Exam revision and assessment tools, as seen on 7NEWS.
7NEWS Melbourne filmed Captivate Exam Hub in use as Victorian Year 12s prepared for the VCE English exam. Press play and it starts where Exam Hub comes up. Exam Hub is live now for Queensland, with Victoria next; Your Assess Hub, for the people writing and marking assessment, is in development.
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 Exam Hub differences.
What makes Captivate Exam Hub different for students — three of the six, all live in the app today.
- 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.
Tools 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 focus timer with a task list, session notes and a weekly review. Free in your browser; a free account syncs it across devices.
Free →Command Terms
Learn what each state's command terms actually ask for, with worked stems and spaced-repetition drills.
Free →Classroom Timer
A big, projector-friendly countdown for exams, quizzes and group rotations, with live +1 min changes, repeat rounds and gentle end sounds. Free, no sign-in.
Free →Class Picker
Pick a student at random with a spinning wheel, a name shuffle, a grid spotlight, a slot reel or a card draw, with no repeats until everyone has had a turn. Free, no sign-in; Teacher Pro syncs your classes.
Free →Group Maker
Make random, mixed-ability or similar-ability groups in seconds. Combine class lists, keep students together or apart, and reduce repeat pairings across rounds. Free, no sign-in; names stay on your device.
Free →Exam Pacing Calculator
Work out your time per mark, protect checking time and plan each question, with checkpoints, a printable plan and a practice timer. Free, no sign-in.
Free →Do Nows
Five-minute lesson starters for every key knowledge point in VCE Accounting, Biology, Business Management, Chemistry, Economics, English, English as an Additional Language, English Language, Food Studies, General Mathematics, Health and Human Development, Physical Education, Physics and Psychology: two multiple-choice questions and a short answer, with answers and a review guide. Download as Word or PowerPoint. Free, no sign-in.
Free →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 calculatedHow is your SACE ATAR calculated? Understand SATAC scaling, your best 90 credits and how AIF counts, with a worked example for South Australia and NT students.
- 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 articleTop Methods for Checking Understanding in ClassExplore top methods for checking understanding that give Australian educators timely evidence, clearer next steps and fairer learning for every student.
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.