A printable weekly review sheet for revision
A short sheet to fill in once a week. Write what you covered, test yourself on two things from Monday without looking, and name the three topics that lead next week. Most revision plans fail quietly because nobody ever checks them against what happened. This is the check, and it takes about a quarter of an hour.
Last updated 20 August 2026 · Written and checked by the GCSEwiz team
What is on the sheet
- A covered-this-week log by subject
- Two retrieval boxes to test yourself before you review anything
- Next week’s three priorities, decided while the evidence is in front of you
1 sheet · A4 portrait · black and white
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Weekly review
Fifteen minutes, once a week. Do the retrieval boxes before you look at anything.
First: two things from Monday, from memory
Write it out. No notes, no phone.
Different pen if you have one.
What I covered
| Subject | Topics | How (questions, notes, cards, paper) | Worth repeating? |
|---|---|---|---|
Next week leads with
| The three topics that go first | |
|---|---|
| 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 |
If the planned and actual hours are miles apart two weeks running, change the plan rather than the promise. A plan you keep beats a better plan you do not.
The retrieval boxes come first for a reason
If you review your notes and then test yourself, you are testing your short-term memory of the last five minutes, and everything will look fine. Testing first, cold, tells you what survived the week. That is the number that predicts what will survive until June.
It stings the first few times. It is meant to. The gap between "I covered this on Monday" and what you can produce on Sunday is the entire argument for spaced practice, and reading about it is nothing like watching it happen in your own handwriting.
What to do with a bad week
Bad weeks happen: illness, a rough patch, a week where nothing went in. The sheet is not a disciplinary hearing. Write down what actually happened, pick one thing to change, and move on.
The failure mode worth avoiding is quietly stopping the reviews after a bad one, because that is exactly when the information is most useful.