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Revision planning template
A blank eight-week revision planner tied to real exam series dates, with space for topics, past-paper milestones and rest.
What the template includes
A revision plan fails when it is a wish list. This template starts from paper dates, then asks for named topics and named outputs, so each block is something a student can finish in one sitting.
Two features are built in. Spaced review: every topic learned in one week is revisited briefly in later weeks, because revisiting is what moves material into lasting memory. Past-paper milestones: real papers under time conditions in weeks five, six and seven, because technique is trained on papers, not notes.
The grid is sized to the Cambridge exam series, which run in June (exams held May and June, results in August) and November (exams held October and November, results in mid-January). Count eight weeks back from your child’s first paper and start there; IB and A-Level families can use exactly the same grid against their own timetables.
How to fill it in
Work in this order. First, list every topic on the syllabus down the side of the grid; the syllabus document or textbook contents page gives you the list. Second, mark each topic confident, shaky or new, honestly. Third, allocate topics to weeks, front-loading the shaky and new ones, because they need the most revisit slots later.
Keep sessions short and daily rather than long and occasional: forty minutes a day beats four hours on Sunday. And leave one day a week empty on purpose; a plan with no slack collapses at the first birthday party.
The weekly grid
The example below shows one possible eight-week structure. The PDF grid is blank so you can adapt it to the actual syllabus, dates and available time:
| Week | Main work | Spaced review | Past-paper milestone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Topics 1 and 2 (shaky or new first) | None yet | Read one mark scheme to learn what examiners reward |
| Week 2 | Topics 3 and 4 | Fifteen minutes on topics 1 and 2 | One timed section from a past paper |
| Week 3 | Topics 5 and 6 | Review topics 1 to 4 | One timed section |
| Week 4 | Topics 7 and 8; fill remaining gaps | Review topics 3 to 6 | Half a paper, timed |
| Week 5 | Weakest topics from weeks 1 to 4 | Review topics 5 to 8 | First full paper, timed and marked |
| Week 6 | Errors from the week 5 paper | Review weakest topics | Second full paper, timed and marked |
| Week 7 | Errors from the week 6 paper | Whole-syllabus skim | Third full paper, timed and marked |
| Week 8 | Light review only; rest and logistics | Formula and vocabulary sheets | None; taper before the exam |
Working an example
A hypothetical example: a Year 11 student sits IGCSE mathematics in the June series. Eight weeks before the first paper, she lists the syllabus topics, marks algebra and trigonometry as shaky, and puts them in weeks 1 and 2. Week 5’s full paper shows marks leaking on "show that" questions, so week 6 targets exactly those. She walks in having sat three full timed papers, while her revision looked, from the outside, almost calm.
The method behind the grid is expanded in our guides to building a revision timetable and using past papers properly, and reviewing mock exam mistakes shows how to mine each marked paper for the next week’s work. Families who want a tutor to run this process can read the exam preparation page.
Download the template
The PDF contains the blank grid above with topic rows, tick boxes for review slots and space for paper scores, one page per subject. Print one per subject per exam series.
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