Reading your Mark My Paper report
Eleven sections, in a deliberate order. Here is what each one is for and which to read first when you are short of time.
| # | Section | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diagnostic and integrity notices | What this report is and is not. Read it once, properly. |
| 2 | Question | The question the review ran against. Check this is the right one. |
| 3 | Diagnostic benchmark | A diagnostic profile with an indicative range, a confidence level, the reasoning, and what the next band would require. Explicitly not a mark. |
| 4 | Overview | Your top strengths, your top revision priorities, the single highest-impact fix, and a two-hour plan. |
| 5 | Question analysis | What the question is actually asking, and whether your answer engaged with it. |
| 6 | Marked script | Paragraph-by-paragraph comments on your own text. |
| 7 | Development plan | How to move the work forward. |
| 8 | Priority fixes | Ordered by impact. Start at the top. |
| 9 | Detailed criteria feedback | Per-criterion reasoning and improvements. |
| 10 | Revision plan | What to do next, concretely. |
| 11 | Final disclaimer | The boundary, restated. |
Read the Overview. The two-hour plan and the single highest-impact fix are where the value is concentrated. The marked script is for a second pass, once you know what you are looking for.
Which criteria are used
Where your module has verified marking criteria, Durmah marks against those and stamps the report with which standard it used and when it was last reviewed. Where it does not, it uses five general criteria — legal issue identification, doctrinal accuracy and use of authority, application to the facts, structure and argumentation, and writing quality — and tells you it is doing so.
If Durmah has not verified your module's marking criteria, it says it is using general criteria rather than implying it knows your department's rubric. That honesty is deliberate, and it is why you can trust the times it does claim module-specific standards.
It means the full review could not complete and the benchmark is provisional. Retry rather than acting on it.
Keep going
Mark My Paper: diagnostic review of your own draft
Give it your draft and it returns structured feedback — what is working, what is weak, what to fix first, and how to spend your next two hours.
Mark My Paper: formats, lengths and troubleshooting
Accepted file types, how long an answer can be, and what to do when a review will not run.
The rubric alignment signal
A diagnostic read on how your work aligns with assessment criteria — and a clear statement of what it is not.
Still stuck?
Ask Durmah — it knows this manual and can point you to the right section. If the manual itself is wrong, out of date or unclear, tell us and we will fix it. Documentation errors are treated as product bugs.
Durmah is an independent study platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any university. Everything in this manual describes study support for legal education. It is not legal advice. Where this manual and your module handbook disagree, your module handbook is authoritative.