Free exam tools

One tool is ready to use now and the second arrives this week: a timer that counts down a real paper, and a question finder for our own exam-style questions.

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The tools

Both run in the browser, with nothing to install and no account to create.

Paper timer

Choose your course and the paper you are sitting, and the timer counts down the paper's real duration, taken from its published length and mark total. A pace line shows the mark you should be near at that point, with a warning at ten minutes and another when time is up. It runs in the browser and needs no login.

Start the paper timer

Question finder

Search our original exam-style questions by course and topic, and open a full worked solution for each one, written the way the marks are awarded. Every question is our own, set in the style of the paper.

Find a question

Where the timings come from

Each paper's duration and mark total is taken from the published specification for that qualification, and the timer is set from those numbers rather than an estimate. We review them when a syllabus changes, but they are a guide, not exam-board advice. Your own exam entry statement and the instructions on the day take precedence, so if anything differs, follow those.

Preparing for exams this term?

Book a free 60-minute one-to-one lesson and we will work through a paper with you, question by question, at the pace the exam expects.

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