Study Time Calculator

Study days run from your start date up to, but not including, the exam date. Those days are split into weekdays (Monday to Friday) and weekend days (Saturday and Sunday).

plannedHours = (weekdayCount × weekdayHours) + (weekendCount × weekendHours). Buffer days are then removed at your own average rate: averageDailyHours = plannedHours ÷ studyDays, bufferHours = bufferDays × averageDailyHours, and effectiveHours = plannedHours − bufferHours, never below zero.

1. Set the start date and your exam date.

2. Enter realistic weekday and weekend study hours, not ideal ones.

3. Add buffer days for travel, illness or slack if you want the total to allow for them.

4. Optionally pick a 3 or 4 subject split to see the hours divided equally.

A window with 20 weekdays at 4 hours and 8 weekend days at 8 hours gives 80 + 64 = 144 planned hours across 28 study days, an average of about 5.14 hours a day.

Reserving 3 buffer days removes about 15.4 hours, leaving roughly 128.6 effective hours. Split equally across 3 subjects that is about 42.9 hours each.

Effective hours are the hours your own inputs imply, not a target set by Rank Sarthi. The subject split is a plain equal division of that total.

Average hours per week is the same total expressed weekly, useful when your exam date is months away rather than weeks.

It assumes weekends are Saturday and Sunday, that the start date is a study day and the exam date is not, and that buffer days are as productive on average as any other day. Public holidays are not detected — add them as buffer days if you want them excluded.