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EPS-TOPIK5The exam pattern, listening speed, reading pacing and sector vocabulary for the Korean language test, written by the editors who build the question bank.
Lok Sewa4Negative marking arithmetic, current affairs filtering, constitutional revision and choosing between posts, for Public Service Commission candidates.
Driving Licence2The written test, the traffic signs that cluster the errors, and the full process from application through the practical trial.
IELTS2Band descriptors, listening transfer time, computer against paper format, and what actually moves a writing score.
JLPT1Sectional pass marks, scaled scoring and level-by-level preparation for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
Engineering entrance1IOE and university entrance: mark weighting, negative marking, and how to spend two hours across one hundred unevenly weighted questions.
Medical entrance2MECEE-BL structure, subject weighting, the mental agility section, and what a percentile cut-off changes about revision priorities.
Banking1Two-paper written exams, separate minimums, quantitative speed and how to treat banking awareness as a weekly capsule.
Board practice1Using NEB model papers and previous years' papers as measurement rather than homework, and what a properly conditioned paper tells you.
Method5Spacing, retrieval, mock-test review, timetables that survive a real week, and preparing on a shared phone with limited data.
For institutes1Structuring a question bank so it can be taught from, tagging that survives a busy teacher, and reading what your own answer data flags.
Engineering notes1Notes from building an exam platform for a country where the power goes out: offline-first architecture, metered data and scoring integrity.
26 articles

The archive

Longer than a tip list, shorter than a textbook. Each one comes out of a question we get asked repeatedly.

EPS-TOPIK4 min

Where the twenty EPS-TOPIK reading marks actually leak

Reading is the half you can control the pace of, which is exactly why candidates lose marks there to time management rather than to Korean.

26 August 2026Read
Lok Sewa4 min

When to guess on a Lok Sewa paper, and when not to

A wrong answer deducts twenty per cent of the question's marks. That single number decides whether guessing helps you or quietly costs you the exam.

25 August 2026Read
Lok Sewa3 min

Nayab Subba or Section Officer: choosing before you start

The two papers look similar and reward different preparation. Deciding late costs you weeks, and most candidates decide late.

24 August 2026Read
Engineering3 min

IOE entrance: 100 questions, 140 marks, and an uneven clock

Sixty questions are worth one mark and forty are worth two. Treating them as equal is the most common way to lose a rank you had earned.

23 August 2026Read
Medical4 min

MECEE-BL: 200 questions, and what the 50th percentile really means

Biology is 80 of the 200 marks and most candidates already know that. Fewer have worked out what a percentile cut-off does to their revision priorities.

22 August 2026Read
IELTS4 min

The ten minutes that disappear on computer-delivered IELTS

Paper IELTS gives you ten minutes to transfer listening answers. The computer test gives you two minutes to check. Candidates prepare for the wrong one constantly.

21 August 2026Read
JLPT4 min

You can score well above the JLPT pass mark and still fail

N5 passes at 80 out of 180. But there is a second condition underneath it, and it fails more candidates than the total ever does.

20 August 2026Read
Method4 min

How many mock tests, how often, and how to review them

Most candidates take too few mocks, too late, and review none of them properly. The review is where the marks are, and it takes longer than the mock.

19 August 2026Read
Method4 min

The ten minutes after a wrong answer are worth more than the hour before it

Getting a question wrong opens a short window in which the correct answer sticks unusually well. Most study routines close it immediately.

18 August 2026Read
EPS-TOPIK3 min

The EPS-TOPIK vocabulary that changes with your sector

Beyond the common core, manufacturing, agriculture, fishing and construction do not share a word list. Choosing your sector late wastes weeks of study.

17 August 2026Read
EPS-TOPIK4 min

A sixty-day EPS-TOPIK plan for someone with a full-time job

Most published EPS-TOPIK schedules assume you can study all day. This one assumes ninety minutes on a weekday and one longer weekend session.

16 August 2026Read
Driving Licence3 min

From form to licence: the whole process, in order

The written test is the part people prepare for and the smallest part of the process. Here is everything around it, in the order it happens.

15 August 2026Read
EPS-TOPIK4 min

The EPS-TOPIK listening section is not a vocabulary test

Most candidates who fail the listening paper know the words. What they have never practised is following them at native speed with no replay.

14 August 2026Read
Lok Sewa4 min

The constitution questions that keep coming back

Constitution is the most reliably examinable part of the Lok Sewa general knowledge section, because unlike current affairs it does not move.

13 August 2026Read
Medical4 min

The twenty marks in MECEE-BL that nobody prepares

The mental agility test is a tenth of the paper and the block most candidates walk into cold, on the theory that aptitude cannot be trained. It can.

12 August 2026Read
IELTS4 min

What actually moves IELTS writing from a 6 to a 7

It is almost never vocabulary. The band descriptors are public, they are specific, and they describe something quite different from what most candidates practise.

11 August 2026Read
Banking4 min

Preparing for a bank job written exam in Nepal

Two papers of one hundred marks, both of which must be cleared separately. That structure should shape your preparation and usually does not.

10 August 2026Read
Board Practice4 min

How to use NEB model papers without wasting them

There are only so many model papers. Working through them casually converts a limited diagnostic resource into ordinary homework.

9 August 2026Read
Method5 min

A revision timetable that survives contact with a real week

Most study timetables are written for an imaginary person with no job, no family and no bad days. They fail in week two and take your confidence with them.

8 August 2026Read
Method4 min

Preparing for an exam on a shared phone and limited data

A large share of candidates study on a handset they do not have all day, on data they are paying for by the megabyte. Almost no study advice assumes that.

7 August 2026Read
Lok Sewa4 min

How to revise Lok Sewa current affairs without drowning

A weekly capsule beats a daily newspaper. Here is the filter we use to decide what actually has a chance of appearing on the paper.

6 August 2026Read
Method4 min

Why a ten-minute streak beats a four-hour Saturday

Spacing effects are one of the most replicated findings in learning research. The app is built around them, and here is what that means for your week.

28 July 2026Read
Driving Licence4 min

The traffic signs that fail the most licence candidates

The written test is 25 questions and you need 15 right. Almost all the difficulty comes from three confusions, not from the number of signs.

19 July 2026Read
Engineering4 min

Building an app that assumes the power will go out

Offline-first is an architecture decision, not a feature toggle. What it changed about how we store attempts, cache audio and sync streaks.

8 July 2026Read
For institutes4 min

What coaching centres get wrong about question banks

Ten thousand questions is not an asset if none of them are tagged. A short guide to structuring a bank so it can actually be taught from.

30 June 2026Read
Guides

Exam guides that go
past “revise regularly”.

Anyone can tell you to practise. Our guides start from the format: forty questions and fifty minutes on EPS-TOPIK, two hundred questions and a percentile cut-off on MECEE-BL, a twenty per cent deduction on a Lok Sewa objective paper. What you should do follows from those numbers, and most advice never mentions them.

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Method

Claims we can
actually support.

When we write that spacing beats cramming, we say what the research shows and what our own data shows, separately, and we say plainly where our data cannot support a causal claim. Where an article states an exam pattern, it states the pattern as published, and tells you to check the notice for your own sitting.

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Engineering

Notes from building
for these constraints.

Offline-first sync, audio delivery on metered data, multi-script typography, scoring integrity against motivated users. Written for other engineers building in similar conditions, because very little of the available writing assumes them.

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