About us
Most students who lose marks in IGCSE exams aren't short on knowledge. They're short on understanding what examiners actually want. Examo fixes that.
What you get
Every feature on Examo is designed around the same idea: show students what earns marks, and give them the practice to apply it.
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Every topic page strips the spec down to what examiners actually reward. The exact phrases, the point structure, and the common mistakes, without the filler you get in a textbook.
IONIC BONDING
12% · HIGHWhat examiners want to see
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Write answers to past-paper questions. Each mark scheme point is assessed individually — awarded, missed, or given benefit of doubt — with specific feedback on what your wording needed to say.
YOUR SCORE
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See which topics carry the most marks across every past paper from 2018 to 2024. Prioritise what the exam actually tests, not what the textbook devotes the most pages to.
CHEMISTRY · TOP TOPICS BY MARK SHARE
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Every topic includes a full model answer written to Grade 9 standard. See the structure, the precision, and the phrasing that consistently wins maximum marks.
GRADE 9 MODEL ANSWER
The metal atom loses electrons to form a positive ion.
The non-metal atom gains electrons to form a negative ion.
Oppositely charged ions attract by strong electrostatic forces.
A giant ionic lattice forms with a regular repeating pattern.
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Hundreds of original IGCSE-style questions written to the spec — diagrams, calculations and extended answers — covering every topic, every difficulty. Each one is marked the same way as a past paper.
ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION · Q14
HARD · 4 MARKSA simple a.c. generator has a coil that rotates at a constant rate between the poles of a permanent magnet. Sketch the output voltage for one full rotation.
How it started
Examo started with a simple observation: the students who scored highest in IGCSE exams weren't necessarily the ones who knew the most. They were the ones who understood the mark scheme.
Two students could give answers that sounded equally sensible. One would get full marks. The other would get half. The difference was almost never about knowledge. It was about which specific words, in which order, were on the examiner's checklist.
Every existing revision resource we looked at optimised for coverage: big textbooks, endless videos, flashcards for every obscure fact. None of them started from the mark scheme and worked backwards. So we built the one that does.
Why we do, what we do
In too many schools, exam technique is something you learn from a teacher who happens to be a good examiner — or you don't learn it at all. That shouldn't decide whether a student earns a 7 or a 9.
Examo puts the same insight that the best tutors quietly share with their students into a tool that any student can use, at any hour, without paying hourly for it. Every mark point, every common mistake, every model answer — the raw material of an expensive tutor, built into every topic page.
One topic. One past-paper question. Marked point-by-point. That's the whole loop.