Practice to the real clock. Each preset is set up to a published exam format — OSCE stations, PLAB 2, the MCAT, the GRE, TOEFL Speaking, and the MMI — and marks every station, section, or phase change with a bell, so you can rehearse the timing exactly as it runs on the day.
Eight-minute stations with a two-minute change-over, eight times round the circuit — a common long-station setup. Station lengths run from five to fifteen minutes between medical schools, so set yours in the editor to match.
The GMC PLAB 2 format: 90 seconds of reading then an 8-minute station, repeated. A bell marks each change. Add or remove rounds in the editor to drill any number of stations.
Read the prompt outside for two minutes, then eight minutes in the station, around eight stations. Reading windows and station lengths differ at every school, so match your invitation in the editor before you practice.
The full MCAT sitting in order: four sections (95, 90, 95, 95 minutes) with the official 10, 30, and 10-minute breaks between them. Open in the editor to drill a single section on its own.
The shorter GRE (2023 onward): a 30-minute essay, two Verbal sections (41 minutes together), and two Quant sections (21 and 26 minutes), with no breaks. Open in the editor to drill a single section.
The four TOEFL iBT Speaking tasks: prepare then speak. Task 1 is 15s prep / 45s response; Tasks 2–4 are 30, 30, and 20s prep / 60s response. A bell marks each switch.
Timed exams are won as much on pacing as on knowledge — a station you overrun or a section you misjudge costs marks you knew the answers to. The way to fix pacing is to rehearse against the exact clock you will sit, so the timing becomes second nature and you spend the day thinking about the questions, not the minutes.
Each preset here is set up to a published format: the right station length, the right reading time, the right run of sections in the right order. Press start and a bell marks every change, just as an invigilator’s would, so your practice run feels like the exam and not a guess at it. Everything runs in your browser, with nothing to install and no account.
Clinical and interview exams — the OSCE, PLAB 2, and the MMI — are circuits: the same shape of station repeated around the room, often with a short window to read the prompt before you go in. Those presets count the stations for you, mark the reading time, and ring the bell to move on, so you can drill the rhythm of working one station and resetting for the next.
Written exams — the MCAT, the GRE, TOEFL Speaking — are a run of differently-timed sections in a fixed order. Those presets play the sections back to back (with the official breaks where there are any) so you feel how long each one really lasts and where the exam gets tiring. Seeing the whole sitting on one clock is the point.
Two of these formats vary by where you sit them. OSCE station length runs anywhere from five to fifteen minutes and the number of stations from a handful to twenty; the MMI varies just as much. The presets carry a common, representative setup, not a universal one — so always check your own exam’s instructions and, where they differ, open the preset in the editor and set the station length, the reading time, or the number of stations to match.
The written-exam timings are national and stable, but the editor is there too — to rehearse a single MCAT section on its own, to drop the GRE essay, or to adjust anything an official update changes. The same timers are in the free Seconds Interval Timer app on iOS and Android, so a format you set up on the web is on your phone for revision anywhere.
Focused work sprints with a break between each — 25/5, 52/17, and more.
A simple online countdown for any duration — set the rounds to repeat.
A big, clear countdown for party and classroom games — pick a game and press start.
Novelty and meme timers — the longest possible countdown, FNAF nights, and more.
A single beep at a fixed interval, on repeat — for pacing, drills, and practice.
A repeating interval reminder for desks and classrooms — set it and let it nudge you.
Pecha Kucha, Ignite, lightning talk, elevator pitch, and TED-style timers.
British Parliamentary and Model UN debate timers.
The full Seconds experience — on iPhone, Apple Watch, and Android.