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Study Hack Lab is a virtual science lab for the GCSE required practicals. You do each one step by step on a 3D bench, the way it is done in class: plan and risk assessment, collect the apparatus, set up, take your readings, then answer exam-style questions on your own results and mark them against the mark scheme.

Study Hack is independent. It is not affiliated with any exam board.

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Yes. Every practical and every feature is free for everyone: the Lab, the marked questions, Practise, the papers, the teacher tools and every accessibility setting. There is nothing to buy.

Open the Lab to start.

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No. There are no accounts: no sign-up, no email address and no card. Your work is saved in your browser on your own device.

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Yes. Teachers and pupils use everything free, with no licence to buy and nothing to sign.

Paid printable resources to go with the practicals are on Tes, a separate site with its own privacy terms.

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Before a lesson: pre-practical packs, technician cards and the bench on a projector. Pupils open any practical in the Lab with no account. All of it runs on your device.

There is more on the teachers page.

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No. We collect no pupil data, and a pupil’s work stays on their own device.

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The Lab covers the 28 AQA GCSE required practicals: 10 in Biology, 8 in Chemistry and 10 in Physics. 21 of them are in Combined Science: Trilogy and 7 are for separate sciences only, and each one says which it is. AQA is named only to say which course a practical is for.

It also covers Edexcel GCSE: 24 practicals for separate sciences and 18 for Combined Science, each with its Edexcel core practical code and, where Edexcel's method differs, its own version of the bench. The Lab covers AQA and Edexcel GCSE only.

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For AQA GCSE, the question bank holds 4,111 exam-style questions, written and multiple choice, with calculations, graph work and six-mark answers. You mark each answer yourself against its mark scheme, point by point, with a hint on common slips.

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The questions are original. They are checked automatically and marked as draft or auto-checked. None has been reviewed by a subject specialist or an exam board. How content is checked.

We do not promise grades. The Lab helps you practise the practicals and the questions about them.

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Yes. The pages are built to work on a phone without sideways scrolling. The 3D bench needs a browser with WebGL; if your device cannot run it, the lab opens a simple version instead, with the same steps and readings.

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It is a website, so you need an internet connection to open it. There is no offline version.

Your work is saved in your browser, on the device you used, as you go. It does not follow you to other devices yet, and clearing your browser’s data for the site removes it. You can download a copy at any time, free.

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Every accessibility setting is free, and so is Exam Conditions: practise with your extra time, rest breaks, typed answers, a bigger paper or a reader. We aim to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA. A full manual audit with screen readers has not been done yet. Accessibility statement.

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We do not collect personal data. There are no accounts, and no cookies, analytics, adverts or tracking. The Lab saves your progress in your browser, on your device; it is not sent to us. Our host, Cloudflare, processes technical data such as IP addresses to deliver the site. Read the privacy page.

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Fixes go on the public fix log.

To write to us, email [email protected].

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