Exams and practice

The portal has two different things that look similar and are not.

Practice is yours. Take it as often as you like, see the answers immediately, and nothing is reported to anyone.

Exams are set by your school. They open for a fixed window, you get one attempt, and the result goes to your teacher.

Check which you are opening before you start.

The Assessments screen groups assignments and other set work by status.

Practice

Practice papers and self-tests are built from the same material as your lessons, and often from past papers.

Use them like this:

1. Do it properly first. Time yourself, no notes, no looking things up. A practice paper done with the book open tells you nothing about what you know.
2. Mark it and read the answers — including the ones you got right, in case you were guessing.
3. Go back to the lesson for whatever you got wrong. This is the step people skip, and it is the only step that changes anything.
4. Take it again a few days later. Not immediately — the gap is what makes it work.

Exams

An exam has a window: a start, an end, and a time limit once you begin.

Before you start

• Check how long you have and how many questions there are.
• Use a device you trust, with charge in it.
• Get somewhere with a stable connection.
• Do not start unless you have time to finish. The clock does not stop.

During

• Answer everything you can first, then go back to the hard ones.
• Your answers are saved as you go, so a brief connection drop is usually survivable.
• Watch the time.

Submitting

Submit before the time runs out. Depending on how the exam is set, an unsubmitted paper may be submitted automatically at the end — but do not rely on it.

If something goes wrong mid-exam

Tell your teacher or the invigilator immediately. Do not sign in again on a different device without telling anyone, and do not wait until the end to mention that the page froze for ten minutes.

Your answers are saved as you go, so most interruptions are recoverable — but only if someone knows to look.

Coding exams

Coding exams are taken in the coding section and involve writing and running code rather than answering questions about it. The same rules apply, with one addition: save and run your code before submitting. Code that has not been run is code you do not know works.

Results

Practice results are immediate.

Exam results appear when your teacher releases them. School exams sat on paper are published through the management system instead, and reach you and your parents that way.