Question 1

What is Gradelyy and how does it help GCSE students?

Accepted Answer

Gradelyy is an AI-powered revision platform built specifically for UK GCSE students. It combines five daily habits — short adaptive quizzes, Socratic tutoring, mock exams, spaced-repetition flashcards, and AI coaching — into a single platform designed to build consistent revision habits and surface the weak areas that cost the most marks.

Question 2

Which year groups is Gradelyy designed for?

Accepted Answer

Gradelyy is primarily built for Year 11 students preparing for GCSE exams, though Year 10 students starting early will find it equally useful. A Level support is in active development, and SAT preparation is launching in September 2026.

Question 3

How do I get started with Gradelyy?

Accepted Answer

Sign up for free — no credit card required. After creating your account you'll complete a short onboarding where you set your study level, select your subjects and exam board, and enter your exam date. From there, Gradelyy builds your personalised revision dashboard immediately.

Question 4

Does Gradelyy work on mobile and tablet?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Gradelyy is a fully responsive web app that works on any modern browser — phone, tablet, or desktop. No app download is needed. The daily quiz and flashcard sessions are designed to be completable in under ten minutes, making them easy to fit around a school day on mobile.

Question 5

How does the Feynman Tutor work on Gradelyy?

Accepted Answer

The Feynman Tutor is an AI-powered Socratic coach. Instead of explaining a concept to you, it asks you to explain it — then probes your answer with follow-up questions to find every gap in your understanding. It never gives you the answer directly. The loop continues until your explanation is clear, precise, and exam-ready. It's powered by Claude and works across every GCSE subject and topic.

Question 6

What is the Exam Sprint planner and how does it help with revision?

Accepted Answer

Exam Sprint is Gradelyy's high-ROI revision planner. You choose your target exams and the planner analyses your quiz scores, mock results, and flashcard ratings to identify which topics will give you the most marks for the least time. It then builds a phased daily schedule — counting down to your paper date — with quick wins, priority topics, and guardrails to stop you over-revising subjects you already know.

Question 7

How do Gradelyy's daily quizzes adapt to my weak areas?

Accepted Answer

Each daily quiz draws 10 questions from the live quiz bank, weighted toward the topics where your recent scores are lowest. Miss questions on supply and demand today, and tomorrow's quiz will include more of them. The quiz bank is built to match AQA and Edexcel specifications, with new quizzes released on a rolling schedule through exam season.

Question 8

How does spaced repetition work in Gradelyy's flashcards?

Accepted Answer

After reviewing a flashcard, you rate your confidence on a scale of 1–10. Gradelyy uses that rating to schedule the card's next review: scores 1–3 reschedule for tomorrow, 4–6 for three days later, 7–8 for a week, and 9–10 for a fortnight. Cards you struggle with keep appearing until they stick; cards you know well fade into the background. This is the same spaced repetition logic used by tools like Anki, built directly into the platform.

Question 9

What are mock exams on Gradelyy and how are they different from past papers?

Accepted Answer

Gradelyy mock exams are 60-question AI-generated papers built to match official exam board specifications for difficulty, topic spread, and question style. Each mock is marked automatically and produces a full topic breakdown so you know exactly where your marks went. Three mock papers are available per subject in a locked progression — you unlock harder mocks by completing earlier ones, mirroring the way real exam prep should escalate.

Question 10

What does the Gradelyy AI Coach do?

Accepted Answer

The AI Coach is a multi-turn coaching conversation powered by Claude Sonnet. It reads your recent quiz scores, mock results, and weak flashcard topics, then gives you specific, honest feedback on what to fix next and why. You can paste in context about how revision is going, ask follow-up questions, and get a coaching response that's tied to your actual performance data — not generic revision advice.

Question 11

Which exam boards does Gradelyy support?

Accepted Answer

Gradelyy supports AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, and CIE for GCSE. When you select a subject during onboarding, you specify your exam board, and the daily quizzes, mock papers, and AI feedback are all calibrated to that board's specification. CollegeBoard (SAT) support launches in September 2026.

Question 12

Which GCSE subjects are available on Gradelyy?

Accepted Answer

Business Studies is fully live with a seeded question bank for AQA and Edexcel. Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English, and Maths pages are live in the dashboard. Additional subjects and boards are being added through the 2026 exam season. If your subject isn't fully seeded yet, the Feynman Tutor and AI Coach work across any topic you bring to them.

Question 13

Does Gradelyy cover A Level as well as GCSE?

Accepted Answer

A Level is listed as a study level you can select during onboarding, and it's next in the roadmap after the GCSE exam season. The Feynman Tutor and AI Coach already work for A Level topics since they're not subject-bank dependent. Structured A Level quizzes and mocks are in development.

Question 14

How much does Gradelyy cost?

Accepted Answer

Gradelyy has two student plans, both with a 7-day free trial and no card required to start. Monthly is £9.99/month and can be cancelled anytime. The Exam Sprint bundle is a one-off payment of £24.99 that covers the entire exam season. Both plans include exactly the same features — all subjects, all boards, daily quizzes, Feynman Tutor, mock papers, AI Coach, and the Exam Sprint planner. The bundle is simply the better deal if you plan to revise through exam season.

Question 15

What is the difference between the Monthly plan and the Exam Sprint bundle?

Accepted Answer

The features are identical — both give you full access to every subject, exam board, daily quiz, Feynman Tutor, mock papers, flashcards, AI Coach, and the Exam Sprint planner. The only difference is how you pay. Monthly is £9.99/month and you cancel whenever you like. The Exam Sprint bundle is £24.99 as a single one-off payment covering the full exam season. If your exams span more than two and a half months, the bundle is cheaper. Both include a 7-day free trial.

Question 16

What is the Exam Sprint bundle and is it worth it for GCSE students?

Accepted Answer

The Exam Sprint bundle is a single £24.99 payment that covers you until your exams end — no monthly charges, no subscription, nothing to cancel. For context, the equivalent on the monthly plan over a typical three-month exam season would cost roughly £30. For a student sitting five to ten GCSE papers, the bundle works out to around £2.50–5 per subject for the full season. A single hour with a private tutor typically costs £30–50.

Question 17

Is there a free trial?

Accepted Answer

Yes — both the Monthly plan and the Exam Sprint bundle include a 7-day free trial. You get full access to every feature during the trial. No credit card is required to start. If you cancel before the trial ends, you will not be charged.

Question 18

Is Gradelyy free for teachers and schools?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Teacher accounts on Gradelyy are free and always will be. The teacher dashboard includes classroom management, student progress tracking, and access to the custom quiz generator. Schools interested in a whole-class deployment can book a demo to discuss setup.

Question 19

What AI does Gradelyy use for tutoring and feedback?

Accepted Answer

Gradelyy is powered by Anthropic's Claude models. The Feynman Tutor uses Claude Haiku for fast, conversational Socratic questioning. The AI Coach, Exam Sprint planner, and detailed feedback use Claude Sonnet for deeper analysis. All AI responses are shaped by GCSE-specific system prompts designed to keep answers educationally appropriate and exam-board aware.

Question 20

Is the AI feedback accurate enough for GCSE exam preparation?

Accepted Answer

Gradelyy's AI is calibrated to GCSE and A Level specifications but it is a revision aid, not a replacement for your teacher or the official mark scheme. The Feynman Tutor is designed to improve conceptual understanding, not to mark your work. Quiz questions are human-reviewed against exam board specifications before release, and mock papers are designed to match official question style and topic weighting.

Question 21

Is my revision data and personal information kept private?

Accepted Answer

Gradelyy stores your account details, revision progress, and quiz history securely in a Supabase (PostgreSQL) database. Your data is never sold to third parties. Feynman Tutor demo sessions on the landing page are explicitly not saved. Logged-in session data is stored to power personalised recommendations. You can delete your account and all associated data at any time by contacting us.

Question 22

Is Gradelyy free for teachers?

Accepted Answer

Yes, the teacher dashboard is completely free. Create classes, assign quizzes, and view class reports at no cost. Students pay for their own individual revision access.

Question 23

How do students join my class?

Accepted Answer

When you create a class, Gradelyy generates a unique 6-character class code. Share it with students — they enter it in their account to join instantly.

Question 24

Can I use Gradelyy alongside my normal teaching?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Gradelyy complements classroom teaching. You set quizzes, students complete them independently, and Gradelyy surfaces who is struggling and which topics need re-teaching.

Question 25

What data does Gradelyy give me about my students?

Accepted Answer

Individual quiz scores by topic, class-wide averages, knowledge gap analysis, and AI-generated reports identifying which topics need re-teaching with specific intervention suggestions.

Question 26

What subjects and exam boards does Gradelyy support?

Accepted Answer

Currently Business Studies for AQA and Edexcel at GCSE for the 2026 exam season. Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English, and Maths are coming soon across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC.

Question 27

Can I assign specific quizzes to my class?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Create custom quizzes manually or use AI generation for topic-specific content. These are completely separate from the student daily quiz bank.

Question 28

How do the AI class reports work?

Accepted Answer

Once students complete quizzes, generate an AI-powered report that analyses every student's answers, identifies class-wide knowledge gaps, ranks students by urgency of support needed, and produces a prioritised teaching plan as a downloadable PDF.

Question 29

What is an exam sprint plan?

Accepted Answer

An AI-generated teaching roadmap based on your class's weak areas. Input your exam date and remaining teaching sessions and Gradelyy produces a structured plan prioritising the topics most likely to improve outcomes before the exam.

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