How scoring works
My scoreboard →Points are for getting better, not for being clever.
Getting a question wrong and then learning from it earns you far more than getting it right first time. So a mistake is never something to hide — in this app it is the most useful thing you can do.
How you earn points
- +10You get a question right the first time.The smallest award — being right is the easy part.
- +25You got it wrong before, then got it right.This is the best thing you can do. Mistakes you fix are the ones you remember.
- +30You finish all five extra questions after a mistake.The highest award. It doesn't matter if some are still wrong — finishing is the win.
- +15A topic comes back for review and you get it right.Rewards coming back later, instead of cramming it all at once.
- +40You've truly mastered a whole topic.The big one. Given once per topic, so it can't be farmed.
- +20You beat your own previous best on a full paper.Your only real competition is last week's you.
Things that will never cost you points
- • A wrong answer never takes points away. There are no minus points, ever.
- • You are never scored on speed. Take as long as you need to think.
- • Not practising one day never deletes what you earned. Nothing resets to zero.
- • Practising the same easy question over and over does not keep paying out.
- • Nobody can buy points.
A day that goes badly — and well
Say you do five questions. Three you get right. Two you get wrong — so you work through the extra practice on those two, and then get them right.
| 3 questions right first time | 3 × 10 | +30 |
| 2 questions wrong → finished the extra set | 2 × 30 | +60 |
| Then got those 2 right | 2 × 25 | +50 |
| Total | 140 |
110 of those 140 points came from the two questions you got wrong. If you had got all five right first time you would have earned 50.
There is a soft cap of 150 points a day, so nobody wins by grinding for hours. After that, points still count but at a slower rate — and the app will tell you to come back tomorrow.
How the scoreboard works
- There is no ranking of all children
- You are only ever compared inside a group your parent set up — your family, your class, or a small study group. Nothing is public.
- Two boards, two questions
- This week shows points earned since Monday and starts fresh each week — so if you join late you are never stuck behind. Mastery is permanent: how many topics you have truly mastered. That one only ever goes up.
- Bands, not just numbers
- Next to your position you will see a band — Top quarter, Top half, Middle, or Building up. Being in the middle is not a verdict; it is a place you move up from. Progress is what the board is measuring.
- Days practised
- A rolling count of days you practised in the last seven. It never breaks and never resets with guilt — a missed evening costs you nothing.
- What nobody can see
- Nobody sees your answers, your mistakes or your papers. Others see only a display name, points and mastery stars. No photos, no school names, no chat.
For parents
Scores that reward correctness punish the children who most need practice: a strong child banks points without effort, while a struggling child is penalised for the very act of practising. It also makes guessing rational. So this system pays for learning behaviour — recovery, finishing extra practice, revisiting topics — and keeps first-time correctness as the smallest award.
Comparison is opt-in per group, and there is no global board by design. Below the middle of a group, the band is visible only to the child and their own parent.
Everything is recorded in an append-only ledger, so any total can be recomputed and audited — and points can never be silently removed.