Built for NCEA Levels 1, 2 & 3

Stop revising what you already know.
Find the bit you don't.

Five minutes of short written answers, and Study Feed tells you exactly where your understanding stops — the process you can't name, the link you can't make, the idea you can't apply to a question you haven't seen. Then it builds the cards that close that gap, and marks what you write against the real Achieved / Merit / Excellence criteria.

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Find my gaps Rates of reaction
You can name the factors. You stop as soon as you have to say why any of them work.
Naming it2 of 2
Linking itwhere it stops
Applying it0 of 2
What was actually missing
Explain why heating speeds a reaction up “Because it is hotter so it goes faster.” You didn't name kinetic energy, collision frequency, or the activation energy threshold.
Your own notes
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Rates of reaction.pdf
14 pages · text and diagrams
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Mr Patel — Lesson 6.pptx
22 slides
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Photo of the whiteboard
diagrams read too
Achieveddescribe
Meritexplain
Excellencejustify
Writing exam questions…
Each with its own Achieved / Merit / Excellence criteria
Explain 6 marks Level 1 Chemistry
Explain how increasing the temperature changes the rate of a reaction, in terms of particle collisions.
When you heat it up the reaction goes faster. The particles have more energy so they bump into each other more.
Mark my answer
Achievedyou're here
Merit2 changes away
Excellence
How to get to Merit
Name the mechanism, not the outcome “the reaction goes faster” …because the particles gain kinetic energy and collide more frequently.
Link collision energy to activation energy “they bump into each other more” More of those collisions now exceed the activation energy.
Next time: for every “it increases”, add the “because”.

Made for the way NCEA is actually marked

Why revision feels like guessing

There are three ways to not know something.

And they need three different fixes. Re-reading your notes only ever helps with the first one, which is why an hour of it can change nothing — you were already fine at the naming.

Achieved

You can't name it

The term, the process, the factor. You read the question and nothing arrives.

Flashcards fix this one. It is the only one they fix.
Merit

You can name it, but not say why

You know heating speeds a reaction up. You can't say that more collisions clear the activation energy.

This is where most Achieved answers actually stop.
Excellence

You can explain it, but not use it

You can recite the mechanism, then meet a situation you haven't seen and freeze.

Nothing you can re-read will teach you this.
Find my gaps asks you all three, in that order, and tells you which one you fall off at — then hands you the specific thing that was missing, not a score. Naming the rung is the useful part: “you can name it, you can't link it” is something you can act on tonight. “7 out of 10” isn't.

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.

What you wrote — Achieved

“The rate increases because the particles have more energy and collide more.”

The same point — Merit

“The rate increases because the particles gain kinetic energy, so a greater proportion of collisions exceed the activation energy.”

Same idea. Same length. One of them names the mechanism. Study Feed marks your answer, tells you which one you wrote, and gives you the second version built from your own sentence — not a model answer copied off someone smarter.

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.

Describe Explain Discuss Compare and contrast Evaluate Justify Analyse
Explain

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.

Achievedstates it
Meritexplains why
Excellencelinks + justifies

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.

Discuss 8 marks
Discuss how two named factors affect the rate of this reaction, and which has the greater effect.
Excellence looks like Links both factors to collision theory, compares their size of effect, and justifies which matters more with reference to the data.
4 long answer 12 flip 6 multi-choice 4 fill the blank

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.

This week 12 day streak
MTWTFSS
Set your exam date and your dashboard counts down to it.

Three ways to practise

Recognising an answer isn't knowing it.

Picking the right option out of four feels like knowing. In the exam there are no options. So the practice climbs: pick it, then produce it, then write it properly.

Find my gaps

The five-minute written test that tells you which rung you fall off, and what specifically was missing. One tap turns everything you missed into cards.

Learn

Takes a deck and drills it until you can produce every answer, not just recognise one. Pick it out of four the first time; write it from memory the second. Miss one and it comes straight back.

Quiz

A quick graded check before a test. The wrong options are matched to the right one, so you can't spot the answer by its shape — which is the only thing most quiz apps are actually testing.

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.

what does “justify” actually want
A decision plus the reasoning for it. Don't just say which factor matters more — say why the evidence points that way, and why the other one doesn't. Excellence usually lives in that second half.
give me an example
Sure — take the temperature question you just did…

Three steps

Find the gap, close it, prove it's closed.

1

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.

2

Close it

Turn the gaps into cards in one tap, then drill them until you can produce every answer from memory — not just recognise one.

3

Prove it

Write a real six-mark answer. Get it marked against A, M and E, and see the Merit version of your own sentence.

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