# Practise school work in a school yard

> Every school yard has Practice — questions by level, course and topic, timed or untimed, from 5 to 50 at a time — and a shelf of study materials from the yard's admins.

Section: Yards · Updated: 2026-10-05
URL: https://commonyard.app/guides/practice-in-a-school-yard/

Every school yard on CommonYard has **Practice**: a bank of questions to revise with, and a shelf of slides, notes and past papers.

## Steps

1. Join your school's yard. If there isn't one, [make one](/guides/make-a-yard/) and pick **SCHOOL**.
2. Open the yard and tap **PRACTICE** on the bar at the bottom. In a school yard the bar reads **HOME · CHAT · PRACTICE · GAMES · YOU**.
3. Pick your **LEVEL**, then your course, then a topic — or **All topics**.
4. Choose how many questions — 5, 10, 20, 30 or 50 — and **Timed** or **Untimed**.
5. Pick a **FORMAT** if you like: multiple choice, fill in the blank, true or false, short answer, and more.
6. Tap **Start**. Answer the questions, then see how you did.

![The Practice page of a school yard: the Study materials door, then the levels to pick from, and the note that practice is private](https://commonyard.app/guides/img/practice.webp "Pick your level to see its courses.")

## Study materials

Near the top of Practice, **Study materials** opens the yard's shelf: slides, notes and past papers its admins put up. Tap a file to download it. See [Share and download study materials](/guides/study-materials/).

## Good to know

- Practice is private: no rankings and no rewards, and nothing is posted anywhere.
- The **PRACTICE** door is only on the bar inside a school yard.
- **LAST TIME** shows your last set, with **Start again** to try it once more.
- For University of Ghana courses, see the [past questions by course](/practice/).