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Test mode. A practice tool, not your teacher — where it disagrees with the person who marks your work, they are right.
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Literature

Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Jekyll & Hyde, Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice, An Inspector Calls, Blood Brothers and the poetry anthologies — ideas, writing, decoding feedback, practice and model answers.

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Language

Papers 1 & 2 — reading and writing, a technique glossary, and practice on real linked sources.

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Any Essay — paste yours, get it read

Already written something? Paste any English Literature or Language essay — a mock, a homework piece, anything — no set question needed, and get the same feedback.

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Tools

Progress, settings, SEN info and About — everything else, in one place.

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What we hold about you: nothing
No account, no emailYou never sign up. There is nobody to be, and nothing to forget.
No databaseThere is no server storing your work. Every check happens inside this browser.
Your essays stay yoursDrafts survive a refresh so nothing is lost, then vanish when you close the tab.
Progress only if you askTurn it on and it is saved on this device. One tap erases it.
Built by a teacher, tested by students, and free at the core — permanently. This is a test version, so if something is wrong, there is a flag on every piece of feedback and a button in Settings. A person reads them.

Literature

Seven set texts — Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Jekyll & Hyde, Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice, An Inspector Calls, Blood Brothers — and both poetry anthologies. Everything for English Literature in one place.

💡What to Write

Seven thinking steps that never ask you to already have an idea. Start where you actually are.

🛠️How to Write It

One ordinary sentence, rebuilt in five moves, until it's doing the work of a grade 9.

🔑Teacher Decoder

“Develop your analysis.” “So what?” Sixteen real margin comments, decoded into the exact move they're asking for.

✒️Write a Poem

The fastest way to understand a poet's choices is to be made to make them. Nine steps, then the same questions aimed at a real poem.

✍️Practice & Feedback

0 questions. Write, and get told exactly which move each paragraph is missing.

💎Quote Vault

0 quotations, each tagged with the essays it answers.

🔍Model Answers

The same question answered at grade 4/5, grade 6/7 and grade 9, annotated line by line so you can see exactly where each gap is.

📖Story Guide

What happens when, chapter by chapter or scene by scene — and what each anthology poem is about — with the moments that come up most in exams flagged. All seven texts and both poetry clusters.

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Language

Papers 1 & 2 — reading and writing, a technique glossary, and practice on real linked sources.

🧭Language Paper

Paper 1 & 2 reading (Q1-4). A technique glossary, a seven-step guide for unpacking any unseen extract, and practice on original linked sources — no set text to revise.

🎬Build a Scene

Paper 1 Q5 descriptive/narrative writing. Eight steps that put you in the writer's chair — moment, angle, structure, imagery.

🗣️Viewpoints & Writing

Paper 2 Q4 comparison (OAPTE) and Q5 planning — a real debate-topic bank and a scaffold for your own letter, speech or article.

Tools

Everything that isn't a subject: progress, settings, and information about the app itself, all in one place.

📊Progress

Your PETER profile, questions attempted, and vault stats.

⚙️Settings

Turn progress-saving on or off, check the build number, or send feedback.

🧠How to Revise

What the evidence actually says works — and why the Quote Vault is built the way it is.

🧩SEN & Learning Differences

What this can offer students who learn differently — and what it can't.

ℹ️About Exam Buddy

Why this exists, and how it's built.

“I don't know what to write”

A ladder of rungs, every one answerable by looking at the page — none of them require you to already have an idea. Climb as far as you get, and you'll leave with a paragraph plan you built yourself.

“I don't know how to write it”

You have the idea. It comes out flat on the page. This is the same sentence rebuilt five times — and then a bench where you do it to one of yours.

Teacher Decoder

What they wrote in your margin, what they actually meant, and what it looks like when you fix it.

Write a Poem to Understand Poems

Nine steps that put you in the poet's chair — message, symbol, form, shape, word field, images. Then the same questions get turned on a real poem, and analysis stops being a guessing game.

Language Paper: What Is the Writer Doing?

A technique glossary, a seven-step guide for unpacking any unseen extract, and practice on an original source built for this app — The Last Bus.

Viewpoints & Writing

Comparing two writers' viewpoints (OAPTE), a bank of real debate topics, and a planning scaffold for your own letter, speech or article.

Build a Scene

Eight steps that put you in the writer's chair for descriptive/narrative writing — moment, angle, structure, imagery. Then the same questions get turned on a real extract.

Degree Writing

Paste your whole essay and get PEAL feedback on the introduction, every body paragraph and the conclusion — plus a Harvard (Cite Them Right) referencing checker. Any subject.

Story Guide

What happens when — chapter by chapter or scene by scene — with the moments that come up most in exam extracts flagged.

Practice & Feedback

Pick a question, write your answer, and get it back with your own writing colour-coded — and a clear statement of what each paragraph is missing. No grade, on purpose.

Any Essay

Paste an English Literature or Language essay — yours, a mock, a homework piece — and get the same feedback. No set question required, no account, nothing sent anywhere.

Quote Vault

Tap the card to reveal. Grade yourself honestly — what you struggle with comes back sooner.

Model Answers

The same question answered three times — grade 4/5, grade 6/7, and grade 9 — with a marker's note on every paragraph. Not to copy. To see exactly where the marks appear, and what the next rung actually looks like.

Progress

Depth is the number that matters. It is the average rung your explanations reach, and it is where the difference between bands is made.

Vault

Your PETER profile

Questions attempted

How to Revise

Not motivational advice — what the research on memory actually says works, and why a couple of the app's own features are built the way they are because of it.

Most revision advice is someone's opinion. This isn't — it's a short summary of a 2022 review of decades of memory research, plus practical tips for studying with ADHD from a university support team. Both are linked at the bottom so you can read the originals yourself.

  • Testing yourself beats re-reading. Pulling an answer out of your own memory — even when you get it wrong and have to check — builds a stronger, longer-lasting memory than reading the same notes again. This is called the testing effect, and it's one of the best-evidenced findings in all of learning research. It's also the entire reason the Quote Vault makes you try to recall the quote before it shows you the answer, instead of just listing quotes for you to look at.
  • Spread it out, don't cram it in. The same amount of study time produces a much stronger memory when it's spread across several sessions over days or weeks than when it's done in one sitting the night before. This is the spacing effect. It's why the Quote Vault brings back the cards you got wrong sooner, and pushes the ones you already know further away — you're meant to dip in regularly, not binge it once.
  • If it feels harder, that can be a good sign. The review's authors note something counter-intuitive: testing yourself and spacing your revision out both tend to feel slower and less comfortable than re-reading notes, which feels fluent and easy. That feeling of ease is misleading — re-reading feels like it's working because the words look familiar, not because you'd actually be able to recall them in an exam. Don't switch back to re-reading just because it feels more productive in the moment.
  • For ADHD: control the environment before the content. A university study-skills team's guidance leads with practical, low-effort changes — cutting background noise and clutter, working somewhere with fewer interruptions, using a timer to break work into short chunks with real breaks between them (but not forcing yourself to stop mid-flow if you've genuinely got into a task — hyperfocus used well is a strength, not a rule to break), and treating slip-ups or lost time as something to plan around rather than something to feel bad about.

None of this guarantees a grade, and no single technique works identically for every student. What's above is what the evidence points to on average — worth trying before you assume revision "just isn't for you."

SEN & Learning Differences

What this can offer students who learn differently — and what it can't.

Every learner's different — dyslexia, ADHD, autism, whatever the label or none at all — so I won't pretend this was built to treat any of them, and no two students with the same diagnosis learn the same way anyway. What I can say is a few of the choices in how it's built line up with things that are well established as good practice, and tend to help some of these students more than most:

  • Feedback comes in small, named parts — point, evidence, technique, explain — rather than one long block of prose. Breaking text into short, clearly labelled chunks is a core recommendation in the British Dyslexia Association's own style guide, not something I made up.
  • Nothing's timed, and nothing disappears once you've read it — sit with it, walk away, come back, reread it as many times as you need. That's not the same as a formal exam access arrangement — a school still has to assess and grant extra time in a real exam separately — it's just not putting a clock on you here.
  • There's no grade. Research on formative assessment has found students pay more attention to written feedback when it isn't attached to a mark. True for most students — and in my own teaching, especially true for the ones who've had years of red pen and low marks that made them switch off before they'd even read the comment.
  • Plain English instead of examiner jargon, with a glossary for anything that's still unclear — again, straight from the same BDA guidance: avoid jargon, and where you can't, explain it.
  • The layout stays the same wherever you are in the app — no surprises, no shifting around, no timer suddenly appearing. Predictable design is well documented as reducing overload for autistic learners specifically, though it's worth being honest that it doesn't work identically for everyone on the spectrum — and it tends to help most learners, not only autistic ones.

None of this has been tested as a therapeutic tool, because it isn't one. It doesn't replace an EHCP, a diagnosis, or someone who actually knows a particular student's needs. These are ordinary, well-evidenced design choices, not a claim to have solved anything.

About Exam Buddy

Why this exists, and how it's built.

I built this for my own online students — a way to keep the exercises we did in lessons going after the lesson ended.

It's not AI. There's no model generating anything here. Every check in this app is a plain rule looking at what you've actually written — did you make a point, quote evidence, name a technique, explain what it's doing. It tells you what's there and what's missing. No grade, no mark.

It won't do the work for you, either. It doesn't rewrite your sentence and it doesn't hand you a "better version" of your paragraph — it shows you the move on a separate example and leaves you to make it yourself. If you're after something that writes your essay for you, this isn't it. If you want to get better at writing one, it is.

It doesn't collect anything. Nothing you type gets saved or sent anywhere unless you choose to send me feedback yourself.

This is genuinely how I teach — it's worked well with my own students for a long time. Thought you might get something out of it too.

Free. No login. Nothing to sell you.

Settings

This is a test version. It is free, it will stay free at the core, and it is being built by a teacher with the students using it.

Build 15Sep-1029 — the version stamp is in the header too. If you are checking whether a fix has landed, this is the number to compare.
How the feedback works Everything runs in your browser. It reads the structure of your writing — whether each paragraph makes a claim, proves it, names a method, explains what that method does, and reaches a reader. It checks your quotations against the text. It cannot yet judge whether your interpretation is correct; when it can't be sure, it stays quiet rather than guessing.
Found something wrong? Tell us This is a test version built by a teacher and shaped by the students using it. If a piece of feedback did not fit your writing, or something looked broken, say so — it is read by a person.