Exam practice

An exam question generator that writes in your exam's format

Thaxas generates practice questions from your own material, phrased the way your exams phrase them. Set your curriculum — IB, A-Level, AP, IGCSE, CBSE, or a specific university module — and the questions inherit its style: its command words, its mark weightings, its habit of hiding the real question in part (c).

Exams test a format as much as they test a subject

Every experienced teacher knows the student who understands the material and still underperforms, because they have not learned to read the paper. "Evaluate" is not "describe". A six-mark question wants six things. The examiner's report says the same thing every year and almost nobody reads it.

Generic AI practice questions are useless here, because they are written in the style of the internet's average exam — which is nobody's exam. Questions generated in your board's idiom train the format and the content at the same time.

It knows your curriculum's language

Set your curriculum in Settings and the tools adopt its conventions across the whole product — IB, A-Level, AP, IGCSE, GCSE, Abitur, Baccalauréat, CBSE, Gaokao, ENEM, and ordinary university modules. Command words, mark schemes and the expected shape of an answer follow from that.

Practice under something like real conditions

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    Generate a paper from a topic

    Scoped to a module, a chapter, or the whole space — mixing multiple choice, short answer and cloze the way a real paper mixes sections.

  2. 2

    Sit it properly

    Closed book, timed, no notes. A practice paper you take with the slides open measures nothing at all.

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    Get marked against a rubric

    Short answers are assessed on substance, with the missing element named — and cited to the page of your material that covers it.

  4. 4

    Convert every miss to a card

    One click sends the questions you failed into an FSRS deck. Do this after every practice paper and your revision self-corrects.

Common questions

Which curricula does it support?

IB, A-Level, AP, IGCSE, GCSE, Abitur, Baccalauréat, CBSE, Gaokao, ENEM and university modules among others. Set it in Settings and every tool phrases things the way your exams do.

Are these real past paper questions?

No. They are new questions generated from your own material in the style of your exam. Your board's real past papers are irreplaceable and you should sit those as well — what this gives you is an unlimited supply of practice once you have run out of them.

How are the answers marked?

Against a rubric drawn from your material, not by string matching — so an answer in your own words is marked on its substance, and a partial answer is told precisely what it was missing.

Can I time myself?

The focus dock includes a timer that keeps running while you work, which is what most people use to sit a practice paper under time pressure.

Try it on your own material

Upload your notes, slides or lecture recordings and get a tutor that answers only from them — and says so when they don't cover it.

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