About Project Syllabus

Why I started

I take Maths Analysis and Approaches HL, Computer Science HL, Economics HL, Physics SL, English Language and Literature SL and Arabic SL. Six subjects, hundreds of subtopics, and two years to hold all of it in my head at once.

The problem was never finding material. There is more revision content online than anyone could work through in a lifetime. The problem was knowing which part of it I actually needed on a given evening. I would sit down at eight o’clock, pick whichever subject felt worst, and hope that guess was right. Sometimes it was. Often I was polishing something I already knew while a real gap sat untouched for weeks.

What I think most study tools get wrong

Almost every tracker asks you to rate your own confidence. That is the one number a student cannot supply honestly, and not because anyone is lying. You do not know what you do not know. Rating yourself produces a map of how you feel, and then you revise against your mood instead of against the syllabus.

So Project Syllabus never asks. Every level comes from questions you either got right or did not. If you have not been tested on something, it stays grey and the app says so, rather than assuming.

What I am trying to build

A tool that answers one question properly: what should I do right now. It maps your whole course, works out where you actually stand by testing you, notices when something you learned in October has started slipping, and hands you an ordered list with a reason attached to every item so you can disagree with it.

And it gives you a predicted grade out of 45 next to the one you are aiming for, along with how much of your syllabus that prediction is actually based on. A number built on three quizzes gets labelled as such rather than dressed up as a forecast.

Where it is up to

The whole IB Diploma is mapped, 2,590 subtopics across all six groups plus Theory of Knowledge, the Extended Essay and CAS. The tracking, testing, planner, mistake bank, decay engine, calendar and predicted grade all work today.

The question bank is the part still being built. It deepens subject by subject rather than arriving complete, and I would rather say that plainly than claim a number I have not reached. A-Level and AP course structures come after that.

Your results belong to you

There are no teacher accounts and no class dashboards, and there will not be. A school licence unlocks the app for its students and does nothing else. Nobody at your school can see how you are doing, and that is enforced by the database rather than by a setting somebody could change. The privacy policy spells out exactly what is stored.

Get in touch

If you are a student with something that would make this better, or a school wanting it for a year group, I would like to hear from you. talalraisi1@gmail.com