A printable personal exam timetable to fill in
Copy your school statement of entry onto one sheet and put it on the wall. Every year students arrive for the wrong paper or miss one entirely because the information lived on a folded printout in a blazer pocket. The second page maps the gaps between papers, which is what actually shapes your last three weeks of revision.
Last updated 20 August 2026 · Written and checked by the GCSEwiz team
What is on the sheet
- Sixteen rows for every paper you are sitting
- Columns for room, seat number and candidate number
- A gap-planner page showing what to revise between papers
2 sheets · A4 landscape · black and white
Choose landscape in your printer dialog, or Save as PDF to keep a copy.
My exam timetable
Page 1 of 2Copy this from your statement of entry, then check it against it twice. Print a second copy if you are sitting more than eleven papers.
| Date | Morning / afternoon | Subject | Paper and board | Length | Room | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The gaps between papers
Page 2 of 2Work down your timetable and write what sits between each pair of papers. A four-day gap before Chemistry Paper 2 is four days of Chemistry, whatever else is nagging at you.
| After this paper | Days until the next one | What those days are for |
|---|---|---|
Why this beats the school printout
The statement of entry is a formal document listing entries in code. It is accurate and almost unreadable at a glance, which is why it ends up folded in a bag. A wall copy in your own handwriting is the one you will actually look at on a Tuesday morning in May.
Copy it out yourself rather than photographing it. The act of writing each paper down is when you notice that you have two on the same afternoon, or that your last exam is a fortnight after everybody else's.
Four sense checks once it is filled in
The statement of entry is the version that counts: if anything on your sheet disagrees with it, the statement wins and your exams officer needs to know today. Once the two agree, work through these.
- Two papers on the same day: which one do I revise the night before?
- Which subject has the longest gap, and am I leaving it too late?
- Which subject finishes first, so I can stop carrying it around?
- Is there a day with nothing at all? Book it as a day off now.
The gaps matter more than the dates
Once study leave starts, your revision is shaped almost entirely by what is coming next. A long run of free days before a subject is a gift if you plan it and a liability if you do not, because it is the stretch where people drift.
Filling the gap page early also stops the classic mistake: spending the four days before Biology on English, because English is the subject you enjoy, and then meeting a Biology paper you last thought about a fortnight ago.