OMPT Study Plan for 2 Weeks: Crash Plan for a Fixed Deadline

I would not choose two weeks for anyone. Students arrive at this plan because a conditional offer landed late, a visa file has a date on it, or a first attempt came back short. The plan assumes the date is fixed and the only variable is how you spend the hours. If the date can move, move it; the study planner will tell you how many weeks your variant wants, the difficulty post explains why the letters differ so much, and the four-week B plan shows a sane calendar.

What an OMPT study plan for 2 weeks can and cannot do

The arithmetic first, because it decides everything else. At 3.5 hours a day you have 49 hours. The table puts that against the study time omptest.org prints on each syllabus page, an estimate for a student starting from a normal school background. The percentages are not a projected score; they are how much of the recommended preparation you can physically do, and they tell you whether the plan is "cover it" or "choose".

Day 1: the free diagnostic mock and the booking

Nothing else happens on day 1 until the mock is done. Every variant has a free timed mock on this site (OMPT-A, OMPT-B, OMPT-D, OMPT-E, and the C, F and G ones from the tests page); it scores itself on the spot with a per-topic breakdown. Sit it under real conditions: full time limit, no pauses, three sheets of paper, exact-form answers only. The number is the input to everything below, so an inflated one (notes open, pauses, a phone calculator) wrecks the plan on day 1.

Then book. Buy the attempt, open "Test info & access", click "Go to ProctorU", install the Guardian browser, pass "Test Your Equipment", and schedule day 15 at the time of day you will sit your mocks. Booking on day 1 clears the 72-hour minimum many times over and removes the temptation to "see how it goes" on day 12. If the university deadline falls inside the grading window, add fast grading now: standard grading takes up to 8 business days counted from the day after submission (a Monday sitting returns the Thursday of the following week), fast grading takes 4 (that Friday). The details are in the 72-hour rule post.

The triage rule: drop chapters by official weight

omptest.org publishes a weight for every chapter of every variant on its learning-assessments pages. Two weeks cannot hold everything, so you study in order of weight multiplied by weakness: a 22% chapter you scored 30% on outranks a 10% chapter you scored 30% on, and a 22% chapter you already score 90% on drops to the bottom. No chapter above 15% is ever dropped; chapters at 10% or below are dropped when the diagnostic says they are far away; a dropped chapter still gets one hour on day 11 so its easy questions are not left blank. There is no negative marking and partial credit exists, so a half answer beats an empty box.

The 14-day OMPT study plan, day by day

Chapters 1 to 5 below are your reordered triage list. Every study day ends with a timed set of ten to twelve questions answered in exact form, because pace and format are separate skills from knowing the maths, and a two-week candidate has no slack to lose them.

Days 7 and 12: what the two mocks are for

The day-7 mock checks the triage. If chapters 1 and 2 have moved by twenty points or more, the method is working. If they have not moved, the problem is usually how you studied (reading worked examples instead of doing randomised drills) rather than what, and days 8 and 9 go back to chapter 1 with drills only. The day-12 mock is the go/no-go gate, and I read it through the score estimator rather than as a raw number, because a mock with one strong chapter and one empty one projects differently from a flat 65%.

On the choice of mock: the free one here can be sat once for a clean number; after that, a paid generation from the plans page or the official OMPT mock (€90 for A, B, C, E and G; €110 for D and F) gives fresh questions. The official mock is graded by hand within 8 business days, or 4 with its own €70 fast-grading option, so inside a two-week window it has to be sat by day 7 and fast-graded. A mock whose result arrives after the real test measures nothing.

Days 13 to 15: the taper and the grading window

Two hours on day 13, thirty minutes on day 14, no new chapter in either. The argument for tapering is in the last-week post, and it holds harder for a two-week candidate. Day 13 is also the logistics run: Guardian installed on the laptop you will use, "Test Your Equipment" passed, a government photo ID in Latin script, three blank A4 sheets, three pencils, one eraser, a clear bottle. On the day, log in 15 minutes early; the check-in takes 5 to 10 minutes and is not deducted.

Build the plan on day 1

1. Sit the free timed mock for your letter under test conditions and write down the overall score and every per-topic score.
2. Open the learning-assessments page for your variant on omptest.org and copy the chapter weights next to your per-topic scores.
3. For each chapter, multiply the weight by (100 minus your score) and sort descending. The top five are chapters 1 to 5; anything at 10% or below with a score under 30% drops to a one-hour visit on day 11.
4. Book the real test for day 15 at the time of day you will sit mocks, after setting the time zone in the ProctorU profile.
5. Count the business days from day 15 to your university deadline, minus the Dutch holidays. Fewer than 10: buy fast grading. Fewer than 6: move the sitting earlier.
6. Pick the drill pages for chapters 1 to 3 now, so day 2 starts with a click: for most A and B candidates that is quadratic equations, differentiation rules and logarithms.
7. Write the plan on paper with the hours per day you will actually have, and tell the household which hours are off limits.

What to do if the diagnostic is low, the letter is B or D, or the deadline is ten days

If the diagnostic is under 40%, the two-week plan reaches a pass only by luck; I have watched enough people try. If the deadline allows any movement, move the sitting: rescheduling costs a €50 admin fee and needs 72 hours of notice, an attempt costs €240 or €270. If the deadline does not move and the programme allows more than one attempt, sit day 15 as a paid diagnostic and start the calendar in the retake post the same evening. If only the first attempt counts (Erasmus IBEB and IBEOR, UvA Business Administration and EBE), do not sit with a diagnostic under 40%; email admissions about a later date instead, because a burned only attempt is worse than a late certificate.

If the letter is B or D, the honest odds depend on where you start. With 49 hours against 100 or 120 you are studying half the syllabus or less, so the plan is a bet on the big chapters. On the B, differentiation, integration and trigonometry are 57% of the marks; a candidate with school algebra intact who scores 45% or better on the diagnostic can reach a 60% bar (VU Econometrics, Groningen EOR) by spending days 2 to 9 on those three chapters alone, and should treat a 75% bar as a second-attempt target. On the D, functions, equations and inequalities plus differentiation are 50%, and every solution is written in a note from day 2, because the D is graded per step by two graders and a correct method with an arithmetic slip still scores; the D survival guide covers writing that note quickly. Below 45% on either letter, see the paragraph above.

If the deadline is ten days away rather than fifteen, the calendar compresses in one direction only. Results must be back by day 10, and fast grading takes 4 business days, six calendar days across a weekend, so the sitting goes on day 4 at the latest and is booked on day 1, exactly 72 hours ahead. Days 2 and 3 go to chapter 1 and the answer-format rehearsal, which is a decision to sit with what you have rather than a plan. If admissions will read a result that arrives a few days late, ask them in writing on day 1 and buy yourself the full fortnight.

Two students, two fortnights

Student one is applying to Groningen FEB, where OMPT-A needs 60% with no subsection at 0%, two attempts a year. His conditional offer gives three weeks. Day-1 mock: 52%, with 80% on numbers and algebra, 35% on quadratics and functions, 20% on differentiation, 40% on logarithms. Triage: quadratics and functions first (22% weight, 65 points of headroom), differentiation second, logarithms third, a light pass on linear systems. He books day 15 without fast grading, because 8 business days from day 15 still lands inside the three weeks. Day-7 mock 61%, day-12 mock 68%, and he sits with the differentiation rules memorised and the function basics drill at 90%.

Student two has been asked for OMPT-B at 60% by VU Amsterdam Econometrics and Operations Research, two attempts per round, with a visa timeline that fixes the sitting at day 15. Day-1 mock: 41%, with 75% on numbers and algebra, under 20% on integration, 30% on trigonometry, 45% on differentiation. She is on the wrong side of 45%, so the plan is honest: differentiation to 80% by day 5, integration basics from zero to the standard antiderivatives and substitution by day 9, trig identities and the special values on days 10 and 11, numbers and linear systems untouched beyond one review hour. She buys fast grading on day 1 so that a 55% on day 15 leaves a second sitting before her deadline. Day-12 mock: 58%. She sits, with the retake calendar already written.