Whether you’re gearing up for your GCSEs or looking to improve your A Level performance, high-quality revision tools can make a world of difference. That’s why I'm excited to introduce Brain Glue, a powerful new GCSE revision and A Level revision app designed with one clear purpose in mind: to help students learn better.
If you’ve tried Mega Seating Plan, you know my commitment to intuitive, thoughtfully designed tools that simplify and enhance the classroom experience. With Brain Glue, I'm bringing that same philosophy directly to students’ fingertips, wherever they might be studying.
What is Brain Glue?
Brain Glue isn’t just another revision quiz app for GCSE and A Level; it’s a cutting-edge, AI-powered quiz platform that personalises learning for every student. Through carefully crafted quizzes, spaced repetition, interleaved learning activities, and immediate feedback, Brain Glue helps students understand their strengths, identify their weaknesses, and continuously improve. Here’s why it stands out:
1. Curriculum-Aligned Content: Brain Glue is designed specifically with the UK curriculum in mind. Its quizzes are perfectly suited for GCSE revision and A Level revision, ensuring that the content aligns with exam board specifications and the subjects you’re actually studying.
2. Personalised Learning Through AI: Brain Glue’s algorithms track student performance over time. After each quiz, our AI suggests follow-up questions that target areas of difficulty, while reinforcing knowledge in areas that students have already begun to master. The result? A truly bespoke revision experience.
3. Low-Stakes Quizzing, High-Impact Results: Instead of overwhelming you with a high-pressure testing environment, Brain Glue offers low-stakes quizzing. Students learn best when they can attempt questions without fear, making them more willing to engage, make mistakes, and learn from them.
The Science Behind Brain Glue
Brain Glue isn’t just built on guesswork—it’s shaped by research-backed learning principles. Academic studies have consistently shown that spaced, interleaved, low-stakes practice testing can dramatically improve retention, deepen understanding, and increase students’ confidence. Here are some of the research-backed approaches integrated into Brain Glue’s design:
1. Spaced Repetition:
According to research published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest by Dunlosky et al. (2013), spaced repetition—where study sessions and testing opportunities are spaced out over time—significantly improves long-term retention. Another study by Bahrick (1979) showed that spreading learning over time reduces forgetting, as each new exposure to the material strengthens the memory trace in the brain. Brain Glue’s AI uses these principles to schedule quizzes and content reviews at optimal intervals, ensuring that key concepts don’t slip out of your memory.
2. Interleaving:
Instead of teaching concepts in isolated blocks, interleaving mixes different topics or question types within a single revision session. A study by Rohrer and Taylor (2007) demonstrated that interleaving can improve students’ ability to discriminate between different problem types and apply the correct strategy. Similarly, Kang (2016) found that interleaving practices lead to better long-term learning than massed (blocked) practice. In Brain Glue, you’ll find different question types and topics woven together in a way that mirrors real exam conditions, ensuring a deeper conceptual understanding.
3. Low-Stakes Testing:
Frequent, low-pressure quizzes have been shown to enhance learning and reduce test anxiety. Research by Roediger and Karpicke (2006) found that regular retrieval practice—testing yourself—improves long-term retention more effectively than simply re-reading notes. By taking short, low-stakes quizzes, students can track their understanding of the material without the stress of a high-pressure exam environment. Brain Glue’s quizzes are designed to be approachable and unintimidating, encouraging regular practice and continuous improvement.
4. Feedback That Drives Improvement
Immediate, targeted feedback is one of the most critical tools in any student’s revision arsenal. Hattie and Timperley (2007) highlighted the importance of feedback for improving student performance. High-quality feedback helps learners understand exactly where they went wrong and guides them toward correction.
With Brain Glue, each question is followed by dynamic feedback. If you get a question right, the app confirms your understanding and may gradually increase difficulty. If you get it wrong, Brain Glue gives you instant feedback on where you went wrong. This kind of granular, question-by-question guidance means no more waiting days or weeks for feedback from teachers. Instead, you refine your understanding in real-time, solidifying correct information and avoiding the reinforcement of misconceptions.
Matched to GCSE and A Level exam specifications
Students preparing for exams need to know that their revision tools have their back. Brain Glue’s question banks are carefully curated to reflect the requirements for GCSE revision and A Level revision, covering key topics in sciences, humanities, languages, and more. This ensures that every quiz you take aligns directly with what you need to learn for your exams, saving you precious time and energy.
At higher levels, like A Levels, the complexity of the questions and the depth of understanding required increases. With Brain Glue, the revision process mirrors the exams’ progression, guiding students from fundamental knowledge recall through to more conceptual application and synthesis.
Customisable to Suit Individual Needs
What sets Brain Glue apart from a typical revision app is its ability to adapt. Brain Glue’s AI algorithms monitor each student’s responses, adjusting the difficulty of subsequent quizzes accordingly. If a student is struggling with a particular topic, Brain Glue spots the trend and suggests more revision quizzes that focus on those weak areas.
This level of personalisation ensures that no two students have the same experience. Each journey through Brain Glue is unique, tailored to support every learner’s goals, pace, and prior knowledge.
A Smooth User Experience
I've channeled my experience from creating Mega Seating Plan into developing an interface that’s clean, intuitive, and efficient. When you open Brain Glue, you’re greeted with a dashboard that keeps track of your recent performance, upcoming quizzes, and areas of focus. Need a quick, targeted quiz on a troublesome topic before tomorrow’s exam? No problem.
A Whole New Level of Confidence
Confidence is key in any examination. When you know you’ve prepared effectively—honing your skills through well-structured, research-backed quizzes—you walk into the exam hall with your head held high. By continuously practising with Brain Glue’s revision quiz, students become familiar with the question formats and learn how to manage their time and thinking strategies effectively.
The result isn’t just better marks, but a more positive relationship with learning. Students who use Brain Glue find that revision stops feeling like an endless chore and starts becoming a manageable, even enjoyable, part of their daily routine. After all, nothing motivates like progress you can see and measure every single day.
Ready to Get Started?
If you’re a student preparing for GCSEs or A Levels, a parent looking for reliable revision tools, or a teacher wanting to recommend an effective resource, give Brain Glue a try. The app is free to download from the iOS App Store or the Android Play Store. You’ll quickly discover that improving your understanding, boosting your memory, and building exam confidence can be both challenging and deeply rewarding.
By harnessing the principles of spaced repetition, interleaved practice, and low-stakes testing—backed by solid academic research—Brain Glue helps students master their subject material, one quiz at a time. Don’t just take our word for it: experience the difference Brain Glue can make and transform your GCSE or A Level revision journey today.
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