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Analytics and the Progress Report

StudyRise Help·8 min read·Last updated: July 2026

Analytics is the deep-dive screen — over a dozen charts covering everything from raw progress to your projected exam outcome. This is part of StudyRise Pro. Check it weekly, not daily, and use the Print report button to generate the printable Progress Report. This guide walks the charts as the questions they answer.

The Analytics screen (the /analytics route) is where you step back from the daily grind and ask "is my strategy actually working?" One thing up front: the entire Analytics screen is part of StudyRise Pro. And one habit up front: treat it as a weekly ritual, not a daily one — day-to-day wobble is noise; the week-over-week movement is the signal. Rather than listing charts top to bottom, it helps to read them as three questions.

Is the ground work happening?

The first group of charts checks whether the raw inputs of your prep — questions done, reviews completed, subjects balanced — are actually accumulating. If these look healthy, your daily system is working; if not, no amount of mock analysis further down will save you.

  1. Question-bank progress (an area chart) and the SR compliance donut sit side by side at the top: is the question volume growing, and are you doing your spaced-repetition (SR) reviews on time?
  2. Forgetting-curve graphs per subject show how retention decays between reviews for each subject.
  3. The SR review timeline and SR questions per subject show where your review effort has actually gone.
  4. The subject-balance chart compares your study mix against the exam's blueprint categories — the official weighting of topics on your exam — so you can see if you're overfeeding a favourite subject.

Am I on track to pass?

The second group turns your mock exams into a trajectory. Individually, mocks are noisy; together, they trend. These charts answer the question every candidate actually cares about: if the exam were moving toward you at this pace, would you clear the line?

  1. The mock trend line shows your scores over time — the same trend you see on the Mock Exams screen, in context with everything else.
  2. The exam pace card compares your average seconds per question against your target.
  3. The Pass Probability Trajectory chart is the headline: a scatter of your actual mock scores, a projected trend line running to exam day, and a confidence band around it. How the projection is computed is covered in readiness and projections.
  4. Mock performance per subject breaks each mock down so you can see which subjects move your score.
  5. The confidence-vs-accuracy chart appears once you've tagged at least 5 sessions with a confidence level — it shows whether your gut feel matches your results.

Where should next week go?

The third group is the payoff: it converts everything above into a decision. The Focus Areas panel ranks your weakest subjects and attaches a suggested next action to each, while the retention map and study heatmap show where your effort and memory actually stand.

  1. Read the Focus Areas panel: your weakest subjects, ranked, each with a suggested next action.
  2. Check the retention map and the GitHub-style study heatmap at the bottom — a grid of your daily study intensity over time.
  3. Pick one or two focus areas and build next week's sessions around them. That's the whole point of the weekly visit.
Illustration: the Focus Areas panel with ranked weak subjects and next actions.

The Progress Report

The Progress Report (the /report route) turns all of that into a clean, printable one-page snapshot — built for the moment you sit down with a study partner, tutor, or supervisor and need to show exactly where you stand, without opening the app.

  1. Open it from the Print report button in the Analytics header, or from Settings → Import/Export → Progress Report.
  2. Review the sections: overview stats, your readiness/pass-line summary, a subject performance table, your mock exam history, question-bank first-pass progress, your top focus areas, and a 30-day study consistency chart.
  3. Press Print / Save as PDF at the top — it uses your browser's print dialog and always produces a clean, light-mode PDF, even if you're in dark mode.
Illustration: the Progress Report's stacked sections with the Print / Save as PDF button.

Frequently asked questions

Is Analytics part of StudyRise Pro?
Yes — the entire Analytics screen is part of StudyRise Pro. New accounts get 30 days of full access, no card required — after that, the core planner stays free forever, and a few deeper features become part of Pro.
How often should I check Analytics?
Weekly, not daily. Analytics is where you step back from the day-to-day grind and ask whether your strategy is actually working, and it's the best place to decide where to redirect your next week's effort. Checking it daily just adds noise.
When does the confidence-vs-accuracy chart appear?
Once you've tagged at least 5 question sessions with a confidence level. It compares how confident you felt against how accurate you actually were, so it needs enough tagged sessions to say anything meaningful.
How do I save the Progress Report as a PDF?
Press the Print / Save as PDF button at the top of the Progress Report. It uses your browser's print dialog, and the output is always a clean, light-mode PDF — even if you're using dark mode in the app.

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