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Tutoring that starts from your own syllabus, whichever curriculum you study. It finds your gaps with marked rounds, teaches at them, and shows how far off each exam you are.

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At a glance

Starts from
Your syllabus, pasted in or as a file
Curriculum
Any: what you can paste or drop in becomes a tree
Who helps
TutorExaminerLibrarian
Labels
Works without AIUses AIComing later

It starts from your syllabus

Paste your syllabus, unit outline or teacher’s checklist, or drop in a text PDF. It’s read into units, topics and dot points, you choose which units to include, and each subject’s two trees grow from them.

Uses AIReading what you add uses AI. You see every line, and what it became, before anything is kept. Include adds the units you ticked, with Undo, and Set it aside keeps nothing.

A PDF can be up to 5 MB. A scanned PDF has no text to read, so paste it instead.

Coming laterLooking a syllabus up for you, by naming the curriculum and the course, is still to come.

Modus Ordo adapts to any curriculum. Some subjects come with a tree and a bank of questions already built; every other subject starts from the syllabus you add.

Add your syllabus · Methods

Sam’s example

Pasted from a unit outline

Unit 1: Differentiation1.1 Rates of changeUse the product and chain rulesFind stationary points

IncludeLineBecomesPage
Unit 1: DifferentiationUnitp. 4
1.1 Rates of changeTopicp. 4
Use the product and chain rulesPointp. 5
Find stationary pointsPointp. 5
Unit 2: LogarithmsUnitp. 7

A first diagnostic round

A diagnostic round samples every topic, so the plan knows where to start. It isn’t a grade, and the Tutor is off during it, so the result is yours alone.

The questions come from a bank where there is one, and are written from your syllabus where there isn’t.

Every kind of round, from targeted rounds to re-checks, is on Trees and rounds.

A diagnostic round

Length
20, 30 or 40 minutes, never less than 20
Questions
One to three on each topic
Marked
When you hand it in
It counts as
A starting point, not a grade
The Tutor
Off until the round is done

Marking that tells knowing from doing

A mark has two halves. Knowing an idea is its KnowScore, and doing the steps is its SkillScore. The result starts with the root causes, each with one fix.

Works without AIUses AIChoice and number answers are marked by code. Typed working is marked by AI, which describes it in words, and code works out the scores.

An idea or a skill that no marked answer has touched says Not yet assessed. It is never a low score. How a score is worked out.

Diagnostic round · Methods

Sam’s example
QuestionIdeaMarks
Q1Product rule3 of 3
Q2Chain rule2 of 4
Q3Stationary points1 of 4
Q4Chain rule2 of 4
Chain rule: knows the idea
KnowScore OK 3.5
Chain rule: does the steps
SkillScore Weak 2
Root cause 1

The inside’s derivative goes missing (Q2, Q4). Fix: write it on its own line before you multiply.

Teaching aimed at your gaps

Teach takes your gaps hardest-hitting first. The Tutor asks you to explain each idea in your own words, then asks why, and moves on only when you’ve shown it.

A teaching check counts once, capped at 4, and the idea reads To verify until a question confirms it. Teaching never changes your skill scores: only doing questions does that.

Uses AITeach uses AI.

Teach · Methods

Sam’s example
  1. Stationary pointsWeak 2.54 marks lost
  2. Log lawsWeak 32 marks lost

Before any working: what is the gradient at a stationary point?

Zero

Good. So which equation gives you the x-values?

A teaching check counts once, capped at 4, until a question confirms it.To verify

Practice from your own syllabus

A subject you added from your own syllabus has no shared question bank, so Drill writes practice questions for you first. Each one is checked before you see it.

Once three are ready you can start with those. The questions are yours alone, and aren’t shown to anyone else.

Uses AIWriting and checking the questions uses AI.

Practice · Methods, from your syllabus

Sam’s example
Writing questions for you4 of 8 ready
  • Written from your own syllabus
  • Solved again by a second pass that doesn’t see the first answer
  • Kept only if the two answers agree

Once three are ready. Up to 40 questions a day, and they’re yours alone.

Mastery, per exam

Each exam has four checks, a run-up to its date, and a plain sentence on how far off you are.

Close means the first two checks are met, and Mastered shows only when all four are. The run-up changes the advice with the days to the exam: 28 or more builds, 8 to 27 is balanced, 3 to 7 sharpens, and 2 or fewer is reps.

Works without AIThe checks and the run-up are code.

Mastery · Methods exam, Tue 10 Nov

Sam’s example
  1. Not started
  2. Building
  3. Close
  4. Mastered
0 of 4 metBalanced · 27 days
  1. No subtopic below 4In progress4 ideas to lift: Chain rule, Stationary points, Log laws, and Change of base, which isn’t assessed yet.
  2. No microskill below 4In progress2 microskills to lift: Chain rule: inner derivative (2) and Setting f′(x) = 0 (3.5).
  3. Two full-length papersIn progressNone sat yet. Two in a row at 90% or more.
  4. A re-checkLockedA day or more after the papers, on your weakest ideas, at 90% or more.

Next stepTeach the gaps, then a targeted round.

For QCAA students

Modus Ordo is built around how senior school works in Queensland. It is independent: it isn’t made or endorsed by the QCAA.

In senior schoolIn Modus Ordo
Internal assessments (IAs)Each IA is its own item with the due date, conditions like the word count, a draft checkpoint, steps, and time spent against time needed. The Planner spreads the steps over the weeks.
External examsExam season shifts the plan towards revision. Practice papers follow a QCAA-style blueprint and run timed, with planning time, in study sessions.
Syllabus dot pointsEach subject’s syllabus is a table of dot points with your KnowScore for each one. Topic pages link to the dot points they cover.
Simple familiar to complex unfamiliarPractice exam results break down by Simple familiar, Complex familiar and Complex unfamiliar, so you can see where the marks went.
Four terms a yearPlan has a Term view, the week shows the term and week number, and holidays get their own pace.
Formula and data bookletsStudy sessions can open a formula and data booklet in a side panel next to the question.

The planner knows 18 QCAA General subjects by name and colour. Other subjects aren’t in the list yet, and a Personal category holds things outside school.

  • English
  • Literature
  • General Mathematics
  • Mathematical Methods
  • Specialist Mathematics
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Physics
  • Psychology
  • Engineering
  • Digital Solutions
  • Modern History
  • Geography
  • Economics
  • Legal Studies
  • Visual Art
  • Music
  • Japanese

What the tutor won’t do

Your school sets the rules about using AI for assessment, and QCAA expects assessed work to be your own. If you’re not sure what’s allowed, ask your teacher first.

NeverInstead
Write your assessmentAsks questions and points to the criteria. It doesn’t write assessed work for you.
Hand you the answer firstAsks before it tells. A hint comes one step at a time, and the solution only if you ask.
Pretend to know a score it hasn’t seenSays “Not yet assessed” until a marked answer stands behind it.
Promise a grade or a rankShows which of an exam’s four checks are met, and what’s left.

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