Not open yet. In development.
Learn how, not just what.
SomaLC is a free Leaving Certificate study platform, built in Ireland.
Opens 1 September 2026
The paper does not ask what you know. It asks you to do something with it.
Almost every revision site hands you the content. Very few teach the thing the content is for: taking a question apart, deciding what it is actually asking, and producing the answer in the shape the marks are awarded in. That is the whole of what we are building.
| Verb | What it asks for | Where the mark goes |
|---|---|---|
| Describe | Say what is there, in order, in your own words. | Naming it and stopping. |
| Explain | Give the mechanism: why one thing leads to the next. | Restating the fact in longer words. |
| Account for | Give the causes, and say which one carried most weight. | Listing causes without ranking them. |
| Evaluate | Judge it against a stated criterion, then commit to a position. | Advantages, disadvantages, no position. |
| Justify | Defend your choice against the ones you rejected. | Asserting the choice a second time. |
For students
Free, permanently. There is no trial, no locked chapter and no card field. A short diagnostic sets your starting point, then the tools drill one part of answering at a time: explaining it back, holding a position under a curveball, ordering a sequence, reading a chart, repairing a method that went wrong.
English, French, Maths and Irish come first, three units per subject, with more added as they are written and checked by a person.
For teachers and schools
Every tool is designed backwards from how the examiner awards the marks, so what a student rehearses here is what earns credit there. The teacher holds mark authority in full.
Our users are under 18 and the Irish digital age of consent is 16, so data protection is a design constraint here rather than a policy page. If your school would like a pilot place, write to info@somalc.ie and you will get a person, not a sales sequence.
What will not change
- Free for students, permanently. Not a trial and not a freemium tier. No capability, tool or study session sits behind a payment.
- AI is not live today. When it arrives it will be free to students like everything else, and it will be labelled wherever it appears.
- Student data is never sold. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. There are no ads on this platform.
- It never produces a mark, a grade, a band, or a suggested range. That judgement belongs to the teacher, and nothing here will imitate it.
Hear when it opens
One message, on the day the first subjects go live. Nothing else.