diff --git a/backend/app/services/quiz_builder.py b/backend/app/services/quiz_builder.py
index 8654f24..68566d5 100644
--- a/backend/app/services/quiz_builder.py
+++ b/backend/app/services/quiz_builder.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Permission-safe, saved general-bank tests and category selection."""
 import random
+import statistics
 from typing import Literal
 
 from fastapi import HTTPException
@@ -247,10 +248,46 @@ def create_saved_test(db, user, data, question_ids):
     return {"id": quiz.id, "title": quiz.title, "questions_count": quiz.questions_count}
 
 
+def blueprint_weights(db, user) -> dict[int, float]:
+    """Each category mapped to the share of the paper its domain accounts for.
+
+    Empty when the learner has no study objective, or when the objective has no
+    published weights — in which case selection falls back to being about
+    weakness alone, which is what it always was.
+
+    `categories_for` already returns the descendants of a mapped category, so a
+    leaf topic under a weighted domain is in here too.
+    """
+    exam_id = getattr(user, "active_exam_id", None)
+    if not exam_id:
+        return {}
+    from app.services import exam_blueprint
+
+    weights: dict[int, float] = {}
+    for line in exam_blueprint.domains(db, exam_id):
+        if line.weight is None:
+            continue
+        for category_id in exam_blueprint.categories_for(db, line.id):
+            weights[category_id] = float(line.weight)
+    return weights
+
+
 def adaptive_select(db, user, count, category_ids, state, difficulty):
-    """AMBOSS-style adaptive selection: prefer unanswered questions, then recycle
-    (older incorrect first), pick the weakest category each step and damp that
-    category so the session moves between weak areas."""
+    """Adaptive selection: the questions most likely to raise the learner's score.
+
+    Three rules, in order. Unanswered before answered, because a question never
+    seen teaches more than one already met. Among those, weakest topic first.
+    When the unanswered run out, recycle — wrong ones before right ones, oldest
+    first — damping each category as it is drawn from so a session of twenty
+    does not become twenty questions from the single worst subject.
+
+    Weakness is then multiplied by the topic's share of the real paper, which
+    the examining board publishes and `exam_blueprints.weight` holds. Being weak
+    at something worth 5% of the exam is worth more study than being equally
+    weak at something worth 1%, and until this was added the two ranked the
+    same. A topic the blueprint does not cover takes the median weight, so it
+    is neither promoted nor made unreachable.
+    """
     from collections import defaultdict
     query = filtered_bank_query(db, user, category_ids, state)
     if difficulty:
@@ -285,17 +322,34 @@ def adaptive_select(db, user, count, category_ids, state, difficulty):
     def accuracy(category):
         total, correct = cat_correct[category]
         return correct / total if total else 0.5
+
+    weights = blueprint_weights(db, user)
+    # The middle of what the board publishes, for a topic it does not mention.
+    # A zero would make unmapped material unreachable; the highest would make
+    # it the priority. Neither is a claim the blueprint supports.
+    neutral = statistics.median(weights.values()) if weights else 1.0
+
+    def weight(category):
+        return weights.get(category, neutral) if weights else 1.0
+
+    def impact(category):
+        """How much a question here could move the score."""
+        return (1 - accuracy(category)) * weight(category)
+
     unanswered = [r for r in rows if r[0] not in latest]
     recycled = [r for r in rows if r[0] in latest]
     # Older incorrect questions resurface first among recycled.
     recycled.sort(key=lambda r: (latest[r[0]][0], latest[r[0]][1]))
-    # Step 2: prefer unanswered, ordered by weakest category first (step 3 estimate).
-    unanswered.sort(key=lambda r: accuracy(r[1]))
+    # Step 2: prefer unanswered, most impact first.
+    unanswered.sort(key=lambda r: -impact(r[1]))
     selected = [r[0] for r in unanswered[:count]]
     if len(selected) < count:
         damping = defaultdict(lambda: 1.0)
         while recycled and len(selected) < count:
-            best = max(recycled, key=lambda r: (1 - (0.85 if latest[r[0]][0] else 0.25)) * damping[r[1]])
+            # Wrong last time is worth about five times right last time, and
+            # the topic's share of the paper scales both.
+            best = max(recycled, key=lambda r: (
+                (1 - (0.85 if latest[r[0]][0] else 0.25)) * damping[r[1]] * weight(r[1])))
             recycled.remove(best)
             selected.append(best[0])
             damping[best[1]] *= 0.5
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_exam_blueprint.py b/backend/tests/test_exam_blueprint.py
index df98e20..55aa4c3 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_exam_blueprint.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_exam_blueprint.py
@@ -7,17 +7,19 @@ paper.
 """
 import random
 import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch
 from decimal import Decimal
 
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 from sqlalchemy.pool import StaticPool
 
-import test_quiz_builder  # noqa: F401  — imports every model, so the metadata resolves
+import test_quiz_builder as fixtures  # noqa: F401  — imports every model, so the metadata resolves
 from app.database import Base
 from app.models.exam import BlueprintCategoryLink, Exam, ExamBlueprint, QuestionExamLink
 from app.models.question import Question
 from app.models.question_category import QuestionCategory
+from app.services import quiz_builder
 from app.models.user import User
 from app.services import exam_blueprint
 
@@ -133,3 +135,59 @@ class BlueprintTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
+
+
+class AdaptiveWeightedByTheBlueprintTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Weakness is scaled by how much of the real paper a topic accounts for.
+
+    Being weak at something worth 5% of the exam is worth more study than being
+    equally weak at something worth 1%. Until this was added the two ranked the
+    same, because selection knew about the learner and nothing about the paper.
+    """
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.bank = fixtures.BuilderTests()
+        self.bank.setUp()
+        self.db = self.bank.db
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.bank.tearDown()
+
+    def weigh(self, mapping):
+        """Patch the blueprint so the test states the weights it is about."""
+        return patch.object(quiz_builder, "blueprint_weights", lambda db, user: mapping)
+
+    def test_the_heavier_topic_is_drawn_first_when_both_are_untouched(self):
+        # Categories 1 and 2 both unanswered, so weakness is equal at 0.5.
+        # Question 1 sits under category 1, question 2 under category 2.
+        with self.weigh({1: 10.0, 2: 1.0}):
+            ids = quiz_builder.adaptive_select(self.db, self.bank.owner, 1, [], "all", None)
+        self.assertEqual(ids, [1])
+
+        with self.weigh({1: 1.0, 2: 10.0}):
+            ids = quiz_builder.adaptive_select(self.db, self.bank.owner, 1, [], "all", None)
+        self.assertEqual(ids, [2])
+
+    def test_weakness_still_beats_weight_when_it_is_lopsided(self):
+        # Right in the heavy topic, wrong in the light one: the light topic is
+        # where the learner actually is weak, and 10× the weight does not undo
+        # being certain about the other.
+        self.bank.answer(1, True, day=0)
+        self.bank.answer(2, False, day=1)
+        with self.weigh({1: 10.0, 2: 1.0}):
+            ids = quiz_builder.adaptive_select(self.db, self.bank.owner, 1, [], "all", None)
+        # 3 and 6 are unanswered, so they come before anything recycled.
+        self.assertTrue(set(ids) <= {3, 6}, ids)
+
+    def test_a_topic_the_blueprint_does_not_cover_is_neither_promoted_nor_lost(self):
+        # Only category 1 is mapped. Category 2 takes the median, so a question
+        # under it is still reachable — a zero would make it invisible.
+        with self.weigh({1: 4.0}):
+            ids = quiz_builder.adaptive_select(self.db, self.bank.owner, 4, [], "all", None)
+        self.assertIn(2, ids)
+
+    def test_with_no_study_objective_it_is_about_weakness_alone(self):
+        # No exam, no weights: selection is what it always was.
+        self.assertEqual(quiz_builder.blueprint_weights(self.db, self.bank.owner), {})
+        ids = quiz_builder.adaptive_select(self.db, self.bank.owner, 2, [], "all", None)
+        self.assertEqual(len(ids), 2)
diff --git a/docs/adaptive-sessions.md b/docs/adaptive-sessions.md
index d0dd242..e36d03b 100644
--- a/docs/adaptive-sessions.md
+++ b/docs/adaptive-sessions.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ session* card on Analysis (`frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.jsx`).
 
 ## What it does today
 
-Three rules, in order.
+Three rules, then one multiplier.
 
 **1. Unanswered first.** A question you have never seen teaches more than one
 you have. Everything you have not answered is taken before anything you have.
@@ -27,28 +27,36 @@ is worth roughly five times one you got right. After each pick, that category's
 damping halves, which stops a session of twenty becoming twenty cardiology
 questions because cardiology happens to be your worst subject.
 
+**4. All of it is scaled by the topic's share of the real paper.** Weakness
+alone said that being weak at something worth 5% of the exam and something
+worth 1% were the same problem. They are not. Every score above is multiplied
+by the weight the examining board publishes for that topic's domain, which
+`exam_blueprints.weight` holds and `blueprint_weights()` loads.
+
+A topic the blueprint does not cover takes the **median** of the published
+weights. A zero would make unmapped material unreachable; the highest would
+make it the priority. Neither is a claim the blueprint supports.
+
+With no study objective set, or an objective carrying no weights, the
+multiplier is absent and selection is about weakness alone — which is what it
+was before this existed.
+
 Only completed, non-expired, non-course attempts count, and only your most
 recent answer to each question.
 
-## What it is *not*
+## What it is still *not*
 
-It is **not** weighted by the exam blueprint. Impact, here, means *what you are
-weakest at*, not *what the paper is mostly made of*. Those are different
-questions and we answer only the first one.
+Weight scales weakness; it does not replace it. A topic you are certain of does
+not surface because it is worth 5% of the paper — `(1 − accuracy)` is near zero
+and no multiplier rescues it. That is deliberate: this picks what to *study*,
+not what the paper is made of.
 
-The blueprint is a separate algorithm — `algorithm: "blueprint"`,
-`_blueprint_test` → `services/exam_blueprint.py` — which deals a paper shaped
-like the real exam using the published domain weights. Nothing currently
-combines the two.
+Dealing a paper shaped like the real exam is a different algorithm —
+`algorithm: "blueprint"`, `_blueprint_test` → `services/exam_blueprint.py`.
 
-## The obvious next refinement
+## Refinements still open
 
-Multiply the adaptive score by the domain's published weight, so being weak at
-something worth 5% of the paper outranks being weak at something worth 1%. The
-weights are already in `exam_blueprints.weight` and already drive the Relevance
-column on Analysis. This is not built.
-
-Two smaller ones, in the order they are worth doing:
+In the order they are worth doing:
 
 - **Use every category a question is filed under, not only its primary.**
   Step 2 reads `question_category_id` alone, so a question's extra links do not
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/AnalysisShell.css b/frontend/src/components/AnalysisShell.css
index f132d8d..1eff383 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/AnalysisShell.css
+++ b/frontend/src/components/AnalysisShell.css
@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@
 
 .ax-main { min-width: 0; padding: 8px 0 48px; }
 
+/* Section tabs. They live here because both routes wear them, and a page that
+   only sometimes has them is how the third one ended up looking like a link. */
+.an-tabs { display: flex; gap: 4px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border); margin-bottom: 16px; overflow-x: auto; scrollbar-width: none; }
+.an-tabs::-webkit-scrollbar { display: none; }
+.an-tab {
+  background: none; border: none; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;
+  padding: 9px 14px; font-size: 0.9rem; font-weight: 600;
+  color: var(--text-muted); cursor: pointer; white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.an-tab[aria-selected='true'] { color: var(--primary); border-bottom-color: var(--primary); }
+
 /* ── Rail ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 .ax-rail {
   /* Stuck below the header, exactly as tall as what is left of the window.
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/AnalysisShell.jsx b/frontend/src/components/AnalysisShell.jsx
index 0e3db46..0b6b7b4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/AnalysisShell.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/AnalysisShell.jsx
@@ -3,6 +3,32 @@ import SessionRail from './SessionRail'
 import api from '../api/client'
 import './AnalysisShell.css'
 
+export const ANALYSIS_TABS = [
+  ['performance', 'Performance'],
+  ['recommendations', 'Recommendations'],
+  ['session', 'Session analysis'],
+]
+
+/**
+ * The three readings of the same answers, in one bar.
+ *
+ * Session analysis used to be a link out of the page, which is why it never
+ * felt like a tab: two of the three changed what you were reading and the
+ * third took you somewhere else. What selecting does is left to the caller,
+ * since the session's own route has to hand you back to the page holding the
+ * other two — but from the outside all three are the same control.
+ */
+export function AnalysisTabs({ active, onSelect }) {
+  return (
+    <div className="an-tabs" role="tablist">
+      {ANALYSIS_TABS.map(([key, label]) => (
+        <button key={key} type="button" role="tab" className="an-tab"
+          aria-selected={active === key} onClick={() => onSelect(key)}>{label}</button>
+      ))}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
 /**
  * The frame both analysis views sit in: the session rail, then the content.
  *
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.css b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.css
index 129f009..004cd59 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.css
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.css
@@ -6,15 +6,6 @@
 .an-header h1 { margin: 0 0 4px; font-size: 1.35rem; }
 .an-header p { margin: 0; color: var(--text-muted); font-size: 0.87rem; }
 
-.an-tabs { display: flex; gap: 4px; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border); margin-bottom: 16px; overflow-x: auto; scrollbar-width: none; }
-.an-tabs::-webkit-scrollbar { display: none; }
-.an-tab {
-  background: none; border: none; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;
-  padding: 9px 14px; font-size: 0.9rem; font-weight: 600;
-  color: var(--text-muted); cursor: pointer; white-space: nowrap;
-}
-.an-tab[aria-selected='true'] { color: var(--primary); border-bottom-color: var(--primary); }
-
 /* ── Summary tiles ────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 .an-summary { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(150px, 1fr)); gap: 10px; margin-bottom: 14px; }
 .an-stat { background: var(--card-bg); border: 1px solid var(--border); border-radius: 10px; padding: 13px 15px; }
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.jsx
index ee87bba..0511863 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.jsx
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import { useState, useEffect, useCallback } from 'react'
-import { Link, useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom'
+import { Link, useNavigate, useSearchParams } from 'react-router-dom'
 import api from '../api/client'
 import CategoryPerformance from '../components/CategoryPerformance'
 import Donut from '../components/Donut'
 import LineChart from '../components/LineChart'
-import AnalysisShell from '../components/AnalysisShell'
+import AnalysisShell, { AnalysisTabs, ANALYSIS_TABS } from '../components/AnalysisShell'
+import { SessionAnalysis } from './AnalysisSessionPage'
 import './AnalysisPage.css'
 
 const STATUS_LABEL = { focus: 'Focus area', proficient: 'Proficient', no_data: 'No data yet' }
@@ -371,7 +372,17 @@ function FocusRow({ row, onPractise }) {
 }
 
 export default function AnalysisPage() {
-  const [tab, setTab] = useState('recommendations')
+  // Which tab is on lives in the URL, so a reader can be sent to one and so
+  // the session's own route can hand them back to the tab they came from.
+  const [params, setParams] = useSearchParams()
+  const view = params.get('view')
+  const tab = ANALYSIS_TABS.some(([key]) => key === view) ? view : 'recommendations'
+  const setTab = (key) => {
+    const next = new URLSearchParams(params)
+    if (key === 'recommendations') next.delete('view')
+    else next.set('view', key)
+    setParams(next, { replace: true })
+  }
   const [group, setGroup] = useState('articles')
   const [data, setData] = useState(null)
   const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true)
@@ -413,27 +424,20 @@ export default function AnalysisPage() {
         </p>
       </div>
 
-      <div className="an-tabs" role="tablist">
-        <button className="an-tab" role="tab" aria-selected={tab === 'performance'} onClick={() => setTab('performance')}>
-          Performance
-        </button>
-        <button className="an-tab" role="tab" aria-selected={tab === 'recommendations'} onClick={() => setTab('recommendations')}>
-          Recommendations
-        </button>
-        {/* A session's own analysis is a session, and the rail beside this
-            page is the list of them — so this points at the last one rather
-            than being a third empty tab. */}
-        {data?.last_attempt_id && (
-          <Link className="an-tab" role="tab" aria-selected="false"
-            to={`/sessions/${data.last_attempt_id}`}>Session analysis</Link>
-        )}
-      </div>
+      <AnalysisTabs active={tab} onSelect={setTab} />
 
       {error && <p className="an-empty" role="alert">{error}</p>}
 
       {loading && !data ? (
         <div className="loading"><div className="spinner" /> Loading…</div>
-      ) : !data ? null : (
+      ) : !data ? null : tab === 'session' ? (
+        /* One sitting is its own subject. The lifetime tiles and the adaptive
+           button below them are about the whole bank, and repeating them over
+           a single session's figures would invite the two to be read as one
+           set. Which session: the one most recently worked on, and the rail
+           beside it is how you get to any of the others. */
+        <SessionAnalysis attemptId={data.last_attempt_id} />
+      ) : (
         <>
           <div className="an-summary">
             <div className="an-stat">
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.test.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.test.jsx
index feaadd3..a7e0bb3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.test.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisPage.test.jsx
@@ -86,6 +86,70 @@ it('switches to the performance tab', async () => {
   expect(screen.queryByText('Cardiology')).not.toBeInTheDocument()
 })
 
+it('opens on the tab the address names', async () => {
+  // Which tab is on is in the URL, so one can be linked to — which is how the
+  // session's own route hands a reader back to the other two.
+  render(<MemoryRouter initialEntries={['/sessions?view=performance']}><AnalysisPage /></MemoryRouter>)
+  expect(await screen.findByTestId('category-performance')).toBeInTheDocument()
+  expect(screen.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Performance' })).toHaveAttribute('aria-selected', 'true')
+})
+
+const SESSION = {
+  attempt_id: 91, quiz_id: 3, title: 'My Custom Test', mode: 'learning',
+  completed_at: '2026-09-11T10:00:00', graded: true,
+  total: 2, answered: 2, score: 1, percent: 50,
+  seconds_total: 180, seconds_per_question: 90,
+  questions: [{ position: 1, question_id: 1, excerpt: 'A 4-month-old…', status: 'correct',
+    difficulty: 'medium', category: 'Neonatology', seconds_spent: 90, peer_percent: 60, peer_sample: 5 }],
+  recommendations: [], plan: null, not_started: false,
+}
+
+const withSession = (session) => api.get.mockImplementation(url => {
+  if (url === '/quizzes/sessions') return Promise.resolve({ data: [] })
+  if (url.endsWith('/analysis')) return Promise.resolve({ data: session })
+  if (url.startsWith('/attempts/')) return Promise.resolve({ data: { rows: [] } })
+  return Promise.resolve({ data: payload({ last_attempt_id: 91 }) })
+})
+
+const sessionTab = async () => {
+  render(<MemoryRouter><AnalysisPage /></MemoryRouter>)
+  await userEvent.click(await screen.findByRole('tab', { name: 'Session analysis' }))
+}
+
+it('reads a session on the third tab, in place, with the rail still beside it', async () => {
+  withSession(SESSION)
+  await sessionTab()
+  // The third tab used to be a link to a page of its own, so choosing it left
+  // the analysis rather than changing which part of it you were reading.
+  expect(await screen.findByRole('heading', { name: /Your performance for My Custom Test/ }))
+    .toBeInTheDocument()
+  expect(api.get).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/attempts/91/analysis')
+  expect(screen.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Performance' })).toBeInTheDocument()
+  expect(screen.getByRole('complementary', { name: 'Sessions' })).toBeInTheDocument()
+  const figures = document.querySelector('.an-figures')
+  expect(within(figures).getByText('50%')).toBeInTheDocument()
+})
+
+it('offers the way back into a session still being sat', async () => {
+  withSession({ ...SESSION, completed_at: null, answered: 1 })
+  await sessionTab()
+  expect(await screen.findByRole('link', { name: 'Resume session' }))
+    .toHaveAttribute('href', '/study/3?start=1')
+  expect(screen.queryByRole('link', { name: 'Review session' })).toBeNull()
+  // And no figures, because a session half sat has no result — only a 50% that
+  // would be read as one.
+  expect(within(document.querySelector('.an-figures')).getAllByText('—')).toHaveLength(4)
+})
+
+it('says there is nothing to analyse rather than showing an empty session', async () => {
+  await sessionTab()
+  // Not the rail's "No sessions yet" repeated: this says what the tab would
+  // have shown, which is the question the reader just asked.
+  expect(await screen.findByText(/sit one and this is where it is picked apart/))
+    .toBeInTheDocument()
+  expect(api.get).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith('/attempts/undefined/analysis')
+})
+
 it('reports completion over a window, and changes the window', async () => {
   const completion = (over = {}) => ({
     days: 30, answered: 120, bank_total: 330, correct: 78,
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisSessionPage.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisSessionPage.jsx
index 2524c47..6606fe6 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisSessionPage.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisSessionPage.jsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react'
 import { Link, useNavigate, useParams } from 'react-router-dom'
-import AnalysisShell from '../components/AnalysisShell'
+import AnalysisShell, { AnalysisTabs } from '../components/AnalysisShell'
 import Donut from '../components/Donut'
 import RepeatSession from '../components/RepeatSession'
 import api from '../api/client'
@@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ const SORTS = {
  * right, how much was reached at all, how long each question took, and how long
  * the sitting was. Time per question is the one that says whether you are
  * reading carefully or stalling.
+ *
+ * It takes the session as props and brings no frame of its own, because the
+ * Analysis page shows it on a tab and the route below shows it on its own —
+ * the same reading either way, from one piece of markup.
  */
-export default function AnalysisSessionPage() {
-  // Two ways in: an attempt to analyse, or — when nothing has been sat yet —
-  // the quiz itself, so the page can say what is missing instead of 404ing.
-  const { attemptId, quizId } = useParams()
+export function SessionAnalysis({ attemptId, quizId }) {
   const [data, setData] = useState(null)
   const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true)
   const [error, setError] = useState('')
@@ -51,9 +52,12 @@ export default function AnalysisSessionPage() {
   // table and the peer statistics beside it.
   const [group, setGroup] = useState('disciplines')
   const [recs, setRecs] = useState(null)
-  const navigate = useNavigate()
 
   const load = useCallback(() => {
+    // Reached with neither on the Analysis page before a first session exists.
+    // Asking for /attempts/undefined/analysis is how that came back as a
+    // failure rather than as a beginning.
+    if (!attemptId && !quizId) { setLoading(false); return }
     setLoading(true)
     const url = attemptId ? `/attempts/${attemptId}/analysis` : `/attempts/quiz/${quizId}/analysis`
     api.get(url)
@@ -82,11 +86,18 @@ export default function AnalysisSessionPage() {
   const shown = rows.slice(page * PER_PAGE, page * PER_PAGE + PER_PAGE)
   useEffect(() => { setPage(0) }, [sort])
 
+  if (!attemptId && !quizId) {
+    return (
+      <div className="an-empty">
+        No session to read yet — sit one and this is where it is picked apart.
+      </div>
+    )
+  }
   if (loading) {
-    return <AnalysisShell><div className="loading"><div className="spinner" /></div></AnalysisShell>
+    return <div className="loading"><div className="spinner" /></div>
   }
   if (!data) {
-    return <AnalysisShell><div className="an-empty">{error || 'Session not found.'}</div></AnalysisShell>
+    return <div className="an-empty">{error || 'Session not found.'}</div>
   }
 
   // An exam still running is not marked, so there is nothing to split the
@@ -95,13 +106,18 @@ export default function AnalysisSessionPage() {
   const graded = data.graded !== false
   // Nothing left to answer is finished, whether or not it was handed in.
   const finished = !!data.completed_at || (data.total > 0 && data.answered >= data.total)
-  const correct = graded ? data.score : 0
-  const incorrect = graded ? data.answered - data.score : 0
-  const answeredOnly = graded ? 0 : data.answered
+  // A sitting in progress has no result, and zeros are read as one: 0% is a
+  // score of nought, not "not answered yet". So an unfinished session reports
+  // how far through it is and nothing else — which is also why the button
+  // beneath it is the way back in rather than the way through the answers.
+  const marked = graded && finished
+  const correct = marked ? data.score : 0
+  const incorrect = marked ? data.answered - data.score : 0
+  const answeredOnly = marked ? 0 : data.answered
   const skipped = data.total - data.answered
 
   return (
-    <AnalysisShell>
+    <>
       <div className="an-main">
         <div className="an-head">
           <h1>Your performance for <span>{data.title}</span></h1>
@@ -148,7 +164,7 @@ export default function AnalysisSessionPage() {
             ['⏲', hours(data.seconds_total), 'total time spent'],
           ].map(([icon, value, label]) => (
             <div key={label} className="an-figure">
-              <strong>{value}</strong>
+              <strong>{finished ? value : '—'}</strong>
               <span><span aria-hidden="true">{icon}</span> {label}</span>
             </div>
           ))}
@@ -159,9 +175,9 @@ export default function AnalysisSessionPage() {
             <h2>{data.title}</h2>
             <div className="an-donut-wrap">
               <Donut correct={correct} incorrect={answeredOnly ? 0 : incorrect}
-                answered={answeredOnly} skipped={skipped} graded={graded} />
+                answered={answeredOnly} skipped={skipped} graded={marked} />
               <ul className="an-legend">
-                {graded ? (
+                {marked ? (
                   <>
                     <li><i className="is-right" />{correct} correct</li>
                     <li><i className="is-wrong" />{incorrect} incorrect</li>
@@ -331,6 +347,30 @@ export default function AnalysisSessionPage() {
         <RepeatSession title={data.title} rows={data.questions}
           onClose={() => setRepeating(false)} />
       )}
+    </>
+  )
+}
+
+/**
+ * One session at its own address.
+ *
+ * The rail hands out a link per row and people have kept the ones they were
+ * sent, so the route stays; it lands on the Session analysis tab with that
+ * session showing, which is the same view the tab gives on its own. The other
+ * two tabs are about the whole bank rather than this sitting, so choosing one
+ * goes back to the page that holds them.
+ */
+export default function AnalysisSessionPage() {
+  // Two ways in: an attempt to analyse, or — when nothing has been sat yet —
+  // the quiz itself, so the page can say what is missing instead of 404ing.
+  const { attemptId, quizId } = useParams()
+  const navigate = useNavigate()
+
+  return (
+    <AnalysisShell>
+      <AnalysisTabs active="session"
+        onSelect={key => { if (key !== 'session') navigate(`/sessions?view=${key}`) }} />
+      <SessionAnalysis attemptId={attemptId} quizId={quizId} />
     </AnalysisShell>
   )
 }
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisSessionPage.test.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisSessionPage.test.jsx
index 3ba6b86..b3178ba 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisSessionPage.test.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/AnalysisSessionPage.test.jsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import { render, screen, waitFor, within } from '@testing-library/react'
 import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event'
-import { MemoryRouter, Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom'
+import { MemoryRouter, Route, Routes, useSearchParams } from 'react-router-dom'
 import AnalysisSessionPage from './AnalysisSessionPage'
 import api from '../api/client'
 
@@ -71,11 +71,13 @@ describe('a session nobody has sat', () => {
 
   it('is the same page at zero, not a different kind of page', async () => {
     mountQuiz()
-    // The real figures, all zero. Scoped to the figure strip: the title and
-    // the percentage also appear in the rail and the donut.
-    const figures = (await screen.findByText('0/20')).closest('.an-figures')
-    expect(within(figures).getByText('0%')).toBeInTheDocument()
-    expect(within(figures).getByText('0/20')).toBeInTheDocument()
+    // Nothing sat is not a result of nought. The figures used to read
+    // "0%, 0/20", which is a mark on an empty page; a session with nothing in
+    // it has no figures, and the donut says how far through it is instead.
+    await screen.findByText(/Nothing answered yet/)
+    const figures = document.querySelector('.an-figures')
+    expect(within(figures).getAllByText('—')).toHaveLength(4)
+    expect(within(figures).queryByText('0%')).toBeNull()
     // And the real table, every row skipped.
     // Ten rows a page, every one of them skipped.
     expect(screen.getAllByText('skipped')).toHaveLength(10)
@@ -149,6 +151,37 @@ describe('a session whose only attempt is still in progress', () => {
   })
 })
 
+describe('a session reached by its own URL', () => {
+  const Overall = () => <p>overall analysis: {useSearchParams()[0].get('view')}</p>
+
+  const mountRouted = () => render(
+    <MemoryRouter initialEntries={['/sessions/91']}>
+      <Routes>
+        <Route path="/sessions" element={<Overall />} />
+        <Route path="/sessions/:attemptId" element={<AnalysisSessionPage />} />
+      </Routes>
+    </MemoryRouter>)
+
+  beforeEach(() => { vi.clearAllMocks(); mock(SAT) })
+
+  it('lands on the session tab rather than on a page of its own', async () => {
+    mountRouted()
+    // People were sent these links before there were tabs, and the rail hands
+    // out one per row. The address still works, and it arrives somewhere that
+    // looks like the rest of the analysis.
+    expect(await screen.findByRole('tab', { name: 'Session analysis' }))
+      .toHaveAttribute('aria-selected', 'true')
+    expect(await screen.findByRole('heading', { name: /Your performance for My Custom Test/ }))
+      .toBeInTheDocument()
+  })
+
+  it('hands the reader back to the two tabs it does not hold', async () => {
+    mountRouted()
+    await userEvent.click(await screen.findByRole('tab', { name: 'Performance' }))
+    expect(screen.getByText('overall analysis: performance')).toBeInTheDocument()
+  })
+})
+
 describe('the session rail', () => {
   it('gives the content the whole width when the rail is put away', async () => {
     mountAttempt()
@@ -237,6 +270,17 @@ describe('a session left part way', () => {
     expect(screen.getByRole('link', { name: 'Resume session' })).toHaveAttribute('href', '/study/3?start=1')
     expect(screen.queryByRole('link', { name: 'Repeat session' })).not.toBeInTheDocument()
   })
+
+  it('withholds the figures until there is a sitting behind them', async () => {
+    mountAttempt()
+    await screen.findByText(/1 of 2 questions still unanswered/)
+    // Half a session answered would score 50%, which is the sort of figure a
+    // learner remembers and the sort a page should not offer: it is the score
+    // of a session that does not exist yet.
+    const figures = document.querySelector('.an-figures')
+    expect(within(figures).getAllByText('—')).toHaveLength(4)
+    expect(within(figures).queryByText('50%')).toBeNull()
+  })
 })
 
 it('ranks this session\'s topics, and asks the same answers three ways', async () => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/LoginTurnstile.test.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/LoginCaptcha.test.jsx
similarity index 100%
rename from frontend/src/pages/LoginTurnstile.test.jsx
rename to frontend/src/pages/LoginCaptcha.test.jsx