# I Built a Small App to Solve a Boring Problem: Tracking Mock Test Scores
I Built a Small App to Solve a Boring Problem: Tracking Mock Test Scores
Some software ideas start with a huge vision.
Mine started with a spreadsheet.
If you're preparing for a competitive exam, you eventually start taking mock tests.
One becomes five.
Five becomes fifteen.
Fifteen becomes thirty.
And suddenly you have mock scores everywhere.
Different test platforms.
Screenshots.
Notes.
Excel sheets.
Paper.
Browser dashboards.
The actual problem wasn't taking the mocks.
The problem was remembering what all those results meant.
So I decided to build something.
It's called MockTrack.
The problem I wanted to solve
Imagine this:
You scored 68 in a mock today.
Is that good?
Maybe.
But what did you score in your previous five mocks?
What is your average?
What's your highest score?
Are you improving?
Which subject is hurting your score?
Are you making the same mistake repeatedly?
Without your previous data, the latest score doesn't tell you much.
That's what I wanted to change.
Why not just use Excel?
My first answer was:
"Just make a spreadsheet."
And that's completely valid.
You can make an excellent mock tracker in Excel or Google Sheets.
But there is a small problem.
The more information you add, the more effort it takes to maintain.
Soon you have columns for:
- Date
- Test name
- Platform
- Score
- Attempts
- Correct
- Wrong
- Accuracy
- Section scores
- Time
- Notes
Then you start making formulas.
Then graphs.
Then formatting.
Then you realize you're spending more time maintaining the tracker than looking at the results.
That's when I thought:
What if the tracker itself was the product?
The basic idea behind MockTrack
I didn't want to build another giant learning platform.
There are already plenty of them.
I wanted something much more focused.
You can continue taking your mocks wherever you prefer.
MockTrack simply becomes the place where you keep your personal performance history.
The philosophy is:
Take → Track → Analyze → Improve
Simple.
What happens when you have enough mock data?
This is where it becomes interesting.
Suppose your scores are:
52
57
55
63
61
69
66
72
Looking at one result doesn't tell you much.
Looking at the history tells you something.
You're improving.
Not perfectly.
But generally moving upward.
That's the kind of information I wanted the app to make easier to see.
A bad mock can actually be useful
Another thing I learned while thinking about this problem:
A bad score isn't necessarily bad data.
Suppose you get 50 instead of your usual 65.
You can simply feel bad about it.
Or you can investigate.
Maybe:
- You rushed the final section.
- You guessed too many questions.
- You forgot a formula.
- You made calculation errors.
- You misunderstood several questions.
- The test was unusually difficult.
Now your 50 isn't just a score.
It's a debugging report.
That mindset is something I really like about mock-test preparation.
What I want MockTrack to help with
The app focuses on the information that matters when you're reviewing your preparation.
Things like:
Mock history
Where did you start?
Highest score
What's your current personal best?
Average score
What does your typical performance look like?
Subject performance
Where are you strong?
Where are you weak?
Performance trends
Are things improving or staying flat?
The objective isn't to drown you in analytics.
It's to make your existing preparation data easier to understand.
MockTrack isn't an exam predictor
This is important.
I don't want to build an app that tells someone:
"Based on your last five mocks, you will definitely get X rank."
That's not realistic.
Different tests have different difficulty levels.
Real examinations are different from mocks.
Scores fluctuate.
Instead, MockTrack is about something more concrete:
Your own history.
What actually happened in your previous tests?
What patterns can you see?
What can you change?
Who can use it?
The concept isn't limited to one exam.
If you regularly take mock tests for:
- SSC
- Banking
- Railway
- UPSC
- Teaching exams
- CAT
- CUET
- State government exams
- Other competitive exams
the same tracking problem can appear.
Your test provider might change.
Your preparation history is still yours.
What I learned from building it
The biggest lesson is probably this:
Simple problems are worth solving.
You don't always need an incredibly complicated product idea.
Sometimes the problem is:
"I have taken 25 mock tests and I can't easily understand my own performance."
That's enough.
If a small tool can remove that friction, it has value.
I'm still refining MockTrack, and I would rather hear criticism from actual students than assume I know exactly what they need.
Especially from people who currently use:
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- Notebooks
- Screenshots
- Multiple test-platform dashboards
to track their mocks.
Try MockTrack
I've published MockTrack on Google Play.
MockTrack – Mock Score Tracker
If you try it, the feedback I'm most interested in isn't:
"Nice app."
It's:
"This part is useful."
"This part is annoying."
"I currently do this manually."
"You should add this."
Because that's how a small project becomes a genuinely useful product.
One mock at a time
At the end of the day, MockTrack isn't going to pass an exam for anyone.
It isn't going to replace studying.
It isn't going to replace revision.
It isn't going to replace solving questions.
It does something much smaller.
It helps turn a pile of mock-test results into a history you can actually understand.
And sometimes, seeing the pattern is the first step toward changing it.
Take the mock. Track it. Learn from it. Do better on the next one.