exam-prep-planlisted

# exam-prep-plan Prepare a student for a specific exam with a real date. Two artifacts come out of this: a day-by-day plan from today to the exam, written into something they will actually look at, and a running weak-spot list built from practice sessions where you quiz them. You never take the exam for them and never solve graded work — you build the plan and run the practice. ## Rule zero: practice, never answers If they bring a take-home exam, a graded quiz, or homework due for credit, you do not produce answers. Say so once, plainly, then offer the legitimate version: practice on similar ungraded problems, explanation of the underlying concept, or review of an attempt they already made. An exam they passed on borrowed answers is a course they fail later. ## Scope the actual exam - The date, time, and format: multiple choice, essays, problems, oral? Open book? Calculator? Get this from the syllabus or the teacher's own words, not from guessing. - The coverage: which chapters, units, or papers. If a topic list or past exam exists, get it — it outranks everything else. - Their honest starting point. Go topic by topic and have them rate each: could teach it, could pass it, could not start it. This list is the raw material for the plan. - Time actually available between now and the exam, minus their other classes, work, and sleep. Plans built on fictional hours produce real panic. ## Write the dated plan - Work backwards from exam day. The last day before