Exam Prep Academy
Section channels, a question of the day, a per-student mistakes log and silent proctored mock rooms.
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- 29 channels
- 9 roles
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Server structure
Channels
ACADEMY DESK
- enrolment-desk
New students start here: pick your exam sitting, read the rules, find your study plan.
- academy-announcements
Mock dates, schedule changes and registration reminders. Staff only.
- academy-rules
No real exam questions, no score comparisons in public, and the mock rooms stay silent.
- exam-dates-and-registration
Every sitting with its registration deadline and test-day rules.
- study-plan
The week-by-week plan from now to the exam. Follow it or say why you are not.
SECTIONS
- quant-section
Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, data. Post the question type and your working.
- verbal-section
Sentence completion, vocabulary in context, logic of the passage.
- reading-section
Passages, inference questions and how to pace them.
- essay-section
Prompts, structures and what the graders reward. Post a paragraph, not the whole essay.
- science-section
Reading graphs, experiment design and the questions that look harder than they are.
DAILY DRILL
- question-of-the-day
One question every morning. Answer in the thread with your reasoning, not just the letter.
- timing-drills
Short timed sets, ten questions in twelve minutes. Staff post, you report your time in the thread.
- mistakes-log
One thread per student. Every wrong answer goes in with the reason. Tag the section.
MOCK TESTS
- mock-test-schedule
Every full-length mock with its date, room and start time. Staff only.
- mock-scores
Post your score after each mock. You cannot read anyone else's; staff can.
- score-review-requests
Open a ticket to go through a mock with an instructor. Say which mock and which sections.
- Proctored Mock
- Timed Section Room
MENTORS
- ask-a-mentor15s slowmode
Questions about how to study, not what the answer is. A mentor who sat the exam replies.
- study-strategies
What worked for the mentors: pacing, guessing rules, the last week. Mentors and staff only.
- Mentor Office Hours
STUDENT LOUNGE
- prep-chat
The open room. Anything that is not a section question.
- motivation-and-milestones
Finished the study plan for the week? Beat your mock score? Say so here.
- AFK
STAFF
- instructor-roomHidden from @everyone
Instructors only: who is drilling which section, what the cohort keeps missing.
- mentor-room
Mentors and instructors: who needs a nudge, who is burning out.
- score-trackingHidden from @everyone
The cohort's mock scores over time. Instructors only.
- academy-logsHidden from @everyone
Vetox posts joins, role changes and moderation here.
- Instructor Call
Roles
- Academy DirectorAdministrator
- Lead InstructorModerator
- InstructorModerator
- MentorModerator
- Student
- Spring Sitting
- Autumn Sitting
- Muted
Overview
An academy preparing a cohort for one standardized exam, run by instructors with mentors who sat the exam recently. The exam's sections each get a channel, #quant-section, #verbal-section, #reading-section, #essay-section and #science-section, where an instructor answers questions about that part of the paper. DAILY DRILL is the routine: #question-of-the-day is posted by staff and answered in threads, #timing-drills carries short timed sets, and #mistakes-log is a forum where every student keeps one thread of the questions they got wrong, tagged by section, which is the single most useful revision document they will own. MOCK TESTS is where the pressure is rehearsed: #mock-test-schedule is read-only, #mock-scores is a drop box where a student posts their score and only staff can read it, #score-review-requests opens a ticket, and the Proctored Mock and Timed Section rooms deny speaking so a full-length mock happens in silence with an instructor able to talk. Mentors have #ask-a-mentor, #study-strategies and a Mentor Office Hours room; students have #prep-chat and #motivation-and-milestones. Spring Sitting and Autumn Sitting are roles for which exam date a student is targeting, so a reminder about registration reaches the right half of the cohort. Staff have a hidden area with an instructor room, a mentor room and #score-tracking.
When to use it
Everyone in the server is sitting the same exam, but the question of the day drowns in chat, mock scores get posted publicly and compared, and the mistakes a student made in March are lost by June. This layout gives the daily drill and the mock tests their own channels, keeps scores between the student and the staff, and gives every student a mistakes thread that lasts until exam day.
What makes it different
- #mistakes-log is a forum where each student keeps one tagged thread of wrong answers until exam day.
- #mock-scores is a drop box, so a score is seen by staff and never compared in public.
- Proctored Mock and Timed Section rooms deny speaking, so a full-length mock is silent by permission.
- #question-of-the-day is staff-posted and answered in threads, so the daily drill is never buried.
- Spring Sitting and Autumn Sitting roles let a registration reminder reach only the students it applies to.
Recommended Vetox setup
Reminders
Schedule a Reminder in #question-of-the-day every morning and in #exam-dates-and-registration before each registration deadline, pinging the matching Sitting role.
Streaks
Turn on Streaks for thread replies under #question-of-the-day so answering daily becomes a run students protect.
Tickets
Put a ticket panel in #score-review-requests so a student walks through a mock with an instructor in private.
Self-Roles
Post a Self-Roles panel in #enrolment-desk for Spring Sitting and Autumn Sitting so students pick their own exam date.
Questions
How does the mistakes log work?
Each student opens one thread in the #mistakes-log forum with their name and adds a post every time they get a question wrong: the question type, why they missed it, the rule they forgot. The section tags let them filter it the week before the exam.
Who can see mock scores?
Only the instructors, the mentors and the director. #mock-scores denies reading the history for everyone else, so a student posts their score and cannot see anyone else's. #score-tracking in the staff area is where staff keep the cohort overview.
What are the mentors for?
Mentors are recent high scorers rather than teachers. They answer in #ask-a-mentor, post in #study-strategies and hold Mentor Office Hours; they can read mock scores to advise a student but cannot change anything in the academy.
Common mistakes
- Letting students post mock scores in the open, which turns every mock into a ranking and quiet students into absent ones.
- Running mocks in a normal voice room, so one unmuted microphone breaks the timing for everyone.
Consider instead
- Online Tutoring Center Students are on different exams and different schedules and need booked one-to-one sessions.
- Single Course Classroom You are teaching a subject on a syllabus rather than drilling for one exam.
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