Using generic answers. Set your exam board (30 seconds) and every answer comes back in CBSE, GCSE, AP, Cambridge or WAEC style.
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How it works

Essay coach is free AI essay feedback for students who want to understand why an essay scores, not have one written for them. Plan a structure, write it paragraph by paragraph, and paste each part back for feedback pointed at what your examiner's mark scheme actually rewards: judgement, linked reasoning, evidence.

  1. Plan the structure. Paste the exact question or title and ask for an outline. You get an introduction, three body paragraphs with topic sentences and a conclusion, which you then argue with rather than accept.
  2. Choose a thesis. Ask for thesis options and you get three, ranked from safe to bold, each with a line on why it works. Opening hooks work the same way if your introduction will not start.
  3. Draft one paragraph at a time. Write a paragraph yourself, paste it back, and ask what is weak. Feeding an essay through in pieces gets far more specific feedback than pasting nine hundred words in at once.
  4. Get examiner-style feedback. On a full draft you get what works, where the argument goes soft, three line edits and a stronger thesis to try. Nothing gets rewritten for you, so the editing is still your work.

Your exam board changes the answer

Set your board in the profile and the feedback changes with it. GCSE and A-Level (AQA, Edexcel, OCR) feedback chases the command word and linked reasoning, so an Explain paragraph gets checked on whether the chain actually runs cause to effect. Cambridge IGCSE and International A-Level feedback tests whether you answered the exact command word and kept each scoring point separable. AP feedback looks for a defensible thesis plus evidence and reasoning tied to course concepts, with parts labelled a, b, c. CBSE feedback pushes numbered points matched to the mark allocation and NCERT terminology. WAEC feedback wants each point stated and then explained, numbered, in the direct marking-scheme style.

Set your exam board — it takes about 30 seconds and every answer after that matches your syllabus.

A Macbeth paragraph, before and after

You are writing on how Shakespeare presents ambition in Macbeth. You draft one paragraph, paste it in, and ask where the argument is weak. Before: Macbeth says he has vaulting ambition. This shows he is ambitious and that his ambition is very strong, which leads him to kill Duncan. The feedback names the problem: the quotation is repeated, not analysed, and the paragraph never says what the writer is doing. It suggests you take one word and tie it to the play's argument. You rewrite it yourself. After: The metaphor of vaulting turns ambition into a physical leap, and Macbeth's own image admits it overleaps and falls. Shakespeare lets him diagnose his ruin before he acts, so the murder reads as chosen, not fated. Same quotation, same length. The difference is that the second version has an idea in it.

Getting better results

Questions students ask

Will it write my essay for me?

No, and that is deliberate. It plans structures, offers thesis options, suggests openings and tells you where a paragraph goes weak, but the sentences that end up in your essay have to be yours. Handing in AI-written work counts as malpractice on every board here, and more practically, you will sit the real paper without it. Use it to see the gap, then close the gap yourself.

Is the AI essay feedback free?

Yes. There is no paid tier, no trial and no card. You do not need an account either, though setting a profile with your board and year makes the feedback match your mark scheme instead of a generic one. There is a daily cap on AI requests so the running costs stay manageable, and it resets the next day.

Can it give my essay a grade?

Not on this page, and any number it gave you would be a guess anyway. Real marking depends on the specific paper, the mark scheme and a moderated examiner. What the coach does is tell you which paragraph is doing the least work, which is usually more useful. If you want a rough band with reasoning, mark my answer at /grade is a separate tool.

What does it actually check a paragraph against?

It looks at the things mark schemes credit rather than at style: whether you answered the command word, whether each claim carries specific evidence, whether the reasoning is linked rather than listed, and whether the paragraph gets back to the question. It only knows what you paste, so if you want it judged against a particular criterion, name that criterion in the box and it will answer that instead.

What is it bad at?

Three things worth knowing. It has not seen your teacher's mark scheme, so treat any talk of bands as an opinion. It cannot verify a quotation or a statistic, so check your evidence yourself before you hand anything in. And it is weakest on set texts and case studies covered in class, where your teacher's specific reading matters more than a general one.

Does it help with grammar and referencing too?

Yes, on the same page. The grammar check gives you a corrected version plus a list of what changed and why, so you can see the pattern in your own errors instead of just accepting a fix. The citation tab builds a reference in APA, MLA, Chicago or Harvard from five fields, and it runs as a plain formatter in your browser rather than through the AI.

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