Inside the LearnWise Question Bank: 100,000 Questions, One Marker, No Spam
A short tour of how we curate questions, why we don't let AI write them alone, and what makes our marking accurate.
One of the questions we get most often from teachers is whether we use AI to generate our question bank. The short answer is no, not on its own.
We tried letting a large language model write GCSE physics questions early in 2024. It was very good at sounding like a textbook and very bad at the small details that make a question fair. Decimal places, ambiguous wording, unrealistic context, mark schemes that did not match the model answer. Every single question needed an expert to look at it before it could be trusted. After three months of that, we changed approach.
Today, every question in the LearnWise bank starts with a subject specialist — typically a current or recent examiner, head of department or qualified tutor. They write the question, they write the model answer, and they write the mark scheme step by step. An AI model then does three jobs: it generates a plausible second wrong answer for multiple-choice questions, it stress-tests the wording for ambiguity, and it produces an explanation in a friendly, student-facing voice. A second specialist signs off the result.
This is slower than letting the AI run. It is also why our questions hold up under the conditions that matter — a Year 13 student in a stress moment at half ten on a Sunday night.
The same approach drives our marking. For multiple-choice and short-answer questions, marking is automatic and accurate. For longer questions, the platform produces a first-pass mark and feedback, then surfaces both the student's work and the suggested feedback to their teacher. Teachers can accept, edit or override. Everything the AI suggests is treated as a draft, not a verdict.
We are not in the business of replacing teachers. We are in the business of giving students the tightest feedback loop possible and giving teachers their weekends back. The two goals turn out to be the same goal.
If you want to see what the question bank looks like in practice, the first 14 days are free. You don't need a card. Just a school year group and the subjects you care about.