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Study plan builder

Enter your test date and target. The plan works backwards from the date, compresses the phases if it has to, and tells you honestly when a target is not reachable in the time left.

Exam

Test date

Current score

Target score

Hours per week

Start with the diagnostic

How the phases work

Every plan this builds has the same four phases, because they do different jobs and skipping one shows up later.

Foundation. Your two weakest content areas only. Breadth here is a trap.
Build. Timed section work added, which is where pacing problems surface. Pacing is a separate skill from content and content study will not fix it.
Sharpen. Full-length tests, each reviewed for longer than it took to sit. This is where most of the score comes from.
Taper. Light review and sleep. Cramming the final week reliably costs more than it adds.

If your date is close, the phases compress rather than disappear. A two-week plan is still all four phases, just brutally short ones.

The version that knows your weak areas

This builder works from a score. The one inside CruxStudy works from a diagnostic, so it can name the content areas to start on and rank them by how many points each is actually worth on your exam.

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