Must not miss core

The handful of points you cannot leave out, written from your own notes and readable at a glance.

The must not miss core is the skeleton of a model answer: the points an examiner marks against, most important first. It is not a summary of the board. It is what cannot be left out.

It has three to six sections, each a short list of concrete points taken only from your notes: the content itself, never a heading standing in for it.

Must not miss coreConsideration

Consideration must move from the promisee (Tweddle v Atkinson)

It must be sufficient but need not be adequate (Chappell v Nestlé)

Past consideration is no consideration (Re McArdle), unless the act was requested and payment expected (Lampleigh v Brathwait)

Doing what you are already bound to do is not consideration (Stilk v Myrick), unless it gives the other side a practical benefit (Williams v Roffey)

Paying part of a debt does not discharge the rest (Foakes v Beer)

Points from one board's core. In the app they sit under three to six headings.

Where it shows up#

On the board. In Study mode the core sits in the board's title tile; on the phone it is a fold on the board screen. Build it once, then show or hide it. It is kept on the device that built it, so another browser or the phone builds its own. If the notes change afterwards, it says so and offers to rebuild.
On a paper. Every paper has its own, written from that paper's questions and marking keys and weighted by their marks, so reading it first revises exactly what you are about to be asked. Open it from the paper's row on the Exam tab, or while you sit it.
On a station. Every oral station has its own, written with the station (one that has none gets one the first time you open it). Open it from the station's row on the Oral tab or while you sit it; an attempt's page shows it after marking.
In a lesson. A lesson on the Learn tab has its own. Its check is marked against it, and it is shown once you have answered the check.

A paper's or a station's core is written once and kept with it, like its questions.

Opening the core while you sit a paper or a station is recorded on it, as an amber eye with a count past one. That is not a penalty: it lets you tell which scores you got with it open. Opening it from a list, or after marking, is not counted.

What a viva is marked against#

A station's core is the marking standard as well as revision. The viva is marked against it and the station's marking key: leaving out something neither contains costs you nothing, and correct material beyond them still earns credit. The attempt's page shows the core it was marked against; for a station with no core, the marking writes one.

Why a station's core is detailed#

Most of what the app writes is short, and a board's or a paper's core is too: brief, concrete phrases. A station's core goes further, because it is what you read in the minutes before you speak. Its items carry the specifics exactly as your notes give them: not "the postal rule has exceptions" but which exceptions, and the case for each. That is three to eight items a section, each up to 30 words.

Every core, wherever it came from, has three to six sections and opens in the same panel.