Hey,
Today it came to my mind, that it would be great if there would be the possibility to learn for a specific e.g. 2nd of December , because there is a test I have to take.
Have a wonderful day 
Tobias
What do you mean? I just write down how many days it is until my exam, then count how many levels are in the course I’ve made for my exam, then figure out how many levels I need to learn each day in order to know everything on time.
It’s an interesting idea but it may be a little bit more complicated than you think. For example, I find that most of my learning happens in review review sessions as opposed to learning sessions. Sure, Memrise will tell me that I’ve learned a word but I am oftentimes in no way comfortable with it. I wouldn’t want those last few words to be “learned” right before my test and then find myself unable to recall them during the test.
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I agree with @DrewSSP in that I tend to learn (and retain) more from review sessions, than from learning sessions. Sometimes it is good to sleep on things and mull them over in your brain for a day or two and then see how much you really recall. Like he said, if this is the case for your learning as well, you would probably want to leave a little extra time for the final review, after the final learning session. I know I would - and frequently do.
This is indubitably an excellent idea. Memrise should give you a slider to adjust the review schedule. If you have a test coming up, you would slide it all the way to the left, giving you more frequent reviews to quickly become more familiar with the words. If you’re learning a course and a language that’s easy for you, you would slide it to the right, because you’ll remember the words even with longer review intervals.
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This is a good idea. And the slider idea that @Arete_Hime just gave is also very good. I’d like to see that on Memrise, although part of their expertise is probably in the review pace.
As for your problem, @TobiKr, if you need something like this right now, some other tools exist for this purpose. The application Semper (for Android and I think also Apple) could probably help you with that, although I think you would still be better by also using Memrise (Semper doesn’t seem to have real “review” sessions, once the application “thinks” that I know a word, it doesn’t seem to ask me about that one ever again).
This application allows you to input a date at which you want to know all the vocabulary from your decks, and it tells you if you’re lagging behind, if you’re on track, or if you’re going faster. It prompts you with tests every single time you’re unlocking your phone and/or opening an application from a list of applications you choose (during the load screen).
Err… why not learn them earlier then? For example, for my last class I had “memorized” all the vocabulary in the textbook two months before the exam date, so then I had two full months of review to help me out. I also study in summer to get ahead by the time the autumn semester starts, and with any luck I can keep up my streak of being ahead through spring semester too.
If you have zero material ahead of time (ex. no textbook) to study from then you can find a textbook at the same level as your class and study out of that.
(I’m not saying that it’s not a good idea to have Memrise help us out on this, I’m just saying we can already do it ourselves.)