One exam every Saturday, and a rank on Sunday

On Thursday, Temari draws this week's paper for each track: 40 questions from that week's subject, at the right grade, from the questions the platform has prepared and checked. The paper is drawn once, so every student on the track sits exactly the same questions.

There are four tracks: Grade 6, Grade 8, and Grade 12 split into natural science and social science, so a Grade 12 student is only ever ranked against students of their own stream. Each week covers one subject, and the subjects take turns through the term.

The paper does not sit on any list a student browses, before or after the exam. It is reached only through the Saturday exam card, so nobody can open the questions early or come back to them later as practice.

The exam opens on Saturday from 8 in the morning to 8 in the evening, Addis Ababa time. A student starts whenever suits their day and has 60 minutes, or until the exam closes if that comes first.

The paper runs under exam conditions. Each student sits it once, Temari AI refuses to help until it is handed in, and leaving the exam screen is recorded. A connection that drops does not stop the clock or lose the answers already given.

Answers and explanations open once the exam has closed for everyone, so no student can pass the key to a friend who has not sat yet.

On Sunday morning Temari works out the ranks for each track. A sitting counts when the student answered at least half the paper and handed it in, so a student who opened the paper and walked away does not drag the table down.

Students with the same score share the same place. Each student is told their rank on Sunday morning, along with the points their sitting earned toward their study total.

Week after week, the rank shows a student where they stand against everyone preparing for the same national exam, which is something a single school's tests cannot show.