How it works · In the chat
Marked work becomes a pattern, not a pile
Fincho does not connect to the school's homework platform, and there is no screen to fill in. The student tells Pip what was set and how it went, in the chat, and uploads the marked paper. What happens after the score is the useful part.
Real screens from the app, test accounts only, captured from an English student's account. The panels are the same here, with your own courses and grades in them.
A maths test, 18 out of 40
Tom types the score. Pip asks to see the questions that went wrong. He attaches a photo of the paper. Pip reads it and comes back with three weak spots: adding fractions without a common denominator (five times), dropping the sign when expanding a negative bracket (three times), forgetting to flip when dividing fractions (once).
Then it picks the one that cost the most marks and works through it with him, one question at a time, asking rather than telling. The other two go into the plan for later in the week, as short practice with different numbers.
Say it or snap it
"History essay, 14 out of 20" is enough to record. A photo of the marked paper lets Pip read what actually went wrong.
Mistakes become weak spots
Each recurring slip gets a name, a count and a topic from the awarding body's specification. Five sign errors are one weak spot, not five failures.
Fix the expensive one now
Pip explains the mistake that lost the most marks, Socratically: a question, then a nudge, then the next step.
The rest comes back
Two days later the plan includes five minutes on each remaining weak spot, with new numbers. A weak spot closes after it stops appearing.
What parents see
You see the scores your child records and the open weak spots by subject. You do not see the paper or the conversation.
More of what Fincho does
- Daily planEvery Sunday Pip drafts the week from the timetable, homework and weak spots. Every morning: three things for the time you have. Done means a twig on the nest.
- PracticeQuestions in your awarding body's style, never copied from a past paper, marked point by point against a mark scheme. Hint first, answer last. Wrong ones come back with new numbers.
- GradesUpload the report as photos or a PDF. Pip reads the grade codes, learns your school's format, shows a table to check, and talks the report through with the student.
- Exam pathMocks, subject choices, applications at 16, exam weeks, results days, university deadlines: a timeline from this year to leaving school, built from national dates and the school's own calendar.
- FutureYear 10 subject choices, post-16 choices, the examined year in the middle of the sixth form, and university applications. Pip asks more than it tells, checks what feels easy against what scores well, and shows what each route requires, with the source.