Assignment priority planner
Rank remaining assignments by the time margin before each deadline. Use your own importance rating to break ties, and check whether all the work fits.
How it works
A worked example
If a report needs 5 hours and has 4 available hours before its deadline, its individual time margin is −1 hour. An essay needing 2 hours with 8 available has a 6-hour margin, so the report ranks first.
Assumptions to check
Importance is your 1–5 rating, not a predicted grade benefit, and only breaks equal-margin ties. Each task’s margin considers that task alone. A separate earliest-deadline schedule checks the shared workload across all tasks. Overdue work stays visible and cannot be scheduled before the new start date. Zero-hour tasks are complete.
Read all calculation notes ↗A few useful answers
Does the ranking guarantee the best possible marks?
No. It is a transparent time-pressure rule. Consider dependencies, submission times and your own judgment before choosing what to do.
Why might all the individual margins be positive but the workload still not fit?
The tasks share the same available time. The shared-workload check accounts for that overlap; use the catch-up planner for a dated schedule.
Planning estimates, not official academic results. Your course and institution set the rules.
From this result to your next step.
Read priority as time pressure
The ranking compares the effort left with time available before each deadline. Importance breaks equal time margins; it is not a forecast of grade benefit. Consider dependencies and actual submission times before choosing the next action.
Check the overlap between assignments
Two tasks can each appear to fit when considered alone while their combined workload exceeds the same free evenings. Use the shared-workload check and connect unfinished tasks to the semester to give them one common time budget.
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