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. Picking it is how Pip knows you are in Scotland, which sets S1 to S6 rather than year groups, the August return, and roughly when the October and February breaks fall. It does not go crawling your school's website.
- 02
Say what you are taking.
Answer it, or send a photo of your timetable and let Pip read the subjects off it. Two-week timetables are fine; only the subject names are kept. Then one more question: which of them do you want to practise here?
- 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
Open it and start.
There is no plan to keep up with. Open Today and Pip already has two or three things worth practising, each with the reason it picked them: a mistake due for another go, a topic that has started slipping, one you have not touched. Tap Start on one.
- 05
Practise the right thing.
Original questions in the style of your course, marked against the marking instructions 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.
Get to the end of one of those, three right in a row or the due mistakes put right, 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.