Keep Your Study Plan on Track With Other Students
Week one is easy. Week five, with nobody expecting anything of you, is where the schedule slips. A study circle is a small group working the same exam towards the same date, with a shared goal and progress everyone can see.
How it works
Set Up a Circle in Four Steps
Setting one up takes a couple of minutes. Keeping it going is the point.
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Step 1
Create or join
Pick the course, name the circle, choose public or private, and set how many people can join. Private circles are invitation-only, and most people start one with classmates.
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Step 2
Agree a target date
The circle carries a start date and a target completion date. Everything else is measured against that, so the group is working towards one deadline rather than five.
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Step 3
Set shared goals
Goals belong to the circle, not to one person. A week of question targets, a subject to finish, a mock exam everyone sits: whatever the group needs next.
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Step 4
Show up for each other
Progress against the goal is visible to the circle, challenges run alongside it, and a nudge goes out when someone has gone quiet.
Inside a circle
What the Group Actually Gets
Shared goals
A goal set for the circle, with everyone's progress against it in one view. No spreadsheet, no group chat where the plan gets lost above the memes.
Weekly challenges
Short group challenges that reset each week: a question target, a subject sprint, a timed set everyone sits.
Discussion threads
Threads inside the circle for the question nobody could work out, kept separate from the wider community.
Nudges
When someone has not logged anything for a few days, the circle gets a prompt. Gentle, and easily the most useful part.
Points and badges
Contribution is tracked and recognised, so the person quietly doing the work gets seen.
Private by default if you want it
Set the circle to private and it is invitation-only. Your progress is never shown outside the circle you joined.
Pick a course
A Circle Belongs To One Course
So the goals, challenges and threads stay relevant to the exam everyone in it is actually sitting.
Worth saying
Circles Are Not For Everyone
A group can turn into a second thing to keep up with, and for some people that is worse than studying alone. If you already work steadily on your own, you will not need one.
They earn their place when the problem is consistency rather than content, when you know what to study and keep not doing it. Two or three classmates and a shared target date fixes more of that than another question bank will. Everything else on the platform works exactly the same whether you join one or not.
Start the circle, then invite the group.
Create your account, pick your course and set a target date. Sending classmates the invite takes about a minute after that.
- No card required
- Private circles available
- Works on mobile
