Your January plan didn't die from laziness. It died at the 9pm doorway.

The four ways a resit plan actually breaks

Look at your last two attempts and you will find the same shape. Weeks one to three were excellent. You had a colour-coded timetable. You were ahead. Then one week something ordinary happened. A month-end at work. A wedding you could not skip. A child with malaria. Your father called and it became a three-day matter. You lost four days — which is nothing against a six-month runway — but you never restarted, because restarting meant admitting you were behind, and the timetable you built had no version of itself that could run at 30%. It was all-or-nothing, so it became nothing. That is one of four patterns. The others are quieter. One of them looks like progress: you keep reading and re-reading because reading feels safe and past questions feel like exposure, so by exam week you have covered everything and practised almost nothing. Another one hides inside your household — two fixed slots you never actually negotiated for, so every session is a small trespass you have to justify, and you eventually stop asking. The fourth shows up in your mock scores and has nothing to do with your schedule at all. You cannot fix a break you have not named. Most people buy a new timetable and skip that step, which is why the third attempt so often looks exactly like the second.

What the method actually is

Three moving parts, and they are all boring, which is the point. One: the autopsy. You identify the exact week your last plan broke, the trigger, and which of the four patterns it was. Twenty-five minutes on paper. This is not reflection for its own sake — the pattern you find determines which parts of the method you weight, and it is the page you re-read in week six when the initial energy is gone. Two: the three slots. Not a 6am-to-6am timetable. You get three time-slots you genuinely control as a working person: the commute, lunch, and one home block. Different kinds of study work in each — the commute cannot hold computational practice, so it holds something else, and the guide says exactly what. Everything that doesn't fit into three slots gets cut, on purpose. Three: the pre-decision. Every night before you are tired, you fill a single card: tomorrow's commute task, lunch task and home-block task, with the 15-minute floor version of each. Ninety seconds. The 9pm doorway no longer asks you whether to study, because tomorrow was already decided by a rested person. That is the whole mechanism. Around those three: your practice-to-review ratio tuned to your specific paper (computational and written papers are not the same problem), one named accountability person with a fixed check-in rather than a vague WhatsApp group, and word-for-word scripts for the two conversations at home and at work that most people skip. And the last chapter tells you how to know when the method is no longer the problem — when it is tuition quality, exam technique, or health. A method that cannot tell you when to stop using it is not worth ₦12,000.

What you get

• The Third Attempt — 108-page PDF guide (₦18,000) — The full method: the four failure patterns, the three-slot system, the pre-decisions that kill the 9pm question, the 15-minute floor, practice-to-review tuning, the accountability structure, and the scripts. Written specifically for ICAN, ACCA, CFA and PMP resit candidates working full time.
• The Plan Autopsy Worksheet — 6 pages (₦6,000) — Walks you through Chapter 1 on paper in 25 minutes: the week your last plan broke, the trigger, and which of the four patterns it was. Printable and phone-fillable. This is the page you re-read in week six.
• The Night-Before Card — pre-decision template (₦5,000) — Chapter 3's mechanism reduced to one page you complete in 90 seconds. Tomorrow's three tasks plus the 15-minute floor version of each. Print ten, keep one in your bag.
• Paper-Specific Practice/Review Ratios: ICAN, ACCA, CFA, PMP — 12 pages (₦9,000) — Where marks are actually lost on each paper type, the starting practice-to-review split for computational versus written/case papers, and how to adjust it after your first two mock scores.
• The Two Conversations Script Pack (₦7,000) — Word-for-word openers for asking your household to protect two fixed slots without it becoming a fight about priorities, and asking your line manager for a protected lunch hour without announcing you are studying. Includes what to say when the answer is no.
• Knowing When It Is No Longer the Method (₦4,000) — An honest checklist of the signals that mean your problem is now tuition quality, a health issue or an exam-technique gap rather than your schedule — and what to do about each.

Includes 5 bonus items.

Questions you’re probably asking

How do I know you'll actually send anything after I pay?

The download link is on the screen the moment payment goes through, and the same link is emailed to you within a few minutes. Nothing is shipped, nothing is scheduled for later, there is no waiting list and no group you have to join first. If the email does not arrive, reply to the receipt and we resend it — we hold that to 48 hours and usually it is much faster.

I've already downloaded three study timetables and a productivity ebook. Why is this different?

A timetable tells you what to do with hours you don't have. This starts from the opposite end: three slots you actually control, and everything that doesn't fit gets cut deliberately rather than quietly abandoned. It also does something a timetable never does — it makes you name where the last two plans broke first, because the fix depends on the pattern. If you already know your pattern and you already pre-decide your sessions the night before, you don't need this.

Will this guarantee I pass this time?

No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something else. Your result depends on your tuition, your paper, your technique and how much of the syllabus you can genuinely cover. What this controls is the part that has failed you twice: whether the sessions happen at all on ordinary bad weeks. That is what the guide promises and it is all it promises.

₦12,000 is real money and I've already spent a lot on this exam.

You have. Resit fees, tuition, materials — this is small next to that, but it is not nothing. You keep the file and every bonus.

My family and my work schedule are the real problem. A PDF can't fix that.

A PDF cannot change your household. What it can do is give you the actual words for two conversations most people avoid having — asking for two protected slots without it becoming an argument about whose time matters more, and asking your manager for a protected lunch hour without announcing that you are studying. Including what to say when the answer is no, because sometimes it is, and the method has a version that runs anyway.

I don't have time to read a 108-page guide.

You don't read it cover to cover to start. Chapter 1 plus the Autopsy Worksheet is about 45 minutes and produces your diagnosis. Chapter 3 plus the Night-Before Card is another 20 and produces tomorrow's three sessions. That is one sitting and you are running. The rest — the paper-specific ratios, the scripts, the stop-signals checklist — you read when you need them.