Real-time voice conversations
Explain a concept out loud and get pushed on it. Speaking is where you find out whether you actually understand something. It is also the part of revision nobody does alone.
AI tutor · in the StudyIB app
Meet Sam.
An IB tutor you can talk to out loud, at eleven at night, about the thing you did not want to admit you had not understood.
Sam lives in the StudyIB app · iOS and Android · free to start
01Why not just use a chatbot
Built for the IB, not adapted to it.
A general model knows the physics. It does not know what Paper 2 asks you to do with the physics.
Built around the IB, not bolted onto it
Syllabus structure, past-paper question types, command terms and what examiners reward. A general chatbot knows the physics; it does not know what Paper 2 asks you to do with it.
Every IB subject
Across the six groups plus the core. Sam knows which course you are on and what level you are sitting.
Integrity first, by design
Sam is built to refuse the thing most students would use it for. That is the point, and it is worth reading the detail below.
02Where Sam stops
The part worth reading
Four things Sam will not do.
Most of what a student would want an AI to do for them, Sam refuses. That is not a limitation we are apologising for. It is the reason it is safe to have on your phone during an assessed year.
- 01
Write your assessed work
Structure and research direction, yes. The writing and the claims stay yours, because they have to be yours.
- 02
Hand over answers to copy
Hints and questions back at you instead. Slower, and the only version that survives contact with an exam hall.
- 03
Pretend the limits are not there
Sam is built around responsible-use limits and says so when it hits one, rather than quietly complying.
- 04
Replace your teacher
Your teacher remains the authority on what is being assessed and how. Sam is the thing available at eleven at night.
And here is what it will do
Sam will walk you through a hard question step by step, explain a syllabus definition, help you brainstorm an outline, check whether your logic holds together, and keep you moving, while the writing stays genuinely your own.
03In a normal week
When you'd actually open it.
Stuck on a problem
Worked through step by step, with the reasoning surfaced rather than the answer handed over.
Reviewing before an exam
Any concept explained plainly, at whatever level you need it, at whatever hour you are awake.
Structuring an essay
Feedback on the shape of an argument and the research question behind it, never on the words themselves.
Past-paper practice
Command terms, question types, and how to approach each one.
iOS and Android
Sam is in the app.
Free to start. Bring one thing you are stuck on and see whether talking it through helps. That is the whole test.
Educational-use notice: Sam is an AI study aid. Its guidance is for educational and practice purposes only and is not an official IB evaluation or a substitute for your teacher.