Plan your assignments before deadlines

List your assignments, exams and fixed commitments, and this prompt builds a week-by-week plan that starts big tasks early and avoids a last-week pile-up. It marks what to do today and which deadline is most at risk.

text-assignment-deadline-planner — chatgpt — 90 words

Act as a study coach.

Here are my assignments and exams for the next [NUMBER] weeks:
[LIST EACH ONE WITH SUBJECT, TASK, DUE DATE AND ROUGH SIZE]

My fixed commitments: [e.g. classes 9-3, part-time job Tue and Thu evenings]
Hours I can study per day: [HOURS]

Make a week-by-week plan that breaks each assignment into smaller steps, starts the big ones early and avoids a pile-up in the last week. Mark what to do today. Keep one free evening a week, and tell me which deadline is most at risk.

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What you will get

A week-by-week plan that splits each assignment into steps, starts big ones early, avoids a last-week pile-up, marks what to do today, keeps one free evening and names the deadline most at risk.

Common mistake

The plan ignores how long tasks really take.

Fix: Give a rough size for each, such as “2,000-word essay, needs reading” or “problem set, 6 questions”. Add your own estimate in hours.

Also watch for

Study time lands in the evenings when you work. Write your real fixed times, including travel, and ask “use only the gaps I have listed”.
Everything is marked at risk. Ask for a ranking with a reason, based on due date, size and the time you have left. Only the top one needs your attention first.

Try a variation: add a buffer day

Ask for “one catch-up day every two weeks and each due date treated as two days earlier”. A built-in buffer protects you when a week goes wrong.

Still not right? Reply with this

Show me only this week and tomorrow in detail. For each task give a start time, a length and what finished looks like.