Advance

Advance provides students with a large bank of short and longer answer examination-style questions that require written answers. Students can use these to practice their exam technique and attempt harder questions.

Advance

Questions

Hundreds of short and longer answer questions.
Original questions, not past papers.
Written by experienced teachers and examiners.
Command words and the number of marks exactly match the specification and past paper expectations.
Includes high tariff "level of response" questions requiring chained lines of reasoning.

Navigation

Move back and forward through the questions.
Navigate to a specific question by its number.

Teacher control

Topics can be locked to the ones selected by the teacher with no option for students to change topics available.
Topics can be locked so that students can choose topics, but only from within those selected by the teacher.
Students can be given full control of the topic filtering so that they can choose any topics from the course.

Command word help

Shows the student what the command word is in a question and how to approach answering it.
High-tariff level of response questions provide a framework making the question less daunting.

Guided marking

In guided marking mode students mark their work by answering a series of Yes / No questions with marks automatically calculated.
AI marking is not used for Advance because engaging with mark schemes is valuable preparation for real exams.

References and model answers

Every question has a link to a relevant YouTube video.
Popular text book and revision guide page numbers relevant to the question.
Computer Science courses have a model answer video for every Advance question on YouTube with audio commentary.

Reports to track progress

Usage - see how much and how often students are using Advance mode.
Questions analysis - see the top 10 least and most well answered questions.
Student responses - see the answers that students gave and how they marked their work.
Personal revision report - see detailed progress by topic for one student across the whole course.

Awards for students to attain

Attempted Advance mode.
20% of the marks available attained.
40% of the marks available attained.
60% of the marks available attained.
80% of the marks available attained.
Answered a specific command word question.

Suggested uses for Advance

Individual revision in preparation for end of topic tests, mock exams and real exams.