EXR 0220 min
Blank-page recall, guided
A short passage on plate tectonics, a timer, and a structured comparison sheet. Shows you what a productive gap looks like versus a genuine misunderstanding.
Materials to work with, not just read
Practice Centre
Everything on this page is designed to be used rather than admired. Work through the exercises on screen, print the worksheets and write on them, reuse the templates each week, and keep the trackers where you will actually see them. Each item is laid out for A4 and US Letter, and the print stylesheet removes navigation automatically.
Weekly study planner
The planner below is the single most-used item in the centre. Print it on Sunday, block your fixed commitments first, then place study sessions in what remains. Leave the overflow block genuinely empty — it is what allows the plan to survive a disrupted week rather than being abandoned.
| Time | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00–09:00 | |||||||
| 09:00–11:00 | |||||||
| 11:00–13:00 | |||||||
| 13:00–15:00 | |||||||
| 15:00–17:00 | |||||||
| 17:00–19:00 | |||||||
| 19:00–21:00 |
Step 1 · Fixed first
Classes, work shifts, travel, caring responsibilities, sleep. Everything you cannot move goes on the grid before any study session does.
Step 2 · Three outcomes
Write the week’s three capability goals at the top of the sheet. Every study block should serve one of them or be deleted.
Step 3 · One empty block
Mark one two-hour block as overflow and leave it unassigned. If the week goes well, use it for review or take it off.
Three outcomes for this week
1. I can __________________________________________________________
2. I can __________________________________________________________
3. I can __________________________________________________________
Practice exercises
Guided tasks with worked answers. Each takes between fifteen and forty minutes and produces something you can compare against a model response. Choose a category to narrow the list.
EXR 0535 min
Rebuild a broken paragraph
Six paragraphs with a specific structural fault each — missing claim, evidence without interpretation, two arguments in one. Diagnose, then repair.
EXR 0730 min
Three-pass reading, timed
Apply survey, argument and detail passes to a real journal article, with checkpoints after each pass so you can see what the earlier passes bought you.
EXR 1140 min
Argument mapping
Twelve extracts from opinion columns, policy briefs and research abstracts. Identify the conclusion, map the support, mark the assumptions.
EXR 1425 min
Reading a chart honestly
Eight charts, each technically accurate and each misleading in a different way. Name the mechanism before reading the explanation.
EXR 1630 min
Source triage
Fifteen sources on one question, ranging from a systematic review to a press release. Sort by usefulness and justify the ranking in one line each.
EXR 1920 min
Estimate, then measure
Predict how long six typical study tasks will take, complete them, record the actual. Two rounds are usually enough to recalibrate.
EXR 2235 min
Reverse outlining your own draft
Reduce each paragraph of a draft to one sentence, then read only those sentences. Structural problems become obvious and usually embarrassing.
EXR 2715 min
Building your first review schedule
Take one week of real material and assign it review dates using the expanding-interval rule. Includes a filled example to check against.
Printable worksheets
Single sheets designed to be written on. They are deliberately plain: no branding across the top, no decorative borders, and enough white space to actually write in.
| No. | Worksheet | Use it for | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKS 01 | Seven-day time log | Recording where study time actually goes, before changing anything | 2 |
| WKS 03 | Cornell note page | Lectures and readings, with the cue column and summary strip pre-ruled | 1 |
| WKS 05 | Blank-page recall sheet | Retrieval practice, with a comparison column for marking gaps | 1 |
| WKS 07 | Task estimation sheet | Predicted versus actual duration, over two weeks | 1 |
| WKS 09 | Source evaluation form | One source per sheet: funding, method, sample, limits, verdict | 1 |
| WKS 11 | Paragraph planner | Claim, evidence, interpretation, link — four boxes per paragraph | 1 |
| WKS 14 | Concept map frame | A central node and labelled branch lines, ready to complete | 1 |
| WKS 17 | Lecture follow-up sheet | Three questions to answer within a day of any class | 1 |
| WKS 20 | Distraction log | What interrupted the session, for how long, and whether it mattered | 1 |
| WKS 23 | Exam post-mortem | Completed after results: what the marks say about the method | 2 |
Planning templates
Reusable structures rather than one-off sheets. Print several copies of the ones you use weekly.
TPL 01Weekly
Weekly study planner
The seven-day grid above, with space for three capability goals and one overflow block.
TPL 04Termly
Six-week revision grid
Built backwards from an exam date, with columns for topic, confidence rating, first pass and three review dates.
TPL 06Ongoing
Review tracker
One row per topic, one column per review date. Ticks and dates only — deliberately too simple to become a project.
TPL 09Per essay
Essay outline
Thesis at the top, then one box per section with a prompt asking how it follows from the section before.
TPL 12Per source
Research record
Citation, the question it answers, method, key limitation, your one-line verdict. Five fields, no free-form notes area.
TPL 15Termly
Term calendar
Sixteen weeks on one sheet, with deadline markers and a strip for marking the weeks that are already crowded.
Learning trackers
Trackers exist to make a pattern visible over weeks, which is the only timescale on which most study changes show anything. Fill them in daily — reconstructing a week from memory produces a flattering fiction.
| Topic | First studied | Review 1 (+2d) | Review 2 (+1w) | Review 3 (+3w) | Confidence 1–5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cell respiration — glycolysis | 6 Jul | 8 Jul ✓ | 13 Jul ✓ | 27 Jul ✓ | 4 |
| Canadian federalism — division of powers | 9 Jul | 11 Jul ✓ | 16 Jul ✓ | 30 Jul | 3 |
| Hypothesis testing — choosing a test | 14 Jul | 16 Jul ✓ | 21 Jul | — | 2 |
Reading log
Title, pages, minutes and one sentence on what it argued. The sentence is the part that matters; without it the log records attendance rather than reading.
Session log
Start, stop, topic, and a single mark for whether retrieval happened. Four weeks of this reveals most routine problems.
Confidence chart
Weekly ratings per topic plotted as a simple line. Flat lines on high-weight topics are the ones to act on.
We do not store any of this
Examit has no accounts and keeps no record of your progress. Your trackers live on your paper, in your own spreadsheet, or wherever else you choose to keep them. See the privacy policy for what we do and do not collect.
Self-assessment tools
Structured questions for checking your own work and your own method. The point of a self-assessment is to catch the gap between how well you think a session went and how well it went.
SAS 01 · Confidence-versus-accuracy check
Before marking any practice test, predict your score. Record both numbers. Repeat over five attempts.
| Pattern | What it usually means | What to change |
|---|---|---|
| Predicted well above actual | Familiarity is being mistaken for knowledge — typically from re-reading | Replace review with retrieval; test before you feel ready |
| Predicted well below actual | Knowledge is there but not trusted; often accompanied by over-revision of strong topics | Redirect time to genuinely weak topics; practise under time pressure |
| Close on strong topics, far off on weak ones | Normal, and the most common pattern | Nothing; use the weak-topic gap as your study list |
| Erratic in both directions | Insufficient practice attempts to judge from | Complete three more attempts before drawing conclusions |
SAS 03 · End-of-term method review
Answer in writing, in full sentences, at the end of a term. The written record is far more useful next term than your memory of how it went.
- Which study habit did I keep for the whole term, without needing to decide about it each week?
- Which habit stopped quietly, and in which week did it stop?
- Where did my time estimates prove most wrong, and in which direction?
- What did I study that turned out not to be assessed, and could I have known?
- What did I avoid, and what was the actual cost of avoiding it?
- What single change would make next term easier — not better, easier?
SAS 06 · Draft self-review
Before submitting written work, answer these five questions about your own draft. If any answer is uncertain, the draft is not finished.
- Can I state my thesis in one sentence without reading the introduction?
- Does every section answer the question “and therefore?” asked of the one before it?
- Is there a paragraph that could be deleted without the argument changing?
- Have I stated the strongest objection to my position anywhere?
- Does every citation point to something I have actually read?
Printing notes
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