Concepts, not chapters
The unit of progress is a concept rung. "Chapter 4, 60% complete" tells you nothing useful. "Factorising is coral, quadratics is blocked" tells you what to do tonight.
Stage four - Climb and review
Progress you can point at, measured in concepts rather than percentages.
A test score compresses a term into one number and throws away the part that was useful. The ladder keeps it: which concepts are yours, which are slipping, which are blocked, and what tonight's fifteen minutes should go towards.
Mathematics, this termTracked
- Trigonometric ratios. Recommended next.
- Quadratic equations. Mastered.
- Fractions and ratios. Needs review.
- Linear equations. Mastered.
82%82 percent masteryMasteryAcross 22 rungs
19 daysCurrent streak
What gets tracked
Four measures, each chosen because it changes a decision.
If a number cannot tell you what to do differently tomorrow, it does not belong on a dashboard.
Flagged concepts, ranked by cost
Weak concepts are ordered by how many rungs above them are blocked. The one at the top is the one holding back the most ground, which is rarely the one that feels most urgent.
Streaks that count showing up
A streak counts days you did real work, not rungs you cleared. Going backwards on a hard concept is exactly the day a streak should be protected, not broken.
Time recorded honestly
Only active time on questions and explanations counts. A tab left open for two hours is not two hours of study, and reporting it as such would make the number useless.
The dashboard
One screen that answers "what should I do tonight".
Not a wall of charts. Three subjects, their ladder positions, and the single highest cost gap across all of them.
82%Mathematics masteryMathematics18 of 22 clear
1 coralLevel 3 reached
64%Physics masteryPhysics14 of 22 clear
2 coralLevel 3 reached
91%Chemistry masteryChemistry20 of 22 clear
NoneLevel 3 reached
Highest cost gap right now
Vectors, Physics
Resolving into components is coral at 59%. Four rungs above it are blocked, which makes it the single most expensive gap on the account. Newton's laws, friction, circular motion and work energy all wait behind it.
4 rungs blockedCoral for 9 daysEst. 3 sessions
- Circular motion. Not unlocked yet.
- Friction. Not unlocked yet.
- Newton's laws and free body diagrams. Recommended next.
- Resolving vectors into components. Needs review.Blocking four rungs above
- Units and measurement. Mastered.
Student and parent visibility
A parent sees the outcome. Nobody sees the struggle.
This split is the whole reason a student will use the product honestly. If asking a basic question could be read later by a parent, students stop asking basic questions, and the engine loses the signal it runs on.
Visible to a linked parent account
Progress and effort, in full- Concepts mastered this week, this month and this term
- Concepts currently flagged for review, and for how long
- Active study time, by subject, by day
- Study streak and days missed
- Difficulty level reached in each subject
- Diagnostic results and the ladder position they produced
Stays private to the student
By design, not by setting- The text of any doubt the student asked
- The tutor explanations they received
- How many times they asked for the same step again
- Individual wrong answers and the working behind them
- Which questions took them longest
- Anything typed into a session, in full
There is no setting that turns this off, and no parent side request that reveals it.
A student always sees everything about their own account, including everything a linked parent account can see. There is no view of a student that is hidden from that student.
Full data handling detailWhat counts as a day
- Twelve minutes of active work on questions or explanations. Opening the app does not count.
- A rung going backwards still counts. Discovering a gap is productive work, and penalising it would teach avoidance.
- One rest day a week is built in. A streak survives a single missed day, because a rule that punishes one Sunday off gets abandoned entirely.
- No streak notifications after 22:30. Nothing on this platform will nag a student into studying late.
Why streaks are deliberately gentle
A streak should measure a habit, not manufacture anxiety.
Aggressive streak mechanics are effective at driving daily opens and terrible at driving learning. They push students to do the minimum that keeps the number alive, usually at 23:50, usually on the easiest available material.
So the streak here has a low bar, a built in rest day, and no evening pressure. It exists to make consistency visible, and that is the whole job.
Concepts mastered is the number that matters. The streak is context for it.
See your own ladder
By the end of the first week, you will know exactly which gap is costing you the most.
Not a percentage, not a grade. A named concept, with a count of how many things above it are waiting on it. That single line is what makes revision time land where it changes a result.
Free tier stays free. One subject, a daily doubt limit, no card.
One evening, start to finishLive
Day 1Diagnostic places you and draws the ladder
Day 3Enough evidence to rank your gaps by cost
Day 7First rungs turn mint, held across sessions
Week 3The blocked ground above starts opening up