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, and the qualifications along it are made for Wales rather than borrowed. Fincho puts them on one timeline for each child, with the source of every date.
Year 11, September
Cerys opens Ahead. The roadmap shows what is coming: sixth form and college applications closing in the new year, post-16 choices in spring, the written exams in May and June, results day in August. Each national date links to the page it came from.
Below that is the route: mocks this term, post-16 study from September 2027, university applications in autumn 2028, results in August 2029. Her school's mock dates go in with one line.
National dates with sources
The awarding body's exam timetable, university deadlines, results days. Checked every September and January; every date shows where it came from.
The Welsh school year, worked out
Terms and half terms are computed for Wales rather than fetched from your school, including February half term falling a week before England's.
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 your awarding body'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 subject choices, post-16 choices at Year 11, the Skills Baccalaureate, 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.