This is a reasonable, free app for high school students and older to study over 5,000 exam vocabulary words, but it will be most appropriate for independent learners. The app has no tutorial or instructions, and simply opens with three choices: Learn, Test and Revise. The Learn mode displays only one word at a time, its meaning part of speech, synonyms, possibly an antonym, example sentences, and etymology. There is an abundance of features where the most useful include links to look up the word in five different online dictionaries, audio pronunciation, sharing options, and flagging words. Students choose if they would like to study all words or choose from starred words or the “failure list”. There is a “flashcard” option but all choices for study present the original word description page from the Learn mode. There are two testing options, multiple-choice or matching, where the correct answers and report are displayed immediately after completing the test. Users might appreciate that they are able to check their test answers and link to the definition pages after the multiple choice test. Overall, there is nothing special about this app that helps students remember the words or is particularly engaging, but it has a clean interface and offers good practice for students who are self-motivated.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Anxiety
• Gives negative feedback (red X's, buzzer)
• Timer cannot be hidden
• Attention
• Problems or examples are not interesting for the target age range
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own