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Why we built SolEdu, and where it stands today

The Türkiye Yüzyılı Maarif Model entered classrooms in stages from the 2024-2025 school year; in March 2026 the Ministry of National Education’s question-writing guide redefined what a good exam question is. Inside that change we saw a problem of consistency: one standard, held across thousands of questions. We built SolEdu for it. This is the story so far.

Why we took this on

The Türkiye Yüzyılı Maarif Model did more than reorder topics. It also changed what assessment looks at: not only what a student knows, but what the student can do with it, by interpreting data or deciding what to do in a situation. The Ministry says it plainly:

So the questions change with the programme. The calendar is known too: the first cohort raised under the Maarif Model sits the central exams from 2028 onward. What made this our kind of problem was the guide’s next step. It took question writing out of free authorship and tied it to fourteen criteria in four areas: the choice of context, the stem and its options, ethics and neutrality, and language. Writing one such question takes craft. Holding the same standard across thousands of them takes discipline.

Whatever the question measures, the classroom practices

Educators call it the backwash effect. The type of question that appears in a school’s mock exams is the type teachers drill, and what teachers drill is the habit students leave with. If the questions measure recall, the classroom trains recall, whatever the curriculum says. That is why the guide is so exact about what makes a question context-based:

A long passage, a decorative image or a name borrowed from everyday life does not make a question context-based. The guide’s test is simple: if the student can reach the answer without reading the context, the context is scenery, and the question has to be rebuilt.

Six things a set holds as a whole

A set is read one question at a time, and then once more as a whole, with the guide open beside it. A SolEdu set holds these six together:

1. 01

   The context carries the question

   Take the passage away and the question can no longer be solved. That is the guide’s core condition.

2. 02

   A verified answer

   Every answer is verified independently of the question’s writer.

3. 03

   A label that matches

   The skill on the label is the skill the question measures.

4. 04

   A reason for every wrong option

   Each wrong option has a written reason, so a class’s mistakes show the department where the gap is.

5. 05

   No repeated scenario

   A new set is original within itself and against every question already delivered to the same customer.

6. 06

   A traceable label

   Every code on the label comes from the official programme and can be traced back to it.

What SolEdu commits to

At SolEdu the questions are written to the Ministry’s guide, and the guide’s criteria are checked on every question. Whatever the subject or the grade, a question meets the same conditions before it reaches a school or a publisher.

Each question’s curriculum label (künye) comes from the official programme. Its answer is verified independently. A question that can still be solved with its context removed is not delivered. For publishers there is one more condition: a new set repeats nothing already delivered to that publisher, so the same scenario is not bought twice. Every wrong option also carries a written reason for being wrong, and that reason is used again later, in the classroom.

What a label records: grade and subject · theme · topic · learning outcome · process component · skills · difficulty

Where it stands today

Today SolEdu works for two kinds of customer. For publishers we prepare question sets in the grade, subject and theme they ask for, in the number they ask for, each question with its label, its solution and its figures, ready for typesetting. For schools we prepare the school for the Maarif Model: we pass context and skill based questions to the school and see that they are used in its classes.

10,000+

Questions written and checked so far

14 criteria

The checklist of the Ministry’s question-writing guide

8 subjects · 9-11

The high-school subjects we write for; grades 9, 10 and 11

Labelled

Every question comes with its curriculum label, traced to the official programme

For us, SolEdu is the proof of a thesis: in a demanding, regulated field, quality comes from a written standard that every single question is held to.