Official CAIE & AQA Companion App · O Level · IGCSE · A-Level
The Last Exam-Prep App You Will Ever Need to Install
Past papers with mark schemes. A teacher's entire gradebook, attendance register, and marking desk. A Royal Canvas for teaching live. And Ultra Premium interactive simulations that make revision feel less like revision. Cam Class Pro: Papers & Notes puts every one of them in a single app — built specifically around the syllabi you actually study and teach.
Chapter One
Every Teacher Knows This Exact Kind of Tired
It's 11 p.m. There's a stack of exam scripts you still haven't marked, a WhatsApp group asking about tomorrow's timetable, a parent waiting on a fee reminder you meant to send on Monday, and a folder of past papers scattered across three different apps because none of them did everything. You didn't become a teacher to spend your evenings fighting your own admin.
And on the other side of the desk, your students are doing their own version of the same thing — hunting down O Level, IGCSE and A-Level past papers from a dozen unreliable sites, printing what they find, losing the mark scheme, and never quite knowing if they marked their own answer honestly.
"I can finally enjoy more time with my family and friends — the exam marking alone used to cost me entire evenings. Now it doesn't."
That's the gap Cam Class Pro: Papers & Notes was built to close — not with another note-taking app or another past-paper PDF dump, but with one connected, Ultra Premium system that covers the whole teaching and learning day, from the first past paper you open in the morning to the last fee reminder you send at night.
See It In Motion
Watch How Cam Class Pro Actually Works
Two minutes is enough to see why teachers and students stop juggling five apps and settle on one.
Chapter Two
A Past-Paper Library You Can Actually Write On
Cam Class Pro's Past Papers section is a huge, searchable library for CAIE and AQA syllabi — but the library isn't the clever part. What makes it different is what you can do once you've opened a paper.
- Write directly on the paper inside the app — no printer, no separate PDF annotator, no second subscription.
- Self-mark question by question, with the paper and its mark scheme open side by side, so you check your own understanding as you go instead of waiting until the very end.
- Save and share instantly with a teacher for marking, or across devices and social apps, without eating up your phone's storage — everything lives online, not on your handset.
- Download only what you need, when you need it, keeping your device light and your revision organised by syllabus and session.
Most past-paper apps are a filing cabinet. Cam Class Pro is a desk — one where you can sit down, write, check your own work, and hand it in, all without leaving the app.
Chapter Three
A Timetable That Never Lets a Lesson Slip Through
Add a lesson, event, or period once — set its start and end time, choose which days it repeats on, and Cam Class Pro takes it from there.
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Dashboard at a Glance
Your next class and any ongoing class are shown right on the dashboard — no digging through a weekly grid to find out what's happening right now.
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Analog & Digital Time Clock
A live clock — switchable between 12-hour and 24-hour — shows today's tasks positioned exactly where they fall in your day.
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Multiple Reminders, Zero Missed Lessons
Stack as many reminders as you want on a single event, so a missed lesson stops being something that happens to you.
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Share It Anywhere
Send your schedule via WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, X, or SMS, or export it as a clean, downloadable PDF.
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Home-Screen Widgets
Beautiful widgets keep today's events visible without even opening the app.
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Week-by-Week View
Jump to any date to see that day's plan, or zoom out to see the whole week in one view.
Chapter Four
Teachers' Lounge — The All-in-One Staff Room in Your Pocket
This is where Cam Class Pro stops being "a past-papers app" and becomes the operating system for your entire teaching life. Every tab here was built around a real, specific frustration.
- Dashboard — next events, to-do lists, and institute-wise performance, viewable week, month, term, or year at a time.
- Quick Insights — capture a task, assignment reminder, or to-do the instant it crosses your mind.
- Attendance Marking — record Present, Absent, on Leave, or the one status almost no other app tracks: in school but not in your class — the students you actually need to follow up on.
- Copy Checking Record — track marking status per class as Complete, Incomplete, Not Submitted, Absent, or Leave — not just a binary "done or not."
- Royal Canvas — draw on blank or lined pages, import images or full PDFs to annotate, and export or share every page as an image or PDF. Built for live and online teaching, and genuinely without a real competitor at this level of polish.
- Grading — every assessment type (quizzes, tests, presentations, homework, classwork) tracked in one place, shareable as a formatted message or PDF.
- Exam Marking — import a paper as an image or PDF, mark and comment on it, and share the result instantly. MCQ marking is as fast as taking a photo, and the built-in OMR scanner reads answer sheets automatically.
- Analytics — attendance, exam, and assignment data turned into class- and student-level charts: percentages, grades, averages, and class positions, ready to export.
- Students — full student records with multiple contacts per student, active/inactive status, and fee tracking, all in one tab.
- Schools — built for visiting faculty and tutors managing more than one institution. Add every school, academy, and tuition centre you work with, each with its own students, in a single account.
- Finance — earnings, savings, and pending payments in one ledger, with one-tap fee reminders and thank-you messages sent straight to WhatsApp.
- Data Vault — your entire database, backed up automatically to Google Drive, and available on your phone, tablet, the web, or even a TV for presentations.
Chapter Five
What Nobody Else Puts In One App
| Feature | Typical Past-Paper / Gradebook App | Cam Class Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Write on past papers & self-mark side by side with the mark scheme | Rarely, and usually a separate app | Built in |
| Attendance status for "in school but skipped class" | Not tracked | Tracked |
| Copy-checking status beyond complete/incomplete | Binary only | Absent, leave, not submitted — separately recorded |
| Manage multiple schools/tuition centres in one account | Usually one institution only | Unlimited institutions |
| Free-draw + PDF/image annotation canvas | Limited colours/tools, if present at all | Royal Canvas — full customisation |
| OMR scanning for MCQ marking | Not included | Built in |
| Interactive Ultra Premium learning simulations | Not offered | Included in Resources |
Chapter Six
Resources: Where Revision Stops Feeling Like a Chore
Alongside a full library of notes and tips, Resources is home to Cam Class Pro's Ultra Premium, Ultra Realistic, Full HD interactive simulations — the feature students consistently say keeps them on their revision the longest, because for once it doesn't feel like revision. Complex O Level, IGCSE and A-Level topics across physics, chemistry, biology and beyond become something you explore and test yourself on, not just something you re-read for the fifth time.
Chapter Seven
$100 Today. $900 Once the Founding Window Closes.
Cam Class Pro: Papers & Notes is priced at $900 to reflect everything inside it — a past-paper library, a full teaching operating system, Royal Canvas, exam marking with OMR scanning, analytics, and Ultra Premium simulations, replacing what would otherwise be five or six separate subscriptions. Right now, as an early-access founding price, it's available for a single payment of $100. Once this window closes, new access returns to the full $900 price.
Frequently Asked
Questions Teachers & Students Ask Before Downloading
What is the best app for O Level, IGCSE and A-Level past papers?
Cam Class Pro is built specifically around CAIE and AQA syllabi, combining a searchable past-paper library with the ability to write on papers, self-mark against the mark scheme side by side, and share results — all in one app, with everything stored online rather than filling up your phone's storage.
Is there an app that lets teachers mark exam papers and track grades in one place?
Yes. The Teachers' Lounge includes an Exam Marking tab (import as image or PDF, mark, comment, share as a formatted message or PDF), a Grading tab covering every assessment type, and an Analytics tab that turns attendance, exam and assignment data into class- and student-level charts.
Can I use Cam Class Pro across multiple schools or tuition centres?
Yes — the Schools tab is built for visiting faculty, tutors, and tuition providers who need to manage several institutions, each with its own students, inside one account.
How much does Cam Class Pro: Papers & Notes cost?
It's available now at a founding price of $100 before it moves to its full price of $900, on the Google Play Store.
Does Cam Class Pro work for both students and teachers?
Yes. Students get past papers, self-marking, timetables, and interactive simulations; teachers additionally get attendance, grading, exam marking, analytics, finance tracking, and multi-school management through the Teachers' Lounge.
What is the Royal Canvas feature?
A drawing and annotation surface for writing or drawing freely, importing images or PDFs to mark up, choosing blank or lined pages, and exporting or sharing the result as an image or PDF — widely used for live and online teaching.
One App. Every Syllabus Season, From Now On.
Stop Assembling Your Teaching Year From Five Different Apps.
Cam Class Pro: Papers & Notes is on the Google Play Store today, at its founding price of $100 — before it becomes $900.
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![Fundamental Concepts & States of Matter • Atom: The smallest particle of an element that can exist, made of a nucleus (protons and neutrons) and electrons orbiting it. • Element: A pure substance consisting of only one type of atom, which cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means. • Compound: A substance formed when two or more different elements are chemically bonded together in a fixed ratio. • Mixture: A substance containing two or more elements or compounds not chemically bonded together. Can be separated by physical means. • Molecule: A group of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds. • Proton: A subatomic particle found in the nucleus with a relative mass of 1 and a charge of +1. • Neutron: A subatomic particle found in the nucleus with a relative mass of 1 and no charge (0). • Electron: A subatomic particle orbiting the nucleus with a negligible relative mass and a charge of -1. • Atomic Number (Z): The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. Defines the element. • Mass Number (A): The total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom. • Isotopes: Atoms of the same element (same atomic number) but with different mass numbers due to a different number of neutrons. • Relative Atomic Mass ($A_r$): The weighted average mass of an atom of an element compared to $1/12$th the mass of a carbon-12 atom. • Relative Molecular Mass ($M_r$): The sum of the relative atomic masses of all atoms in one molecule of a compound. • Relative Formula Mass ($M_r$): The sum of the relative atomic masses of all atoms in the formula unit of an ionic compound. • Mole: The amount of substance that contains $6.02 \times 10^{23}$ particles (Avogadro's number). • Molar Mass: The mass of one mole of a substance, expressed in g/mol. Numerically equal to $A_r$ or $M_r$. • Empirical Formula: The simplest whole number ratio of atoms of each element in a compound. • Molecular Formula: The actual number of atoms of each element in a molecule. • Solid: Particles are closely packed in a fixed, regular arrangement, vibrate about fixed positions. Definite shape and volume. • Liquid: Particles are closely packed but randomly arranged, can slide past each other. Definite volume, no definite shape. • Gas: Particles are far apart and arranged randomly, move rapidly and randomly. No definite shape or volume. • Melting Point: The specific temperature at which a solid changes into a liquid at a given pressure. • Boiling Point: The specific temperature at which a liquid changes into a gas (vaporizes) at a given pressure. • Sublimation: The direct change of state from solid to gas without passing through the liquid phase (e.g., solid $\text{CO}_2$). • Diffusion: The net movement of particles from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration, due to random motion. • Osmosis: The net movement of water molecules across a partially permeable membrane from a region of higher water potential to a region of lower water potential. 2. Structure & Bonding • Ionic Bond: The electrostatic force of attraction between oppositely charged ions, formed by the transfer of electrons from a metal to a non-metal. • Covalent Bond: A strong electrostatic force of attraction between a shared pair of electrons and the nuclei of the bonded atoms, typically between two non-metals. • Metallic Bond: The electrostatic force of attraction between positive metal ions and delocalised electrons. • Ion: An atom or group of atoms that has gained or lost electrons, resulting in a net electrical charge. • Cation: A positively charged ion (lost electrons). • Anion: A negatively charged ion (gained electrons). • Octet Rule: Atoms tend to gain, lose, or share electrons in order to achieve a full outer electron shell, typically with eight electrons. • Giant Ionic Lattice: A regular, repeating 3D arrangement of oppositely charged ions, held together by strong electrostatic forces. • Simple Molecular Structure: Molecules held together by strong covalent bonds, but with weak intermolecular forces between molecules. • Giant Covalent Structure (Macromolecular): A large structure where all atoms are held together by strong covalent bonds in a continuous network (e.g., diamond, silicon dioxide). • Allotropes: Different structural forms of the same element in the same physical state (e.g., diamond and graphite are allotropes of carbon). • Electronegativity: The power of an atom to attract the electron pair in a covalent bond to itself. • Polar Covalent Bond: A covalent bond in which electrons are shared unequally due to a difference in electronegativity between the bonded atoms. • Hydrogen Bond: A strong type of intermolecular force that occurs between molecules containing hydrogen bonded to a highly electronegative atom (N, O, F). • Van der Waals' forces: Weak intermolecular forces of attraction between all molecules, arising from temporary dipoles. 3. Stoichiometry & Chemical Calculations • Stoichiometry: The study of quantitative relationships between reactants and products in chemical reactions. • Limiting Reactant: The reactant that is completely consumed in a chemical reaction, determining the maximum amount of product that can be formed. • Excess Reactant: The reactant present in a greater amount than required to react with the limiting reactant. • Yield: The amount of product obtained from a chemical reaction. • Theoretical Yield: The maximum amount of product that can be formed from a given amount of reactants, calculated using stoichiometry. • Actual Yield: The amount of product actually obtained from a chemical reaction, usually less than the theoretical yield. • Percentage Yield: $($Actual Yield $/$ Theoretical Yield$) \times 100\%$. • Concentration: The amount of solute dissolved in a given volume of solvent or solution. Often expressed in mol/dm$^3$ (molarity) or g/dm$^3$. • Solute: The substance that dissolves in a solvent to form a solution. • Solvent: The substance in which a solute dissolves to form a solution. • Solution: A homogeneous mixture formed when a solute dissolves in a solvent. 4. Chemical Reactions & Energetics • Chemical Reaction: A process that involves rearrangement of the atomic structure of substances, resulting in the formation of new substances. • Reactants: The starting substances in a chemical reaction. • Products: The substances formed as a result of a chemical reaction. • Word Equation: An equation that uses the names of the reactants and products. • Symbol Equation: An equation that uses chemical symbols and formulae to represent reactants and products, and is balanced. • Balancing Equation: Ensuring the number of atoms of each element is the same on both sides of a chemical equation. • Redox Reaction: A reaction involving both reduction and oxidation. • Oxidation: Loss of electrons, gain of oxygen, or loss of hydrogen. Increase in oxidation state. • Reduction: Gain of electrons, loss of oxygen, or gain of hydrogen. Decrease in oxidation state. • Oxidising Agent: A substance that causes oxidation by accepting electrons (and is itself reduced). • Reducing Agent: A substance that causes reduction by donating electrons (and is itself oxidised). • Exothermic Reaction: A reaction that releases energy to the surroundings, usually as heat, causing the temperature of the surroundings to rise. $\Delta H$ is negative. • Endothermic Reaction: A reaction that absorbs energy from the surroundings, usually as heat, causing the temperature of the surroundings to fall. $\Delta H$ is positive. • Activation Energy ($E_a$): The minimum amount of energy required for reactants to collide effectively and initiate a chemical reaction. • Catalyst: A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being chemically changed itself, by providing an alternative reaction pathway with a lower activation energy. • Enthalpy Change ($\Delta H$): The heat energy change measured at constant pressure for a reaction. • Standard Enthalpy of Formation ($\Delta H_f^\circ$): The enthalpy change when one mole of a compound is formed from its constituent elements in their standard states under standard conditions. • Standard Enthalpy of Combustion ($\Delta H_c^\circ$): The enthalpy change when one mole of a substance is completely combusted in oxygen under standard conditions. • Hess's Law: The total enthalpy change for a reaction is independent of the route taken, provided the initial and final conditions are the same. 5. Rates of Reaction & Equilibrium • Rate of Reaction: The change in concentration of a reactant or product per unit time. • Collision Theory: For a reaction to occur, reactant particles must collide with sufficient energy (activation energy) and correct orientation. • Factors Affecting Rate: Concentration, pressure (for gases), surface area, temperature, and presence of a catalyst. • Reversible Reaction: A reaction where products can react to reform the original reactants, indicated by $\rightleftharpoons$. • Chemical Equilibrium: A state in a reversible reaction where the rate of the forward reaction is equal to the rate of the reverse reaction, and the concentrations of reactants and products remain constant. • Le Chatelier's Principle: If a change in conditions (temperature, pressure, concentration) is applied to a system at equilibrium, the system will shift in a direction that counteracts the change. 6. Acids, Bases & Salts • Acid: A substance that produces hydrogen ions ($H^+$) when dissolved in water (Arrhenius definition) or a proton donor (Brønsted-Lowry definition). • Base: A substance that produces hydroxide ions ($OH^-$) when dissolved in water (Arrhenius definition) or a proton acceptor (Brønsted-Lowry definition). • Alkali: A soluble base that dissolves in water to produce hydroxide ions ($OH^-$). • Salt: A compound formed when the hydrogen ion of an acid is replaced by a metal ion or an ammonium ion. • Neutralisation: The reaction between an acid and a base (or alkali) to form a salt and water. $H^+(aq) + OH^-(aq) \rightarrow H_2O(l)$. • pH: A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, defined as $-\log_{10}[H^+]$. Scale from 0 to 14. • Strong Acid: An acid that fully dissociates (ionizes) in water (e.g., HCl, $H_2SO_4$). • Weak Acid: An acid that partially dissociates (ionizes) in water (e.g., $CH_3COOH$). • Strong Base: A base that fully dissociates in water (e.g., NaOH, KOH). • Weak Base: A base that partially dissociates in water (e.g., $NH_3$). • Amphoteric: A substance that can act as both an acid and a base (e.g., aluminium oxide, water). • Titration: A quantitative chemical analysis method used to determine the unknown concentration of a reactant using a known concentration of another reactant. • Indicator: A substance that changes colour over a specific pH range, used to detect the endpoint of a titration. 7. Electrochemistry • Electrolysis: The decomposition of an ionic compound using electrical energy. Requires molten or aqueous electrolyte. • Electrolyte: An ionic compound (molten or dissolved in a solvent) that conducts electricity due to the movement of ions. • Electrodes: Conductors (usually metal or graphite) through which electricity enters and leaves the electrolyte. • Anode: The positive electrode, where oxidation occurs (anions are attracted). • Cathode: The negative electrode, where reduction occurs (cations are attracted). • Faraday's Laws of Electrolysis: Relate the amount of substance produced at an electrode to the quantity of electricity passed through the electrolyte. • Galvanic (Voltaic) Cell: An electrochemical cell that generates electrical energy from spontaneous redox reactions. • Standard Electrode Potential ($E^\circ$): The potential difference of a half-cell compared to a standard hydrogen electrode under standard conditions (1 M concentration, 1 atm pressure for gases, 298 K). • Electrochemical Series: A list of elements arranged in order of their standard electrode potentials, indicating their relative reactivity as oxidising or reducing agents. 8. The Periodic Table • Periodic Table: An arrangement of elements in order of increasing atomic number, showing periodic trends in properties. • Group: A vertical column in the periodic table, containing elements with the same number of valence electrons and similar chemical properties. • Period: A horizontal row in the periodic table, containing elements with the same number of electron shells. • Valence Electrons: Electrons in the outermost shell of an atom, involved in chemical bonding. • Alkali Metals (Group 1): Highly reactive metals, readily lose one electron to form $+1$ ions. React vigorously with water. • Alkaline Earth Metals (Group 2): Reactive metals, readily lose two electrons to form $+2$ ions. • Halogens (Group 17/7): Highly reactive non-metals, readily gain one electron to form $-1$ ions. Exist as diatomic molecules. • Noble Gases (Group 18/0): Unreactive elements with a full outer electron shell, existing as monatomic gases. • Transition Metals: Elements in the d-block of the periodic table, characterised by variable oxidation states, coloured compounds, and catalytic activity. • Metallic Character: Tendency of an element to lose electrons and form positive ions. Increases down a group, decreases across a period. • Non-metallic Character: Tendency of an element to gain electrons and form negative ions. Decreases down a group, increases across a period. • Ionisation Energy: The energy required to remove one electron from each atom in one mole of gaseous atoms to form one mole of gaseous $1+$ ions. • Electron Affinity: The energy change when one mole of electrons is added to one mole of gaseous atoms to form one mole of gaseous $1-$ ions. 9. Organic Chemistry • Organic Chemistry: The study of carbon compounds, excluding carbonates, carbides, and oxides of carbon. • Hydrocarbon: A compound containing only carbon and hydrogen atoms. • Saturated Hydrocarbon: A hydrocarbon containing only single carbon-carbon bonds (e.g., alkanes). • Unsaturated Hydrocarbon: A hydrocarbon containing one or more carbon-carbon double or triple bonds (e.g., alkenes, alkynes). • Homologous Series: A series of organic compounds with the same general formula, similar chemical properties, and showing a gradual change in physical properties. • Functional Group: A specific group of atoms within a molecule that is responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of that molecule. • Alkane: Saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula $C_nH_{2n+2}$. Contain only single bonds. • Alkene: Unsaturated hydrocarbons with the general formula $C_nH_{2n}$. Contain at least one carbon-carbon double bond. • Alkyne: Unsaturated hydrocarbons with the general formula $C_nH_{2n-2}$. Contain at least one carbon-carbon triple bond. • Alcohol: Organic compounds containing the hydroxyl functional group ($-OH$). General formula $C_nH_{2n+1}OH$. • Carboxylic Acid: Organic compounds containing the carboxyl functional group ($-COOH$). • Ester: Organic compounds formed from the reaction of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol, containing the ester linkage ($-COO-$). • Isomers: Compounds with the same molecular formula but different structural formulae. • Structural Isomers: Isomers that differ in the arrangement of their atoms or bonds. • Addition Reaction: A reaction where an unsaturated molecule adds across a double or triple bond, forming a single product. • Substitution Reaction: A reaction where an atom or group of atoms in a molecule is replaced by another atom or group of atoms. • Polymerisation: The process of joining many small monomer molecules together to form a large polymer molecule. • Monomer: A small molecule that can be joined together to form a polymer. • Polymer: A large molecule (macromolecule) formed from many repeating monomer units. • Addition Polymerisation: Polymerisation where monomers add to one another in such a way that the polymer contains all the atoms of the monomer. Usually involves unsaturated monomers. • Condensation Polymerisation: Polymerisation where monomers join together with the elimination of a small molecule (e.g., water). • Cracking: The process of breaking down long-chain hydrocarbons into shorter, more useful hydrocarbons using heat and/or a catalyst. • Fermentation: The anaerobic respiration of yeast, converting glucose into ethanol and carbon dioxide. 10. Analytical Chemistry • Qualitative Analysis: The identification of the components of a sample. • Quantitative Analysis: The determination of the amount or concentration of a component in a sample. • Chromatography: A separation technique based on differential partitioning between a stationary phase and a mobile phase. • Retention Factor ($R_f$): In paper/thin-layer chromatography, the ratio of the distance travelled by the spot to the distance travelled by the solvent front. • Spectroscopy: The study of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. • Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy: Used to identify functional groups in organic molecules based on their absorption of IR radiation. • Mass Spectrometry: Used to determine the relative molecular mass of a compound and its fragmentation pattern to deduce structure. • Flame Test: A qualitative test for the presence of certain metal ions, which produce characteristic colours when heated in a flame.](https://i0.wp.com/cambridgeclassroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/White-And-Purple-Modern-Online-Graphic-Design-Courses-Instagram-Post-4.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1)
