Free tool

Text Response marker

Paste your essay and the exact topic. You’ll get an indicative mark out of 10, a reading against every row of the VCAA rubric, paragraph-by-paragraph feedback, and in-text suggestions — laid out beside your essay.

The essay topic — exactly as it was set. Required.

Set text

This essay is

Your essay

Drop your essay as a Word or PDF file, or photos of a handwritten essay — or choose a file.

Uploaded a file? Just press Mark my essay — the box below is only for typing an essay (or a paragraph or two) in directly.

Your email — for your one free mark a week.

One mark per email each week. Subscribed students get the marker with no weekly limit, every essay saved to their file, and a tutor who reads every submission and adds their own comments — see the options. Use this feedback to improve your own writing — the work you submit for assessment must be your own.

The mark is a starting point, not the last word

In the Student Hub, your tutor sees every essay you run through the marker and adds their own feedback beside it.

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