Planning your study time
 
On the next page you will find a blank grid to complete to help you to plan your study time. This will help you to focus on your existing commitments and to see where you have blocks of time available to concentrate on your studies for the week.

Read the instructions carefully, and then fill out the grid.

Instructions

•	Think carefully about how your week is planned. Think about the activities that you’re already committed to during the week.

•	Some activities are listed for you. There is space to enter other activities.

•	For each day, fill in the amount of time you’re likely to be spending on each activity. Leave any that aren’t relevant on a particular day, blank.

•	Add up the amount of hours you’ve entered for each activity (each row) and write down the total for the week in the shaded column on the far right. Do this for each activity.

•	Add up the amount of time you’ve entered in each column – your commitments for that day – and write down the total for each day at the bottom of each column.

•	Once you have your total for each day, take this value away from 24 (the total number of hours in a day), to give the number of hours that are free for study that day. So, if your total commitments for, say, Monday add up to 20 hours (this includes time allocated to sleep!), you would have four hours free for study that day. 

•	Add up the figures in the Time available for study row to get your total for the week. You can then plan more precisely when, and how long, you will study each day.

	

	

 Activity planner

Activities	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	
Weekly total*

Work hours

Travel

Family time 

Socialising

Housework/
gardening/
chores

	

Shopping

Exercise/health

Eating

Sleeping

									

									

Total	

	

	

Time available 
for study

	

	

	

	

 
   [*] 24 hours each day, 7 days a week – maximum weekly total is 168 hours