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Every student leaves with a plan.

A free 20-minute lesson. Students answer four questions and walk out with a revision timetable they made themselves, on paper and on their phone.

  • No logins, so no lost passwords mid-lesson
  • Nothing about students is collected or stored by us
  • Works on phones, tablets and school laptops
See the lesson

The 20-minute lesson.

Built to run straight off the board. You don't need to sign up or prepare anything beyond opening the page.

Minutes 0 to 5

Why plans fail

Ask who has made a revision timetable before, then who stuck to it. Plans fall apart for three reasons: too big, too vague, or done alone. Today's plan will be small, specific and shared.

Minutes 5 to 15

Everyone makes theirs

Students go to studyday.co.uk and tap "Make my timetable". Four quick questions: what they're revising for, their subjects, how confident they feel and when they can revise. Encourage honesty on the shaky ones.

Minutes 15 to 20

Print and pair up

Students add an exam date, then save it to their phone as a wallpaper or print it. Pairs swap links and press "See the overlap" to find a time to revise together.

The research behind it. Every StudyDay timetable spreads each subject across the week, mixes subjects within a day, and fills sessions with self-testing rather than rereading. Spacing and practice testing were the two techniques rated most useful in a large review of study methods (Dunlosky et al., 2013). Testing beat re-studying for long-term memory (Roediger and Karpicke, 2006), and mixing topics improved maths test scores (Rohrer and Taylor, 2007). The EEF's guidance on metacognition also recommends teaching students to plan and monitor their own learning, which is what this lesson does.

Make a class template

Send one link with the subjects already in.

Make a timetable with your class's subjects and sensible times, and give it a title like "Year 11 revision timetable". Then choose "Save or share" and "Copy a link". Anyone who opens it gets their own copy to change. Yours stays exactly as it is.

Good for tutor groups: put the link on the class page and students start from a timetable that already fits the school week.

Safe to use in school

StudyDay has no accounts and no database of students. Each timetable is saved in the browser on the student's own device. A link holds the timetable itself, and nothing in it is sent to us.

  • No sign-up, email or password
  • No adverts
  • Free to use with any class
  • Parents can be sent a view-only link

Classroom posters

Put one up in your room.

Three A4 posters in the StudyDay colours. Print them in colour, one per page.

Not paper.
Not an app.
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Maths
Maths: topic test.Give every session a job.studyday

Try it yourself first. It takes a minute.

Make a timetable