AI Marking

How AI marking works

What AI marks in ATARISE practice exams, how marks are worked out, and how to ask for a mark to be reviewed.

Last updated: 8 October 2026

What is marked by AI

In ATARISE practice exams, AI marks written answers, mathematics answers (both the working and the final answer) and drawing answers.

Multiple-choice questions are not marked by AI. They are marked by fixed rules.

Practice marks only

Marks help students practise. They are not official VCE results.

What the AI receives

To mark an answer, we send the AI model:

The question and any source material that comes with it.
The marking guide written by ATARISE content teachers. This includes the marking criteria, the marks for each criterion, a worked solution and common mistakes.
The student's answer. This is the answer text, or an image of a drawn answer.
For linked question parts, the student's earlier answers and marks for the same question.

What the AI does not receive

We do not send the AI model the student's:

Name
Email address
Account identifier
School
Class

Keep personal details out of answers

Anything typed into an answer is sent as written. Please do not include personal details in your answers.

How the mark is worked out

The AI assesses the answer against the marking guide and returns a structured result. ATARISE's own code then calculates the mark from the marking guide and limits it to between zero and the marks available for the question.

A mark can never be higher than the marks available for the question, whatever an answer says. We also test that instructions written inside an answer do not change the mark.

Limitations

AI can make mistakes. For example, it may:

Misjudge an unusual but valid method.
Misread a drawing.
Give feedback that is incomplete.

If automatic marking fails, the answer shows “Automatic marking failed for this part” and is recorded as 0 until it is re-marked.

Before feedback is shown, it is checked automatically for harmful or inappropriate content. If it is flagged, you still get your mark, but the feedback is withheld while it is reviewed.

Reviewing a mark

Your teacher can see your marks and the AI feedback.

If you think a mark is wrong, tell your teacher or email support@atarise.com.au.

What happens next

ATARISE reviews the answer against the marking guide.
We correct the mark if needed.
We tell you the outcome.

Provider, models and versions

AI marking is provided by Anthropic, through its API. Anthropic's commercial terms do not allow training on the data ATARISE sends, and ATARISE has a data processing agreement with Anthropic.

Current models

Claude Opus 4.8 (primary model).
Claude Haiku 4.5 (used only if the primary model is unavailable).

No AI training on answers

ATARISE does not use answers to train or fine-tune AI models.

We email schools before we change the AI model used for marking.

Changelog

Changes to AI marking
Date	Change
30 June 2026	AI marking started using OpenAI GPT-4o.
26 July 2026	AI marking moved to Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8, with Claude Haiku 4.5 as fallback.
8 October 2026	This page was published.