Guide
Preparing for a school assessment task, not just the exam
Add a SAC, IA or assessment task with its date and scope, and your daily revision narrows to that material as the day approaches — then widens back out.
Everything else in the app works toward one date per subject: the external exam, covering the whole course. A school-set task is different. It has its own date, usually weeks away; it covers one or two areas rather than everything; and it comes with a type and conditions your teacher has told you. Assessment task prep lets you tell the app about that task, and the same revision engine then aims at it. In Victoria the app calls this a SAC, in Queensland an internal assessment (IA1, IA2, IA3), and elsewhere an assessment task — the words change with your state, the feature does not.
Adding a task
- Open the subject, go to Progress, and use the add button under the exam plan. It takes three steps.
- Details: a name, the date, and its weighting if you know it. A row of typical shapes for your subject can pre-fill the type and conditions — they are typical, not your school's actual task, so change anything that doesn't match what your teacher set.
- Scope: tick the areas your teacher named. This is what your revision narrows to, so confirm it with them if you are unsure. You can narrow further to individual points if the task is only part of an area.
- Conditions and confidence: open or closed book, tech-free or tech-active, how long it runs — and a quick shaky / getting there / confident rating for each area. That rating only steers your first few sessions; once you have answered a few questions, your real results take over.
What happens as the date approaches
Your side and the app's side, week by week.
| When | You | The app |
|---|---|---|
| Three to four weeks out | Add the task and rate the areas. | Reviews of in-scope points are scheduled more densely, aimed at the task date. Points outside the scope keep the exam as their horizon. |
| Two to three weeks | Run your daily session and mark honestly. | The weak-topic tier leans toward the areas you rated shaky, and the subject rises up your Today list as the date nears. |
| One to two weeks | Build and sit the matched practice task under timed conditions. | Misses go into your error log and come back for relearning on their own schedule. |
| The final three days | Consolidate. Don't start new material. | Countdown mode: your session draws only from in-scope points you have already met, with anything you got wrong served first. |
| Afterwards | Mark it done, and enter your result if you like. | The task drops out of scheduling and your revision widens back to the whole subject and the exam. |
The matched practice task
- Every task card has a button to build a practice task. It opens the assessment builder already narrowed to the task's areas, with an item-type filter suited to the task's shape and a target mark count worked out from its length.
- You can widen it back to the whole subject with one click if you want a broader run.
- The questions come from past external exams, scoped to your task's areas. They practise the same knowledge under the same command terms — but your school writes its own task, so treat them as practice in the style of the exam, not a preview of your task.
Watch out for
- Tasks are saved on the device you added them on. They will not follow you to another phone or laptop yet.
- If two tasks in the same subject overlap, the sooner one steers your revision. The other takes over once the first is done.
- A task whose date has passed but that you haven't marked done stops steering anything — it is simply ignored until you tick it off.
- The countdown chip on Today names what it is counting to. If it says a task title rather than "exam", that is the nearer date.