How do I make a revision timetable I will actually stick to?
Pick your subjects, say roughly how confident you feel in each, and choose which days you can revise. The generator spreads sessions across the week, giving more of them to the subjects you rated lowest, and keeps the total realistic. Two to three hours on a school day is what most students sustain. Timetables fail because they are too ambitious, not because they are too vague.
Last updated 12 August 2026 · Built and checked by the GCSEwiz team
Be honest rather than kind. The weak ones get more slots, which is the whole point.
Leaving days out is allowed and sensible.
A session is about 40 minutes. Three is a full evening.
| Day | Session 1 | Session 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Maths | English Language |
| Tuesday | English Literature | Biology |
| Thursday | Maths | English Language |
| Saturday | English Literature | Biology |
8 sessions a week, around 5 hours, spread over 4 days.
Maths 2, English Language 2, English Literature 2, Biology 2. Print this page to keep a copy.
Why most revision timetables die in week two
The usual failure is not laziness. It is that the timetable was built by an optimist on a Sunday afternoon, assumed every evening was free and every session would happen, and then met an actual Tuesday. One missed slot puts you behind, being behind feels like failing, and the whole thing gets quietly abandoned.
So this one deliberately plans less than you could theoretically do. It leaves days blank. It caps the sessions per day at something a tired Year 11 will still do after school. A plan you keep to at 70% capacity beats a beautiful one you abandon in a fortnight, every time.
Weighting towards what you are worst at
The instinct is to revise the subjects you enjoy, because the sessions feel productive and you finish them feeling clever. It is the single most common way to spend forty hours and move nothing.
Rating your confidence honestly and letting the weakest subjects take more slots is uncomfortable and correct. If you cannot face rating them, a rough guess is still far better than an even split.
Sessions, not hours
The timetable is built in sessions of around 40 minutes rather than blocks of hours, because that is closer to how attention actually works and because a session is a unit you can finish. "Do 40 minutes of chemistry" gets started. "Do three hours of science" gets postponed.
What goes inside a session matters more than the timetable does. Attempting questions and checking what you got wrong beats reading notes by a wide margin, and it is the part no timetable can do for you.