GCSE planning
A GCSE revision planner for a real school week.
Start with the subjects you actually sit, the papers your school has entered you for and the time you can repeat each week. Then choose the next useful task.
Find your starting point ↗For UK GCSE & A-level students
Your exams have a date. Give your revision a direction.
Pace turns exam dates and a realistic weekly time budget into a manageable plan for today. Find the next useful session, then see your effort adding up.
Public app access is being prepared. The verified store link will appear here when it is ready. Existing users can open Pace.
YOUR REVISION RUNWAYILLUSTRATIVE
Today, in focus
42
days to Biology
Paper 1 · an example plan
Paper 1 · an example plan
BiologyInheritance · recall & check
25 minEnglish LiteratureMacbeth · plan a response
20 minYour subjects. Your time budget. A useful next step.
A designed example, not a live account or official paper date.
01 Choose a realistic week02 Give every subject a place03 Know your next task
Watch Pace · 15.5 seconds
Your revision runway, in 16 seconds
A short look at the Pace app: an exam countdown, a daily subject rotation and a timed session saved.
Illustrative app demo with fictional people and synthetic narration where present. Dates, countdowns and XP are examples, not your timetable or a promised reward. “Verified” refers to timer-recorded session time; it does not establish attention, learning or grades. Family sharing and league participation are optional and controlled by the student.
Read the film’s text description
Music and brief sound effects; no speech. An example countdown reads ‘18 days’ to Biology Paper 1. Biology, Maths and English Literature appear in a daily rotation. The film says ‘A day that passes unused cannot be recovered.’ A Biology topic is selected, the focus timer runs, and a saved 25-minute session shows +313 XP. The film closes with ‘Pace. Your revision runway’ and pacerevision.com.
Public app access is being prepared. The verified store link will appear here when it is ready. Start with the free revision timetable.
Different courses. Different planning problems.
A clearer plan, from Year 10 to sixth form.
Start with your qualification, then build around school, homework and the time you actually have. Our guides use UK courses and school context throughout.
A-level planning
An A-level revision plan with room for deeper work.
Fewer subjects does not mean a smaller planning problem. Separate ongoing course work from revision, then give each session a clear question to answer.
Find your starting point ↗For parents & carers
Support the routine. Let the student own the plan.
A useful check-in can be about what would help next week, rather than how many hours someone else thinks revision should take.
Find your starting point ↗Pace in practice
One weekly budget.
A smaller decision each day.
Choose your subjects, review the exam setup and set the time you can give this week. Pace distributes the workload and keeps the remaining calendar runway in view.
After a missed session, the work adjusts gently with capped catch-up. The aim is a plan you can return to.
See how Pace works ↗01
Check the course
Board, tier, route and paper dates stay visible and editable.
02
Make the work specific
Use your school resources, recall prompts and practice questions.
03
Review the effort
Completed time is useful context. Understanding still needs feedback.
See the decisions in practice
A real plan has room for a real week.
Follow complete worked examples, inspect the app workflow and choose the learning resources that fit.
Worked GCSE plan
A Year 11 revision week, with every minute accounted for.
This fictional England GCSE student has 360 focused minutes after schoolwork and other commitments. See a complete week, the tasks inside each session and exactly what changes when Thursday disappears.
Explore the detail ↗Worked A-level plan
A three-subject A-level week built around real commitments.
This fictional sixth-form student has 540 focused minutes for extra revision. Biology, Chemistry and Maths receive specific work, checking and return visits, with a separate weekly review.
Explore the detail ↗Worked exam countdown
Four weeks before GCSE papers: choose, practise, correct, return.
A four-week window needs choices you can explain. This fictional plan keeps a five-hour weekly budget, changes the work as feedback arrives and makes room for checking and return visits.
Explore the detail ↗Inside Pace
From your subjects to your next revision session.
Walk through the decisions a student makes in Pace, what the app records and what a parent can see. The screenshots show Pace’s guided demo; the examples explain the workflow rather than promise results.
Explore the detail ↗Choose your revision tools
Which revision tools fit the way you need to work?
Choose the job first: organising the week, understanding a topic or practising an exam answer. This guide explains where four revision services fit, including when using two together makes sense.
Explore the detail ↗Useful before you download anything
Leave with a plan, not another tab.
Two free tools run on your device. No account, student email or waitlist required.
Free planning tool
Build a revision timetable you can actually use.
Turn a weekly time budget into a simple starting timetable. Use it for GCSE or A-level revision, then replace each subject slot with a specific task.
Use the tool ↗Free planning tool
See the days ahead. Choose what to do with them.
Enter the paper date from your school timetable. The calculator shows calendar days before it, then helps you turn that number into a realistic next week.
Use the tool ↗UK focus, precise coverage
Get the qualification right first.
The reviewed Pace launch catalogue covers England courses from AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas. Wales-only WJEC, CCEA and Scottish qualifications have different requirements and are outside that catalogue.
Check exam boards & UK coverage ↗Planning for summer 2027?
Find the official board timetable, match your paper code and confirm your own arrangements with school. A national headline date is not your individual timetable.
Find official GCSE 2027 date sources ↗The revision desk
Make the session count.
Revision methods
Active recall: find out what you can retrieve.
Close the resource, attempt an answer, check it and correct the gap. The useful part is the attempt and feedback, not how polished your notes look.
Read the guide ↗Revision methods
Spaced revision: return to a topic after a gap.
Plan another attempt at important material on a later day, rather than treating one long session as the end of the topic.
Read the guide ↗Exam practice
Make the review of a past paper part of the session.
An attempted paper is a starting point for feedback. Choose the right course, make a fair attempt and give the review its own time.
Read the guide ↗Practical answers
Questions before you start
What is Pace?
Pace is a revision pacing app for students aged 13 and over. It connects exam dates, subjects and a weekly time budget with daily revision sessions and effort tracking.
Does Pace teach GCSE or A-level content?
Pace organises revision effort. Use the lessons, notes and practice questions your school recommends; the app does not provide a curriculum library or predict grades.
Can parents help without taking over?
Family support is optional and limited. Once a student owns the accepted plan, the parent is read-only. The family-sharing information explains the controls.
Is it available now?
Public app access is being prepared. The verified store link will appear here when it is ready. The website’s timetable and countdown tools are available now without an account.
From a first plan to a daily routine
Know what to work on next.
Pace brings subjects, exam dates and a realistic weekly budget into one revision runway. Explore the website tools today.
Public app access is being prepared. The verified store link will appear here when it is ready.