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The revision tool that actually knows your child

1,189 AQA-spec flashcards. AI that adapts to your child's target grade, learning style, and dream career. Real progress parents can see.

1,189 AQA cards
Free to start
Works on any device
✨ AI Tutor
Hi, do you know what kind of student I am?
Hey! Yes I do! 🙌 🎯 Target grade: 7 — your starting point, not your ceiling 🧠 You learn by doing — worked examples incoming 📝 You like exam-style questions 😴 You find science boring — my job is to change that The phone in your pocket? Physics. The food you eat? Chemistry and biology. You're already living science. So — what are we tackling today? 🔬
Ask me anything...

Your child revises. Then forgets. Then panics before the exam.

It's not their fault. It's the method.

Re-reading notes

Feels productive. Research consistently shows it barely works for long-term memory retention.

Cramming the night before

Gets them through Thursday. Gone by the following week.

Generic revision apps

One-size-fits-all revision for a child who isn't one-size-fits-all.

✅ GradeMastery is built on the three techniques that research actually proves work: spaced repetition, active recall, and AI personalisation calibrated to your child specifically.

How It Works

Three things. Daily. That's it.

Most students spend 10–15 minutes a day. That consistency is what builds the grade.

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Do your daily cards

Spaced repetition brings back exactly what needs reviewing at exactly the right moment. Nothing more, nothing less. Cards you know well come back less often. Cards you struggle with come back sooner.

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Write real answers. AI marks them.

Not multiple choice. Your child writes answers from memory, in their own words. The AI checks them against AQA mark schemes and tells them exactly what they got right, what they missed, and what an examiner would award marks for.

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Your AI Tutor fills the gaps

Ask anything. Get an explanation tailored to your child's target grade, learning style, how they prefer to learn, and what they want to achieve. The AI Tutor knows your child — it doesn't give everyone the same response.

Built for your child specifically

No two students get the same experience

GradeMastery builds a picture of your child from day one — and everything adapts around it.

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    Target grade Frames every interaction as a floor, never a ceiling
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    Year group Calibrates complexity and urgency appropriately
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    How they learn Step by step, big picture, examples, or straight facts
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    What blocks them Can't focus, finds it boring, forgets easily, doesn't know where to start
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    Dream career The AI Tutor references it naturally — "this is directly relevant to medicine…"
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    What they want to achieve Salary, career, ambition — referenced in motivational messages
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    Exam dates AI automatically shifts focus as mocks and GCSEs approach
Target grade
My target is Grade 5
Grade 5 is your starting point — we're going higher. Let's nail the Foundation content first, then we build from there 💪
Dream career
I want to be a nurse
Perfect — understanding osmosis is directly relevant to how IV drips work in nursing. Let's make sure you really get this one 🩺
Finding it boring
I find chemistry so boring
Fair enough — chemistry has a reputation. But every explosive, every medicine, every food flavour is chemistry. Give me one topic and I'll show you why it's actually wild.
The AI Tutor

Not a chatbot. A tutor that remembers.

It knows their target grade, how they learn, what bores them, and what they want to achieve. Every response is calibrated to them specifically.

Hi, do you know the type of student I am?
Hey! Yes I do! 🙌 Here's what I know about you: 🎯 Target grade: 7 — that's our starting point, not our ceiling. We're going for higher! 🧠 You learn by doing — so expect worked examples and practice questions from me 📝 You like exam-style stuff — so I'll frame things like real exam questions 😴 You find science a bit boring — so my job is to change that! Here's the thing though — science is actually everywhere. The phone in your pocket? Physics. The food you eat? Chemistry and biology. The reason you get ill and recover? Biology. It's all connected to real life in ways that are actually pretty wild. 🌍 So — what are we tackling today? Pick a topic and let's make it click: 🧬 Biology | ⚗️ Chemistry | ⚡ Physics Or just throw a specific topic at me! 🔬

Real response. Real student. No scripts, no templates.

Everything in One Place

Built for students, parents, and teachers

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1,189 AQA Flashcards

Every topic across Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Foundation, Higher, and Triple covered, clearly labelled.

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AI Marking

Write real answers from memory. Get specific feedback on exactly what you got right and what the examiner wanted.

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Deep Dive Sessions

Six-phase guided lessons: read the facts, quick check, fill the gaps, brain dump, flashcards, then AQA-style exam questions. The complete learning cycle.

Quick Revision

Revise any topic, any time, without affecting your daily streak or SRS schedule. Perfect before a class test.

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Progress Tracking

See your mastery percentage per topic. Watch it grow. Get the ⭐ Mastered badge at 80%.

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StudyCoach

Evidence-based study tips written for students. Short, real, and actually useful.

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Fortnightly Progress Updates

A personalised summary of what your child studied, how their mastery is growing, and a suggested conversation starter. ("Ask them: what does the mitochondria do?")

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Real Mastery Data

See which topics your child has mastered and which need work. Colour-coded, clear, no jargon.

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Smart Notifications

You choose how involved you want to be. Get notified when your child completes their daily cards, or when they've been inactive.

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Conversation Starters

We make it easy to engage with your child's learning without needing to be a science expert. Fortnightly suggestions sent directly to you.

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Teacher Connection

If their school uses GradeMastery, their teacher can see progress too. Everyone's working from the same data.

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Class at a Glance

Green dot = cards done today. Red dot = not yet. See your whole class in one screen without clicking into each student.

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Ping Students

Send a personalised reminder to individual students or the whole class. Schedule it to fire automatically at a set time daily.

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Topic Control

Unlock topics as you teach them. Students only study what you've covered. Lock the schedule so students can't change their daily card limits.

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Brain Dump Viewer

Read every student's free-recall attempts. Real evidence of understanding — not just what they clicked.

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Mastery Heatmap

Topic-by-topic mastery across the whole class. Spot intervention points before mock exams. Ofsted-ready data built in.

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Exam Date Setting

Set mock and GCSE dates for your class. The AI Tutor automatically shifts focus as exams approach. Students see a countdown.

Keeping Everyone Connected

Parents and teachers don't have to guess any more

GradeMastery gives parents and teachers the right information at the right time — without overwhelming anyone.

You don't need to be a science expert

You just need to show interest. Research consistently shows that parental engagement is one of the strongest predictors of student achievement — and we make it easy.

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Personalised reminders You set the level of involvement. Get notified when cards are complete, or when your child has been inactive for too long.
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Conversation starters Every fortnight we send you one specific question to ask your child based on what they've actually been studying. No awkward "how was school?" needed.
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Plain-English progress We translate mastery data into what it actually means: "Your child now knows 74% of the B3 Infection topic — up from 41% last month."

Built for how teachers actually work

No extra logins, no complex setup. The data you need, in the format you can act on.

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Ping whole class or individuals One tap sends a personalised reminder: "Your teacher wants you to complete your science cards today!" Students can't turn this off.
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Scheduled auto-pings Set a daily ping time once. It fires automatically to every student who hasn't completed their cards that day. You don't have to remember.
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Lesson Mode Assign specific Deep Dive sessions as homework. Lock which phases students must complete. See their brain dumps in your dashboard.
See It in Action

Watch GradeMastery work

A 2-minute walkthrough of the AI Tutor, Deep Dive sessions, and the teacher dashboard.

Video walkthrough coming soon

Want an early preview? Email hello@grademastery.co.uk and we'll send you a demo.

The Cognitive Science

Built on how memory actually works

Every feature is grounded in peer-reviewed research. No fluff. No busy work. Just the techniques the evidence consistently shows actually improve long-term retention.

Ebbinghaus (1885); Cepeda et al. (2006)

Spaced Repetition

Your brain forgets in a predictable curve. Reviewing information at exactly the right interval before you forget it locks it in permanently — far more effectively than re-reading.

In GradeMastery: Our SRS algorithm schedules every card at the optimal interval for each student individually. Cards you know well come back less often. Cards you struggle with come back sooner.
Roediger & Karpicke (2006) — The Power of Testing Memory

Active Recall

Trying to retrieve information from memory is far more effective than reading it again. The struggle of remembering is the learning.

In GradeMastery: Students write real answers from memory — not multiple choice, not re-reading. The effort of retrieval is built into every card session.
Hattie & Timperley (2007) — The Power of Feedback

Specific AI Feedback

Knowing you got something wrong is not enough. Knowing exactly which keyword was missing and why it matters for the exam is what drives improvement.

In GradeMastery: AI checks every written answer against AQA mark schemes and tells students exactly what they got right, what they missed, and what an examiner would award marks for.
Rohrer & Taylor (2007); Kornell & Bjork (2008)

Interleaved Practice

Studying Biology, then Chemistry, then Physics in the same session feels harder — but produces significantly better long-term retention than studying one subject at a time.

In GradeMastery: The daily card queue naturally interleaves subjects. This feels counterintuitive but is one of the most powerful learning techniques available.
Black & Wiliam (1998) — Inside the Black Box

Formative and Summative Assessment

Frequent low-stakes testing builds understanding incrementally. High-stakes exam practice consolidates it. Both serve different cognitive functions and both are necessary.

In GradeMastery: Daily flashcards are formative — low pressure, frequent, adaptive. Deep Dive exam questions are summative — AQA-style, marked against real mark schemes.
Chi et al. (2001) — self-explanation effect; Collins, Brown & Newman (1989)

Socratic AI Tutoring

Being guided to find an answer yourself produces deeper understanding than being given the answer. The best tutors ask questions rather than lecture.

In GradeMastery: The AI Tutor asks questions, guides thinking, and helps students arrive at answers themselves. It mirrors the evidence-based tutoring approaches used by the best human tutors.

"We don't add features because they look good. We add features because the research says they work."

References: Ebbinghaus (1885); Roediger & Karpicke (2006); Hattie & Timperley (2007); Black & Wiliam (1998); Rohrer & Taylor (2007); Chi et al. (2001)

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

Start free forever. Upgrade when you're ready. Cancel anytime.

Monthly Annual
Free
£0/mo

Free forever

  • Flashcards
  • 3 topics unlocked (B1, C1, P1)
  • Self-marking
  • AI Tutor access
  • Earn extra topics with streaks
Basic
£7.99/mo

Billed monthly

  • Full spaced repetition
  • All topics unlocked
  • 30 cards/day
  • Streak tracking
  • AI Marking
  • StudyCoach articles
  • Parent portal
Premium
£41.99/mo

Billed monthly

  • Everything in Standard
  • Smart-AI Marking ✨ — unlimited
  • Advanced AI feedback on every answer
  • Unlimited Brain Dump AI analysis
  • AI Tutor — 20 messages/day
  • Parent portal and progress updates
  • Required Practicals fully covered
  • Teacher portal (if school uses GradeMastery)
Premium Plus
£55.99/mo

Billed monthly

  • Everything in Premium
  • Smart-AI Marking ✨ — advanced model, unlimited
  • AI Tutor — unlimited, advanced model
  • AI Learning Coach
  • Weekly personalised study insights
  • Priority support

Questions

Yes — every one of our 1,189 flashcards is mapped directly to the AQA specification for GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics, including all Required Practicals. Foundation, Higher, and Triple content is clearly labelled on every card.
No. Our method is built on active recall and spaced repetition — techniques that research consistently shows outperform passive video watching for long-term retention. Great free GCSE science videos already exist on YouTube. GradeMastery is what you use to make sure what you watched actually sticks.
Primarily Year 9 to 11 GCSE students. We're building KS3 content for younger students soon.
The Free tier is free forever, with no card needed. Paid tiers can be cancelled any time — no long-term commitment.
Yes — teachers get a full dashboard showing class mastery, can lock and unlock topics, ping individual students or the whole class, and view student brain dumps. Contact us about school pricing.
Any device with a browser — phone, tablet, laptop. It installs as an app on iPhone and Android without needing the App Store. Students just visit grademastery.co.uk and tap "Add to Home Screen."
GradeMastery builds a profile of your child — their target grade, learning style, dream career, upcoming exam dates, and what blocks them from studying. Every AI response, every notification, and every tutoring session adapts to that profile. Other platforms give every student the same experience. We don't.

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