Exam Mode guide

Settings — every option explained

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

Settings in Exam Mode has eleven tabs: Exam Setup, Subjects, Tasks, SR Settings, Daily Routine, Study Plans, Phases, Import/Export, Notifications, Billing, and Danger Zone. This page is the map — a short explanation of what each tab controls, with links to the deeper guides where they exist.

The Settings screen (the /settings route) is where you make Exam Mode fit your life instead of the other way around. Exam Setup and Daily Routine are worth revisiting in your first week as you dial in your real schedule; the rest you'll mostly touch only when something about your prep genuinely changes. One more thing worth knowing: the Settings header has a "Take the tour" button (compass icon, top-right) that replays the nine-step guided walkthrough any time.

Illustration: the eleven Settings tabs.

Exam Setup

Exam Setup holds the numbers your whole plan is built on: exam name, question bank name, exam date, study start date, daily question target, and target time per question. Change your exam date or daily target here and everything downstream — pacing, projections, the countdown — follows. Three cards do extra work:

  1. Question Bank Pools — tell StudyRise how large your question bank is overall; this powers the first-pass progress tracking on your Dashboard.
  2. Exam Day Logistics — your registration deadline, test center details, and a permitted-items checklist. This feeds the Dashboard's T-minus exam-day checklist in your final week.
  3. Feasibility card — your tasks-per-week pace at a glance, so you can see whether the plan is realistic before it hurts.

There's also "Start a new plan": it archives your current plan and reruns the 3-step onboarding wizard, with your study history and analytics preserved. For the full plan-building walkthrough, see build your plan.

Illustration: the Exam Setup panel with the feasibility card.

Subjects

Subjects is where your subject list lives. Add, edit, reorder, or remove subjects, and set each one's blueprint category, class count, question target, tier, and required SR hits — the levers that decide how much of your plan and review load each subject earns. The full guide is subjects and tasks.

Tasks

Tasks lets you search your existing task list or add new tasks — each with a title, a phase, and a question target. Use it when a resource you're actually using doesn't map onto the generated plan, or when you want to slot extra work into a specific phase. Covered in depth in subjects and tasks.

SR Settings

SR Settings tunes the spaced-repetition engine itself: your SR1 interval (the first review), the grace period, and the multipliers for SR2 and SR3. A live preview shows exactly how the intervals change as you adjust, so you're never guessing what a multiplier does. For how the engine schedules reviews, see spaced repetition.

Daily Routine

Daily Routine shapes what a study day is allowed to look like: your daily study hours, a max-tasks-per-day cap, and your rest day. It also holds the fixed commitments StudyRise plans around — and a week preview shows the whole thing laid out before you commit.

  1. Prayer times (optional) — five prayers, each with location, timing, and duration; the Today planner treats them as immovable.
  2. Work commitments, a gym schedule, and a shift-work schedule for night-shift study planning.
  3. The week preview — your routine laid out across the week so you can sanity-check it in one glance.

How these settings drive your day plan is covered in the daily study session and staying on track.

Illustration: the Daily Routine panel with commitments toggled.

Study Plans

Study Plans lets you create named schedule templates, each with its own start date, exam date, and targets. It's the tab for anyone running more than one prep plan at once — or staging a future plan before switching to it.

Phases

Phases manages the three phases your plan is organized around. For each phase you can edit the name, the description, and the target completion date — useful when your real progress drifts from the original pacing and you want the phase boundaries to reflect reality.

Import/Export

Import/Export is your data door, in and out. Everything you've logged can leave in a usable format, and results from your question bank can come in without hand-typing. Six things live here:

  1. .ics calendar export — your study plan as a calendar file for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook.
  2. A shareable progress-card image.
  3. CSV exports of your question sessions, mock exams, and study log.
  4. A full JSON backup — export it or restore from it.
  5. A jump to the Progress Report, and bulk paste-import for question bank results.
  6. A last-resort reset that clears all your study data so you can start fresh.

Notifications

Notifications is free for everyone — no gate. Toggle each nudge individually and set quiet hours so nothing pings you overnight. The set: a morning digest, SR-overdue alerts, mock exam reminders, a re-engagement nudge if you've been away, a weekly recap, and a sprint-taper reminder in your final week.

Billing

Billing shows your current plan status: trial, active, or expired. The trial works like this: 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. This tab is where you see exactly where your account stands.

Danger Zone

The Danger Zone holds two destructive actions, both type-to-confirm so you can't trigger them by accident. Know the difference before you touch either — one keeps your account, one doesn't.

  1. Reset & Restart Journey — wipes your study data and restarts onboarding, but keeps your account.
  2. Delete My Account — permanent. The account and everything in it is gone.

Frequently asked questions

How do I start a new plan without losing my history?
Use "Start a new plan" in Settings → Exam Setup. It archives your current plan and reruns the 3-step onboarding wizard, while your study history and analytics are preserved. It is not the same as the Danger Zone reset, which wipes your study data.
Are notifications a Pro feature?
No — the Notifications tab is free for everyone, with no gate. You can toggle the morning digest, SR-overdue alerts, mock exam reminders, the re-engagement nudge, the weekly recap, and the sprint-taper reminder, and set quiet hours so nothing pings you overnight.
How do I replay the guided tour?
Open Settings and look at the top-right of the header — the "Take the tour" button (compass icon) replays the same nine-step walkthrough you saw after onboarding, any time you need a refresher.
What's the difference between Reset & Restart Journey and Delete My Account?
Both live in the Danger Zone and both require you to type a confirmation. Reset & Restart Journey wipes your study data and restarts onboarding but keeps your account. Delete My Account is permanent — the account and everything in it is gone.

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