The tool below rebuilds your pasted questions into a set with the answers hidden, which is the minimum condition for a rehearsal to be one.
WeSolve+ reads the whole document and writes the questions for you
Upload your PDF, photograph your notebook, or point the camera. WeSolve+ writes questions from that material, explains why each answer is right, reads the chapter back to you as a podcast, and remembers every item you missed until you own it.
The tool below is a small browser-only tool and it is not WeSolve+: paste a few lines and text rules turn them into cards on the spot. The real app, the one that uses AI, is behind the link above.
Questions to a practice set
This is a browser-only tool, and that is all it isIt splits the text you paste by rule, and nothing else. WeSolve+ is a different thing entirely: it reads your whole PDF with AI, writes the reasoning behind every question, speaks the chapter back to you, and remembers what you missed so it can return it. Try the real app now, free!
This tool uses text rules, not AI. It hides every answer until you open it, keeps multiple choice options attached to their question, and reads an "Answer:" line as the key. It does not time you and it does not mark you, because both of those are things a rehearsal needs you to do honestly. Your text stays in the browser and is never sent anywhere.
The conditions are part of what you are practising
Sit it in one block, to the clock, without notes, and mark it afterwards rather than during. Each of those is doing something specific. One block practises the thing that actually fails on the day, which is sustaining attention through the last third. The clock practises abandoning a question, a skill nobody develops while untimed. No notes forces production rather than recognition. Marking afterwards keeps the mistake intact long enough to learn from, since correcting mid paper deletes the evidence of how you went wrong. This is the whole argument for a real mock over a leisurely run through the same questions.
Timing is the variable almost nobody practises
Divide the minutes by the marks before you start and write the per question budget at the top of the page. Then practise leaving. Most lost marks in a timed paper are not on the questions people got wrong, they are on the questions people never reached because they spent eleven minutes on a four mark item. The rule that works is mechanical: at double the budget, mark it, move, and come back only if the paper ends early. Practising that is uncomfortable in exactly the way that makes it worth doing, and it belongs to the broader category of skills that time management covers badly because it is really about accepting a loss quickly.
Mixed beats blocked, and it will feel worse
A practice set drawn from one chapter lets you use the chapter as a hint: you know the answer involves that topic before you read the question. Drawing from the whole syllabus removes the hint, which is what the real paper does. This is interleaving, and its signature is that performance during practice drops while performance on the later test rises, one of the clearest examples of a desirable difficulty. The practical consequence is that a mixed set feels like it is going badly, and that feeling is not evidence. Keep blocked sets for the week you first meet a topic and switch to mixed as soon as the method is in place.
How many, and how far apart
Fewer papers, reviewed in full, beat more papers skimmed. The review is where the value is, and it takes about as long as the paper itself, so budget for it or do not sit the paper. Spacing them matters as much as the count: the review of 254 spacing experiments by Cepeda and colleagues found the same total minutes spread across days beating the same minutes massed, by a wide and repeatable margin. Two papers a week with full reviews will do more than five papers in the final weekend, and the final weekend version also trains you to be exhausted, which is a poor thing to rehearse.
The wrong answer log is the actual output
For each miss, write which of four things happened: did not know it, knew it and misread the question, knew it and ran out of time, or knew it and made a careless slip. The four need completely different responses, and lumping them together as revise more is why people repeat the same paper and get the same score. Only the first is a content gap. The second is a reading habit, the third is the budget rule above, the fourth usually disappears when the first three stop consuming attention. Keeping the log is a form of formative assessment you run on yourself, and it is more useful than any score.
Turning your own papers into repeatable sittings
Upload a past paper as a PDF, a photograph or a camera shot and WeSolve+ reads it and builds an explained set from it, with the reasoning attached rather than a bare letter, plus a deck and a short audio recap. Questions you miss are kept in their own list, which is the log described above without the transcription. At wesolveapp.com in any browser and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, free to begin, metered by file rather than by question. Figures on pricing.
Sources used on this page
- Mock examination
- Interleaving
- Desirable difficulty
- Practice (learning method)
- Overlearning
- Time management
- Formative assessment
- Cepeda et al., distributed practice meta analysis (2006)
- Cepeda et al., spacing and the optimal retention interval (2008)
- Roediger and Karpicke, Test-Enhanced Learning (2006)
- Karpicke and Roediger, the critical importance of retrieval (2008)
- Kornell and Bjork, is spacing the enemy of induction (2008)
- Dunlosky et al., improving students' learning (2013)
- What Works Clearinghouse, organizing instruction and study
- The Learning Scientists, retrieval practice
- Retrieval Practice, the research library
- Testing effect
- Active recall
- Spaced repetition
- MDN, the details element
- MDN, the textarea element
- W3C, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2
- WeSolve+ on the App Store
- Yerkes-Dodson law
- Deliberate practice
- Context-dependent memory
- Exam
- Simulation
- Working memory
- Fatigue
| What happened | What it is not | What to change |
|---|---|---|
| Did not know it | A timing problem | A content gap; make cards from it |
| Knew it, misread the question | A content gap | Underline the command word before answering |
| Knew it, ran out of time | A content gap | Per question budget, and leave at double it |
| Knew it, careless slip | Bad luck | Usually attention spent elsewhere; recheck later |
| Guessed and got it right | A mark you own | Log it as a miss, or it will return on the day |
How many practice tests should I sit?
Fewer, reviewed fully. The review takes about as long as the paper, so if you cannot spare that time you are better off not sitting it yet.
Should I time myself from the start?
Once the method is in place, yes. Untimed practice never teaches the hardest skill in a paper, which is abandoning a question and moving on.
Is a mixed set better than one chapter at a time?
Yes for a rehearsal, and it will feel worse while you do it. A single chapter tells you the answer's topic before you read the question, and the real paper does not.
Does the tool time or mark me?
No, deliberately. Both are things you have to do honestly for the rehearsal to be worth anything, and a script that marked you would let you correct mid paper.
Is anything I paste uploaded?
No. It runs where you are, with no request leaving the page. Disconnect and it still works.
What do I do with the questions I got right by guessing?
Log them as misses. A guess that lands is a mark you do not own, and it will come back as a real gap on the day.
Last updated: 2026-08-15