Know what to do next

No guessing which chapter to revise, and no red crosses without an explanation.

Curiosity gives a student the one thing revision usually hides: a clear answer to “what should I do now?”

Learn it, practise it, prove it, move on.

My progress

Mathematics, this term

Next up: rearranging formulae, starting from the basics.

Both draw on the same questions and the same syllabus. They answer different questions about a student, and students move between them.

Where understanding is built

The everyday mode. Students work on one thing at a time and get help the moment it stops making sense.

Starts at the easiest level of that topic, so nobody is dropped in at the deep end.
Feedback comes at the end of the set, not after every question, so students stay in flow.
A wrong answer brings an explanation and more questions on that exact point.
A tutor is there inside the practice when a student wants something explained again.

Students leave a set knowing what they got wrong, and why.

Where understanding is proven

The mode that answers a different question: can the student do this away from the questions they just practised?

Covers the whole topic, not only the parts they practised.
Leans on the things they got wrong before, but with new questions.
Asks the same idea in a different shape, so it measures understanding and not memory.
The result changes what practice they are offered next.

“I have practised this” becomes “I can show that I understand it”.

Thirty minutes with your subject leads is usually enough to know whether this fits your school.