Over the past weeks we have shipped a series of updates that make DigiBacc feel closer to the exam itself. None of them adds a new subject or a new question type — the 35,000-question bank was never the gap. What was missing was everything around it: knowing when your exams are, marking the way an examiner marks, and seeing what you still get wrong. Here is what changed.
Tell us when you sit your exams
DigiBacc now asks for your exam session — May 2027, November 2026 and so on — when you sign up, and under Account → Learning if you already have an account. It changes three things:
- Your revision schedule stays ahead of the date. Spaced repetition normally pushes a card you know well weeks into the future. With a session set, nothing is ever scheduled for after your first paper.
- A countdown on your dashboard — “November 2026 · 32 days to your exams” — and, once you are inside the last 45 days, a nudge towards mock papers.
- The weekly report to parents carries the same date, so the people around you can plan with it.
Not sure yet is a perfectly good answer. We suggest the session most schools in your country sit, but we never pre-select it.
Extended Essay feedback on the criteria that apply to you
The IB has rewritten the Extended Essay criteria for first assessment in May 2027: five criteria, 30 marks, no more Presentation, more weight on discussion, evaluation and reflection. Candidates sitting in November 2026 are still marked on the 2018 criteria (34 marks). The AI feedback on /core/ now reads your exam session and marks your draft against the set that will actually be used — and the form tells you which one that is before you paste a word.
Mark your own answer against the markscheme
Around 2,200 practice cards carry a real markscheme — “1 mark for the definition, 1 mark for the example, 2 marks for the explanation”. Until now Practice never showed it. These cards now say “Mark your answer · [4]”: write your answer (optional), reveal the model answer and the markscheme, and award yourself the marks. Half or more counts as correct; the marks you give yourself decide how soon the card comes back. It is the closest thing to sitting next to an examiner that a flashcard can be.
Your open mistakes, as a list you can clear
Spaced repetition always brought back the cards you got wrong — quietly. Now you can see them: “21 open mistakes” on the dashboard, and a Fix N mistakes button per subject on the Progress page that starts a session over exactly those cards. Get one right and it leaves the list; get it wrong again later and it is back. Nothing to reset, nothing to tick off.
Tell Practice where your class is
At the start of the year, a random new card from Unit 4 is not practice, it is noise. The first time you open a subject, DigiBacc now asks “Where are you in Economics?” — tick the units (or single topics) your class has covered, and new cards come from those only. Reviews keep coming from everything you have already seen. Your exam session suggests a position in the course; you confirm it. Change it any time with the ☑ next to the subject, or choose “All units” if you are revising everything.
A practice screen that is just the card
While a card is on the table, everything else steps away: no dashboard above, no navigation below — the question, your answer, and the arrow back. The streak, XP and passes have moved into one quiet line and into your account, where they belong.
Revision notes on every topic page
Our public practice pages — one per unit of every subject — now show key terms with definitions, common mistakes drawn from real error-diagnosis questions, and exam tips on the command terms that unit uses most, with the assessment objective and the usual marks. All of it comes out of the question bank itself, so it grows as the bank grows. Start at digibacc.com/practice.
If you already have an account: set your exam session once under Account → Learning, then open Practice and answer the “Where are you?” question for each subject. The rest happens on its own.