NTNU Study Planner: The Norwegian Exam-Set System

🇳🇴 The Assignment Wall

The Norwegian system has a feature generic planners don't model: arbeidskrav - mandatory assignments you must pass just to be allowed into the exam. Miss one, and the exam you planned for doesn't exist for you.

PlanBot tracks the full exam structure with daily AI regeneration - free on Android, 3 AI plans a day, in English.

Step 1: Map the Full Exam Structure

Norwegian syllabi (emnebeskrivelse) spell out the full evaluation model:

Component	Typical Weight	Planning Priority
Arbeidskrav (mandatory assignments)	Gate admission	🔴 Hard deadlines - scheduled first
Midterm (delprøve)	20-40%	🟠 Weighted blocks
Final exam (eksamen)	40-70%	Main ramp target

Two consequences:

1. Assignment deadlines are walls, not suggestions - they go in before study blocks
2. The final exam is where the ramp lives: 4-6 weeks of escalating past-exam practice

Step 2: The Past-Exam Ramp

Norwegian universities publish tidligere eksamensoppgaver with løsningsforslag:

• 6 weeks out: open-book walkthrough of one past set per course (learn question style)
• 3 weeks out: timed closed-book attempts, marked strictly
• Final week: error autopsy + formula sheets + taper - no new content

The Exam Revision Calculator spaces your cycles; the Daily Schedule Generator builds weekday blocks around lectures and job shifts in 30 seconds.

Step 3: The Weekly Template (Norwegian Semester)

For a student with lectures to 16:00 and a part-time job:

• Mon/Thu: 90 min deep blocks - highest-weight course
• Tue: 75 min - second-priority course
• Wed: assignment work block (arbeidskrav never steal study blocks - they have their own)
• Fri: job evening - off from studying
• Sat: 2 hrs - timed past-exam set (rotating)
• Sun: 30 min - error log + next-week weighting, then genuinely off

That's ~12 hours, sustainable through the darkest months - which matters more in Norway than almost anywhere.

The Winter Consistency Problem

Norwegian semesters test one thing other countries don't: consistency through darkness. The anti-collapse rules:

1. Missed blocks roll forward automatically - never "start again Monday"
2. After every delprøve, re-weight
3. One fully protected evening weekly; the streak, not guilt, carries you through November

That's PlanBot's core loop - daily regeneration plus streaks/XP. If you draft plans with ChatGPT first, our tested prompt method covers the shape; the app covers the memory problem.

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