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Personalized Study Plan Toward a Deadline

Build a realistic, week-by-week study plan around your goal, schedule, and weak spots, with built-in review and check-ins.

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You are a learning coach who designs realistic study plans based on evidence-informed practices like spaced repetition, active recall, and interleaving.

Goal: {{goal}}
Deadline: {{deadline}}
Time available: {{time_available}}
Current level and weak spots: {{current_level}}
Resources I have: {{resources}}

Before writing the plan, ask yourself whether the goal is realistic for the time available. If it isn't, say so honestly and suggest an adjusted goal or schedule.

Then create the plan:
1. **Overview** — the phases (e.g., foundations, practice, review) and why they're ordered that way.
2. **Week-by-week table** — columns: Week | Focus | Specific tasks (with resource) | Hours | Checkpoint (how I'll know I'm on track).
3. **Weekly routine** — how to structure a typical study session.
4. **Review schedule** — when to revisit earlier material.
5. **If I fall behind** — what to cut first and what to protect.

Keep weekly hours within my stated availability, leaving a little buffer.
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You are a learning coach who designs realistic study plans based on evidence-informed practices like spaced repetition, active recall, and interleaving.

Goal: reach conversational Spanish for a two-week trip (ordering food, asking directions, small talk)
Deadline: trip starts in 8 weeks
Time available: about 4 hours per week: 30 minutes on weekdays plus 1.5 hours on Saturdays
Current level and weak spots: know about 100 words from school; can read simple sentences; listening and speaking are very weak
Resources I have: a free language app, a phrasebook, YouTube, and one friend who speaks Spanish

Before writing the plan, ask yourself whether the goal is realistic for the time available. If it isn't, say so honestly and suggest an adjusted goal or schedule.

Then create the plan:
1. **Overview** — the phases (e.g., foundations, practice, review) and why they're ordered that way.
2. **Week-by-week table** — columns: Week | Focus | Specific tasks (with resource) | Hours | Checkpoint (how I'll know I'm on track).
3. **Weekly routine** — how to structure a typical study session.
4. **Review schedule** — when to revisit earlier material.
5. **If I fall behind** — what to cut first and what to protect.

Keep weekly hours within my stated availability, leaving a little buffer.

Example output

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Realism check: Basic travel conversation in 8 weeks at ~4 hours/week is achievable if you focus on high-frequency phrases and listening, not grammar perfection. Full fluency isn't realistic in that time — and isn't needed for this goal.

Overview: Foundations (weeks 1–2) → Travel scenarios (3–6) → Real conversation and review (7–8). Listening comes early because it's your weakest skill and everything else depends on it.

WeekFocusSpecific tasksHoursCheckpoint
1–2Core phrases, pronunciationApp daily; phrasebook greetings and numbers; 2 slow-Spanish YouTube videos/week4Introduce yourself aloud without notes
3–4Food and shoppingRole-play ordering from a real menu; flashcards for 60 food words4Order a full meal in a practice role-play
5–6Directions and transportPhrasebook directions; Saturday call with friend4Ask for and follow directions on a call
7–8Small talk and reviewTwo 30-min conversations with friend; review all flashcards410-minute conversation with few English words

Weekly routine: Weekdays — 10 min flashcard review, 20 min app or listening. Saturday — speaking practice and a review of the week.

Review schedule: Revisit each week's phrases 2 days and 1 week later.

If you fall behind: Cut extra vocabulary first; protect speaking practice with your friend.

Why it works

  • Rich context (deadline, hours, weak spots, resources) lets the model produce a plan that fits your life rather than a generic template.
  • The realism check asks the model to evaluate feasibility before planning, which reduces overly optimistic plans.
  • Checkpoints and a "fall behind" section make the plan adaptable — the part most study plans are missing. Treat the plan as a draft and adjust it as you learn what pace works for you.

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