GratisAIlearning · free field guide · reviewed 2026-09-13
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See Which Topics Your Past Papers Never Touched — Free

Revision by past paper feels like coverage until the exam asks about the one topic that never came up in the three years you practised. This binder takes your topic list and the papers you have actually done, checks each topic against them sheet by sheet, and prints the tabs with nothing behind them — the gaps in your revision, in the order you should close them.

The proof surface

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InputTopics as Topic | which past papers covered it (by number) | note, against a printed key of the papers
Rare deviceMarks each syllabus topic against the past papers actually completed and lists the topics no paper covered, so revision gaps are named instead of felt
Outputa ring-bound coverage binder with one tabbed sheet per topic, the papers that covered it in the value column, a filed-in-order band at the foot, the uncovered sheets boxed in accent, and the rings closing as the coverage settles
Cost$0 · local-first · no account

Why the flat version breaks

A stack of completed past papers is evidence of effort, not of coverage. Without a topic list beside it, the same three topics get practised every year because they are the ones that come up first. Marking each topic against the papers you have done turns a pile of practice into a map with visible holes.

How to use the revision coverage binder in four passes

Build the topic list from the syllabus, not from your notes

Your notes only contain what you have already revised. The specification's topic headings are the rows that matter, including the ones you have avoided all year.

Mark only the papers you have actually done

A paper you read but did not attempt is not coverage. Marking it makes the binder optimistic, and an optimistic coverage map is worse than none because it stops you revising the gap.

Work the boxed rows first, in order of syllabus weight

A topic worth 20 marks that has never appeared is the highest-value revision in the whole plan — it is also the one most likely to be on this year's paper precisely because it has not been on a recent paper.

Re-run the binder after every paper

Each paper you complete changes the marks. Re-run it weekly and watch the boxed rows fall; that count is a better measure of exam readiness than the number of papers done.

SAMPLE DATA, NOT A VERIFIED CLAIM: A-level Biology Paper 3 · exam 12 Jun 2027 · fourteen topics · five papers done · respiration and photosynthesis in every paper · biodiversity and population genetics in none. Replace these values with your own source before you rely on anything.

What breaks first

Marking a topic as covered because it is in your notes

Coverage means a question you answered under time. A topic you have read about and never practised is still a gap, and the binder only records what you tell it.

Treating one appearance as safe

A topic that came up once in five papers can come up twice this year. Rows with a single mark are half-gaps: revise them, just after the empty ones.

Revising the topics you already know because they are on the list

The comfortable rows are the ones with four and five marks against them. They are covered; the binder exists to point you at the sheets that are not.

What you pay otherwise

The usual routeWhat it leaves outCost
A revision platform with topic trackingTracks the questions it sets you, not the papers you have donea monthly subscription
A tutor's coverage checkAccurate, and scheduled around their availabilityan hourly rate
Discovering the gap in the exam roomThe topic nobody has asked in five years turns up worth 20 marksa grade and a resit
This page + the free revision coverage binderComputed in your tab, result on screen before you type anything$0

Try the free revision coverage binder

Fourteen biology topics are already marked against five papers, with three sheets boxed as uncovered. Mark one of those gaps against a sixth paper and the boxed count falls to two.

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Keep the work if you will use it again

Free coreComplete on-screen result at $0

Every topic, the paper key, the coverage marks and the boxed gaps, plus copy and share-link, with no account.

$4 · one-timePrintable binder and revision history

The on-screen result is free and repeatable forever. The one-time tier adds a tangible file you keep and the saved history that comes with it; it never removes or degrades the free result.

Go deeper in the companion app →

Boundary: This records the coverage you mark; it cannot predict an exam, it does not know a syllabus's weighting, and past paper frequency is not a guarantee of what will appear. Work from your own specification and your teacher's guidance, and revise the whole syllabus rather than only the gaps.