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As of 13 August 2026, AI can write a model answer for your exam question.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill needednone

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsNo price for a human tutoring or marking alternative is supplied in the available tool data.

If this goes wrong: the answer misses the mark scheme or contains a factual error, and you lose revision time or marks unless you check it before relying on it.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Do it yourself

    Second choice

    A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your exam board's specification and the question's mark scheme, then copy the full question, marks available and relevant assessment objectives into a document.
    2. Gather the class notes, set text, source, case study, formula sheet or other course material that the answer must use, and remove material that is unrelated.
    3. Paste the question, subject, level, exam board, mark scheme and course material into the prompt, filling every bracketed slot that applies.
    4. Ask the chatbot to produce the plan, model answer, marking points and uncertainty list in one response.
    5. Compare each factual claim, quotation, calculation and reference in the answer with your notes, textbook or official source, and delete anything you cannot confirm.
    6. Match each paragraph against the mark scheme and rewrite the answer in your own words from memory before using it as revision.
    7. Answer the three follow-up questions without looking at the model answer, then correct your responses against the checked version.

    Prompt

    Write a model answer to this exam question for revision, not for submission:

Question: [paste the full exam question]
Subject and level: [for example, GCSE English Literature or A-level History]
Exam board: [for example, AQA, Edexcel or OCR]
Marks available: [number]
Mark scheme or assessment objectives: [paste them if available]
Set text, case study, source or course content that must be used: [paste the relevant material]

First identify exactly what the question is asking and make a brief plan linked to the marks available. Then write a clear model answer at the level requested. Use only the information supplied or well-established subject knowledge, and label any point that depends on missing context. Do not invent quotations, references, evidence, statistics or facts. After the answer, list the key points that earn marks, explain which parts are uncertain, and give me three specific questions to test whether I understand the answer. Keep the answer within [word limit or expected length].

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  3. Use a tool built for this

    The distant third

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know the exact interpretation your teacher or examiner will reward when the mark scheme leaves room for judgement.
  • AI invents quotations, references, evidence and statistics when the supplied material is incomplete unless you check each one.
  • AI cannot tell whether you understand the answer merely because you can recognise a polished response.
  • AI does not turn a model answer into marks in the exam unless you can reproduce the reasoning independently.
  • AI cannot decide whether using generated wording breaches your school's or exam board's rules.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, verification cost and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total9 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT write a model answer for my exam question?
Yes. Give it the full question, marks available, exam board and relevant mark scheme or course material, then use the result as a checked revision model rather than submitting it as your own work.
Can AI guarantee full marks in an exam?
No. It can produce a well-structured answer, but it can miss the examiner's intended interpretation, use inaccurate evidence or fail to match the mark scheme. Check every claim and practise producing the reasoning yourself.
Is it cheating to use AI to write a model exam answer?
Using AI to create a revision example is different from submitting generated work as your own, but your school or exam board may have its own rules. Check those rules and rewrite the answer yourself before using it for practice.
How do I get AI to write a better exam answer?
Paste the exact question, marks available, level, exam board, assessment objectives and relevant course material. Tell it not to invent quotations or facts, and ask it to explain how each paragraph earns marks before you check the answer against the mark scheme.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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