Your teachers stop marking.
Your school starts seeing.
PapaMarks is the exam platform for Cambridge and Edexcel schools. 164,000+ real past-paper questions that mark themselves, a full teaching workspace for your staff, and a school office that shows leadership which student is drifting and which topic to re-teach — while there is still a term left to act on it.
PapaMarks, in one paragraph
PapaMarks is an exam-practice platform for schools teaching Cambridge (CAIE) and Pearson Edexcel courses at IGCSE, O Level, AS and A2. A school licence covers three groups at once: teachers get a workspace where past-paper practice is set and marked automatically, students get the whole library with instant feedback, and school leadership gets an office view of every class, subject and student. It runs in a browser, so there is nothing to install and no integration to build.
Reviewed . Every figure on this page is read from the live database rather than typed by hand.
The library, as it stands today
- 164,207
- past-paper questions, tagged to topic
- 65,250
- of them written answers, not multiple choice
- 6,822
- complete past papers, 2001–2026
- 80,728
- spaced-repetition flashcards
- 758
- syllabus-mapped revision note sets
- 3,892
- syllabus topics across 56 subjects
- 135
- interactive tools, simulations and 3D models
Two problems, one root cause: nobody can mark fast enough.
Your teachers lose evenings to marking. Your students lose marks they never saw coming. Both come down to the same gap — practice that nobody has time to mark, and therefore nobody has time to read.
Marking eats the evening
A good teacher sets real past-paper practice, then spends hours marking it by hand — or quietly stops setting it. Students practise blind, repeat the same mistakes, and the department discovers the weak topic in the results, months after anyone could have taught it again.
The practice marks itself
A teacher builds a set in a minute. Answers are marked the moment students hand in — written responses included on Pro seats — so staff read results instead of red-penning them, students see exactly where the marks leaked, and leadership gets the weak-topic list before the mock rather than after the certificate.
One licence. Three groups of people.
Most platforms sell to one of these and leave the other two to cope. A PapaMarks licence covers your staff, your students and your leadership at the same time — which is the only way any of it actually gets used.
For your teachers
A full teaching workspace, in English or Arabic.
- Worksheets in a minute — pull real Cambridge and Edexcel questions into a printable sheet with its mark scheme. Filter by topic, by whether the class has seen them, or pin a specific exam year.
- Homework that marks itself — assign a set, students answer online, multiple choice graded instantly. See who has finished, who is stuck, and the question the whole class missed.
- Live quizzes on the board — a join code, four coloured buttons on every phone, speed scoring and a leaderboard. Pause mid-question to explain something without anyone sneaking an answer in.
- Your own questions too — write the question, the model answer and the wrong options you know they fall for. Saved, reusable, and it can run as a live quiz.
- Class analytics and gradebook — completion and averages per class, per-question difficulty, the topics a class is weakest on, and a one-click export.
- A whiteboard that remembers — pens, shapes, connectors, sticky notes, images and pages, with saved versions you can reopen next year.
- 135 interactive tools — 3D models, simulations and virtual experiments, each with a full-screen Present mode made for the projector.
- Private notes on any student — what you tried, what worked, what to raise at parents' evening. Visible to you alone.
For your students
Every nominated student, included in the licence. No student ever sees a payment screen.
- Every topic unlocked — the complete syllabus for their subjects, down to the exact unit they sit, never a teaser tier.
- 758 revision note sets — syllabus-mapped, with worked examples and the mistakes examiners actually punish.
- Real past papers, marked instantly — they answer genuine exam questions and get a worked explanation for every one.
- Written answers marked by an AI examinerPro — the explain, describe and calculate questions, marked against the reference answer.
- An AI tutor that knows their syllabusPro — stuck at 11pm, they get walked through the topic rather than handed the answer.
- 80,000+ flashcards — scheduled by spaced repetition so a card resurfaces exactly when it is about to be forgotten.
- The same interactive tools — what the teacher projected in class, replayable at home the night before the exam.
- Progress they can see — topic-by-topic mastery, streaks and a performance page that shows where the marks are leaking.
For your school office
The part other platforms do not give you: a view above the classroom.
- Who needs attention this week — students flagged with the reason attached: never practised, gone quiet for a fortnight, or accuracy below half.
- Licence utilisation — what share of the seats you pay for were actually used in the last thirty days. The number that makes a renewal decision obvious.
- An eight-week accuracy trend — whether the school is climbing or flat, drawn from every student's practice rather than a survey.
- The department view — each subject's average, how much of the syllabus has been touched, and the five weakest topics school-wide.
- Drill down anywhere — school to teacher to class to student and back, so a head of department can answer a parent's question in one click.
- Your real timetable — periods, bells, terms and closures, with every lesson landing on the right teacher's dashboard for that day.
- Run your own seats — add teachers, build classes, fill rosters and reset passwords without waiting on us.
- A direct line — support threads from inside the portal, answered by the people who build it.
Two lists — teachers and students — and everyone is in by tomorrow. Let's talk →
The school office: what leadership actually sees.
These are real screens, not illustrations. Every number in them was produced by the platform doing its ordinary work on a demonstration school we run ourselves.
Shown on our own demo account — PapaMarks does not publish any customer's data.
The Monday-morning view. Who needs an adult this week and why, whether the school is climbing over eight weeks, and how much of the licence is genuinely in use. The attention list carries its reason — a list without reasons just gets scrolled past.
The department view, weakest subject first. Each subject's average, how much of the syllabus has been touched, and the exact topics to re-teach — named, with the percentage beside them.
Your staff, at a glance. Classes, students, homework set, class average, and who has not set anything in a fortnight — the conversation a head of department would otherwise have to guess at.
Your real week, not a generic calendar. Periods, bells, terms and closures are set once by the office. Every lesson then appears on the right teacher's dashboard on the right day, with the room — and a single date can be cancelled or moved without disturbing the repeating week.
One student, end to end. Their trend, their subjects, their six weakest topics and every homework they have handed in — enough to answer a parent properly.
The whole cohort, exportable. Every student with accuracy, activity and a risk flag, downloadable as a spreadsheet for a governors' pack or a departmental review.
What your staff actually log in to.
Not a stock photo of a smiling teacher. These are the screens they will use on a Tuesday morning with fifteen minutes before the bell.
The day, already assembled. The lesson they teach next with its period and room — pulled straight from the school timetable — and the one thing that needs them today. No hunting through a calendar.
Real past-paper questions, filtered the way a teacher thinks. Every topic in the syllabus with its question count beside it, then: how many, which type, whether the class has already seen them, and which exam year. Out comes a printable sheet with its mark scheme, a homework, or a live quiz.
The game ends, the lesson plan begins. A leaderboard for the room, and beside it the question difficulty — including which wrong answer the class fell for. That panel is next lesson's starter.
First, the room joins. The code goes up on the board and names land as students type them in — no account needed for a guest, so a student without a login still plays.
Then it runs. Four coloured tiles on every phone, the clock, and a live count of who has answered. Freeze the clock mid-question to explain something — nobody can sneak an answer in while it is paused.
A whiteboard that knows the syllabus. Drop a real past-paper question straight onto the canvas with its answer hidden until you double-click, plot a function from the formula list, and run a countdown while they work. Pens, shapes, connectors, sticky notes and pages sit alongside — and every board saves, so next year starts from this one.
One class, honestly reported. Who handed in, who did not, what each student scored, and the topics this particular class keeps losing marks on.
135 tools, one click from the board. Every model, simulation and virtual experiment opens in a clean full-screen Present mode — no menus, no browser chrome, nothing for a class to laugh at.
There is more than fits on a page — a flashcard library staff can annotate, a saving whiteboard, a classroom toolkit, past papers with mark schemes. We'll walk you through it →
See exactly what your students would get
No demo call, no signup. Rotate the models, take the quiz, flip the cards — this is the live product, running on this page.
Interactive 3D models
Biology 0610. Drag to rotate, tap any structure. Every label is bilingual.
Open to your students right now: 3D Cell Explorer · 3D Eye
Take a real past-paper quiz
Chemistry 0620. Five genuine past-paper questions, marked the moment you answer — exactly what your students see.
Adaptive flashcards
80,000+ in the library, generated from the syllabus and scheduled by spaced repetition. Tap one to flip it.
Where does the nitrogen in the exhaust gases come from?
The air. Nitrogen in exhaust gases comes from the nitrogen present in the air used for combustion.
Which equation shows an oxidation reaction?
C + O₂ → CO₂. Carbon gains oxygen, which is one definition of oxidation.
State the symbol of the element that is a liquid at room temperature.
Br. Bromine is the only non-metal element that is liquid at room temperature.
Which compound is an acidic oxide?
Carbon dioxide. It is a non-metal oxide that reacts with water to form carbonic acid.
Syllabus-mapped revision notes
758 note sets, written to the Cambridge syllabus with worked examples and the traps that cost marks. Here is a real one, open to read:
Circle Theorems — Mathematics 0580
Every theorem with its diagram, the exact wording examiners expect when a reason is quoted, and 114 real past-paper questions on this topic alone.
The past-paper library
6,822 complete papers, 2001–2026, Cambridge and Edexcel — and every question inside them is answerable online, written ones included.
Mathematics 0580 — November 2025, Paper 1
56 questions, each tagged to its syllabus topic and marked against the real scheme. Set it as homework and the results are waiting before the teacher gets home.
Why this matters more than the question count
Most platforms mark multiple choice, because multiple choice is easy to mark. The marks your students actually lose are on written answers — the explain, describe and calculate questions where wording and method decide the grade. PapaMarks holds 65,000+ of those and marks them against the reference answer, which is why the feedback is worth a student's time to read.
What it costs
Per student seat, per month, on a six-month or annual licence — and genuinely different for a department of thirty than for a school of eight hundred. Rather than quote a headline rate that would be wrong for almost everyone, here is exactly what moves the number.
What moves your rate
- How many student seats — the rate steps down as the count rises, so the whole year group is not priced like one class.
- How they split between Basic and Pro — most schools mix the two rather than buying one tier for everybody.
- How many teacher seats — five are included in every licence whatever its size; beyond that they are a flat monthly rate per teacher, with no tiers.
- Which subjects you cover — a single department is a different conversation from the whole sciences and maths faculty.
- Six months or a year — the longer commitment carries the lower monthly rate.
What we will promise before the call
It costs less than the marking hours it replaces, no student is ever asked to pay, and “not for us” is a perfectly normal way for the conversation to end.
You will leave a twenty-minute call with a per-seat number for your school — not a brochure, and not a proposal document three weeks later.
Get your school's numberThe two seat types
Both are full access — the difference is not how much of the syllabus a student can reach, but whether the two model-backed features are switched on for them.
Basic seat
Everything a student needs to practise and revise.
- Every topic in their subjects, down to the unit they sit
- 758 revision note sets and 80,000+ flashcards
- 6,800+ past papers with instant multiple-choice marking
- All 135 interactive tools, simulations and 3D models
- Homework from their teachers, graded on hand-in
Pro seat
Adds the two things that need a model behind them.
- Everything in a Basic seat
- Written answers marked by the AI examiner — 65,000+ questions where wording and method decide the grade
- The AI tutor — grounded in their own syllabus and past papers, answering with citations
From first call to first lesson
Total time asked of your school: about thirty minutes and two lists. No IT project, no procurement maze.
We talk — 20 minutes
Your subjects, your year groups, what is eating your teachers' time. You leave the call with a clear picture of the setup and a per-seat number for your school, not a brochure.
We set it up overnight
You send two lists. We create the accounts and hand you the logins, and your staff can set their first homework the next morning. From then on your own school office runs the seats.
You read the evidence, then decide
At the end of term you have a topic-by-topic account of every class: completion, scores, weak spots, utilisation. Widen it, hold it, or stop — the data makes that an easy decision rather than a political one.
Questions schools ask us
Straight answers, including the ones that end with “this is probably not for you”.
What is PapaMarks for schools?
PapaMarks is an exam-practice platform for schools teaching Cambridge (CAIE) and Pearson Edexcel courses. A school licence covers three things: a teaching workspace for staff, full platform access for nominated students, and a school office where leadership tracks progress across every class.
How much does PapaMarks cost for a school?
PapaMarks is priced per student seat, per month, on a six-month or annual licence. Your rate depends on how many seats you take, how they split between Basic and Pro, and which subjects you cover. Five teacher seats are included in every licence.
Which exam boards and levels does PapaMarks cover?
PapaMarks covers Cambridge (CAIE) and Pearson Edexcel only, across IGCSE, O Level, AS and A2. Content is tagged down to the unit — a student sitting WBI11 is never shown another unit's material as their own.
Does PapaMarks mark written answers, or only multiple choice?
Both. Multiple-choice answers are marked instantly for every student. Written answers — the explain, describe and calculate questions — are marked by an AI examiner against the reference answer, and that is included with Pro student seats.
How long does it take to set up?
About thirty minutes of your time. You send two lists — teachers and students — and accounts are created for you. Your school admin can then add teachers, build classes and fill rosters directly from the school office without contacting us.
What does the school office actually show leadership?
The school office shows which students need attention and why, what share of your licensed seats are actually being used, an eight-week accuracy trend, the weakest topics in every subject, and a drill-down from any teacher to any class to any student.
Does this create work for our IT department?
No. PapaMarks is a website, so there is nothing to install, no integration to build and no server to run. Accounts are created from a list of names and emails, and students sign in with a browser on any device.
What if our students do not have devices in class?
Live quizzes run in a teacher-led mode from the front of the room, so the whole class can play from the projector alone. Where students do have phones, they join with a code — no app to install.
Does PapaMarks replace teachers?
No. It removes marking, not teaching. The teacher decides what is set, reads the results and re-teaches what the data exposes. The platform does the repetitive part that no human has time to do well at scale.
What happens to our student data?
PapaMarks stores only the names and email addresses needed to create accounts, plus the practice results students generate. Data is never sold or shared with third parties, and everything is deleted on request if you stop using the platform.
What if a student already pays for PapaMarks?
Their existing subscription is unaffected. A school-granted seat is recorded separately from a personal subscription, so joining a school licence never downgrades or interrupts access a family has already paid for.
What is the difference between Basic and Pro student seats?
Basic seats include every topic, revision notes, flashcards, past papers, interactive tools and instant multiple-choice marking. Pro seats add two things: written answers marked by the AI examiner, and the AI tutor that answers questions on the student's own syllabus.
Is PapaMarks available in Arabic?
Yes. The teacher portal and student interface switch between English and Arabic with one click, and the interactive tools carry bilingual labels. PapaMarks is built in Amman for the Jordan and Gulf exam calendars.
Can we add students or teachers mid-year?
Yes. Your school admin can add teachers and build classes from the school office at any time, and extra student seats are a message away. Changes take effect immediately rather than waiting for a renewal date.
Can we try it with one class before committing?
Yes. Most schools start with one department or one year group, run it for a term, and use the topic-by-topic results at the end to decide whether to widen it. Nothing on this page requires a decision today.
Posters for your classroom walls
A3 and print-ready, one per subject: the ten most-tested topics with real percentages drawn from our question data. Pin them above the whiteboard — yours to keep, whatever you decide about us.
Tell us about your school
Two minutes to fill and nothing committed by sending it. We reply within one working day — answers first, numbers when you want them.
One conversation starts it
Tell us your school and your subjects. We reply within a day — answers first, numbers when you are ready, and “not for us” respected without a follow-up campaign.
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