Build a study plan for the hours you actually have
A plan that starts from your week, not from a syllabus, and schedules the first review before you forget.
any
Study plans fail because they assume free evenings. This prompt takes the real number of hours, spreads the topic across them, and books practice and review sessions instead of leaving them to “later”. It also names what you will not learn in that time, which is the part that keeps the plan honest.
Build a study plan.
Topic: {{topic}}
Goal: {{goal}} (what I want to be able to do, not "understand")
Hours per week: {{hours}}, in blocks of at most {{block}} minutes
Weeks available: {{weeks}}
Current level: {{level}}
Rules:
- Schedule practice in the same week as the theory it uses. No week is reading only.
- Put a review session 2 days and 7 days after each new topic. Reviews are 15
minutes and reuse the same exercises.
- Every week ends with one small deliverable I can show: a working script, a
written explanation, a solved set.
- Name what will NOT be covered in the available hours. Be specific.
- If the goal is not reachable in the time, say so first, then give the closest
plan that is.
Output a table: week | focus | practice | review | deliverable.
Then three lines: "not covered", "first thing to do today", "how to tell you
are behind".
How to use
- Set
{{block}}to something you can do after work: 45 minutes beats a fantasy of three hours. - The “how to tell you are behind” line is the useful one. Put it in your calendar.
- Re-run the prompt every four weeks with the updated level instead of editing an old plan.
Fill before you run
{{block}}{{goal}}{{hours}}{{level}}{{topic}}{{weeks}}
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