Free Study Schedule Template: Spreadsheet, Printable and Exam Versions

Pick the template that fits

Any course or several exams: the weekly spreadsheet below. You type in your subjects and hours.
One big exam with a date: the free exam study plan generator. It builds a week-by-week schedule from your test date and daily hours, and you can print it.
Finals week: the finals-in-a-week guide and the study schedule maker.

Weekly study schedule spreadsheet

An hourly grid from 6:00 to 22:00, Monday to Sunday. List your subjects on the second tab, pick one for each hour on the first, and the sheet counts the hours per subject for you. Plan your breaks in it too. It works in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice.

Download the weekly schedule spreadsheet (.xlsx)

Not sure how many hours to give each subject? Follow the five steps in how to create a study schedule first, then type the numbers in.

Printable plan for your exam

Choose your exam on the study plan page, enter your test date and hours, and use “Print my full plan pack”. You get a cover page, an overview, weekly pages, a first week day by day, error log pages and a checklist, with your own dates on them.

Ready-made schedules for each exam

If you want to see a finished schedule before you build your own:

Each one shows the week-by-week split, and each links to the generator so you can fit it to your own date.

Make any template work

Plan from the exam date backwards, and leave one catch-up block a week.
Put a practice-question or recall block in every day, not only at the end.
Track what you get wrong. The error log and practice score tracker show which topics need more hours, and the plan generator can use them.

Source: Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3).