Practice and evaluation, built around retention

Everyone can tell you what was taught.Practicks keeps checking what stayed.

It finds what has slipped, brings it back as a fresh question, and counts it only once it holds — for learners, parents, educators, institutions and teams.

Free to start with 5 self-created practice assessments. No card required.

Your knowledge, now

Not a lifetime score. A current reading.

18 recovered

Needs attention

Fractions

2 concepts have gone quiet

Next review · 8 min

Still holding

SQL joins

Last re-checked 12 days later

Progress is allowed to go down.

Because a number that only rises cannot tell you when knowledge has faded.

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.

Learners & professionals

Ten minutes, most days

See which chapters and skills are still holding, and which need another look — without repeating a whole course.

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.

How it works

A wrong answer doesn’t disappear. It starts a useful loop.

Four steps, checked across time rather than at the moment an answer is submitted.

01

Answer a question

Practise from the ready catalogue, or from questions your institution wrote.

Why: Retrieval, not recognition — pulling an answer from memory beats rereading a familiar page.

02

Find the real gap

What you miss is recorded by concept, not buried inside a one-time score.

Why: Wrong options can name the misconception behind them, so the next step is specific.

03

Meet it again later

The idea returns on a spaced schedule as a fresh question, at equal or greater difficulty.

Why: Fragile material comes back sooner; what keeps holding appears less often.

04

Count what still holds

A gap closes only once you recover it on a different question. If it slips, progress goes down — honestly.

Why: Asking for the idea in a new form is harder to fake than remembering one answer.

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 falls 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.

What the research supports — and what it does not claim

Research supports retrieval practice, distributed practice, transfer through fresh retrieval, and well-designed feedback. Practicks translates those findings into product behaviour. Its adaptive signals, review dates and Knowledge Upkeep Index are transparent decision aids — not direct measurements of memory, intelligence or a person’s worth.

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.

Shared

Create & deliver

  • 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
Practice

Practise

  • 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
Evaluation

Evaluate

  • 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
Shared

Understand & act

  • 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 followingShort answerImage hotspotCoding

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.