How many hours a day should a GCSE revision timetable have?
It depends on how many days you have and how many subjects you sit. A short block of 30 to 60 minutes on most days beats one long block a week. Set a number you can keep.
How to make a GCSE revision timetable
A timetable only works if you can keep to it. Build it from real dates and real minutes, put your weakest topics first, and repeat topics before you forget them.
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1. Start from your exam dates
Write down the date of every paper you sit, then count the days back from the first one. Your school gives you the exact dates. Keep the GCSE Maths exam dates page open beside your calendar. Each subject needs a share of the days, and the subject with the earliest paper gets time first.
2. Choose the days and the minutes you can really keep
List the weekdays you can revise and the minutes you can give each one. Be honest: thirty minutes you keep is better than two hours you skip. Leave one weekday free so a missed session has somewhere to go.
3. Put the weakest topics first
Use your last marks, a quick topic check or the revision checklist to find the topics you lose marks on. Give those the early slots and the longer sessions. A topic you already know gets a short review, not a long lesson.
4. Space the reviews
You forget a topic gradually. Plan to return to it after a few days and again after a week or two, with a handful of questions each time. Short reviews spread over several days usually hold a topic better than one long session.
5. Match each slot to a task
Write the task, not just the subject: "learn the method for ratio, then ten questions" rather than "maths". A good slot ends with questions you mark yourself, because reading alone does not show what you can do.
6. Revisit the plan weekly
At the end of each week, move what you missed, remove what you now know and add the topics that went wrong. A timetable is a draft you keep editing.
How Yumio helps
The Yumio revision plan works from the same inputs described above: exam dates, the weekdays you choose, the minutes you have, target grades and weak topics. It spaces topics using a forgetting model and lays out dated tasks for each subject. A practice task is ticked when answers marked by the site are completed. Start free to set yours up.
Questions students ask
What does the Yumio revision plan ask for?
Your exam dates, which weekdays you can revise, how many minutes you have each day, your target grades and your weak topics. It then lays out dated tasks for each subject.
Does ticking a task prove I revised it?
In the Yumio plan, a practice task is ticked when answers marked by the site are done, so the tick means work was actually completed.
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