Study schedule around a full-time job

This prompt builds a realistic weekly timetable for an exam or course, given your work schedule, available study hours and your confidence in each topic.

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Build a weekly study schedule for me.

Goal: [EXAM OR COURSE] on [DATE]
Work hours: [WORK SCHEDULE]
Hours I can study: [HOURS PER WEEK]
Topics and my confidence in each: [TOPICS]

Create a realistic timetable with short daily sessions, weekly reviews and mock tests, a plan for busy weeks and a way to catch up if I fall behind.

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Schedule your hardest subject in your highest-energy slot, even if it is only 30 minutes.

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What you will get

A weekly timetable of short daily sessions that fits around your work, with weekly reviews, mock tests, a plan for busy weeks and a way to catch up if you fall behind.

Common mistake

The timetable puts long sessions on your worst days.

Fix: Give your real shifts and commute, and say which days are always full. Ask for sessions of 30 to 45 minutes, not three-hour blocks.

Also watch for

Every topic gets equal time. Rate each topic as strong, medium or weak. Ask the AI to give weak topics more of the early weeks and bring them back in revision.
One missed week wrecks the plan. Ask for “a catch-up rule, such as which sessions to drop first and which never to skip”, so a bad week costs you little.

Try a variation: make a two-week sprint

Ask for “the same plan compressed into the last 14 days before the exam, with only the weak topics and two timed mocks”. It is a useful fallback if you start late.

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Make this schedule fit my actual shifts. Give me one 30-minute session on weekdays, a longer one on Sunday, and a mock test every second weekend.