Exam Mode guide

History — your study calendar

StudyRise Help·3 min read·Last updated: July 2026

History is a month calendar of your prep. Every day is colour-coded — green complete, amber partial, red missed, blue for a planned rest day — and tapping any day shows exactly what happened on it. Its real job is pattern-spotting: habits that are invisible day-to-day are obvious on a calendar.

The History screen (the /history route) is the smallest screen in Exam Mode and one of the most honest. It doesn't project or predict anything — it just shows you, in colour, what you actually did.

The month calendar

History shows one month at a time, with every day colour-coded by how it went. Four colours cover every case: green for a complete day, amber for a partial day, red for a missed day, and blue for a planned rest day. Rest days are intentional, so blue never counts against you.

  1. Open History and scan the month grid.
  2. Read the colours: green = complete, amber = partial, red = missed, blue = planned rest day.
  3. Move between months to compare — early prep usually looks patchier than you remember, and that's fine.

The day detail

Every day on the calendar is tappable. The detail view answers "what did I actually do that day?" in one card: what you studied, how many questions you logged, how much time you spent, and any spaced-repetition (SR) reviews — scheduled revisits of past topics — completed that day.

  1. Tap any day on the calendar.
  2. Read the detail: what you studied, questions logged, time spent, and SR reviews completed.
  3. Use it to settle arguments with yourself — "did I really study on Saturday?" has a definitive answer here.
Illustration: the colour-coded month calendar with a tapped day's detail.

Spotting patterns

This is what History is for. One missed day means nothing; the same missed day every week means something. Patterns like a string of missed Wednesdays, or a whole week where your pace dropped, are easy to miss in the daily grind but jump straight out of a month view.

  1. Scan a full month for repeating red or amber days — same weekday, same week of the month, same stretch.
  2. Ask why: a clinical shift, a commute, a commitment you haven't planned around. Fix the cause, not the symptom.
  3. If a pattern has already knocked you off your plan, the recovery tools in staying on track are the next stop.

Frequently asked questions

What do the calendar colours mean?
Every day on the History calendar is colour-coded: green means you completed the day's work, amber means a partial day, red means a missed day, and blue marks a planned rest day. A blue rest day is intentional and never counts against you.
What does tapping a day show me?
Tapping any day opens its detail: what you studied, how many questions you logged, how much time you spent, and any spaced-repetition reviews completed that day.
What should I actually use History for?
Pattern-spotting. Habits that are invisible day-to-day — a string of missed Wednesdays, or a week where your pace dropped — jump out on a month calendar. Once you can see the pattern, you can fix the cause rather than just catching up on the symptoms.

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