Taking mock tests

Every timed test on StemPy Lab works the same way, whether it is a practice paper, a class test from your teacher or an open exam.

All three use the same question bank. They differ in how you meet the questions.

• Quiz

  How it works

  One question. Answer it and see at once if you are right, with the explanation.

  Best for

  Checking one idea quickly

• Question set

  How it works

  A set of questions with no clock. Often sits inside a lesson as Test Your Learning.

  Best for

  Practice at your own pace

• Mock test

  How it works

  A timed paper, taken start to finish like the real exam. Answers stay hidden until you submit.

  Best for

  Exam practice

Your score is worked out on our server from the answers you gave. Nothing in the browser can change it.

Menu: Mock Tests

1. Tell us your exams

   Near the top of Mock Tests, answer What are you preparing for? (JEE Main, NEET, the boards and more). Papers and live exams for your exams then come first, here and on your dashboard. Your exam is not in the list? Press Tell us under Don't find your exam? and say what you are preparing for: the exams students ask for most get a series first.

2. Pick a shelf

   Papers are grouped by exam and subject, for example JEE Main · Physics. Each shelf shows how many papers it has.

3. Open a paper

   The paper's page shows its length, number of questions, marking and sections. Press Start when you are ready.

Mock Tests also shows the open exams coming up, your class tests and exams once they start, and the tests recently held on the site. See Open exams and the Live Series.

A test's page shows what the paper is before you start: its exam (JEE Main, NEET, a board exam, an Olympiad), the number of questions, the minutes, the total marks and the marking. Beside it, the Exam pattern lists the sections, how a right, wrong or blank answer is marked, the time rule and the topics the paper covers. Once a few people have taken it, it also shows how many, their average and the top score.

Pressing Start on a timed test opens an instructions page. It lists the time, the marking, the sections, how each kind of question is answered, the rules of the exam screen, and anything your teacher wrote.

The clock starts only when you tick I have read and understood and press Begin the test. Read it without hurry.

It works like the online JEE and NEET. One question is on screen at a time. The palette beside it shows every question by colour.

1. Choose an answer

   Your answer is saved the moment you choose it. You do not need to press anything else to keep it.

2. Move on

   Save & Next goes to the next question. Press any number in the palette to jump to that question.

3. Come back later

   Mark for Review & Next puts a purple circle on the question so you can find it again. An answered question that is marked still counts.

4. Change your mind

   Clear Response takes your answer back. A question with no answer scores 0, with no penalty.

5. Submit

   Press Submit test. A summary shows how many you answered, left and marked, so you can go back before you confirm.

• One correct option

  How you answer

  Choose one option.

  How it is marked

  Full marks if right. The penalty if wrong.

• Several correct options

  How you answer

  Tick every option you think is right.

  How it is marked

  All the right ones and no wrong one: full marks. Only right ones, but not all: a share. Any wrong option: the penalty.

• Type a number

  How you answer

  Type the value.

  How it is marked

  Right if it is within the accepted difference.

The instructions page says which kinds a test has. You can also try these questions one at a time on a quiz's own page.

A test can be split into sections, such as Physics, Chemistry and Maths. The palette and your result show each section on its own.

Some tests give every section its own clock, as some online exams do. You take the sections one after another. A section closes when its time ends or when you press Save & Finish Section, and you cannot go back to it.

A teacher may also shuffle the options, so the students beside you see them in a different order.

A test can be marked like the exam it copies. JEE Main and NEET give +4 for a right answer and −1 for a wrong one. Olympiad and JEE Advanced papers give +3 and −1. Board exam papers take nothing away for a wrong answer. A question can carry marks of its own. A question left blank always scores 0.

Your result shows marks and a percentage. The percentage (never below 0) is what the leaderboard and group challenges use, so tests marked in different ways can be compared. Question sets are always +1 for a right answer, with no penalty.

A paper in an exam's style also keeps that exam's pace, however many questions it has. JEE Main gives 2.4 minutes a question (75 questions in 180 minutes), JEE Advanced about 3.5 minutes and the Olympiads 2 minutes. NEET gives each subject its own pace: Physics 2 minutes a question, Chemistry 80 seconds and Biology about 33 seconds (180 questions in 200 minutes in all), and a paper that mixes subjects adds them. The time is rounded to the nearest 5 minutes. So a 20-question JEE Main paper has 50 minutes and 80 marks, and a 20-question NEET Physics paper has 40 minutes and 80 marks. A test a teacher makes, or an exam event, keeps the time its maker gives it.

• Copying and printing are switched off.
• Your name is shown faintly across the page.
• Leaving the test (another tab, another app, a call) is counted and timed, and your teacher or the organiser can see it.
• In an exam, leaving too often holds your attempt out of the ranks until it is reviewed. You can appeal once.

More on this in Leaving the exam screen and appeals.

After you submit (or when the teacher releases results), the result page shows:

• your marks and percentage, and each section on its own;
• your accuracy: of the questions you answered, how many were right;
• Where you stand among everyone who has taken the test: your place, how many scored below you, the average, the top score, and a small chart of how the scores spread. Each person counts once, with their first result. It shows once a few have taken it;
• By topic: right answers and marks for each topic, weakest first, so you know what to go back to;
• every question, with your answer, the right answer and the explanation;
• in a timed test, the time you spent on each question;
• in an open exam, your place among everyone who took it, once results are out (in a class, your rank is on the class page).

Retaking a practice paper is allowed. On the leaderboard, only your best result on each test counts, so a retake can only help.

A vault is your own collection of questions. Only you can see it.

1. Keep a question

   Press Add to vault on a quiz, under a quiz in a lesson, or beside a question in your test result. In a result, Select the ones I missed picks every wrong answer at once. + Create a new vault makes one on the spot.

2. Practise from it

   Open My Question Vaults (Practice menu or dashboard) and press Practise to make a quick test from it.

3. Let My mistakes fill itself

   Every question you get wrong in a test or on a quiz page goes into My mistakes, as soon as your result is out. It leaves once you get it right. Questions locked inside a test, such as a live exam's paper, do not go in; you can still go through them, with the answers and explanations, on your result page.

Build a Test

Pick an exam to fill in its number of questions and time, or set your own. Change the number of questions and the time follows the exam's pace (see Marking and time), until you type a time of your own. Then choose how to fill it.

• Random

  What it does

  Picks questions from the bank by level, topic and difficulty.

  Who can use it

  Everyone, free

• Blended

  What it does

  Takes what matches in the bank, and AI writes the rest.

  Who can use it

  Standard and Premium

• AI-generated

  What it does

  AI writes every question for your topic.

  Who can use it

  Standard and Premium

Every test you build is saved privately under My Content. On its page, Publish for other students lists it under Student-Created Tests for anyone to take.

My performance

Your scores over time, your average and best, how many answers you get right and leave blank, each subject, your strong topics and the ones to work on, with questions to practise. Live exams add your percentile.

Once you have taken three papers of an exam here, it shows roughly where your recent average would have stood in that exam's latest year, from published figures. It is a rough guide, not a forecast. Only you see this page.