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Exam Study Plan

When you set an exam date, RemNote works out how much practice you need to do before exam day. The study plan page shows you that schedule and how well you're keeping to it.

Written by Victor He

After you create an exam, RemNote takes the flashcards in your exam, calculates how much practice you need between now and exam day, and spreads it across the weeks you have left. The exam study plan page is where that schedule becomes visible: what you still need to learn, what is due for review, and whether you are keeping up.

To open it, click one of your exams in the Flashcard Home.

The Study Plan page in Weekly view, listing each week's lectures with cards left to learn and scheduled reviews, ending with the flagged Exam Day.

Tracking your progress

The top of the page answers one question: are you on track? It shows your goal for today, a chart of your progress toward exam day, and the practice coming up next, alongside shortcuts to the documents the exam was built from, so you can move straight to the material rather than looking for it in the sidebar.

To change the schedule as you go, click the Edit button with the pen icon under the exam’s name. If you want to learn more what each setting changes and why the schedule looks the way it does, read Understanding the Exam Scheduler.

An exam's study plan page showing a Done For Today card, a count of new exam cards to learn, and a progress graph reading 9 percent of studying done with a Learn More Today warning.

Learning and reviewing your flashcards

From the study plan you can start practicing either kind of flashcard:

  • flashcards you have already learned that are due for review

  • new flashcards you have not started learning yet

Keeping the two apart matters when your material is still growing. If you generate flashcards with AI partway through the study period, or add more of your own, you can learn those on their own, or combine them with the flashcards you are already reviewing and practice everything together.

Today's Study Plan split into two cards: Due Reviews with a Practice button, and Learn New Exam Content with a Learn Next button.

Whenever you add flashcards or generate new content inside an exam, a message appears telling you that the exam now contains content that is not yet in your schedule. Add those flashcards to your schedule from the message, or click Other Options to adjust the schedule and learn them at a different time.

A banner warning that new content was added to the exam, comparing the current and updated weekly study plans, with a button to add the cards to this week's schedule and an Other Options button.

Study plan views

When you scroll to the bottom of the page, you can browse your schedule in three ways:

  • Weekly View: How many flashcards you need to learn and how many reviews are due this week and in the weeks ahead, so you always know how much each week holds.

    The Weekly view, breaking each week down by document, such as Ancient Rome and Egypt, with cards left to learn and scheduled reviews per week.

    Every week also breaks down by document, so you can see exactly what is left to learn and to review for each lecture or document in the exam, and pick which one to start on.
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  • Monthly View: A calendar view of the total flashcards and reviews due across the month.

    The Monthly view, a calendar of the month with daily counts of cards to learn and review, ending at the flagged exam day.

  • Graph View: How many flashcards will appear in your queue over time. This view also splits your progress into the phases of your plan, such as the initial learning period and the final review period before the exam.

    The Graph view, a bar chart of cards per day across the study plan, split into the Learning Period and the Final Review period before the exam.

Note: Hover over or tap any bar to read explanations, or read Preparing for an Exam to learn what each study period means.

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