An AI tutor for VCE, HSC, QCE, WACE and SACE. Ask it anything, or paste your answer and get it marked against your state's published criteria.
VCE English is in 15 days, on 27 October. 3-day free trial, card required.
Start 3-day free trialNot ready? The ATAR calculator is free: every state's own 2025 scaling, an estimate in ten seconds.
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How it works
Four stages, same loop every time: learn it, practise it, get it marked, see exactly what to fix next.
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Answer one
No account needed — see what it does before you sign up for anything.
A researcher gives one group a caffeine pill and the other an identical pill with no caffeine, then measures reaction time. What is the independent variable?
"The storm swallowed the coastline whole." Which technique gives the storm a human-like action?
Let . What is ?
During mitosis, sister chromatids separate and move to opposite poles of the cell in which phase?
Which Victorian court hears an indictable offence like murder at first instance?
STAGE 01
Learn
Ask Vic anything. It is reading your state's real study design or syllabus, not recalling something about it.
Ask it something →A sample exchange — Vic reads your actual study design or syllabus.
STAGE 02
Practice
Generate a test in the real format, or pull a deck someone else already built.
Browse free decks →Why does raising the temperature too far stop an enzyme working?
Tap to flipHeat denatures the enzyme — it changes the shape of the active site, so the substrate can no longer bind.
Tap to flip backThe same six controls as the real Tests page — drag Marks, then Generate.
STAGE 03
Get marked
Paste it or photograph it. Every phrase gets checked, not just the final grade.
Mark your own answer →Solid technique identification, but two of four criteria need the analysis to go one level deeper — see the underlines below.
Your answer
Mark breakdown · 2/4
Click an underline — this is the real thing.
STAGE 04
Improve
The next session picks up exactly where the last one left off, aimed at what is actually costing you marks.
Try the ATAR calculator →A sample plan — yours tracks your own marked answers.
Subjects we cover
Generic AI will fail you in Year 12.
| Feature | Private tutor | ChatGPT | StudyDesign AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | A$70+/hr | Free / $30/mo | A$15 once, or A$9.99/mo |
| Based on your state's study design or syllabus | |||
| Marks against your state's published criteria | Sometimes | ||
| Available at 2am | |||
| Past state exams ingested | |||
| Remembers your weak areas | Sometimes | ||
| Subject-specific question styles | |||
| Annotates your writing | |||
| Flags an off-topic answer |
Every row above is a claim. You already watched it mark a real answer, live — free guides on each of these follow next.
Free guides on exactly this, no account needed:
The rest of it
Quizzes, flashcards, practice papers and uploads come with the 3-day trial or a plan. The exam timetable and ATAR calculators stay free.
Every certificate in Australia, one tutor
This is a national product, not a Victorian one with the rest bolted on. VCE, HSC, QCE, WACE, SACE, NTCET, TCE and the ACT Senior Secondary Certificate are each marked against that state's own real study design or syllabus — a NSW student is marked against the NESA syllabus and a Queensland student against the QCAA syllabus, because handing a student another state's rules is worse than handing them nothing.
Pick your certificate — each has its own page, with the subject list that certificate actually has:
- VCEVictoria
- HSCNew South Wales
- QCEQueensland
- WACEWestern Australia
- SACESouth Australia
- NTCETNorthern Territory
- TCETasmania
- ACT Senior Secondary CertificateAustralian Capital Territory
Three states also have a free guide to how their school-based marks are turned into the number on the certificate. It is the part almost nobody explains, and it is different in every state:
- How HSC school-based assessment is marked — ranks, moderation and bands in NSW.
- How QCE internal assessment works — IA1, IA2, IA3 and the ISMG in Queensland.
- How WACE marks are calculated — school mark, exam mark and moderation in WA.
What it costs
Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial (card required). Or pay once for a pass, whichever suits how you pay.
VCE English is in 15 days, on 27 October. These are the weeks that decide it.
- 3 tutor messages a day
- 3 marks in total, photo or typed, against your state's published criteria
- ATAR calculators, the exam timetable and the community deck library stay free
- Start your 3-day free trial any time (card required)
No card to sign up. The trial starts from the upgrade page.
15 days to VCE English
One A$15 payment covers the whole exam block and runs to 31 December. That is under a quarter of one A$70 tutor hour.
- Your answers marked against your state's published criteria, handwriting and all
- 5 practice papers a month from real past exam questions, downloadable as PDF
- 150 AI messages a month, no daily cap
- 5 quizzes and 5 AI flashcard decks a month
- Upload your SACs, IAs, tests, teacher feedback so it learns how you write
- AI-generated study plans matched to your official exam dates
- One payment. Nothing renews, nothing to cancel.
Then A$15 once from the upgrade page. No trial, nothing renews.
Want it ongoing?
Three subscriptions, one Monthly or Annual switch. Each starts with a 3-day free trial, card required.
15 days to VCE English
A$9.99 is about 2 cents a message across 500 messages, and under 15% of one A$70 tutor hour.
- 500 AI messages a month
- 15 practice papers a month
- 15 quizzes and 15 AI flashcard decks a month
3 days free, then A$9.99/month. Card required, cancel anytime.
About half the price of Monthly, for 150 messages a month and the same marking.
- 150 AI messages a month
- 5 practice papers a month
- 5 quizzes and 5 AI flashcard decks a month
3 days free, then A$4.99/month. Card required, cancel anytime.
1,500 messages and 50 papers for A$39: about 2.6 cents a message.
- 1,500 AI messages a month
- 50 practice papers a month
- 45 quizzes and 40 AI flashcard decks a month
3 days free, then A$39/month. Card required, cancel anytime.
What a private tutor costs
Melbourne VCE tutoring commonly runs A$70 to A$150 an hour, so a weekly session for a school year lands between A$2,000 and A$6,000 per subject. Where those figures come from.
StudyDesign AI, every subject, a year
A$110
Why pay when free AI tutors exist?
Fair question. Free AI tutors are real, and if you want a topic explained, use one. The difference is marking. A generic chatbot reads your paragraph and says "pretty good". StudyDesign AI marks it against the real criteria your own certificate is assessed on — VCAA, NESA, QCAA, SCSA, SACE Board, TASC or BSSS, whichever one marks you — and underlines the sentence an examiner would dock, in the examiner's language, because it is built on the criteria and examiner reports rather than guessing what school assessment looks like.
A free account gets 3 tutor messages a day and 3 marks, and the 3-day free trial (card required) lets you test that claim on your own assessment task before paying anything. A longer, honest comparison with ChatGPT is here.
Someone else paying? There is a page for them.
Free guides, no account
How your work is actually marked, and how marks get lost on answers that read perfectly well. VCE first, with HSC, QCE and WACE guides alongside.
- Why a good answer scores badly
- Mark your own SAC before you hand it in
- Build a real practice SAC
- VCE English practice, by area of study
- How VCE SACs are actually marked
- Use the examiner reports properly
- Get more out of a trial exam
- VCE, VCE VM or VET?
- VCE ATAR calculator
- HSC ATAR calculator
- QCE ATAR calculator
- WACE ATAR calculator
- SACE / NTCET ATAR calculator
- HSC English: the Band 6 criteria
- QCE IA1–IA3: what the ISMG rewards
- WACE exams: marking keys and scaling
- StudyDesign AI vs ChatGPT
Frequently asked
Do the next answer properly.
15 days to VCE English. 1,584 real past exam questions are waiting. Write an answer, get it back marked, with the weak sentence underlined and the reason next to it.
Start 3-day free trial3 days free, then A$9.99/month for 500 AI messages. Card required, cancel anytime.