Personalized study plan with weekly milestones

Turn a subject, a deadline and your available hours into a realistic week-by-week plan with review built in.

Change note: Initial version

Prompt

Create a study plan for me.

Subject or exam: {{subject}}
Deadline: {{deadline}}
Hours I can study per week: {{hours}}
My current level: {{level}}
Weak spots or topics I fear: {{weak_spots}}
Learning materials I already have: {{materials}}

Build the plan with these rules:
- Work backwards from the deadline and give a week-by-week table with columns: week, focus topics, tasks, hours, milestone check.
- Put hard or weak topics early and reserve the last 15 percent of the time for full practice and review.
- Use spaced review: every week must revisit something from earlier weeks.
- Mix reading with active recall such as self-quizzing, practice problems and explaining aloud.
- Give a sample daily schedule for one typical week.
- Finish with three signs I am falling behind and what to cut first if that happens.

If the deadline or hours make the goal unrealistic, say so and offer a smaller scope. Ask me at most two questions before planning, and only if essential. If you are unsure about a fact, say so plainly. Never invent citations, quotes, statistics or URLs.

Variables

• {{subject}}Subject or examtextrequired

  Default: Introductory statistics final exam

• {{deadline}}Deadlinetextrequired

  Default: 8 weeks from today

• {{hours}}Hours per weeknumberrequired

  Default: 6

• {{level}}Current levelselectrequired

  Options: Complete beginner, High school, Undergraduate, Graduate, Working professional

  Default: Complete beginner

• {{weak_spots}}Weak spotslong

  Default: Probability and hypothesis testing

  Optional

• {{materials}}Materials you havetext

  Default: Course textbook, lecture slides, past exam

Example output

**Reality check:** 8 weeks at 6 hours a week is 48 hours, enough for an intro statistics final if you practice steadily.

| Week | Focus | Tasks | Hours | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Descriptive statistics | Read ch. 1-2, 20 practice problems | 6 | Explain mean vs median aloud |
| 2 | Probability basics | Ch. 3, tree diagrams, recall quiz on week 1 | 6 | 15/20 on probability set |
| 3 | Distributions | Normal and binomial, z-scores | 6 | Solve 5 z-score problems unaided |
| 4 | Sampling and CIs | Ch. 5-6 | 6 | Build a CI by hand |
| 5 | Hypothesis testing (weak spot) | Ch. 7, two worked examples per day | 6 | Explain p-value in one minute |
| 6 | Hypothesis testing II, regression | t-tests, ch. 8 | 6 | Past exam section, timed |
| 7 | Full review | Mixed problem sets | 6 | Full past exam |
| 8 | Polish | Fix errors, formula sheet | 5 | Second past exam |

**Typical week:** Mon and Wed 1.5 h new material; Thu 1 h review of last week; Sat 2 h practice problems.

**Falling behind if:** you skip two sessions in a row, score under 60% on weekly checks, or still cannot explain p-values in week 6. Cut regression depth first.

Notes

Working backwards from the deadline and reserving time for review gives a plan you can actually follow. Re-run it mid-way with your real progress to get an updated plan.