Send Flae a Photo of Your Working and She Will Mark It

You solve a past question. You get an answer. Now what?

If you are lucky, the answer is in the back of the book — so you find out you got 14 when the book says 12, and you still have no idea where it went wrong. If you are unlucky, there is no answer at all, and you never find out.

That gap is where most private study quietly fails. Flaevo now closes it. Write your working on paper, photograph it, send it to Flae, and she marks it.

What she actually tells you

Not just right or wrong. Three things, in this order:

1. The verdict, first. She opens by telling you plainly whether your final answer is correct. Not after four paragraphs of preamble — first, because that is what you want to know.

2. The first step that goes wrong. If it is wrong, she does not re-solve the whole question from the beginning and leave you to spot the difference. She quotes the line where your reasoning turned, explains why that step fails, and corrects from there. Everything before that line was fine, and you should know it was fine.

3. What would still lose you marks. This is the part no answer key gives you. Even when your answer is right, she will point out the things an examiner takes marks for: a missing unit, a step you did in your head instead of on the page, a value you left unrounded, a restriction you did not state.

That third one is worth more than it sounds. Plenty of students lose a third of their marks in a paper they "got right".

How to use it

Solve it on paper first. The whole point is that she is checking your work. Photographing a question you have not attempted just gets you a lesson — useful, but a different thing.

Write the working out, not just the answer. She can only find the step that went wrong if the steps are on the page. This is also good practice for the exam, where the working carries most of the marks.

Photograph it flat and in good light. Handwriting on a curved page in a dark room is hard to read — for a person and for a machine. A flat page near a window reads perfectly.

You do not have to type anything. Send the photo with no message and she will work out what you need. If she has just asked you to try a question, your photo is your answer to her, and she marks it. If the picture is a question with no attempt on it, she teaches it instead.

But typing helps when the page has several questions. "Check number 3" is quicker and gets you a shorter, sharper reply than sending a whole page and letting her go through all of it.

What is different about this

There are apps that scan a maths problem and produce the solution. Ghana has a good one, and thousands of students use it.

That is a different thing from what Flae does here, and the difference matters more than it looks.

A solver does the work for you. Flae checks the work you did.

One of those replaces the effort. The other requires it — and the effort is the entire mechanism by which anything gets learnt. You do not remember a solution you watched. You remember the one you attempted, got wrong, and had corrected. That is active recall, and it is why we built the marking rather than the solving.

It also fits how Ghanaian students already revise. Past questions are the method here; everybody knows that. What nobody has is someone to check forty answers a night. A teacher with a class of fifty cannot do it. Flae can.

When she cannot read it

Sometimes the photo will not read — a very dark picture, a page at a steep angle, faint pencil. She will tell you it could not be read clearly and ask for a better shot, rather than guessing at your working and marking something you did not write.

And if the reading service is busy, she says so honestly instead of blaming your photo. That distinction sounds small; it is the difference between "try again in a moment" and a student concluding their handwriting is the problem.

What it costs

Photo questions are part of the AI tutor, and every plan gets some. The free plan includes a few a day, which is enough to check the questions you are least sure about. If you are working through a full past paper every evening, the paid plans raise it considerably.

Our advice on the free plan: do not spend your photos on questions you are confident about. Mark those against the answer key yourself. Send Flae the ones where you got an answer you cannot justify — those are the ones where the explanation is worth something.

Try it tonight

Find a past question you have already done and were not sure about. Photograph your working. Send it with no message.

If she tells you your answer is right but your units cost you a mark, you have just learnt something no answer key was ever going to tell you.