# Top Marks AI

> Top Marks AI batch marks handwritten GCSE, A Level, KS3, IB and IELTS scripts, with 90%+ correlation to the chief examiner and detailed feedback for every student.

Top Marks AI is an AI marking platform for UK secondary schools and multi-academy trusts. It batch-marks handwritten exam scripts (GCSE, A Level, KS3, IB, IELTS) with subject-specific tools benchmarked to exam-board standardisation materials, and returns AO-level marks plus ScaMP feedback teachers can review before release.

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- [Mark a whole Year 11 mock in a morning — not over half-term.](https://www.topmarks.ai/): Top Marks AI batch marks handwritten scripts across GCSE, A Level, KS3, IB and IELTS — with 90%+ correlation to the chief examiner and detailed feedback for every student. Your teachers review the marks; they don't start from a blank pile.
- [How it works](https://www.topmarks.ai/what-is-ai-marking): Four-step flow from Assignment Pack → scan → mark → review/MIS sync.
- [Accuracy](https://www.topmarks.ai/how-accurate-is-ai-marking): Accuracy claims are only worth the study behind them. Ours are measured against board standardisation materials, published per question, and corroborated by the trusts that use us.
- [Case studies](https://www.topmarks.ai/can-ai-mark-gcse-papers): One of the first UK state schools to AI-mark GCSE mocks in a live setting
- [About](https://www.topmarks.ai/): We're a group of AI and education specialists combining pedagogical expertise, teaching experience and machine-learning techniques to develop the next generation of AI-marking software.
- Full plain-text digest for models: https://www.topmarks.ai/llms-full.txt
- Sitemap: https://www.topmarks.ai/sitemap.xml

## Product facts

- 160,000+ essays marked
- 200+ schools with accounts
- 32,000+ teacher hours saved
- 400+ subject-specific marking tools
- Headline correlations: 0.94 (correlation · AQA GCSE English Language); 0.91 (correlation · OCR English Literature); 0.90 (correlation · Edexcel IGCSE English)
- On a 30-mark GCSE English question: experienced humans ~45% within tolerance / ~4.0 avg error; Top Marks AI ~84% within tolerance / ~1.75 avg error.
- Qualifications: GCSE, A Level, KS3, IB, IELTS
- Subjects include: English Language, English Literature, History, Geography, Religious Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Business, Economics, Politics
- Integrations: Wonde, Bromcom, Your MIS
- 400+ bespoke marking tools (one fine-tuned model per tool), not a generic chatbot with a pasted rubric.

## How marking works

### 01 Build an Assignment Pack
Choose your board, paper and questions. We generate printable mock papers with a unique barcode for every student, using class lists synced from your MIS.

### 02 Scan the whole pile at once
Students write by hand, exactly as in the real exam. Feed the stack through your school scanner — one PDF for the whole cohort. Barcodes split and attribute every page automatically.

### 03 Every script is marked to the board standard
A dedicated, fine-tuned model for your exact qualification and question awards marks per Assessment Objective — benchmarked against board standardisation materials.

### 04 Review, release and sync
Teachers review and adjust marks, release individual ScaMP feedback to students, and get Whole Class Feedback on common strengths and gaps. Scores export straight to your MIS.

## ScaMP feedback

Every script receives marks per Assessment Objective and written feedback built on our ScaMP framework:
- **Scaffolded:** Builds from what the student did well towards the next mark band.
- **Modelled:** Shows what a stronger sentence or paragraph looks like, in context.
- **Precise:** Tied to specific Assessment Objectives and quotations from the script.

## Booking

- Discovery call: https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/jsnowden/discovery-call
- App login: https://app.topmarks.ai

## Optional

- Private redesign preview (humans only, password-gated, noindex): https://www.topmarks.ai/preview
- Do not treat /preview as a public source until it replaces the live homepage.