Guide

Student guide

How to get the most out of Educator.

What Educator is

Educator is a revision app built around spaced repetition, a proven technique where you practise things just before you're about to forget them. Instead of doing a two-hour cramming session the night before an exam, you do 3–5 minutes every day for weeks. Research consistently shows this builds longer-lasting memory.

How your practice is set up depends on how you joined. If you joined through a class, your teacher has set it up. Every card is scoped to your class's exam board and the topics you've been taught so far. If you signed up on your own, you choose your subject when you join and practise across its full topic range. You can manage which subjects appear in your switcher from My subjects on your profile. At GCSE your cards start out scoped to the Eduqas specification in every subject that offers it (Psychology has no Eduqas board, so it starts with no filter, across AQA, OCR, and Edexcel), and you change that yourself in the same My subjects panel: each GCSE subject you study has an Exam board select, so History can be AQA while Geography is OCR. It takes effect from your next session, and All boards removes the filter if you would rather see everything. KS3 cards have no exam board, so nothing is filtered.

The basics

🎯 Daily goal

Your daily card target. The default is 15; if you're in a class, your teacher may have set a different target. It is a target, not a streak condition: completing one regular session a day is what keeps your streak alive.

🔥 Streak

The number of consecutive days you've completed a regular session. Standard, Speed Round, Marathon, Mark it, Drill weak cards, Topic drills, and Study mode all count. Live sessions do not. You still need a regular session that day to protect your streak. Miss a day and it resets (unless you have a streak freeze).

🛡️ Streak freeze

A one-day protection. If you miss a day while you have a freeze, your streak is protected automatically, with no action needed. School students earn freezes by completing homework assignments (+1 per first completion) and at every 7-day streak milestone, capped at 5 held at once. Individual Pro subscribers earn freezes via the same 7-day milestone mechanism.

⭐ XP

10 XP for every correct card. XP unlocks new avatars and cosmetics. It never resets. Every correct answer counts.

📈 Mastery

Each card moves from Unseen → Seen → Familiar → Proficient → Mastered as you answer it correctly over time.

🏆 Rank

Your rank goes up automatically as you earn XP across all your subjects. Each subject shows it with its own six names (e.g. Food goes from Apprentice to Master Chef; History from Apprentice Scholar to Master Historian).

Practice modes

Standard session

Default · your daily goal (15 unless your teacher set another)

Your everyday session. The app picks cards in the smartest order: cards you skipped or got wrong that are due again come first, then cards you haven't seen yet, then other cards that are due for review. Complete it to advance your streak.

Speed Round

15 cards · 8 seconds each

A timer counts down on every card. Run out of time and the card counts as wrong. Great for building the ability to recall under pressure, exactly what happens in an exam.

Marathon

50 cards · ~10 minutes

Same smart card-picker as a standard session, just longer. Good for a revision block in the run-up to exams.

Mark it

8 cards · select subjects only

Read a model answer and decide how many marks it would earn under the mark scheme. You play examiner rather than student. Only appears for subjects that include extended-response cards. Best used once you know the facts and want to practise applying the mark scheme.

Drill weak cards

15 cards · only your wrong cards

Shows you only cards you last answered incorrectly, most recently missed first. It's an ordinary 15-card session, not a loop: cards you get wrong again simply come back in a later drill. Use it when you want to fix specific gaps rather than general practice.

Topic drill

One topic at a time

From the mode picker, scroll to the topic list and tap any topic name to drill just that topic. Useful when you've just covered something in class and want to lock it in.

Study

30 cards · no right/wrong

Prompt and answer shown together, a read-through rather than a test. Earns 1 XP per card (not 10), counts toward your streak, and moves unseen cards to Seen. Launch it from the Learn page. Great for a first pass on a topic you haven't started yet.

Card types you'll see

Recall

Type the key word or short phrase. Spelling slips, plurals, and GB/US spellings are forgiven, and a number can be typed with or without its unit, but numbers must be exact and a paraphrase in different words is marked wrong.

Multiple choice (MCQ)

Four options, one correct. Distractors are plausible wrong answers, so read carefully.

True / False

Is the statement true or false? Fast and good for clearing up misconceptions.

Fill the blank (Cloze)

A sentence with a gap. Type the missing word or words: the hint under the question tells you how many.

Match pairs

Match terms to their definitions. All pairs shown together.

Calculation

A worked numeric question (mainly Business and Science). The formula and working are shown on the card back after you answer.

Evaluate (Mark it)

Read a model answer and judge which mark band it earns. You play examiner, not student. Only available for subjects with Mark It cards.

Tips for getting the most out of it

Do it daily. Even 5 minutes every day is more effective than one long session per week. Set a reminder on your phone for a time that works.
Don't skip weak cards. It's tempting to skip the cards you know will come back wrong. Answering them honestly, even incorrectly, is what makes the system work. The app surfaces weak cards more often until you've nailed them.
Use the Learn page first for new topics. Before practising a topic you haven't covered yet, read through the key facts in the Learn section. It gives you the context that makes the cards stick.
Speed Round the week before an exam. The timed pressure helps simulate exam conditions. Use it in the final week alongside your standard sessions.
Report a wrong card. If you spot a card that looks incorrect or ambiguous, tap Something wrong with this card? after answering it. We review every report.

Found a mistake in a card?

After you answer it, tap Something wrong with this card? beneath the card to report it. The Educator content team reviews every report. Teachers don't see card reports, so if it matters for a lesson, tell your teacher too. You can also email support@educator-labs.com.