Frequently asked questions

No. There is no registration, no login and no member area. Every guide, worksheet, template and study path is readable and printable without giving us anything at all. We do not run advertising, and there is no premium tier behind the free one.

No. The collection has been free since 2009 and there is no plan to change that. Examit is a not-for-profit funded by grants and donations, and our constitution does not permit charging for access to the published collection. Workshops and reading circles are also free.

Three letters and three digits. The letters identify the shelf: SKL study skills, AWR academic writing, RES research skills, TIM time management, CRT critical thinking, DGL digital learning. Printable materials use TPL (templates), WKS (worksheets), EXR (exercises), REF (reference), RDG (reading lists) and CHK (checklists). The digits run roughly from introductory to advanced within each shelf, so AWR 201 is a starting point and AWR 255 is not.

If you are unsure, start with Foundations of independent study. It assumes no existing method and needs about three hours a week for eight weeks. Learners who already plan well and take structured notes usually get more from the writing, research or critical thinking paths. Each path opens with a short description of who it is for, so you can rule one out in a minute.

No. The order is a recommendation based on what tends to depend on what. If a stop covers something you already do reliably, skip it and keep the time for a stop that will actually change something. The one order we would defend is putting the time audit before the planning work — planning around a week you have not measured tends to produce a timetable for an imaginary person.

Every item carries a review date, and every item is revisited at least once every twelve months. Where a guide describes research, we re-check whether the findings have held up. Twenty-two guides were revised in the spring 2026 cycle and three were withdrawn. Withdrawn material stays reachable with a notice explaining why, because people may have printed it.

Stop re-reading and start retrieving. At the end of a study session, close everything and write what you remember on a blank page, then check it. It costs five minutes, needs no equipment, and has stronger evidence behind it than anything else we publish. Everything else is an improvement on top of that.

We cannot answer that responsibly, and we are suspicious of anyone who gives a number. It depends on your programme, your other commitments and how efficiently you currently work. The more useful question is how many hours you actually have, which the seven-day time log will tell you within a week. Most learners find they have less time than they assumed and waste less of it than they feared.

Repeated attempts to show that matching teaching to a preferred learning style improves outcomes have not succeeded, and the idea is no longer supported by the evidence. What does hold is that material should be presented in the form that suits the material: a process is clearer as a diagram, an argument is clearer as prose, a chronology is clearer as a timeline. Choose the format for the content rather than for a personality type. We say more about this in the study methods introduction.

No. Re-date the remaining items and continue. Abandoning a plan after falling behind is by far the most common way study systems fail, and it is nearly always the wrong response — the plan was not wrong, the week was. Guide TIM 412 sets out a short recovery procedure: triage what is genuinely still needed, re-date it, drop what has been overtaken by events, and resume at the next scheduled block.

Mostly, with adjustments. Retrieval practice in a quantitative subject means working problems without looking at a solved example, which is harder and more valuable than reading a worked solution and feeling that it made sense. Spacing and interleaving are, if anything, better supported in mathematics than elsewhere. Mind mapping is a poorer fit. The studying a quantitative subject collection covers the differences.

No. We do not read, review or comment on assessed work, and our volunteer mentors are instructed to decline these requests. That is partly a resource question and mostly an academic-integrity one: work submitted for assessment should be yours. Your institution’s writing centre exists precisely for this, is usually free, and is generally under-used.

Yes, for non-commercial teaching and study. You may print, photocopy and distribute our worksheets and guides provided the Examit attribution line remains on the page and you do not charge for the material itself. Charging for your own tutoring time is fine; selling our worksheets is not. The full conditions are in the educational use section of our terms.

Usually yes, and we are glad when it happens, but please write to us first so we can check the adaptation is accurate and record it. Adaptations must be clearly marked as adaptations rather than presented as our text, and must not be sold. We have approved translations into French, Tagalog, Punjabi and Mandarin so far.

Because you are going to write on them. Decorative borders, large logos and colour blocks consume the space you need and the toner you paid for. Every worksheet is designed to print legibly in black and white on a tired photocopier, which is the environment most of them end up in.

Yes, at no cost. Write to info@examit.club with the call numbers you need and your institution’s name, and we will prepare a version with a co-branded footer. We ask only that the Examit attribution stays alongside yours.

Yes, at no cost. Write to info@examit.club with the call number and the format you need. We aim to respond within five business days. Requests are handled by our accessibility lead personally, and we do not ask for documentation of a disability.

It is built to. The site was rebuilt in 2024 to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA and is tested by volunteers using NVDA, JAWS and VoiceOver as part of our annual audit. Known limitations are listed openly in the accessibility statement. If you encounter something that does not work, telling us is genuinely useful and we will fix it rather than explain it.

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No. Examit is not affiliated with any examination board, university, college or testing organization, and we publish no past papers, predicted questions or subject-specific exam content. What we publish is general study method — how to revise, plan, read and write — which applies across subjects and institutions. Where our advice conflicts with your course specification, follow the specification.

No. We are an independent not-for-profit registered in Ontario. Several staff and advisers have worked in universities and colleges, and we consult librarians and learning-strategies advisers regularly, but no institution has any control over what we publish.

Six part-time editorial staff, listed on the about page. Every guide is drafted by one editor, reviewed by a second against the cited sources, and checked for accessibility before publication. The full process is set out in our editorial standards.

Grants from a private educational foundation, project grants and individual donations. We accept no advertising, no sponsored content, no affiliate arrangements and no funding from organizations that sell products or services to learners — publishers, tutoring companies, educational technology firms and exam preparation businesses included. Annual financial statements are available on request.

Donations are welcome but never solicited on the site, which is why there is no button. Write to info@examit.club and we will send details. Volunteering is more useful to us than money: we need reading-circle facilitators, mentors, accessibility testers and people willing to tell us when a guide is unclear.

As little as we can manage. We do not use advertising trackers, analytics profiling or third-party social widgets. Your theme and text-size preferences are stored in your own browser and never sent to us. Standard server logs record requests for a short period for security and diagnostics. Full detail is in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.

No. There are no accounts, so there is nothing to store progress against. Your trackers and planners live on your own paper or in your own files. The sample progress panel on the home page is an illustration of what a completed printable tracker looks like, not a record of anything.

It is read by a member of staff, answered, and retained for up to twenty-four months so that we have context if you write again. We do not add correspondents to any mailing list. You can ask us to delete your correspondence at any time and we will.

Eight to twelve learners work through one text over four weeks, meeting online for an hour a week with a facilitator whose job is to keep the discussion on the argument rather than on opinions about it. The reading list is published in advance so nobody commits blind. Circles run in the autumn and winter terms, and there is no cost.

Both. Monthly ninety-minute workshops are held at the Bloor Street reading room and streamed for people who cannot attend. We also run quiet study halls, which involve no teaching at all — a start time, a shared timer, and other people working nearby, which turns out to help a surprising number of learners.

Study method: how to approach a reading list, how to structure revision, how to plan a project, how to recover a schedule. Mentors do not review assignments, mark work, explain subject content, or help with anything that will be assessed. Questions go through info@examit.club and are usually answered within two business days.

In September and January, usually yes, and it is normally two to three weeks. Places are allocated in the order requests arrive rather than by any assessment of need, which is not a perfect system but is at least a transparent one.