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About this tool
Work out how many NCERT pages to read per day — with days off and a revision buffer — to finish before your target date.
This planner computes the exact daily page quota needed to finish an NCERT book — or a whole stack of them — before a target date. The formula is stated openly: study days are calendar days scaled by (7 − days off)/7 and rounded down, a chosen percentage of those days is reserved as a revision buffer, and pages left are divided by the remaining reading days and rounded up. It is built for board students and UPSC/NEET aspirants who know their deadline but not the pace it implies.
Open NCERT Reading Speed Planner on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
Days off and a revision buffer are subtracted first, so the quota is one you can actually sustain.
Converts the daily page quota into minutes per day using your own reading speed.
Every intermediate figure — study days, buffer days, reading days — is shown, not hidden.
A careful read of a dense NCERT page with underlining typically takes around 3 minutes, so an hour of focused reading covers roughly 20 pages, and a 2-hour daily slot covers about 40. Skimming is two to three times faster, while note-making can halve the pace — the planner lets you set your own minutes-per-page figure.
The commonly read class 6-12 NCERT set for UPSC (History, Geography, Polity, Economics, Science and Society) runs to several thousand pages, so at 30-40 pages a day with one weekly day off it typically takes three to five months. Enter your actual page count and target date to get the precise daily quota instead of a rule of thumb.
Rounding works against you on purpose so the plan cannot silently slip: a fraction of a study day you don't have is dropped, and a fractional page quota is raised to the next whole page. That guarantees the schedule finishes on or before the target date even in the worst rounding case.
It is a share of your study days deliberately kept free of new reading so you can revise what you covered — the planner defaults to 10%. For retention-heavy exams many mentors suggest 20-30%, and the tool accepts anything from 0% to 90%.