Practice modes
Hue Eval has two ways to sit a test and one way to take it apart afterwards. Using the wrong one is the most common way to waste an evening.
Every attempt runs in either Focus or Companion mode. Deep Analysis is not a third way to sit a test — it is the review that opens once an attempt is finished. Together they are the loop the whole app is built around: sit it cold, take it apart, then drill the part that broke.
Focus mode
The default, and the one you should be in most of the time. A timer, the questions, a palette to move between them, and nothing else. No hints, no explanations, no indication of whether the answer you just gave was right.
That silence is the point. An exam gives you no feedback either, so a score from Focus mode is the only score that means anything about your readiness. Everything launched from the Launch tab — mixed practice, a subject test, a full-length mock, a revisit run — runs in Focus mode.
While a Focus attempt is open you can:
- move freely between questions with the palette, and see at a glance which are answered, which are untouched and which you flagged
- mark a question to come back to, without committing an answer
- pause a practice attempt and resume it later from the track page
- work in a distraction-free full-screen view
Companion mode
A ten-question drill on a single topic, with a coach sitting next to you. Each question has two things Focus mode hides:
A nudge toward the method, written for this question, before you answer. Enough to get you unstuck without handing you the answer.
The full worked reasoning. Open it when you want to see how the question is supposed to be read, not just what the answer was.
Companion drills are launched from a weak topic — on the track page, or straight from Deep Analysis with Drill this topic after a question has gone wrong. They are not scored against your readiness the way a Focus attempt is, and they do not pretend to be: the attempt history marks them with their own icon and leaves the score off.
A mode that both teaches and scores would do neither honestly. Companion exists so you can read a hint without quietly inflating a number you are using to decide whether you are ready.
Deep Analysis mode
Opened from the results screen once an attempt is submitted. It replays the paper one question at a time with your answer, the right answer, and the reasoning laid side by side — plus a chat you can ask follow-up questions in, a search across everything you answered, and the actions that turn a mistake into revision material.
It gets a page of its own, because it is where most of the value in an attempt actually is.
Which to choose
Companion. Read hints freely, take the explanation on every question you are unsure of, and do not worry about the clock.
Focus, 20 to 30 questions, adaptive difficulty, no hints. Then Deep Analysis on everything you got wrong.
Full-length mocks under the real section clocks, one per week, with the whole paper in one sitting. Deep Analysis the next morning, not the same night.
A Companion drill, then a Focus test restricted to that one topic. If the second one holds up, it is fixed.
What you can test on
Independently of the mode, the Launch tab decides what the paper is made of:
- Mixed practice — questions drawn from the whole track, at a difficulty band you choose or adaptively.
- One subject — the whole subject, mixed topics.
- One topic — the narrowest option, and the one worth using after a mistake.
- Full-length mocks and past papers — fixed papers, sat whole. See Full-length mocks.
- Revisit only — a paper assembled entirely from questions you marked to revisit. See Treasure and revision.