Flashcards get you Achieved.
Excellence is a writing problem.
Externals aren't multi-choice. They're six-mark questions you have to write. Study Feed marks what you actually wrote against the real Achieved / Merit / Excellence criteria — then shows you the sentence that would have moved you up a grade.
“the reaction goes faster”…because the particles gain kinetic energy and collide more frequently.
“they bump into each other more”More of those collisions now exceed the activation energy.
Made for the way NCEA is actually marked
- Levels 1, 2 & 3
- Internals and externals
- Every command verb
- Sciences · Maths · English · History · Geography · Economics
- No sign-up
The Merit gap
“I always get Achieved and I don't know why.”
Because Achieved is describing and Merit is explaining, and nobody ever shows you the difference on your own writing. Report comments say “add more detail”. That isn't a thing you can do. This is.
“The rate increases because the particles have more energy and collide more.”
“The rate increases because the particles gain kinetic energy, so a greater proportion of collisions exceed the activation energy.”
The word that decides your grade
NCEA marks the verb, not the word count.
“Describe” and “Discuss” are different questions, and writing a beautiful description for a Discuss question caps you at Achieved no matter how long it is. Every long-answer card here is built around its command verb, and the marking checks whether you actually did what the verb asked.
Not “what happens” — why it happens. State the change, name the mechanism, then link it to the outcome. A description with no “because” is an Achieved answer wearing a Merit coat.
Your material, not a generic bank
Exam questions written from your teacher's slides.
Drop in the PDF, the slide deck, a photo of the whiteboard, or type a topic. It reads the diagrams as well as the text, then writes long-answer questions with their own A/M/E criteria — plus quick cards for the recall you still need. Turn on “Only my material” and nothing outside your notes gets in.
Between now and November
It brings a topic back the day before you'd forget it.
Externals test a year of work in three hours. Every answer sets when you'll see that card next, so Term 1 content resurfaces on its own instead of being cram-read the night before. You never build a revision timetable — the feed already is one.
When the card isn't enough
Ask, without leaving the question.
A tutor sits in the corner of every screen and can already see the card you're on, so “why is that the answer?” just works. Stuck on a past paper at 10pm? Photograph the question and ask about the photo.
Three steps
From your notes to a marked answer in about a minute.
Feed it your notes
A PDF, your teacher's slides, a document, a photo — or just the topic name if that's all you've got.
Write a real answer
Not a flashcard guess. Type what you'd put in the exam, and get it marked against A, M and E.
Fix one sentence
See exactly which part held you at Achieved, and what the Merit version of your own words looks like.
Your notes are already written.
Put them somewhere that will actually make you write. Free, no account, nothing to install.
Start writing →