Build a calendar showing each day and week up until your exam, with a new week on every row. This will allow you to quickly see how many weeks and days until you sit your exam.
List the topics and material that you need to cover prior to sitting your exam. Build a tracking table with this list of topics in it, with space to record each time you cover that topic and the results of your self-assessment on that topic.
For the first round of covering all the material, allocate topics to the days and times that you will cover them. Once you have covered each topic once and recorded your results in your tracking table, you will be able to see your strengths and weaknesses. This allows you to decide where to allocate the most repetitions and effort, so that you adequately address your weaknesses.
It is essential that you build a few things into your revision plan:
- Repetition (covering topic material more than once). Leave sufficient space between each repetition to take advantage of The Spacing Effect.
- De-load periods. This time allows you to rest, recover your energy and motivation and consolidate that information into your memory by giving yourself the mental space to process it subconsciously.
- Catch-up periods. I have made revision plans for every exam I have been successful in. Despite this, I have always gotten behind schedule at one time or another. This is why scheduled catch-up periods are useful to allow you to get ahead again.
I recommend taking some time off just before the exam to allow your brain to settle and consolidate the information and regain all its energy in preparation for optimal performance on the exam day itself. It will also help you to relax and regain your motivation so that you are in the right frame of mind to put everything into completing the exam. This might be 1 to 3 days, depending on how confident you are feeling.