Mark A Mock
Mock Exam Marking
Choose what fits how many papers you need marked.
One paper or a handful
For families who want a GCSE or 11 plus mock marked properly, with clear feedback you can act on at home.
- Bronze, Silver and Gold tiers to suit your budget
- Turnaround from 48 hours
- One to one review session on the Gold tier
- Marked by an experienced maths teacher
Bulk marking, 30+ papers
For heads of department and exam coordinators who need a whole cohort marked and the data back fast.
- QLA spreadsheets for every class
- Diagnostic reports per topic and student
- Instant quote calculator, no waiting
- Purchase orders and invoicing welcome
What examiner marking tells you that a score cannot
A mock result is a number. What a parent actually needs is the reason behind the number, and that is the difference between a mark and a marked paper. This service exists because self-marking and school marking both have blind spots.
The two piles every marked paper should produce
Every lost mark belongs in one of two categories, and they need completely different work:
- Did not know it. A teaching problem. The topic needs rebuilding, and more practice papers will not do it.
- Knew it, lost it anyway. An exam technique problem. Misread the question, ran out of time, no working shown, wrong units, answered the wrong part.
Most students have far more in the second pile than anyone expects, and the second pile is much faster to fix. A student losing fifteen marks to technique is a student whose grade can move in weeks rather than terms.
Why self-marking misses it
Two reasons, both understandable. Students mark generously, awarding the mark for an answer that was nearly right, which quietly inflates every score. And a mark scheme tells you whether an answer was correct without telling you why the wrong ones were wrong.
Method marks are where this shows up most. A student who reaches a wrong final answer can still score most of the marks if the working is there, and a student who writes only the answer scores nothing when it is wrong. Neither of them can usually see that in their own script.
What comes back
| You get | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Marks against the real scheme | An honest score, marked the way an examiner would |
| Topic breakdown | Which topics cost the most marks, in order |
| Error type | Whether each loss was conceptual or technique |
| Patterns across papers | The repeated mistakes, which are the ones worth targeting |
| Specific next steps | A short list of what to work on, not a general comment |
The output is deliberately a list rather than a paragraph. "I lose marks on percentage change and I never show working on multi-mark questions" is a problem a student can act on. "Needs to revise more" is not.
Who it suits
Students who are working hard and not moving. That combination almost always means effort is going somewhere that does not pay, and a marked paper finds where.
Also students whose school marking is light, which is common when a department is marking hundreds of mocks in a fortnight. And schools themselves, which is why we run a bulk marking service for departments.
Questions parents ask
Which subjects and levels?
GCSE, 11+ and KS2 SATs, across maths, English and science.
Marking is done by qualified teachers against the real mark scheme for that paper.
How long does it take?
Turnaround is quick enough to be useful while the paper is still fresh, which matters more than people think. Feedback three weeks later lands on a student who has forgotten what they were thinking.
Exact timings are on the product page.
Can we not just use the mark scheme ourselves?
You can, and for maths it is worth doing. The mark scheme is free and we point people to it constantly.
What it will not give you is the pattern across papers or an honest read on whether a near miss deserved the mark. For English in particular, where marking is by level rather than by answer, that gap is large.