Exams
Written papers set from your own board, sat with or without a clock, and marked against your notes.
There is no question bank. Each paper is written from the notes on the board you set it from, so it only asks about what you wrote down. It is set and marked in the style of your subject's examiner.
Setting#
On a board's Exam tab you choose:
- Format: short-answer written, single-best-answer multiple choice, or both.
- Questions: 5, 8, 12, 16 or 20 (up to 16 on the phone). Thin notes may get fewer.
- Difficulty: easier, standard or harder.
- Exam conditions (Timed on the phone): a countdown that submits the paper when time runs out. Off, the clock only counts up.
Written questions are worth 2 to 10 marks; multiple choice is worth one. A board with pictures may get a question or two on them.
On the phone the same panel can narrow the paper to some of the board's sections and take a steer in your own words, such as "press me on the parts I usually get wrong". On the web those live on the subject dashboard's Practice tab, which also sets one paper across several boards (practice); a paper over several boards is listed on each of their Exam tabs. Also on the web, with Progress on, a section's Quiz me on this section sets a paper on that section alone.
On the free plan, setting a paper uses your one exam; sitting, marking, re-marking and resits never count. See plans and usage.
A seller posts a letter revoking an offer on 1 March. The buyer, who has not seen it, posts an acceptance on 3 March, and the revocation arrives on 4 March. Is there a contract?
A posted acceptance takes effect when it is posted (Adams v Lindsell), but a revocation takes effect only when it is received (Byrne v Van Tienhoven). The acceptance on 3 March came first, so a contract was formed and the revocation on 4 March arrived too late. When the revocation was posted decides nothing; its arrival is what counts.
Sitting#
Under exam conditions the time comes from the paper's marks, about a minute and a half a mark, and starts the first time you open the paper, not when it is set. It keeps running if you leave. The clock turns red under five minutes, and at zero the paper is submitted as it stands. Untimed, it counts up.
Under a written answer, How sure are you? offers Sure, Think so or Guessing. Say so or not; a second press takes it back. It is never marked and changes nothing on the paper: it is kept with your study record, so a confident wrong answer can be told from a guess later. Multiple choice does not ask.
Answers save as you type. Leave whenever you like (Finish later on the web): the paper stays on the Exam tab, and the last one you opened is offered under Continue, on its subject's dashboard (the Study tab) on the web and on the home screen on the phone. Submit for marking needs at least one answer.
A badly set question can be dropped with the ✕ beside it, and the totals follow; the phone asks first. The last question cannot be dropped, and dropping one does not shorten a clock already running.
The paper's must not miss core is a button away while you sit. Opening it here is recorded on the paper, as an eye in the list and on the marked paper.
Marking#
Multiple choice is marked instantly, at no cost: the right option turns green, a wrong pick red, and a wrong answer's explanation is shown.
Written answers go to the examiner and are marked against each question's marking key and your notes, for content only: partial credit is normal, spelling is ignored, a blank scores nothing, and correct points outside the key still count. Each question gets its marks, the points you missed and the one change that would most improve it, with the model answer to read, and the paper gets a comment as a whole.
Marking usually takes under a minute, and the list shows the paper as Marking meanwhile. Close the page or the app and nothing is lost: opening the paper again picks the same marking back up rather than starting another. If marking fails, your answers are kept and you can submit again.
Explain the ways in which an offer comes to an end, with an authority for each.
3/5An offer ends when it is revoked before acceptance, when the offeree rejects it or makes a counter-offer, which destroys it (Hyde v Wrench), or when it lapses after a reasonable time.
Rejection and the counter-offer are right, with the case the key wanted. Revocation and lapse have no authority, and nothing on how a revocation has to reach the offeree, which is where the marks went.
Missed
−Revocation must reach the offeree, though it can come through a reliable third party (Dickinson v Dodds)
−A promise to keep an offer open binds only if something is given for it (Routledge v Grant)
−An offer with no stated time lapses after a reasonable time (Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v Montefiore)
Model answerAn offer can be revoked at any time before acceptance, even after a promise to keep it open, unless something was given for that promise (Routledge v Grant). Revocation takes effect only when it reaches the offeree (Byrne v Van Tienhoven), though it may come through a reliable third party (Dickinson v Dodds). Rejection ends it, and so does a counter-offer (Hyde v Wrench), but a request for information does not (Stevenson v McLean). An offer with no time limit lapses after a reasonable time (Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v Montefiore).
Under a written question that lost marks, Explain this teaches the point you missed from your notes and the key, and ends with the line to remember. It is written once and kept on the paper.
Re-mark this paper runs the marking again over the same answers, if you dispute a mark. The new marks replace the old ones and your time is kept. While it runs the list says Re-marking, and Explain waits for it.
Show on board opens the section a question came from.
Resits and fresh papers#
Resit the N you lost marks on makes a new paper of just those questions, with blank answers and the original's conditions. Nothing new is written, so it costs nothing.
Sit a fresh paper writes new questions from the same notes, with the Set panel's options. A paper over several boards is set again over the same boards, sections and options.
Score history#
Once a paper is marked, the Exam tab shows your average, your best, how many papers are marked and how many reached 75 per cent. Papers are listed newest first, with when each was set, its marks and time, and a note when the board's notes have changed since. Any paper reopens from its row. The phone also charts your last five scores.
Where marks go missing lists the sections still losing marks across every marked paper on the board, worst first, with how many questions have drawn on each. Click one to go to it.
To delete a paper, use its ⋯ menu (the bin on the phone). Its answers and marks go with it, and there is no undo.
What you missed becomes cards#
The points you missed are written into flashcards for you. They wait under From what you got wrong, on the Exam tab and under a marked paper (on the phone, under the marked paper). Untick any you do not want and add the rest to the board's deck in one tap, or turn them down with Not now. Cards you already have are not repeated. Below them, the tray offers a paper, a lecture or an oral station on the points still open.