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Exam Countdown and Revision Planner
Count down to an upcoming SAT date or your own exam, and see the time left in teaching weeks and sessions rather than as an abstract number of days.
The short answer
This countdown converts the time until an exam into the units a revision plan is actually built from — weeks, and sessions at two a week. SAT dates published by College Board for the 2026–27 testing year are preset; any other exam date can be entered from your school's timetable.
- Days remaining
- 14
- Full weeks
- 2
That is 2 teaching weeks, or roughly 4 sessions at two a week.
SAT dates from College Board; confirm all other dates with your school
Weeks are more useful than days
A hundred and twenty-seven days is an abstraction. Eighteen weeks — about thirty-six sessions at two a week — is a plan, because it can be divided into topics and mock papers and still leave room for the fortnight before the exam when nothing new should be introduced.
Students who count in days tend to discover in the last month that they have three topics left and two weeks to cover them.
Why GCSE and IGCSE dates are not preset
The awarding bodies publish per-subject timetables that change every series, and the paper you sit depends on your board, tier and subject. A countdown to a date we had guessed would be worse than no countdown at all.
Take the date from your school's exam timetable or your board's published schedule and enter it above. That is the one that will be right.
What to do with the number
Reserve the final two weeks for full papers under timed conditions and nothing else. Reserve the two before that for the topics that went worst in mocks. What is left is the window for teaching new material — and it is usually shorter than students expect.
For a first Digital SAT sitting we would normally want twelve to sixteen weeks of that structured window, which is why the date to book is often one administration later than the one a student first has in mind.
- Digital SAT weekend administrations in the 2026–27 testing year
- 8Digital SAT weekend administrations in the 2026–27 testing year[1]
- Length of the Digital SAT itself
- 2h 14mLength of the Digital SAT itself[1]
- Weeks of structured preparation we would normally recommend before a first SAT sitting
- 12–16Weeks of structured preparation we would normally recommend before a first SAT sitting
Common questions
When is the next SAT?
College Board has published eight weekend administrations for the 2026–27 testing year, running from August 2026 through June 2027. The next one is preselected in the countdown above. SAT School Day sittings run in separate windows set by states, schools and districts.
Why can I not pick a GCSE date from a list?
Because there is no single GCSE date. Awarding bodies publish per-subject timetables that differ by board, tier and subject and change every series. Enter the date from your own exam timetable instead.
How long before an exam should preparation start?
For a first Digital SAT sitting we would normally want twelve to sixteen weeks of structured preparation, keeping the last two for timed full papers. For GCSE maths the window is usually longer, because the syllabus is wider.
Sources
- SAT — what's on the test: structure, and published test dates — College Board
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