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.

A practice question card in the chat, the student asking for a hint, and Pip's first hint below
A question card, and a hint on request: a nudge, not the method.
A marking card showing marks awarded, mark scheme points met and missed, and examiner-style feedback, with the next question below
Marked against the scheme: which point was earned, which was lost, and why.

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.

Adding fractions, one question at a time

Tom asks to practise adding fractions with different denominators. A question written for him, at his level, 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. A new version of the same question follows straight away. Tomorrow it comes back again with different numbers, and keeps coming back until it holds.

In the board's style

The command words your specification uses, realistic marks, the right tier. Schools here mix a local awarding body with the English ones, so Pip follows whichever your subject actually sits.

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

A wrong answer gets a new version straight away, then comes back tomorrow, then at three, seven, fourteen and thirty days, each time with new numbers, until it holds. Nothing is drilled that is already secure.

What parents see

You see practice results by subject: questions attempted, accuracy, weak spots opened and closed.

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