How it works · Ahead
Every date, before it matters
The route from S1 to university has a dozen fixed points that most families discover late, and it runs a year ahead of the route south of the border. Fincho puts them on one timeline for each child, with the source of every date.
S4, September
Eilidh opens Ahead. The roadmap shows what is coming: prelims after the winter break, the exam diet from 26 April to 3 June, results on 10 August. Each national date links to the Qualifications Scotland page it came from.
Below that is the route: National 5 this year, Highers in S5, then Advanced Highers or more Highers in S6, with the university application in between. Her school's prelim dates go in with one line.
National dates with sources
The Qualifications Scotland exam timetable, results day, university deadlines. Checked every September and January; every date shows where it came from.
The Scottish school year, worked out
The August return, the October and February breaks and a June finish are computed for Scotland rather than fetched from your school. All 32 councils set their own dates, so a week is as close as anyone gets.
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 style of your course, never copied from a past paper, marked point by point against the marking instructions. 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.
- FutureThe S3 subject choice, which Highers to take in S5, what S6 is for, 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.