Learners & professionals
Ten minutes, most days
See which chapters and skills are still holding, and which need another look — without repeating a whole course.
Practice and evaluation that look beyond the first answer
Everyone can tell you what was taught.Practicks keeps checking what stayed.
Learners answer from memory, explain their thinking, and revisit ideas over time. Fresh questions show what they still know, what needs another look, and when progress has held.
Free to start with 5 self-created practice assessments. No card required.
Subject
Chemistry · Class 12
Twelve weeks, one learner
78
−14 across three weeks off+26 once review resumed
Skill
Python · Backend cohort
64
- Held 38/45
- Recently checked 14/35
- Chapters covered 12/20
Nothing has slipped — it has gone stale. Three chapters are past their check date.
A number that only rises cannot tell you when knowledge has faded. Illustrative shapes, real behaviour.
Who it’s for
Different roles. The same question: did it stick?
The pattern is always the same — something was learned, time passed, and nobody knows how much is left. What changes is who needs the answer, and how soon.
Parents
Between report cards
Follow your child’s progress in plain language. No ranks against other children, no time-on-screen surveillance.
Teachers & schools
Between the chapter test and the boards
In February, see which of October’s concepts survived — and send ten minutes of practice to the students they didn’t.
Institutes, companies & L&D
Six months after the training ended
Show a sponsor what changed between intake and exit, per skill — and that the gaps stayed closed.
In every one of them the teaching stays where it already is — with your school, your trainers, your course, or you. Practicks only reports on what survived it.
A research-backed practice loop
Recall it. Explain it. Meet it again later.
Active recall, self-explanation and spaced repetition work together — with verified answers and feedback keeping the result honest.
Active recall
Retrieve before you reveal
Answer first. Hints, the answer and its explanation stay out of sight until you have tried.
Retrieving from memory can strengthen later retention more than simply rereading familiar material.
Self-explanation
Say it in your own words
Privately explain the idea, then compare your reasoning with the authored feedback.
Often called a Feynman-style check, self-explanation can expose gaps and improve understanding.
Spaced repetition
Meet it again later
The idea returns on a spaced schedule as a fresh question, at equal or greater difficulty.
Spacing practice across time generally supports longer retention than concentrating it in one sitting.
Verified feedback
Prove what still holds
A self-rating changes only the review date. Progress changes after a graded answer to a fresh question.
Feedback corrects errors; a new question checks the idea rather than memory of one answer.
What the research supports — and what it does not claim
Research supports retrieval practice, self-explanation, distributed practice, transfer through fresh retrieval and well-designed feedback. Practicks turns those findings into practice behaviour; it does not promise a particular learning outcome. Its signals are decision aids, not measurements of intelligence or a person’s worth.
The reading
And it ends in one number you can trust.
- One figure
- per subject or skill — how current the knowledge is, not a grade, and never a rank.
- It can fall
- while you do nothing. A number that only rises is a progress bar, not a measurement.
- It says why
- what went past its check date, what was held and lost, and what has now stuck.
- It stops
- when you’re finished. Move up a year and last year’s subjects freeze as a record.
One question bank. Two jobs. Kept separate.
Safe enough to practise. Dependable enough to evaluate.
Practice belongs to the learner. Evaluation belongs to the institution. Mixing them would make both less trustworthy, so Practicks doesn’t.
Practice
Get better without being judged.
Unlimited and unpenalised. Every response can explain itself, mistakes return on a spaced schedule, and progress rewards concepts recovered over time — not questions consumed.
- No negative marking
- Explanations and option-level tips
- Never ranked against another learner
Evaluation
Get an honest, reviewable reading.
Controlled, graded and reportable for schools, institutes and teams, with human review where judgement is needed and optional integrity controls where the attempt must count.
- Attempts, timing and review set by the institution
- Human review for open and coding responses
- No points, streaks or game mechanics
What you get
Everything needed to create, practise, evaluate and improve.
Grouped by the job it does. Exact availability depends on plan and device.
Create & deliver
Shared- Reusable question bank, in-app authoring and spreadsheet import
- Bring your own AI provider for private drafts — a person approves every one
- Scheduling for classes, cohorts and practice groups
Practise
Practice- Unlimited, unpenalised attempts — never ranked against another learner
- Mistake notebook, spaced review and adaptive next steps
- Explanations, option-level tips and offline packs on mobile
Evaluate
Evaluation- Attempts, timing and review rules controlled by the institution
- Auto-grading plus human review for open and coding responses
- Optional consented proctoring and similarity evidence
Understand & act
Shared- Learner, class and cohort drill-downs with growth trends
- Most-missed concepts and at-risk flags
- Targeted follow-up practice and downloadable reports
Nine question formats
Single answerMultiple answersTrue / FalseFill in the blankNumericalMatch the followingImage hotspotOrderingCoding
Coding uses sandboxed execution on web, and is available in Evaluation only.
Your questions, your AI, your workspace
Author in the platform, import a spreadsheet, or connect your organisation’s own compatible AI provider to draft questions from your material. Credentials are encrypted and write-only, and drafts stay inside your workspace — a person must review, approve and publish each item before any learner can see it.
View current subject and skill coverage- Private by default
- Tenant isolation, role-based access and audit logs across campuses and cohorts.
- Consent before capture
- Practice is never proctored. For an Evaluation, test-takers see what is captured and agree first.
- Evidence, not verdicts
- Flags and similarity matches go to a reviewer. A person always makes the final call.
- Safer for younger learners
- There is no private teacher-to-learner messaging or Q&A channel on the platform.
Clear boundaries
What Practicks is — and what it deliberately isn’t.
Practicks carries questions and assessment feedback. You keep learning from the school, trainer, course, book or experience that already works for you; Practicks shows what is still there later.
- Revision that knows what you have forgotten — and brings it back before you need it.
- An honest read on where a learner stands, on their own subjects and skills, at any point.
- A question bank you can extend with your own material, or use as it comes.
- Evidence for a school, institute or company that gaps are actually closing.
- Coverage that grows: current subjects and skills are listed, never implied.
Not a course or learning platform
No lessons, notes, videos or prescribed way to learn.
Not an exam or interview replacement
No claim of matching an official paper pattern, timing or marking scheme.
Not a certificate or credential
Scores are feedback, not proof to submit to a school or employer.
Not a leaderboard
Learners and parents see personal progress, never a position against other people.
Start where you are
Find the gaps. Close them. Check they stayed closed.
Individuals can begin on their own. Schools, colleges, coaching centres, training institutes and L&D teams can see the full institutional workflow in a guided demo.
Free includes 5 self-created practice assessments; assessments shared with you remain unlimited. Paid plans are coming soon.
A few direct answers
Before you decide
A question I had already answered came back and I got it wrong. Is something broken?
No — that is the product doing its job. Getting something right once is not the same as knowing it, so ideas return later, as a different question, to find out which held. Catching one on the way out is exactly what you want, while there is still time. It is not a mark, and nobody else sees it.
Does Practicks teach lessons or replace my course?
No. It contains questions, hints and feedback after an attempt — not lessons, notes, videos or a prescribed curriculum. Learn wherever you choose; use Practicks to check what remains.
Will learners see marks, ranks or failure labels?
Practice is unpenalised and learners are never ranked. Institutions keep the grading and review controls they need for Evaluation, while learners see growth-oriented progress.
Is a Practicks result an official credential?
No. Practicks does not issue certificates, and its scores are not a substitute for an exam, entrance test, interview or employer decision.