How it works · Practice
Original questions, marked like the exam
Practice is where weak spots go to be fixed. Fincho writes fresh questions in the wording your specification uses and marks them the way an examiner would, so a 2-mark question earns both its marks separately, not a tick.
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.
Three questions on adding fractions
Tom asks for a few questions on adding fractions with different denominators. The first appears as a card with an answer box. He asks for a hint and gets a nudge, not the method. He answers 2/7, which is wrong in exactly the way his test was wrong.
The marking card shows the mark scheme point he missed, in examiner language, and a two-sentence explanation. Question two appears. Next week the same skill comes back with different numbers until it holds.
In the board's style
The command words your specification uses, realistic marks, and the right tier, which matters more here than most places: maths is a double award worth two GCSEs, with two tiers rather than the three the previous specification had.
Hint before answer
A first hint points at what to look at, a second gives the next step. The full working comes only on the third request, and Pip notes that it did.
Marked point by point
A mark for the method and a mark for the answer, against the published scheme. The feedback names the exact slip, which is how it becomes a weak spot or closes one.
Spaced review
Wrong answers return in a few days with new numbers. Right answers return later. Nothing is drilled that is already secure.
What parents see
You see practice results by subject: questions attempted, accuracy, weak spots opened and closed.
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.
- Schoolwork reviewTell Pip the score, show it the paper. It reads the wrong answers, spots that three mistakes are one habit, explains the costly one, and remembers the rest for practice.
- 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 at 14, 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 9 subject choices, post-16 choices at Year 11, the Skills Baccalaureate, 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.