Specification mapping
Each question lane starts with the subject, qualification, topic, board, and command-word pattern. The goal is not to make a plausible worksheet; the goal is to test the exact behaviour a mark scheme rewards.
Question quality
Why StudyVector does not rely on raw AI-generated questions
AI can help organise, explain, and route learning. It cannot be the final authority on exam practice. StudyVector treats question quality as a controlled content pipeline: syllabus mapping first, reviewed question logic second, adaptive delivery last.
Question source control
StudyVector separates live reviewed questions, draft candidates, and generated support material. A question is not treated as a live exam-style item unless its topic fit, wording, answer route, and explanation have been checked.
Feedback calibration
The answer feedback is tuned around likely mark loss: missing method, weak evidence, unclear units, poor command-word response, or an answer that is correct but not sufficiently precise.
The control layer
What AI is allowed to do
AI can help produce explanations, identify likely weak areas, rewrite feedback into clearer language, and route students to a better next task. It does not get to invent exam-board endorsement, assign official source labels, or push unchecked question stems into live practice.
Non-negotiables
- No claim that StudyVector is endorsed by an exam board unless that endorsement exists.
- No fake past-paper origin labels. Related corpus matches are marked as related, not official source proof.
- No raw AI question dump into live practice.
- No pay-to-win advantage in Battle Mode or practice progression.
- Accessibility review includes readable spacing, dyslexia mode compatibility, and low-friction question starts.
Reviewed patterns
What “exam-style” means inside StudyVector
A good question is not just a topic label and an answer box. It needs the right command word, the right difficulty, the right route to marks, and feedback that helps a student recover the marks they missed.
GCSE Maths
A reviewed algebra item checks the board, topic strand, method route, final answer, units where relevant, and the most common mark-loss pattern: a correct idea with missing working.
GCSE History and Geography
Source and case-study questions are checked against command words, evidence use, explanation depth, and whether the answer actually earns analysis marks rather than listing facts.
A-Level and University
Longer answers are framed around assessment objectives, module outcomes, reading evidence, and precision. Where StudyVector has uploaded or public source context, feedback shows that grounding level.
Live-practice gate
How a question becomes live practice
This is the difference between an AI-looking worksheet and a useful revision system. A question only matters if the route to marks, the explanation, and the next-step signal all hold together.
Step 1
Start from the specification route
The question is mapped to a qualification, subject, topic, board route, and skill before wording is judged.
Step 2
Write or adapt the stem
Drafts can be AI-assisted or manually authored, but the stem must test one clear behaviour and use board-appropriate command language.
Step 3
Check the answer path
The worked solution, mark-bearing steps, units, distractors, and likely mistake feedback are checked together.
Step 4
Label the boundary
Official papers stay official. Similar practice is labelled as StudyVector practice, not as a past-paper extract or exam-board source.
Step 5
Release to adaptive systems
Only reviewed items can feed mastery, weak-topic repair, and Battle Mode progress. Draft material stays out of serious practice.
Review routes
Different audiences need different evidence
A student needs the right next question. A parent needs a calm summary. A teacher needs intervention evidence. An awarding organisation needs source and wording boundaries. The review routes below keep those checks separate and explicit.
Students and parents
Check what is being practised
Use the subject catalogue and student privacy route to understand coverage status, board labels, and what a family can see before trusting a progress summary.
Check subject coverageTeachers and schools
Review workflow evidence
Use the school evidence overview to see how practice data maps to intervention, what teachers can see, and which current boundaries stay explicit during a pilot.
Open school evidence overviewExam boards and organisations
Review alignment boundaries
Use the exam-board alignment route to review independence wording, official-source boundaries, and how correction outcomes should be handled.
Review board-alignment routeContent-quality reviewers
Review the public evidence pack
Check the evidence StudyVector can share for a route, question, correction, or school review before sending a specific issue.
Open content-quality packSerious revision needs controlled content
The product direction is simple: every explanation, quiz, feedback panel, and Battle Mode progression should make students answer better questions more consistently.