Days 2–3 — First stars (30 min each)

Run the flashcards, then multiple choice. You'll get things wrong — that's the material introducing itself. Read every explanation on every miss; that's where half the learning happens. Target: at least one star on every question. The details popup on your Module card shows how many are still sitting at Unfamiliar.

Days 4–5 — Attack the gaps (30 min each)

Fill-in-the-blanks and true/false now — different question shapes catch different gaps. Then check your mastery tiers and go wherever the Unfamiliar count is highest. Stuck on the same question twice? Don't grind it a third time — open the tutor and ask what you're misunderstanding.

Day 6 — Mixed Match day (45 min)

This is the dress rehearsal. Mixed Match shuffles every question type into one round, so you can't coast on knowing "this is the flashcard section." It pays double points, and more importantly it simulates the one condition exams are famous for: questions arriving in no particular order and no particular mood.

Day 7 — Close the loop (20 min, seriously)

• •One relaxed Mixed Match round in the morning.
• •Skim the Notes one final time — now they'll read like a summary of things you know.
• •Stop. Sleep is a study strategy; your brain consolidates while you're unconscious.

Total cost: about four hours across a week. That's less time than one desperate all-nighter, distributed the way memory actually forms. The stars don't lie — when the bar on your Module reads deep coral, you're ready.

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