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Planning the last two weeks, what did you actually do with yours

Everything I read says taper and nobody says what tapering looks like in practice. People who have sat before, what filled the final fortnight and what would you drop?

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rewrite_era Sat June 2026 Rewriting in November

Stopped reading new material entirely about ten days out and spent the time inside the index instead. Finding things fast turned out to matter more than knowing one more topic.

second_time_lucky Rewriting in November Sat June 2026

One full timed paper at about a week out and then nothing timed after it. Doing another would only have told me something I could no longer act on.

im_so_cooked

a week out feels terrifyingly late for a last one tbh my guy πŸ€“πŸ˜³

second_time_lucky Rewriting in November Sat June 2026 replying to im_so_cooked

It is meant to. The point is that a bad result at that distance still leaves time to fix an index, and no time to panic about a topic, which is the right way round.

hoursarefake

packed my bag four days early and it removed an entire category of worry

quietfloor

Rewrote the front page of every tab. Twenty minutes each, straight from memory, and the gaps showed up immediately.

nocturnalstudier OP replying to quietfloor

from memory is what I would have skipped, and it turns out to be the only real test of whether a page works

barprepburnout

did anyone take a full day off in the last fortnight

rewrite_era Sat June 2026 Rewriting in November replying to barprepburnout

Took the day before and would insist on it. Walked, ate properly, did not open a book. Sat down the next morning in a state I could actually use.

FirstTimeLongTime26

saving this whole thread. is ten days out too early to stop reading new material?

Weary-Pelican-8830

The thing I cut too late was reading other people's plans. Thats why i hated scrolling that reddit forumn. Past a point it is a way of not studying that feels like studying.

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