Grade My Paper
Paste your term paper, research paper or thesis chapter. Get a letter grade, category scores, line-by-line comments and a list of what to fix — before your professor sees it.
Free · No sign-up · Works with your own rubric
What Gets Graded
Six dimensions, scored separately, so you know exactly where the marks are leaking
Thesis & argument
Is there one clear, arguable claim, and does every section actually serve it? Papers most often lose marks here, not on grammar.
Evidence & sources
Are claims supported, are sources integrated rather than dropped in, and is there anything asserted without backing?
Structure & flow
Paragraph-level organisation, signposting, and whether your sections are balanced or one is doing all the work.
Academic style
Register, hedging, first-person use and the vague phrasing that makes a strong argument read like a weak one.
Mechanics
Grammar, punctuation and syntax - the layer a spell-checker catches, reported alongside everything it misses.
Rubric alignment
Paste your marking scheme and every category is scored against your professor's criteria instead of generic ones.
How to Use a Paper Grader Without Wasting the Feedback
Most students paste a paper, read the grade, feel either relieved or anxious, and change nothing. The grade is the least useful part of the report. The useful part is the lowest-scoring category and the specific passages quoted underneath it.
Work in that order deliberately. A weak thesis or an unbalanced structure costs multiple grade bands; a comma splice costs almost nothing. Fix the expensive problems first, re-grade, and only then start polishing sentences. Because re-grading is free, you can run three passes on a paper in the time it takes to read it once yourself.
Always paste the rubric if you have one. Without it, the grader applies standard academic criteria — reasonable, but generic. With it, the scoring follows the weights your professor actually assigned, which is usually where students discover a section they underbuilt.
Grading an essay rather than a paper? That version of the tool is tuned for shorter argumentative writing. For long documents, grade section by section.
Writing under exam conditions? Generate mock exams from your course PDF, write a timed answer, then grade it here before the real thing. You can also turn readings into summaries and practice questions on Lorea.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get my paper graded for free?
Paste the full text of your paper into the box above, optionally add your professor's rubric, and click Grade My Paper. You get a letter grade, a 0-100 score, category breakdowns, line-by-line comments and a checklist of what still needs fixing. No account, no payment, no word limit games.
Will the grade match what my professor gives me?
Treat it as a well-informed second opinion, not a prediction. The grade reflects how your paper performs against standard academic criteria - thesis clarity, evidence, structure, mechanics - or against the rubric you paste in. Papers that score well here still depend on your professor's emphasis and your course's expectations.
Can I grade a research paper or thesis, not just an essay?
Yes. The grader handles term papers, research papers, lab reports, literature reviews, dissertation chapters and thesis drafts. For long documents, grade one chapter or section at a time - feedback gets sharper when the AI evaluates a single argument rather than an entire manuscript.
Can I use my professor's rubric?
That is the most useful way to use this tool. Paste the rubric, marking scheme or assignment brief into the second field and each category score is calculated against those criteria instead of generic ones. If your rubric weights sources at 40 percent, the feedback will reflect that.
Is this a plagiarism or AI detector?
No. This tool grades quality - argument, evidence, structure, clarity and mechanics. It does not check for plagiarism and it does not report whether text was AI-generated. Use your institution's own tools for those checks.
What should I fix first?
Work top-down. Fix anything flagged in your lowest-scoring category first, since structural and thesis-level problems cost far more marks than sentence-level ones. Revise, then paste the new draft back in and re-grade - it is free every time, so most students run two or three passes before submitting.