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📋 Grade My Answer

Upload your essay, exam answer, or handwritten work and get instant AI marking with detailed feedback. Supports photos of handwritten work, typed text, and PDF uploads. Add a mark scheme for precise grading against your exam board criteria.

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Adding a mark scheme dramatically improves accuracy. Without one, we use general academic criteria for the selected level.

AI marking provides an estimated grade to help you practise and improve. Results should be used as guidance alongside your teacher's feedback. No AI tool can replace professional assessment.

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How AI Marking Helps Students Improve

The biggest barrier to exam improvement is waiting days or weeks for feedback. Grade My Answer gives you instant, detailed marking against real exam criteria so you can identify weaknesses and fix them immediately. Upload an essay, a handwritten exam script, or a practice answer and get criterion-by-criterion feedback, a predicted grade, and actionable next steps — all in under a minute.

Preparing for 11+ Exams with AI Marking

Parents preparing children for 11+ selective school entrance exams can use Grade My Answer to mark practice creative writing pieces. The AI assesses against the key criteria used by selective schools — imagination, vocabulary range, sentence variety, spelling and grammar, and story structure — providing age-appropriate feedback that helps young writers improve. Pair it with our Exam Question Generator to create unlimited practice questions.

How Teachers Can Use AI-Assisted Marking

Teacher Mode uses our most advanced AI model for professional-grade marking. Upload student work with your mark scheme and get detailed criterion breakdowns, teaching interventions, and report-ready paragraphs. AI-assisted marking saves hours of marking time while ensuring consistency across a class set. Use it as a first pass to identify key themes, then apply your professional judgement for final grades.

🌐 This tool supports 50+ languages. Paste text in any language to get started.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our AI follows the same 6-step methodology as real UK examiners: holistic assessment, best-fit levelling, and positive marking. Accuracy improves significantly when you provide a mark scheme. For best results, always compare AI feedback with your teacher's assessment.

Yes. Upload a clear photo of your handwritten work and our AI will transcribe and mark it. For best results, use good lighting and keep the page flat.

We support AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, SQA, and IB mark schemes. You can also paste any custom mark scheme or grading criteria.

Absolutely. Our AI marks 11+ creative writing against the criteria used by selective schools: imagination, vocabulary, sentence variety, spelling and grammar, and story structure. It provides age-appropriate feedback that helps children improve their writing.

Yes. Teacher Mode uses our most advanced AI model for higher accuracy. It provides detailed criterion breakdowns, teaching interventions, and professional report paragraphs. All results should be reviewed by a qualified teacher before use.

Our AI follows the same 6-step marking methodology used by UK exam boards including holistic reading, detailed annotation, and best-fit levelling. While no AI can perfectly replicate human judgement, it provides detailed, specific feedback that helps students identify exactly where to improve.