How it works
No forms. Pip finds the rest.
Fincho is a chat. The left-hand entries are shortcuts into it; nothing is a form. Here is the first fortnight.
- 01
Say your school.
Type a few letters and pick it from 5,600 UK secondary schools. Pip goes to the school's own website for term dates, half terms and INSET days, shows you the page it read them from, and asks you to check. From then on it knows when half term is without being told.
- 02
Snap your timetable.
A photo or a PDF. Two-week timetables (Week A and Week B) are fine. Pip reads it, shows you the grid, and you fix anything it misread. Your subjects are set up from it, teacher names and all.
- 03
Tell it how school went.
"Maths test, 18 out of 40." Pip asks to see the questions that went wrong. It reads the paper, works out that three mistakes are one habit, and explains the one that cost the most marks. The rest is recorded and comes back later as practice.
- 04
Get a plan you can finish.
Every Sunday Pip drafts the coming week from your timetable, homework, weak spots and the school calendar. You say which days are out. Every morning there is a short list, usually three things, for the time you said you have.
- 05
Practise the right thing.
Original questions in your exam board's style, marked against a mark scheme point by point. Hint first, answer last. Wrong answers come back a few days later with different numbers until they stick.
- 06
Watch the nest grow.
Finish two thirds of the day's list and a twig goes on your nest. There is no leaderboard and no comparison with brothers or sisters. Just your nest, and a weekly look back in Pip's words.
Three rules Pip keeps
Asks first
A hint before an answer. Three requests for the answer and it will show the working, and note that it did.
Only talks about learning
School, subjects, study habits, exams, what comes next. Anything else gets one friendly sentence and a nudge back.
Shows its sources
Term dates, exam dates, specification topics: every fetched fact comes with the link it came from.