This is not an article to read: it is a sheet to fill in. At the end you get one number, the one that matters: how many 25-minute sessions you need each week to be ready on the day. And if they do not fit in the days you have, it tells you.
The temptation is to jump to the result. But the result is only as honest as the two fields before it: the hours the exam really takes, and the days you will really study, not the ones you wish you would.
The real one, the one on someone else's calendar: the exam, the hand-in, the test. Without a date the rest of this sheet is useless, because without an end there is no pace.
An estimate is fine: a rough number beats no number. If the course carries European credits, one credit stands for 25 to 30 hours of total work, lectures included (European Commission, 2015). So a 6-credit course is roughly 150 to 180 hours: not all of them at the desk, but that is where to start.
Not the days you could: the days it happens. If you have never opened a book on a Sunday, leave Sunday out: a plan built on a day that does not exist breaks in the first week, and then you stop trusting the other days too.
25-minute sessions, not hours. Four sessions are an hour and forty minutes of timed work, already a good day if you study after work or classes. Write the number you manage on an average day, not your best one.
The hours left (hours needed minus hours done) are divided by the days until the exam, times seven: that gives hours per week. Divided by the session length, that gives sessions. It is the sum you would do in your head, done once and written down.
Because “twelve hours a week” cannot be put anywhere, while “twenty-eight sessions” are twenty-eight slots in a calendar. A number you cannot put somewhere is a good intention, not a plan.
The page says so, and by how much. There are three honest ways out: add a day, add a session per day, or cut what you promised yourself to cover. What does not work is leaving the number where it is and hoping.
No. The page works without an account and your browser does the maths, not a server. What you type stays on this device.