Alloy · How it works

Six things. One job.

Six things, one job: getting you through the exam on the first attempt. Every one of them exists because a specific way people fail is worth designing against.

Baseline

Start with where you actually stand

The first thing you do is a short diagnostic, spread across the areas your exam covers in the proportions the exam uses. It measures what you can do rather than asking how you feel about it, because how people feel about a topic does not predict how they score on it.

Every area of your exam covered, weighted the way the real exam weights them
A per-area breakdown, not one number you cannot act on
Your weak spots identified before you spend a week studying the wrong thing
Everything that follows is built on this, not on a self-assessment

No survey, no "rate your confidence" — just questions that tell us what to do next.

Structure

Practise the way the exam is built

Your exam does not ask for definitions; it drops you into a situation and asks what you would do. So the practice is built the same way — you work through realistic situations end to end, in isolation, so you can see which ones you keep getting wrong.

Each situation drillable on its own, so gaps are obvious instead of averaged away
Sessions sized to match how the real exam presents them
Coverage tracked per area — you can see what you have avoided
Fresh questions on a re-drill, so you are learning the reasoning, not the answer key

You cannot be caught off guard by which topics come up if you have drilled all of them.

Feedback

Every wrong answer explains itself

Getting a question wrong tells you nothing on its own. Each question explains why the right answer is right and why each wrong one is wrong — including the ones that looked reasonable, which are the ones that cost people the exam.

A rationale for every choice, not just the correct one
Your confidence recorded alongside your answer
Confident-and-wrong flagged specifically — the most expensive pattern there is
Misses collected in one place so you can work through them deliberately

The goal is to stop being surprised on exam day, and surprise comes from the near-misses.

Recall

Review timed to when you would forget

Material you studied three weeks ago is the material most likely to fall over on exam day. Review is scheduled by when you are likely to lose something, so the things closest to slipping come back first.

Scheduling driven by your own results, not a fixed calendar
Exact terms and values, which is where marks quietly disappear
Short sessions that fit around a working day
Nothing you have already proven you know, over and over

Studying more is easy. Studying the right thing at the right time is what moves a score.

Application

Do the work, not just answer about it

Where a course includes hands-on work, you build the thing and submit it. It is reviewed against what that exercise is actually asking for and against the mistakes people usually make on it, and you get specific feedback rather than a mark.

Reviewed against real acceptance criteria, point by point
The common failure modes named, so you can check yourself against them
Specific, actionable feedback — not a score with nothing to do about it

Reading about a pattern and having built one are different kinds of knowing.

Readiness

Know before you book

The point of all of it is one decision: is it worth sitting the exam yet. Your readiness is tracked as you go, so you book when the work says you are ready rather than when the calendar does.

Readiness that moves on what you have actually demonstrated
Your weakest area always visible, so there is a next thing to do
Progress you can see without hunting for it

One sitting, real money, and a wait if it goes wrong — worth knowing first.