Exam Days Remaining Calculator
Live multi-exam countdown (saved locally) with an 80/20 study-revision split, chapters-per-day pace & urgency colours.
Your exams (saved in your browser)
Add an exam with a future date.
๐ก The 80/20 split reserves your final fifth of days for pure revision โ the single highest-return study habit. For a full day-wise timetable, use our Study Timetable Generator.
โณNot just a countdown โ a runway
Add every exam on your calendar (they're saved in your browser, so the countdown is live every visit) and see the days remaining to each, nearest first with urgency colours. For the next exam you get the weekday/weekend split, total study hours at your daily pace, an automatic 80/20 study-revision split, and โ if you enter your syllabus size โ the chapters-per-day rate that finishes the portion before revision begins.
๐Everything you'd want to know
- Track up to 8 exams at once โ auto-sorted soonest first, saved locally, colour-coded red/amber/green by urgency.
- The days count is exact calendar arithmetic, leap years included.
- Weekday vs weekend split for realistic planning around school days.
- The 80/20 rule applied automatically: study days vs reserved revision days.
- Chapters รท study days = your required daily rate, phrased sensibly both above and below 1/day.
๐งฎThe planning maths
Reserving the final 20% of days for revision isn't a slogan โ spaced re-exposure before the exam is the highest-return study habit in the learning literature, and it only happens if the first pass finishes early.
๐กMaking the countdown work for you
- Front-load hard subjects: motivation is highest when the countdown is longest.
- Recount weekly โ cancelled classes and surprise holidays change the runway.
- A red 7-day countdown means revision mode, not new-chapter mode.
- For the day-wise plan itself, feed these numbers into our Study Timetable Generator.
๐ก Frequently Asked Questions
How many days are left until my exam?+
Exact calendar days from today to the exam date โ add the date and the countdown stays live on every visit, saved in your browser. Multiple exams sort themselves nearest-first with urgency colours.
How should I divide my remaining days before an exam?+
The 80/20 rule: spend the first 80% of days covering the syllabus and reserve the final 20% purely for revision and mock tests. The calculator applies this split automatically to your real countdown.
How many chapters should I study per day?+
Chapters remaining รท study days (the 80% share of your countdown). With 24 chapters and 36 study days that's 0.7 per day โ the tool phrases slow paces as 'one chapter every X days' so the number stays actionable.
Are my exam dates uploaded anywhere?+
No โ the list lives in your browser's local storage only. Clear it with the โ buttons or your browser's site-data settings.