Practice

Your department's own past papers, kept whole, and marked the way your department marks them. Five kinds of question, two ways to sit them, and a written answer that comes back with the marks it earned rather than a number.

The papers

Clinicoid holds the exams your own faculty has already set — the papers your seniors sat, typed up question by question and filed under the subject and the topic they belong to. They are not rewritten to be easier, and they are not padded out with questions from somewhere else to make a bank look bigger. What you sit is what was sat.

Which papers you can see depends on the module you are in. Modules lists what is covered today, and a module with nothing published yet says so on its own page rather than showing you an empty screen and letting you guess.

The wording — kept as it was written, including the awkward phrasing that is half of what a question is testing.
The figures — the diagram, the slide or the photograph the question depends on, cropped from the paper it came from.
The marks — how many the question is worth, so a four-mark answer is asked for as a four-mark answer.
The source — which paper it came from, where a paper is what we have; some questions arrive without a stated origin, and those simply do not claim one.

Question types

Five, and every one of them is marked. That is the part worth reading twice — an app that only carries multiple choice is an app that has quietly dropped the half of your paper you are most likely to lose marks on.

Type	How you answer	How it is marked
Multiple choice	Tap one option.	Instantly, on the phone. The explanation says why the other options are wrong, not only why the right one is right.
True or false	Tap true or false on each statement.	Instantly. Each statement is marked on its own, so a paper of ten costs you only the ones you missed.
Matching	Drag each item to the slot it belongs in.	Instantly, slot by slot. Some lists carry deliberate extras that match nothing — leaving one unused is the correct answer.
Completion	Type the missing words into the sentence.	Instantly, against the accepted answers for that blank. Some blanks accept a synonym; some are marked exactly as written, because the exact word is the thing being tested.
Written	Write, or dictate, a full answer in your own words.	By the grader, against the question's mark scheme — point by point, with the phrases you earned highlighted in your own text.

A written question is not always an essay. The same type carries the paper's other shapes — enumerate six of something, compare two things side by side, label a diagram — and each is laid out the way the paper laid it out, then marked the same way: against the scheme, point by point.

Modes

You choose before you start, and the choice is only about when you find out. The questions are the same in both.

Practice

See whether each answer is right as you go, with explanations.

The mode for learning something. Answer, find out, read why, move on. You can stop in the middle and come back to the same place.

Exam

Answers and score stay hidden until you finish.

The mode for finding out where you actually stand. Nothing is revealed until the last question is behind you, and then the whole paper opens at once.

Exam mode also marks written answers strictly, whatever your usual setting — sitting a mock under a gentler standard tells you a number you cannot use.

Marking a written answer

This is the part most apps stop at a model answer and leave you to grade yourself. Clinicoid marks it.

One — You write it: Typed, or dictated out loud if writing on a phone is the slow part. Note form is fine — you are being marked on what you said, not on your handwriting or your full stops.
Two — It is read against the mark scheme: Not against a general idea of a good answer: against this question's own scheme, written once by hand, one card per mark, in the notation a real scheme uses — brackets for optional detail, slashes for alternatives, underlining for the word that has to be there.
Three — The marks come back attached to your words: Each point you earned is highlighted in your own answer, so you can see the sentence that won it. Each point you missed is shown as the scheme wrote it, so you know what was wanted rather than only that something was.
Four — You decide what to do with it: Disagree with a mark and you can report it from the question. It is read by a person, and it changes the question for everybody or it changes nothing — a report is never quietly applied to your score alone.

You can also choose how hard it marks. Examiner is the default and marks exactly as your department would. Tutor marks the idea rather than your wording. Coach rewards what you do know. The three change how much you have to say — never whether what you said is correct.

Sittings and scoring

Every time you open an exercise and work through it is a sitting, and it is kept whole and separate. That is what makes re-drilling safe: doing the same ten questions again gives you a second sitting to compare against the first, not twenty answers poured into one average.

Performance is counted in marks, not in taps. A four-mark question you half-answered is worth two, and a paper of one hundred marks is out of one hundred — the same arithmetic your faculty uses, so the number means the same thing in both places. Questions outside the scope you chose are left out of the total rather than counted against you.

Where the numbers go, and what they are for, is on Progress.

Choosing what to sit

Before a paper starts you get a tree: your module, its subjects, and the topics inside them. Tick as much or as little as you want and the question count follows your ticks, so you know whether you are starting twenty minutes of work or two hours before you start it.

All — everything in the scope you chose.
Incorrect — only the questions you have got wrong and not yet put right.
Saved — only the ones you bookmarked.
Unseen — only the ones you have never answered — the honest measure of how much is left.

Each filter carries its own count, so an empty one tells you something useful rather than opening a paper with nothing in it.

Common questions

Do I need to be online to practise?

For questions marked on the phone — choice, true/false, matching, completion — a paper you have already opened keeps working while the connection comes and goes, and your answers arrive when it returns. A written answer needs the connection at the moment you submit it, because the grader is not on the phone.

Does re-doing an exercise ruin my accuracy?

No. Each time you sit an exercise is its own sitting, kept separately, and drilling the same ten questions twenty times does not turn into a score of two hundred. See Sittings and scoring above.

A question has no answer key. Is that broken?

No — it is a normal state and it is marked as one. Some papers reach us without an official answer, and we would rather show you the question than pretend to a key we do not have. You can still write your answer and read the question; nothing is scored against you.

I think the marking is wrong.

Report it from the question itself — the button is beside the thing that is wrong, and it sends us the question, your answer and where you were, which is most of what we need. A report never changes your mark by itself, and it never quietly changes the answer for everybody else either: a person reads it first.

Can I choose only the topics I am behind on?

Yes. Open the scope tree before you start and tick the subjects or topics you want; the count updates as you go, so you know how long the paper will be before you commit to it. The focus filters do the same job from the other end — Incorrect and Unseen build a paper out of the questions you have something to gain from.