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List the scored questions in your ITT with their weighting and word limit. The planner ranks them by how many marks each hundred words carries, shows the share of effort each deserves, and flags any answer already over its limit. Nothing is stored.
Total weighting entered 50% · total word allowance 3,800 · drafted 0
Weightings do not sum to 100%. If price carries the remainder, that is expected; otherwise check the ITT for a question you have not listed.
15% weighting · 1,000 word limit · 30% of your drafting effort
0% of the allowance used (1,000 words remaining).
25% weighting · 2,000 word limit · 50% of your drafting effort
0% of the allowance used (2,000 words remaining).
10% weighting · 800 word limit · 20% of your drafting effort
0% of the allowance used (800 words remaining).
Start drafting at the top of the list. A 25% criterion with a 1,000-word limit carries far more value per paragraph than a 10% criterion with 1,500 words, so it earns your most senior author and your best evidence. Low-density questions still have to be compliant and complete — they just should not consume the schedule.
Use the drafted column as a live control during bid week. Answers sitting well under half their allowance usually have evidence missing rather than efficient prose; answers over the limit need cutting before review, not after.
Because effort tends to follow familiarity rather than value. Mapping each question's weighting against its word limit shows where a mark is cheapest to win and stops a low-weighted question absorbing a week of drafting.
It is the weighting of a question divided by its word limit, scaled to 100 words. A high figure means each hundred words you write carries more marks, so that answer justifies the most senior drafting and review time.
No. Use what the answer needs. A tight, fully evidenced answer at 80% of the limit beats padding, but well under half the limit usually signals missing evidence rather than efficiency.
No. Everything is calculated in your browser and nothing is sent to us.