Study plans
Tell us when you write. We lay out every day until then: which lesson to learn, what to review as it fades, when to sit a practice exam, and a light last day.
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Your study plan
How much time do you need?
Pick a date and your study days. This is the same scheduler your plan uses, so the numbers match.
All 23 lessons come to about 10 h 22 min of learning, before reviews and practice exams.
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A plan isn’t a reading schedule. It times each lesson, review and practice exam so what you learn early is still there on exam day.
See the scienceSet your date
Pick your exam date and the days of the week you can study. Leave out lessons you already know well.
Learn one chunk at a time
Lessons arrive in syllabus order, a few a day at most. Each opens with a question to guess and ends with a book-closed check.
Review as it fades
Reviews land on the day each lesson starts to fade, with every lesson due that day shuffled into one session.
Rehearse, then rest
Two timed practice exams near the end, a debrief between them, and a light last day with nothing new.
Every task in your plan follows one
The same six principles from memory research that shape the lessons, applied to the calendar.
Chunking
One lesson is one chunk. The plan follows the syllabus order and limits new lessons per day, so new detail always has a map to attach to.
Pretesting
Each upcoming lesson shows one of its “Recall before you read” questions. Guessing first primes you for the answer.
Elaboration
Lesson time includes the why and the diagram, not just the provisions.
Retrieval
Each lesson ends with its book-closed check the same day, and two practice exams test recall under exam conditions.
Spacing
Reviews follow your own Review schedule, so each lesson comes back as it starts to fade, at widening gaps.
Interleaving
Everything due on a day goes into one shuffled review instead of one topic at a time.
The last study day is a short review and nothing new, because sleep is when new memories settle. See the research
One study plan per exam
A plan goes live with its exam’s practice exam, because the last weeks of every plan are built around two of them.
Exam names follow the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing’s study guides for the 2024 Building Code examinations.
Before you make one
The plan tells you honestly. If the pace is intensive or a cram, it shows the earliest date that would be comfortable and lets you trim lessons instead. You can also keep the pace: it’s your call.
The plan shows how many lessons you’re behind and offers to re-plan from today. Lessons you’ve finished stay finished and keep coming back in reviews.
No. Lessons you’ve checked are marked as done, and their reviews follow the Review schedule they already have.
Making a plan is free with an account. It’s saved to your account, so it’s the same on your phone and your computer.
At the top of your dashboard, and on the plan itself. Lessons, reviews and practice exams tick themselves off as you do them.
Know your exam date?
Make your plan in a minute. You can change the date, days or lessons any time.