Built by a GCSE student
Nova is made by a student sitting GCSEs, who wanted one place to do past papers, get them marked properly, and turn notes into revision, instead of six tabs and a folder of PDFs. It is used and tested by students in the same exam year.
What Nova does
- Past papers, marked. Sit a real paper on screen, by photo or as a PDF, and Nova marks it against the official mark scheme, question by question.
- Mark Trace. For each mark you lost, it shows the mark-scheme point you missed and where that topic is in your own notes.
- Question bank and flashcards built around the topics you keep losing marks on.
- Notes, your own or your Notion pages, turned into quizzes, flashcards and a check of what the spec covers that your notes don't.
- Progress, with predicted grades worked out from your real results.
How the marking works, and where it can go wrong
Marking is done by an AI model (Anthropic's Claude), given your answers and the official mark scheme pages for that paper. It is told to award marks only for points the scheme credits and to quote the scheme point for every mark it takes away, so you can check its reasoning rather than take it on trust.
It can still be wrong. Handwriting can be misread, and a long answer can be judged more harshly or more kindly than an examiner would. Nova's marks are an estimate to revise from, not an official result, and no exam board has checked them.
Under every marking there is a "Think a mark is wrong?" link. A person reads every report, and when the mistake is Nova's, it is fixed for everyone.
Your data
Nova does not sell your data or show ads. Your work is sent to the AI without your name or email. Much of what you do stays in your own browser. The privacy policy says exactly what is stored and where, in plain English.
Not affiliated with exam boards
Nova is independent. It is not run by or connected to AQA, Edexcel, OCR or any exam board, and past papers belong to the boards that publish them.
Contact
Questions, bugs, a parent wanting to know what we hold about their child, or anything else: get in touch. Replies come from a person.