Most study plans fail on the second Tuesday. Not because the student is lazy, but because the plan said "Physics" when it needed to say "Electrostatics, 20 questions, and the chapter test on Friday". A plan that names the week's chapters and a practice target survives contact with a bad day. Here is the shape we build every plan on.
Count back, never forward
Start from the exam date and count back fifty-two weeks. A plan that counts forward from today ends whenever it ends; a plan that counts back from the exam ends on the day that matters. If there are fewer than fifty-two weeks left, the phases below get shorter. They never get skipped.
The four phases
Build — weeks 1 to 26
Every chapter once, the first eight weeks on the Class 11 foundations, in an order that makes the later ones easier. Each week names its chapters and a practice target, and each chapter ends with a chapter test the day you finish it: Chapter test · 30 Qs · 45 min. Short enough to take when the chapter is fresh, long enough to find what did not stick.
Consolidate — weeks 27 to 40
Every chapter a second time, the heaviest first, with mixed practice across chapters and a subject test most weeks. The exam never tells you which chapter a question is from; this is where you stop depending on knowing.
Revise — weeks 41 to 48
Revision weighted by how many marks each chapter carries, so the chapters worth the most get the most time. Your mistake book comes back on a schedule — each question just before you would have forgotten it.
Papers — weeks 49 to 52
Full papers on the real pattern, at the real time of day, until exam day feels familiar. One a week is plenty; the value is in the review afterwards, not in the sitting.
What each week must name
- The chapters. By name, not by subject.
- A practice target. A number of questions, so "did I do enough this week?" has an answer.
- The tests. Which chapter tests fall this week, and any full paper.
- The revision due. What is coming back from the mistake book.
If a week cannot name these four, it is not a plan yet.
Mocks: how many, and when
One full paper a fortnight through the build phase, one a week from about eight weeks out. More than that and there is no time to learn from each one. After every paper, the only question worth asking is: which chapters did the wrong answers come from? That list is next week's revision.
Starting late
If you are reading this with twenty weeks left, the plan is the same shape with shorter phases: build to week 12, consolidate to week 15, revise to week 18, papers to week 20. What you drop is depth in the build phase, not the revision and papers at the end — those are where the marks are.
This is what the plan on Nikaalle does the moment you enter your exam date: see how it works.
Updated 25 October 2026. Checked against the official sources on 27 September 2026.