The rubric alignment signal
A diagnostic read on how your work aligns with assessment criteria — and a clear statement of what it is not.
Durmah can give you a diagnostic read on how your work aligns with assessment criteria. Read carefully what that is.
It will not tell you your work 'is a First', 'would be marked as' anything, or that it 'cannot reach' a classification. It carries no predicted grade and no marker's decision, because Durmah is not your marker and cannot be.
This is a checkpoint, not something to run after every paragraph — and it is rate-limited accordingly. Use it when you have a substantial draft and want to know which criterion is weakest, not as a scoreboard.
Do not ask 'what would this get?'. Ask 'which criterion is weakest, and what would move it?'. The first question has no honest answer. The second one has a specific, actionable one.
Keep going
The six-stage assignment workflow
Where a piece of assessed work lives from the moment you receive the brief to the moment before you submit — with Durmah as a tutor, not a writer.
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.
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.
Still stuck?
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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.