🗺️Semester Outcome Mapping

for the overachiever who turns target grades into weekly input hours

Goal

Map every target grade to weekly input hours and recurring calendar blocks.

Source principle

Translate each target grade into weekly input hours: an outcome without weekly hours is a wish. : from How to Become a Straight-A Student by Cal Newport.

The plan

1. 📋
   0:00-0:05

   List every course + target grade, one line each.
2. 📊
   0:05-0:15

   For each course, list the weekly inputs that produce the grade.
3. ⏱️
   0:15-0:25

   Estimate hours per input per course.
4. 📅
   0:25-0:35

   Audit the calendar, where do the hours come from?
5. 📍
   0:35-0:45

   Slot recurring blocks per course on the calendar.
6. 🚩
   0:45-0:50

   Mark crunch weeks, pre-plan buffers.
7. ✂️
   0:50-0:55

   Define a stop-doing list, what gets cut.
8. 🔒
   0:55-1:00

   Set a Sunday weekly-review checkpoint.
9. 📝
   1:00-1:05

   Write an if-then plan for slipping blocks.
10. 📆
    1:05-1:10

    Set a 4-week review date, adjust the system.

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