How is the days-until count calculated?

The tool compares each exam date against today's date at midnight, counting whole calendar days. An exam today shows 0, tomorrow shows 1, and past exams are marked as completed.

What do the colours mean?

Red means the exam is within three days, amber means within a week, and green means more than a week away. Completed exams are shown in muted grey so they drop out of your focus.

How are collisions detected?

Any two exams on the same calendar day are flagged as a same-day clash, and any pair on consecutive days is flagged as back-to-back. Both patterns warn you that revision time is tight.

Is my exam data stored anywhere?

No. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is sent to a server. Reloading the page clears the list, so keep your own record if you need it later.

Can I plan exams across different months?

Yes. The list sorts every exam by date regardless of month, so a planner spanning the end of one month into the next still shows the correct ordering and countdowns.

Academic Calendar Exam Planner

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Finals season turns into a logistics problem fast: five or six papers, some clustered on the same day, others stranded a week apart. This planner lays them all out in date order with a live countdown to each, so the shape of your exam period is obvious before you build a revision timetable around it.

How it works

Each exam date is compared against today at local midnight. The number of whole calendar days between the two gives the countdown:

daysUntil = floor((examMidnight - todayMidnight) / 86400000)

A result of 0 is “today”, a negative number is “completed”, and positive values are days remaining. Urgency colours come from simple thresholds:

daysUntil < 0   -> done   (muted)
daysUntil <= 3  -> red
daysUntil <= 7  -> amber
otherwise       -> green

Spotting collisions

After sorting by date, the planner walks the list pairwise. Two exams sharing a date are a same-day clash; two exams one day apart are back-to-back. Both are the classic ways a study plan falls over, so they are surfaced as explicit warnings.

Tips

Add your hardest paper first so it anchors the list, then layer the rest around it. If you see a same-day clash you cannot move, plan to finish that subject’s revision a day early and leave the clash day for light review only.