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Study and Exam Planner
Thirty-five pages ruled in the Cornell layout for lecture and revision notes, eight habit pages and four for setting goals.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 60
- Leaves
- 30
- Sheets
- 15
- Signatures
- 3 × 20pp
- Spine
- 3.43 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- cornell
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
The notes pages follow the Cornell layout: a narrow cue column down the left, a wider area for the notes themselves, and a strip at the foot for a summary written after the page is otherwise full. It was designed for lecture notes and works just as well for revision, because the cue column is where you write the question you would be asked, not the answer you were given.
Eight pages track study as a habit rather than a single session: a row for a subject, a box for a day, marked whether the session happened. A revision plan that lives only in your head tends to survive until the first bad night's sleep. A mark on a page survives longer than that.
Four pages near the front ask what an exam period is actually for: a grade, a paper finished, a course dropped and not regretted. The book does not sit the exam for you. It only makes it harder to forget what you were revising for by the third week.
What is inside
- Notes
- 35pp
- Cornell layout: cue column, note area, summary strip, for lecture or revision notes alike.
- Habit
- 8pp
- Study marked as a habit, not trusted to memory alone.
- Goals
- 4pp
- What the exam period is actually for, written down before it starts.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Homeschool PlannerWorks alongsideshares planning, study
Questions
What is the Cornell layout?
A cue column down the left, a wider note area, and a summary strip at the foot, written after the notes are done.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 60 pages, 3.43 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. Start it the day the course, or the revision, starts.
What ruling are the notes pages?
Cornell, at 9.17 mm pitch, eighteen lines to the note area.
Does it include a revision timetable already built?
No. The habit pages are ruled for you to mark a subject against a day; the order is yours to set.
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