These pages give you the blueprint behind a paper — section structure, marks per question type, unit weighting, where choice sits and how it is counted — for the board examinations that publish one, and for the paper types schools set themselves. The free tool does the arithmetic and prints it.
We do not generate questions. TurtleDock holds no question bank, and the reasoning behind that is set out below rather than buried.
Setting a paper is two jobs. One is hitting a blueprint: so many marks from this unit, so many one-mark questions, choice that does not punish an honest pick, and a total that comes to exactly what the header claims. That job is arithmetic, it is tedious, and it is where the errors found after printing come from.
The other is writing questions that are fair, correctly worded, and covered by what this class was actually taught this year. That job needs someone who stood in the room.
We do the first and leave the second alone, and it is worth being direct about why rather than implying a capability we have not built.
A generated question is fluent, looks correct, and is wrong in ways that are invisible at a glance — beyond the prescribed syllabus, answerable only with an assumption nobody stated, or carrying numbers that make the problem impossible. None of that is common enough to make the output obviously useless, and all of it is common enough that every item needs checking.
Which is where the saving disappears. Verifying forty generated questions properly takes longer than writing twenty good ones, and the school that does not verify them has put an unanswerable question in front of a class.
There is also a simpler reason. We are the record, not the syllabus — the same rule that means we carry no content library and no courseware.
More than the total. Miss any of these and the paper is not comparable with the board’s own, which is the entire point of a pre-board.
For any board examination, the current year’s sample paper and marking scheme published by the board are the authority — not this site and not any vendor. Patterns are revised, so a copy in the departmental folder from two years ago is not a safe source.
Below Class 9 there is generally no board-prescribed structure at all, because those are school-set internal examinations. Anyone publishing a definitive "Class 4 paper format" has invented it, and we would rather say that than write eighty pages of it.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
No. It takes your sections, how many questions are printed against how many must be answered, and the marks each, then totals the paper, checks it against your intended total and prints a blueprint with signature space for the setter and the moderator.
Because most of them could not be written honestly. Boards publish paper structures for the board years; below that, schools set their own. Pages exist here where a real, citable structure exists.
No. It is free, needs no sign-in, and nothing you type is stored or sent to us. Schools running SchoolDeck get the blueprint tied to their own assessment structure, so results post against the student record rather than being entered twice.
We use it where the output is verified before it acts or is a draft a person completes, and decline it where the output is a judgement about a child that will be read as a fact. The full argument is in the blog post linked below.
Each one answers a single question outright, then shows the working.
Checked by the Implementations desk on 1 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.
Pricing is on the page, in the open, with the counting rule written next to it. Nobody has to book a call to find out what it costs.
See pricingForty minutes with an implementation engineer — your classes, your fee heads, your grading scheme, entered as we go. No slides, no sample school.