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Certification study plan generator

Pick your exam and your date. Get a week-by-week schedule built from the actual chapter structure of the bank, not a generic template.


Pick a certification to start.

Choosing your inputs

Two of the three inputs are facts and one is a guess. The exam date and the certification are fixed; hours per week is where candidates deceive themselves. Pick the number you have actually hit in a normal week over the last month, not the number you intend to hit once things calm down. The plan is only useful if it describes a week you will really have.

If the plan comes back demanding more items per hour than you can honestly work through with the rationales — and reading the rationale is the part that teaches, so it counts — you have three levers. Move the exam date out, raise the hours, or accept narrower coverage and prioritise the heaviest-weighted chapters. Silently falling behind the plan is the fourth option and it is the one that ends in a re-sit.

A rough calibration: most candidates working carefully manage somewhere between fifteen and thirty multiple-choice items an hour, including reading the explanation on the ones they got wrong. Flashcards run several times faster. If your plan implies sixty items an hour, it is not a plan.

How the schedule is built

The weeks are divided by the real chapter structure of the bank you pick, weighted by how many questions sit in each chapter — so a chapter carrying a quarter of the material gets roughly a quarter of your study weeks. That weighting comes from the certifying body's published exam blueprint, which is what the chapter structure follows.

The last two weeks are held back for a full-length timed practice exam and then targeted remediation. That reservation is deliberate and it is the part worth protecting. Candidates under time pressure cut the practice weeks first, which removes the only feedback that tells you which domain is actually weak — and by then a wrong answer no longer distinguishes a knowledge gap from a careless slip, because there is no baseline to compare against.

If the items-per-hour figure the plan reports looks unrealistic for you, it probably is. Add weeks or add hours rather than compressing the review. A plan you follow beats an aggressive one you abandon in week three.

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