ExamGiant: The Future of Educational Testing, Interactive Assessments and Competitions

Not every competition needs to be head-to-head. Some events work better when students compete individually, complete a set of exams, and are ranked after review. That is why we created the new solo competition infrastructure. ExamGiant now has backend support for solo competitions, entries, exams, attempts, payments, and prizes. This gives us the structure needed to run events where students complete one or more exams on their own schedule within a competition window. The system supports blind scoring, retakes, re-entries, review statuses, prize workflows, event windows, grade and age limits, country restrictions, and both paid and free competition setups. We also added an admin UI for solo events, so competitions can be created and managed more directly. This opens up a lot of possibilities: school challenges, public online tournaments, subject-specific contests, scholarship-style events, prize competitions, and practice-based competitions where students can try again and improve. Hea...

The live 1v1 match experience has moved forward in a big way. We added match rooms that support both rated and unrated flows. That means students can compete casually, or they can participate in matches where results matter for ratings and future standings. The match flow now includes ready confirmation, countdowns, pending match handling, an active match canvas, score display, and post-match rating display. These pieces may sound small individually, but together they make the experience feel much more like a real competition. A strong 1v1 system also needs a reliable backend. We added server-side support for clicks, reliability events, notifications, rating history, no-shows, forfeits, and tournament pairings. That backend work is important because academic matches should be fair, trackable, and reviewable. If a player misses ready confirmation, leaves early, forfeits, or completes a match, the system needs to remember what happened. This update brings ExamGiant closer to a world wher...

ExamGiant’s head-to-head matches started as a simple idea: let two students compete on the same academic challenge at the same time. Since then, that idea has grown into something much larger. We have been building the foundation for a fuller academic tournament system, including public 1v1 tournament pages, flight registration, scheduled rounds, player pairings, match-room links, crosstables, and standings. This matters because a good academic competition needs more than a “play now” button. It needs structure. Students need to know when they are playing, who they are paired with, how results are tracked, and where they stand as the event progresses. We also added staged head-to-head tournaments. That means a large event can be broken into qualifying stages, flights, advancement rules, and eventually finals. This gives ExamGiant room to support classroom events, school-wide tournaments, district competitions, and larger online events. Teachers now have a path to create 1v1 class event...

One of the biggest upcoming features for ExamGiant is head-to-head academic matches. The idea is simple: two students play the same academic game at the same time, on the same board, with the same questions and bubbles. If one student gets a correct answer first, that opportunity disappears for both players. If a student clicks a wrong answer, only that student is penalized. This creates a very different kind of academic competition. It is not just about knowing the answer. It is also about speed, accuracy, and staying calm under pressure. The first head-to-head game being developed is based on one of ExamGiant’s most important math games: Four Basic Operations. This game mixes addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, negatives, and order of operations. Many students do well when the teacher says, “Today we are doing addition” or “Today we are doing multiplication.” But they often struggle when all operations are mixed together and they must decide what to do first. That is why...

  ExamGiant now includes new music trivia games covering songs from the 1940s through the 2020s. These games are part of the General Knowledge section and are designed to be fun for adults, families, and students. Not every game on ExamGiant has to feel like school. Some games are simply a good way to test what you know, remember older songs, and discover music from different decades. The new music games are organized by decade: 1940s and 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s This format makes the games more fair and more interesting. A song from the 1950s should not usually have wrong answers from the 2020s. By keeping the choices within the same decade, the wrong answers feel closer and the game becomes a better trivia challenge. These music trivia games can also be useful for competitions because different decades can be combined. For example, a contest could include music from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s instead of only one decade. The goal is simple: make General Kno...

ExamGiant now has a new way for students to study the human skeleton. Instead of only memorizing a list of bone names, students can interact with skeleton pictures, click bones, match names, and practice identifying parts of the body visually. This is important because anatomy is not just about knowing words. Students also need to recognize where bones are located and how they relate to the rest of the body. The new skeleton learning tools include pictures for major body areas such as the skull, torso, arms, legs, hands, and feet. Students can explore the bones first, then test themselves in game format. This helps students move through three levels of learning: Recognizing the bone name Finding the bone on the body Remembering the bone under time pressure That last part matters. In a real class or medical program, students often need to identify structures quickly and accurately. ExamGiant turns that practice into a focused game instead of a boring worksheet. The skeleton games are es...

  New Chemistry Games ExamGiant now includes several new chemistry practice games, including Polyatomic Ions: Name to Formula, Polyatomic Ions: Formula to Name, Acid Naming, Ionic Compound Naming, and Ionic Compound Formula Building. One thing I focused on was making wrong answers educational. Instead of random choices, many wrong answers are close mistakes students might actually make, such as charge errors, subscript errors, naming-family mix-ups, and prefix/suffix confusion. Better V2 Teacher Assignments The V2 teacher assignment system continues to grow. More games are being moved into the newer assignment system so teachers can choose a game, assign it to a class, control settings, and review student results. Teachers can set options such as speed, time limit, attempts, scoring rules, screen/window size, and game-specific settings. The goal is to make ExamGiant useful not only for independent practice, but also for real classroom assignments. New and Improved Math Games Severa...

We are now offering founders pricing on ExamGiant subscriptions through December 31, 2026 . This means new subscribers can get 50% off regular pricing during this introductory period. Even better, if a subscriber joins during this founders-pricing window and keeps renewing without a lapse, that lower renewal price stays in place. We wanted this early pricing to reward the families and students who support ExamGiant while the platform continues to grow. We are also continuing to build aggressively. Our plan is to add one or more new games or competitions each month , so early subscribers are not just getting a lower price. They are also joining while the platform is expanding in content and capability. This founders pricing does not apply to the separate spelling add-on, but it does apply to the main student and homeschool subscription plans. If you have been considering joining, this is a very good time to get started.

ExamGiant’s homepage has been redesigned to better reflect what the site actually offers. We wanted the homepage to feel more alive, more visual, and more representative of the variety of educational games available across subjects. So we updated it with a stronger presentation and added real game screenshots to help students, parents, and teachers quickly see the kinds of learning experiences available on the platform. Instead of feeling flat or overly text-heavy, the homepage now highlights real examples from areas like: geography memory math history civics language-based games We also cleaned up some branding and presentation details so the site feels more polished overall. This new homepage is meant to give a better first impression and make the platform’s variety more obvious from the start.

ExamGiant’s subscription system is now live and working end to end. This update included major behind-the-scenes work: setting up PayPal subscriptions testing both sandbox and live environments making sure paid access is granted correctly making sure billing updates stay in sync with the site We also made the system more professional for families by adding in-site subscription management. Students and parents can now manage subscriptions from inside ExamGiant instead of being left with a confusing or incomplete experience. One of the most important improvements is the cancellation behavior. If auto-renew is turned off, the account does not lose access immediately. Instead, access continues through the paid-through date that has already been covered. The site now clearly shows this as a Cancels at Period End state. This is a major step forward for the platform and helps make the customer experience much clearer and more reliable.

ExamGiant has expanded its science offerings with new games in both chemistry and anatomy. On the chemistry side, we added fast-paced games for: polyatomic ions acid naming ionic compound naming ionic compound formula building These games are designed to reward pattern recognition, quick recall, and close attention to important naming rules. We also worked to make the wrong answers more realistic, so students practice against believable mistakes instead of random easy-to-spot distractors. On the anatomy side, we added a new group of bone-related games, including: bone to body region bone to type landmark to bone articulation pairs skull feature to bone These games give students more ways to build real anatomical recognition and not just memorize isolated terms. They are especially useful for repeated review and fast concept reinforcement. Together, these new science additions help make ExamGiant a broader learning platform across multiple subjects, not just one area of study.

  We’ve added a new math game to ExamGiant called   Target Number Mix . In this game, students are given a target number that remains visible throughout play. Their job is to choose the bubbles containing expressions that equal that target. What makes this game interesting is the variety of expressions involved. Students may see multiplication or division mixed with addition or subtraction, and the goal is not just to compute quickly, but to recognize which expressions truly match the target. We designed this game to focus on integer-based arithmetic rather than overly complicated fraction work, keeping it challenging without making it unnecessarily frustrating. We also built the wrong answers around believable mistake patterns instead of tiny obvious misses. That makes the game more educational because students are practicing against the kinds of errors real learners actually make. Another design choice we liked was keeping the target number visible as a kind of background re...

  We recently made an important policy and signup change to better protect schools and teachers. Previously, a student could potentially create an account and select a school affiliation directly. The problem with that approach is obvious: a student could choose a school they do not actually belong to, and then the school would be stuck cleaning up those accounts later. That is not a good burden to place on schools. So we changed the system. Students no longer sign up with direct school affiliation through public account creation. Instead, school-based student access should begin through a teacher/class code. That gives teachers much better control over who is actually entering their classroom space. We also added the ability for teachers to remove students from a class. If that was the student’s only class, the student account remains active, but school-sponsored free access is removed. This is a much cleaner and more professional approach than deleting accounts or leaving schools...

We’ve made major improvements to the V2 Assignment Builder in ExamGiant. One of the biggest goals was reliability. Teachers should be able to configure an assignment, preview it, and trust that their settings stay the way they intended. We spent time improving preview behavior, restoring saved settings more consistently, and making sure game-specific options appear when they are supposed to. We also improved speed-setting behavior and scoring configuration handling, which helps reduce confusion during setup. These changes matter because even small setup problems can slow teachers down and make a tool feel harder to use than it should. The V2 builder is designed to give teachers more control over how practice is assigned, while still keeping the workflow manageable. As we continue building new games and activities, making the assignment setup experience smoother is a major priority. This update may not look flashy from the outside, but it makes the platform more dependable where it coun...