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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Mock exam simulator

Pick a topic and a time. We generate a fresh exam, time you, then auto-grade your work.

How it works

A free mock exam generator that writes a fresh practice paper on any topic you name, in the style of your board, then times you while you sit it. Choose how many questions and how long you get, submit, and every question comes back marked with the correct answer and the reason behind it.

  1. Set your exam board. Onboarding takes about 30 seconds and stores your country, board and year, and the paper is written to that. Skip it and you still get a paper, just written in general terms instead of guessing between CBSE and AQA conventions.
  2. Pick topic and timing. Type a topic such as trigonometric identities, electrolysis or the cold war, then set between 5 and 30 questions and anywhere from 5 to 180 minutes. Copy the ratio of your real paper rather than the time you feel like giving it.
  3. Sit it under the clock. The countdown sits at the top of the screen and submits the paper for you when it hits zero. No pausing, no notes open in another tab, because the whole point is finding out what you can do without them.
  4. Read the marking, not the score. Every question opens up to show your answer, the correct answer and why it is correct. The useful part is the pattern across the ones you lost, not the number at the top.

Your exam board changes the answer

Your board changes the questions, not just the topic list. CBSE papers are point-marked, so short answers expect roughly one scoring point per mark, and numericals follow the Given, To find, Formula, Solution, Answer with units layout. GCSE questions from AQA, Edexcel and OCR turn on command words: state wants one fact, explain wants a linked cause and effect chain. AP items use College Board task verbs and course terminology, labelled by part. Cambridge IGCSE and International A-Level mark schemes reward exact key terms, so a describe question will not accept an everyday paraphrase. WAEC theory questions expect numbered points, each stated and then explained in a sentence.

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

A 30-minute trigonometry mock, and what it actually caught

I set the topic to trigonometric identities, 12 questions, 30 minutes, which is close to the marks-per-minute of my real paper. One question asked me to show that (1 - cos^2 x) / sin x simplifies to sin x. I wrote sin x and moved on. The review screen counted it correct, but the reason line said the marks come from stating sin^2 x + cos^2 x = 1 first, then cancelling. That is exactly the mark I would drop in June. Two more questions went the same way: right answer, missing line of working. So the score, 10 out of 12, was the least useful thing on the page. The pattern was that I skip the identity I am quoting. That went in my error log; the score did not.

Getting better results

Questions students ask

Is the mock exam generator actually free?

Yes. Every tool on the site is free, there is no paid tier, no trial and no ads. You do not need an account to generate a paper or to sit it. There is a daily limit on how many papers you can generate, which exists to keep the running costs manageable rather than to push you towards paying, and it resets the next day.

Are these real past papers from my board?

No, and that difference matters. Questions are written fresh in your board's style and at exam difficulty, but they are not published by CBSE, AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Cambridge, the College Board or WAEC, and no leaked paper is involved. Official past papers are still better practice because their mark schemes are real. It also cannot predict what will come up this session.

How long should I set the timer for?

Match your real paper's ratio rather than your patience. Most written papers run near a minute and a half per mark, so a 12-question set of short items sits around 20 to 30 minutes. If you are building stamina for a two-hour paper, set 30 questions and the full two hours once a fortnight instead of doing short sets every day.

My short answer was right but it was marked wrong. Why?

That happens. Short answer and fill-in-the-blank responses are checked against the expected wording, so a correct answer phrased differently can come back with a cross. Open the question, compare your line with the answer and the reason given, and count it yourself. Worth noticing anyway: most mark schemes reward specific terms, so a paraphrase that fails here often loses marks in the real paper too.

Can it mark essays or long written answers?

Not here. This tool builds multiple choice, true or false, short answer and fill-in-the-blank questions, which auto-mark cleanly. For a six-mark explanation, a source question or a full essay, write it out and put it through the grading tool instead, which marks in your board's mark-scheme style and tells you which point was missing. Different jobs, and both are free.

Is using an AI mock exam cheating?

Sitting a practice paper under a clock and marking yourself honestly is the opposite of cheating, it is just revision. What would be cheating is generating questions to dodge the ones your teacher set, or copying answers out of the review screen into homework. This exists to show you where your marks leak before the real paper does, not to produce work with your name on it.

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