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The six week finals schedule is easy to endorse and annoying to build: count backward from four exam dates, place the practice sessions, remember the dress rehearsals. This planner builds it. Enter each course and its exam date, flag your weakest one, and it generates the week by week plan: outlines current in the early weeks, timed practice exams from four weeks out with the extra sessions going to the flagged course, attack outlines finished two weeks out, the most recent past exam saved for a dress rehearsal, and the between exam protocol during finals week itself.
Every line comes from the finals guide: the phases are keyed to each course's own exam date, not just the first one, so a December 10 exam and a December 18 exam get different schedules in the same week. If you open this inside two weeks of your first exam, the plan switches to the triage configuration, attack outlines straight from the syllabus, then timed practice with error logs, and skips the stages there is no longer time to run. The session by session methods live in the practice protocol and time management.
Copy plan produces a text version that pastes into any notes or calendar app; block the sessions like classes, because unblocked plans lose to the reading load every time.
Enter the due date as the exam date and treat the dress rehearsal as a timed practice under the format's real constraint, usually a word limit. The phases transfer; only the final week's shape changes.
From four weeks out, yes, that cadence is the single strongest predictor in the guides, and it is why the planner starts the calendar before the days feel urgent.
The planner turns the protocol in the finals guide into dates. That is its whole job, and it is a real one, because a protocol without dates is a preference.
Build it once in week five and adjust rather than rebuilding. Replanning is the most comfortable form of procrastination available to a law student.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026