Revision that knows you.
What shall we study today?
Nova finds what you don't know yet and lights it up, one spec point at a time. Three steps to start.
Tell Nova what you want to do, or pick up where it suggests below.
Hover a peakDrag to turn the mapClick a peak to open it
Start in three steps.
Nova needs to know your subjects and where you stand. After that it plans every session for you.
Step 1 · 2 minutes01
Your subjects
Check your subjects, exam boards and options (like History coursework or Paper 4), and your mock dates.
Check my subjects →Step 2 · about an hour02
Your starting test
About an hour, in three sittings of about 20 minutes. It runs from very easy questions to genuinely hard ones, so nobody gets everything right. It shows Nova where you stand in each subject and where to start.
You can start with the usual practice straight away, and Nova learns from every answer. Your predicted grades and plan will get more accurate after the starting test.
Step 303
Your plan
Nova lights the spec points you show you know and picks where to start. A short plan each day, picked from what you know least.
Ready after the starting test or your first practice setNext up.
Picked from what you practised last and where you have furthest to go.
Today's plan
MocksSee my timetable →
Overall mastery
of 1,343 points started
Answered today
Day streak
Your subjects
Open one to see its topics and the ways to practise them.
Everything Nova does
Every part of Nova in one place. Most are also in the menu at the top.
Step 1 · your subjects
What you're sitting.
Nova only sets questions on what you'll sit. Pick your boards, then the options your school lets you choose.
Pick every subject you're taking.
Tap to add or remove.
Your exam boards.
Pick each board yourself, or let Nova look up your school's.
Boards
When are your mocks?
Nova counts down to them on Home.
Practice
Pick a subject.
Each box is one spec point, filled as far as you've mastered it. Open a subject to see its topics, then practise a topic, a single point or the whole subject.
mastery
Or practise all of it
mastery
Every point in this topic
In the board's own words. Practise any single point to light it up.
Specs
Every point, in the board's words.
The full specification for each of your subjects, with how far you've mastered each point. Search across all of them.
mastery of these
Write your answer, then mark it. Drag a marked card left for Again or right for Got it, or use the arrow keys.
Againretry any time
Got itinto your stats
Quick recall
known
Tick off what you know
Go down the list and tick every point you could explain to a friend. Leave the rest: Nova works on those next.
Papers
days to go
Past papers
Check my work
Hand it in. Get it marked.
An essay, a long answer or a page of maths working. Nova marks it against your board's mark scheme and points to the exact lines, like a teacher would.
Step 2 · placement pack · all your subjects
Find your starting point.
of 60
questions
No marks as you go. Press 1 to 4 to answer.
Placement pack · done
Here's where you stand.
Each answer lit or left dark the spec points it tested. Subjects run weakest first; your starting point is the weakest cluster of points across all your subjects.
By subject · weakest first
Start here
Biology · 4BI1 3.14–3.18B
DNA and protein synthesis
Five spec points at 31% between them, the weakest cluster in your field. Three are B points, tested on Paper 2B.
Light up Nova and see my plan →Stats
How you're doing.
The two 3D charts turn when you drag them. Point at anything to read it. Further down, run along a subject's row to look through its points, and click to keep one in the card.
Overall mastery
Predicted average grade
Questions in 12 weeks
Day streak
Your field · all 1,343 spec points
One bar per spec point, a block per subject. Taller and brighter is better mastered; points practised today glow white.
Predicted grades
If you sat the exam today, from your answers so far. Only Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths have one: Nova has checked those boards' grade boundaries.
Questions · last 12 weeks
. A column per week, how many questions you answered; the dots under it are its days, Monday at the top. Point at a week to read it.
Every point
Admin · only you can see this page
Run Nova.
Test mode, the site's switches and every student who has signed in.
Test mode
While it's on, your answers, mastery and ticks aren't saved, here or on any device you sign in on, and your real progress comes back when you turn it off. Subject choices, options, mock dates and voice settings still save as normal.
Site switches
These are set in the project's environment variables on Vercel, not here.
Every student
Privacy notice · version 2026-11
Your data, in plain English.
What Nova keeps about you when you sign in, why, who else handles it, and how to get rid of it.
Who we are
Nova is a GCSE revision site run by a student at Merchant Taylors' School. While Nova is in a closed pilot this notice is a draft: the owner's name and an email address for questions about your data are added here before any student is invited.
What we keep
- Your email address, to send you sign-in codes.
- That you said you're 13 or over, and which version of this notice was showing when you signed in.
- The first name you give Nova, if you choose to, so it can talk to you by name. Only you and Nova's owner see it: never other students, and it isn't sent to the AI.
- Your settings, such as your subjects, your exam year and whether Nova reads aloud.
- Your answers and marks, and the progress Nova works out from them. For now these stay on your own device; once Nova saves them to your account, they're kept as below.
- How much of Nova's AI you've used today, so everyone gets a fair share.
What we never collect
Your surname, school, date of birth, where you are, your contacts, or anything for adverts. There are no adverts. The school name you type into "Find my school's boards" is used for that one search and not kept.
No passwords
You sign in with a 6-digit code we email you, which lasts 10 minutes. On a shared or school computer, tick the box when you sign in and you're signed out when the browser closes.
Why we use it
To run Nova for you: work out what you know, choose what to practise next and mark your answers. And to keep it safe: stopping spam, abuse and people guessing codes. Nothing else.
AI marking
When Nova's AI marks an answer or replies to you, the question and your answer are sent to an AI model (Claude, made by Anthropic) through Vercel's AI Gateway. Your email is never sent with them, and we ask for them not to be kept. Read aloud sends only the words being read to Google's voice, which keeps none of it. Each student has a daily AI allowance, which fills up again overnight.
Who else handles it
Only the companies that run Nova for us: Supabase stores your account and data, in London; Vercel runs the site, on its London servers; Resend sends the sign-in emails, from Ireland; Anthropic and Google run the AI and the reading voice. None of them may use your data for anything of their own. We never sell it or give it to anyone else.
How long we keep it
| Written answers | 30 days |
| Counters that stop spam (scrambled, never your actual email or internet address) | 2 days |
| Supabase's record of each sign-in | Confirmed here before any student is invited |
| Your account and progress | Until you delete it, or 12 months after you last use Nova |
| Once you ask us to delete your account | Gone within 7 days |
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account. For now, email us from the address you sign in with, at the address under Who we are; buttons to do it yourself are coming. We reply as soon as we can, and always within the time the law allows. You can also sign out of every device at any time from your account.
Complaints
Tell us first, at the address under Who we are: we'll let you know we've got it within 30 days, look into it and tell you what happened. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes
If anything important changes, Nova tells you before it happens. This is version 2026-11, from November 2026.