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🎓 Build an Exam Score Calculator

Build the calculator you keep rebuilding in a spreadsheet, then put it on a link anyone can use. These prompts turn a formula into a working app: clean inputs, a result people trust, a saved record of every calculation, and an assistant that explains what the number means. Useful on your own desk, and useful in public as the page that brings people to you.
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I teach exam preparation and my students constantly ask what their practice marks actually mean. Build me an exam score calculator. Let a student enter their raw mark for each paper. Keep the conversion bands in their own editable project, one record per band with the mark range, the scaled score and the grade, so I can update them when the exam board changes without rebuilding anything. Work out the overall scaled score, the grade, whether it is a pass, and how many marks away the next grade up is. Save every attempt against the student with the date so they can see progress across practice papers. Add an AI agent that looks at a result and tells the student in plain, encouraging language which paper is holding their score back and what to practice next. Automate a weekly scheduled summary to me showing each student latest score and their trend. Two logins: a student who sees only their own attempts, and a teacher who sees the whole class. Make it clear on the page that this is a practice estimate, not an official result.

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Build an Exam Score Calculator

Turn raw paper marks into a scaled score and band with editable conversion tables, saved results, and per-paper guidance.

// the spark catches · intelligence awakens · the answer unfolds

Every exam has a conversion table and every student wants to know what their marks mean. This builds the calculator once, with the bands as data so a syllabus change is an edit rather than a rebuild.

What's Included

  • Per-paper marks in, a scaled score out using your own conversion bands.
  • Bands stored as records so next year is an edit, not a rebuild.
  • Every result saved with the date, so progress over time is visible.
  • An assistant that says which paper is holding the score back.

How To Use

  1. Put the conversion bands in their own project. That is the part that changes.
  2. Show the score, the band, and the distance to the next band together.
  3. Save every attempt so a student can see movement, not just a number.
  4. State the source of your bands on the page so people trust the result.

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