Seven News came to see how Year 12s revise.
7NEWS Melbourne reported on how Victorian Year 12 students were preparing for the VCE English exam, interviewed our founder and filmed Captivate Exam Hub in use. Press play and it starts where Exam Hub comes up.
Captivate Education builds two platforms for opposite sides of the desk: Your Assess Hub for the people writing and marking assessment, and Captivate Exam Hub for the students sitting it. Exam Hub is live now for Queensland, with Victoria next.
Sitting the VCE this year? VCE English study guide · VCE ATAR calculator
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Built for the people on either side of every assessment.
Your Assess Hub
Under developmentA proper assessment and analytics platform. Build standards-aligned exams, mark them faster with shared rubrics, and see how each class is tracking.
- Assessment & exam builder
- Live analytics dashboard
- Student progress tracking
- Secure, lockdown-ready delivery
Captivate Exam Hub
Live now · QueenslandLive now for Queensland. Real QCAA past papers, broken down question by question into a short daily loop built around your subjects and your weak spots, with a tutor that answers only from your syllabus when a point won’t click. Other states coming soon.
- A tutor grounded in your syllabus
- Real QCE past-paper questions
- Spaced repetition, scheduled for you
- Timed past-paper sits
- An honest readiness forecast
Three of the differences.
- Every question traces back to a dot point
- Questions, notes and feedback are generated from your state’s study design and its past papers, and each one keeps the dot point it came from attached to it.
- In practiceAsk for a practice question and it can point to the study-design dot point it came from.
- Built for Australian curricula, state by state
- Command terms are the verbs a marker keys off, like evaluate or justify. Those, plus AITSL standards, and past papers gated to each student’s own jurisdiction.
- In practiceA Queensland student never spends a night on a question their syllabus doesn’t ask.
- It decides what you revise tonight
- Past-exam questions sorted by knowledge point: one dot point of the study design at a time, self-marked against the published scheme.
- In practiceTonight’s session: the questions missed last month, one new topic, and the flashcards due for review.
Built for everyone in the building.
Students
A daily revision loop that knows your weak spots.
See howTeachers
Build, mark and map assessment in a fraction of the time.
See howCurriculum leaders
Find the gap while there’s still term left to fix it.
See howSchool leaders
What your school is telling you, in a form you can act on.
See howParents
A calm, readable picture of how they’re going.
See howTools any classroom can start with today.
Rubric Builder
Build criteria-based rubrics from Victorian and senior-secondary templates or from scratch, score every student against the same descriptors, and export to PDF or CSV.
Free →Grade Calculator
Weight assessments, see where you stand, and plan the marks you need to hit a target. VCE, HSC, QCE, WACE and SACE subject weightings come prefilled from each authority's own documents, and your results carry straight into the ATAR calculators.
Free →VCE ATAR Calculator (2026)
Estimate a VCE ATAR from predicted study scores, modelled on VTAC scaling for the 2026 cohort. English plus your best 3 scaled studies, plus 10% of the next 2. Bring study scores across from the Grade Calculator or start here.
Free →NSW ATAR Calculator (2026)
Estimate a NSW ATAR from expected HSC marks, modelled on UAC scaling: best 2 units of English plus best 8 units. Bring marks across from the Grade Calculator or start here.
Free →QLD ATAR Calculator (2026)
Estimate a Queensland ATAR from expected subject results, built on QTAC's published scaling anchors: best 5 scaled results into a TEA. Bring results across from the Grade Calculator or start here.
Free →WA ATAR Calculator (2026)
Estimate a Western Australian ATAR from estimated combined marks, built on TISC's published scaling statistics: best 4 scaled scores, no bonuses from 2026. Bring marks across from the Grade Calculator or start here.
Free →SA ATAR Calculator (2026)
Estimate a South Australian or NT ATAR from estimated Stage 2 grades: SATAC-style scaling, best three 20-credit subjects plus the flexible option, converted with SATAC's official aggregate-to-ATAR table. Bring grades across from the Grade Calculator or start here.
Free →Study Timer
Pomodoro-style focus sessions with work and break intervals you set, for short revision blocks you can actually finish.
Free →Command Terms
Learn what each state's command terms actually ask for, with worked stems and spaced-repetition drills.
Free →Both platforms run on the same handful of ideas.
Three of them, and they run through both. A teacher marking Tuesday's test and a student revising for it are working from the same study design, approached from opposite ends.
Answer before you re-read
The daily loop makes a student produce an answer before it shows them one, then brings the topic back a week later. Both ideas are older than the software.
Spaced on purpose
Review lands close to the point you would otherwise forget, so a few weeks of small effort compound instead of fading.
Tied to the standards
Assessments and analytics map to your curriculum, so the numbers are fair to compare and safe to act on.
Rubrics that grade themselves.
Build a criteria-based rubric once, then score every student against the same descriptors. The totals, averages and export-ready gradebook update as you mark.
- Criteria, levels and descriptors in one builder
- Click-to-score against any rubric
- Export to PDF or Excel when you are done
| Criteria | Excellent | Good | Developing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Textual evidence | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Argument structure | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Language control | 5 | 4 | 2 |
We’re building this in the open.
We’d rather show you the real thing than invent reviews. Captivate Exam Hub is live for Queensland students, and every screenshot of it on this site comes from the working app. The free tools are real and you can use them right now. Your Assess Hub is still in development, and the teacher screens across this site are how it’s taking shape. If you teach, or you’re sitting exams this year, we want your eyes on it.
- Live nowLive now · Queensland
Captivate Exam Hub is live for Queensland students, with real QCAA past papers and a tutor grounded in their own syllabus. The free tools (rubric builder, calculators and study timer) work today with no account.
- In developmentUnder development
Your Assess Hub is still being built, and the Exam Hub’s coverage of the other states and territories is on its way. The teacher screens on this site show where that side is heading.
- Looking for testers
We want teachers to try the early builds of Your Assess Hub, and students anywhere to tell us what the Exam Hub is missing.
Built by someone who has had to teach it.
Captivate is made by a secondary teacher with more than 25 years in Australian classrooms — not by a content team adapting an overseas product to fit our curriculum. That is the whole reason it works state by state instead of averaging across them.
The subject weightings in the free tools come from each authority's own published documents. Where an authority doesn't publish its scaling data, the tool says so on the page rather than passing a model off as official.
Jason Keyt, Founder
25+ years teaching in Australian secondary schools, with a background in IT and cyber security.
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The rules behind the numbers.
- Guide · South Australia & NT · SACE · SATACHow the SACE ATAR is calculatedGrades to scaled scores, the 90-credit University Aggregate, the flexible option and AIF: how a South Australian or Northern Territory ATAR is worked out.
- Guide · Study · GradesWeighted grades: how to work out where you stand and what mark you needHow assessment weightings combine into a grade, the formula behind "what do I need on the exam", and how VCE, HSC, QCE, WACE and SACE weight assessments.
- Latest articleHow to Write Clear Assessment InstructionsLearn how to write clear assessment instructions that reduce learner uncertainty, support fairness and make marking more efficient for educators at scale.
Pick your side of the desk.
Start with the free tools today. Queensland students can start a free trial of Captivate Exam Hub right now. No credit card to begin.