Practice Exams

Practice Exam is a timed, full-length test built from one of your flashcard decks. It is the closest thing Scholarly has to a real exam environment -- a question count, a countdown timer, mixed question types, and a graded result at the end.

Quizzes test individual concepts. Practice Exams test whether you can hold the whole deck in your head under pressure.

Starting a Practice Exam

There are two ways to start one.

From the Home Page

Click the Practice Exam action on the home page. A small modal opens with your most recent flashcard decks -- pick one and the exam starts immediately. This is the fastest way to jump into an exam without navigating to the deck first.

If you do not have any flashcards yet, the action prompts you to create your first deck.

From a Flashcard Deck

Open any flashcard deck and switch to the Exam tab. From there you can pick a preset or build a custom exam:

• Quick Quiz -- 15 questions, mixed types. Light review.
• Full Exam -- 50 questions, 45-minute timer. Closest to a real test.
• Weak Spots -- 20 questions weighted toward cards you still struggle with.
• Customize your own -- Choose question count, timer, difficulty, and which question types to include.

Taking the Exam

You see one question at a time with a running timer at the top. Question types are mixed:

• True/False
• Multiple choice
• Fill in the blank
• Short response (free-form, AI-graded)

You can skip questions, jump back to ones you skipped, and submit early if you finish before the timer runs out.

If you close the tab or your connection drops, the exam pauses. Open the deck again to resume from where you left off.

Results and History

Once you submit, you see:

• A final score and a per-question-type breakdown.
• An answer-by-answer review showing the correct answer, your answer, and an AI explanation.
• A Retake button to try the same exam configuration again.
• A feedback prompt where you can rate the exam.

Every attempt is saved. Open Past Exams on the deck to see the full history -- the date, score, and number of questions for each attempt. Past exams without a custom title use the date they were created so you can always find a specific run.

Free Plan vs Premium

Free users get a limited number of exam questions per day. Abandoning an exam without answering any questions does not count against your limit, so you can preview an exam and back out if it is not what you wanted. Premium users have unlimited practice exam questions.

Tips

• Take a Weak Spots exam a day or two before a real test. It surfaces the gaps your spaced-repetition study has not closed yet.
• Re-run the same custom exam on the same deck to track whether your scores are improving over time.
• Short response questions are graded by AI -- be specific. Vague answers get partial credit, but you learn more from a complete one.
• Use the Retake button right after a result. The questions reshuffle, so you are testing recall and not just memorizing the order.

Related

• Quizzes and Exams -- the full breakdown of question types and AI grading.
• Flashcards -- the deck that backs every practice exam.
• Hard Questions -- how cards get flagged into your Weak Spots exam pool.