How it works · Ahead
Every date, before it matters
The route from Year 7 to university has a dozen fixed points that most families discover late. Fincho puts them on one timeline for each child, with the source of every date.
Real screens from the app, test accounts only. Names and marks are not a real family's.
Year 11, September
Tom opens Ahead. The roadmap shows what is coming: sixth-form applications closing in January, A Level choices in spring, the GCSE written exams from 10 May, the last paper on 18 June, results day in August. Each national date links to the JCQ or UCAS page it came from.
Below that is the route: mocks this term, A Levels from September 2027, UCAS in autumn 2028, A Level results in August 2029. His school's mock dates go in with one line.
National dates with sources
JCQ exam timetables, UCAS deadlines, results days. Checked every September and January; every date shows where it came from.
The English school year, worked out
Terms, half terms and the summer holiday are computed for England rather than fetched from your school, which puts them within about a week. Close enough to know that half term is half term.
A date you tell it about counts
Say when the mock is and that subject starts coming up more in what Pip suggests, until it has been and gone.
Reminders, not nagging
A note in the app two weeks and two days before a milestone. Nothing more.
What parents see
You see the next milestone for each child on the family dashboard, and the full roadmap in the weekly report.
More of what Fincho does
- 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.
- PracticeQuestions in the exam board'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.
- FutureYear 9 options, Year 11 A Level choices, Year 12 courses and UCAS. Pip asks more than it tells, checks what feels easy against what scores well, and shows what each route requires, with the source.