Exam Mode guide

Plan views and editing your schedule

StudyRise Help·6 min read·Last updated: July 2026

The Plan screen is where your entire study plan lives, and a toggle at the top lets you view it four ways: List for day-to-day work, Kanban for drag-and-drop status, Timeline for the shape of the whole journey, and Sprint in your final month. Click any task in any view to edit it in the task detail drawer.

Your plan isn't a fixed document — it's a living schedule you'll reorder, reshape, and edit as your prep changes. The Plan screen (the /plan route) gives you four views of the same tasks, so you can pick the altitude that matches the decision you're making: today's next task, this week's status, or the whole road to exam day.

List view

List is the day-to-day workhorse: every task grouped by phase, with a filter bar and sort dropdown so you can find your next task in seconds. A phase summary strip at the top shows how each phase is progressing and lets you jump straight to it. Use List when you're deciding what to work on next.

  1. Scan the phase summary strip to see how Phase 1, 2, and 3 are progressing, and tap a phase to jump to it.
  2. Narrow the list with the filter bar — All, Not started, In progress, or Completed, each showing a live count.
  3. Reorder with the sort dropdown: Manual, Due date, Subject, or Hours.
Illustration: the List view with its view toggle, filter chips, sort, and phase groups.

Kanban board

Kanban — labelled Board in the toggle — shows the same tasks as drag-and-drop columns organised by status. It's the fastest way to update several tasks at once at the end of a study day: drag, drop, done. Nothing new to learn if you've used any board tool before.

  1. Switch the view toggle to Board.
  2. Drag a task card between columns to change its status.
  3. Drop a card into Completed to mark it done.

Timeline view

Timeline is the big picture: your entire prep window laid out week by week, with a lane for mock exams and a lane per subject. It exists so you can see trouble coming — a heavy week, or new material scheduled too close to exam day — before you live through it.

  1. Read each lane: one for mock exams, one per subject, with markers for tasks, milestones, and SR-due dates (SR is spaced repetition — StudyRise's scheduled-review system).
  2. Watch for the amber glow on unusually heavy weeks — that's your cue to rebalance before the week arrives.
  3. Note the two lines: the dashed line is your "stop learning new material" cutoff, and the red line is exam day itself.

Sprint view

A fourth view, Sprint, appears in the toggle only after you've activated a Revision Sprint — a tighter, weakness-weighted revision schedule for your final month. You activate it from a Dashboard nudge that appears within 28 days of your exam, not from the Plan screen. The full walkthrough lives in the Revision Sprint guide.

The task detail drawer

Every task in List, Kanban, or Timeline is clickable, and clicking opens the task detail drawer — the single place where you edit a task's details. This is how you reshape your schedule when life happens: push a due date, trim the hours, move a task to another phase, or mark it complete.

  1. Click any task in List, Kanban, or Timeline to open the drawer.
  2. Edit its due date, estimated hours, phase, subject, or question target.
  3. Work through its step-by-step checklist to track progress inside the task.
  4. Mark it complete with a specific date — useful when you finished it yesterday but are logging it today.
Illustration: the task detail drawer with its editable fields and checklist.

Frequently asked questions

Why can't I see the Sprint view in my Plan toggle?
The Sprint view only appears once you've activated a Revision Sprint, and you do that from a Dashboard nudge that shows up within 28 days of your exam — not from the Plan screen itself. Once activated, a Sprint tab joins the view toggle with your weighted schedule already built.
How do I mark a task complete from the Plan screen?
Two ways. In the Kanban Board view, drag the task's card into the Completed column. Or click the task in any view to open the task detail drawer and mark it complete there — the drawer also lets you set the specific date it was completed.
Can I change a task's due date or hours after my plan is built?
Yes. Click the task in List, Kanban, or Timeline to open the task detail drawer, where you can edit its due date, estimated hours, phase, subject, question target, and step-by-step checklist. Your plan isn't locked — it's meant to be reshaped as your prep changes.
What do the amber weeks and the dashed line on the Timeline mean?
An amber glow marks an unusually heavy week, so you can spot an overload before you live through it. The dashed line marks your stop-learning-new-material cutoff, and the red line marks exam day itself.

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