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New Session

Choose subjects, difficulty and length, then start a practice session or a timed exam.

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Build a practice session from the subjects, difficulty and number of questions you choose. New Session is part of Premium. Your choices save automatically and are ready next time.

The basics

  1. Difficulty: tick Easy, Medium, Hard, or any mix.
  2. Number of questions: choose 5, 10, 20 or 40, or Custom for any number from 1 to 200.
  3. Subjects: tick at least one, or use Select all. Clear unticks them all.
  4. Press Start session.

The count beside your selection shows how many questions match your choices, so you can check there are enough before you start.

Advanced options

  • Question pool: New + incorrect, New only, Incorrect only, or All questions (including ones you got right before).
  • Optimise question order: puts your weaker topics first. It becomes available after you have answered 100 questions.
  • Reduce similar repeats: uses at most one question from each group of very similar questions, for more variety. The count then shows unique concepts. It is off until you turn it on.
  • Daily challenge: your time zone, which sets when the Daily Question changes.
  • Review settings: Only show explanations during session review keeps explanations closed while you answer, and you choose how many Key references appear after each explanation.

Timed exams

Under Timed exam, tick Enable timed session mode and set the total time, from 60 seconds (1 minute) to 14,400 seconds (4 hours). The session then runs as a timed exam paper. See Timed exams.

Practising one article

Open the article from the Question Bank instead. Article quizzes do not use your New Session choices: with Premium you get every question for that article that you have not answered yet.