Questions parents ask

Yes, for now. Remelia is free while we make sure it works well for families. We will introduce a price later; we will tell you in the parents’ app and by email well before anything changes, and nothing will ever be charged without you choosing it.

Open app.remelia.co.uk in the web browser on your child’s device. There is nothing to install, and no account is needed to start.

Add your child: a first name, the year group, and the school they go to if you like.

Then choose the schools: tick every school your child might apply for, as many as you like, or “Not sure yet” to follow the curriculum with no exam date. None is chosen for you; you can skip it, and change it at any time in Controls. A short starting check then finds where your child is.

When you are ready, create your account in the parents’ app at parents.remelia.co.uk, add your child, and type the code it shows into your child’s device. Linking is optional: without it, everything stays on the device. The four steps to begin.

A web browser on a laptop, Chromebook, tablet or phone. There is nothing to install. A grown-up’s account is only needed to link devices, and to read the letter and change settings on your own phone.

No. Remelia is not in any app store. It opens in the web browser: your child’s app is at app.remelia.co.uk, and the parents’ app is at parents.remelia.co.uk.

Not to practise. A child can practise on one device with no account at all, and nothing leaves it.

A grown-up’s account is what links devices and brings the weekly letter to the parents’ app, where you can also change the settings from your own phone. It is an email address and a password, and nothing else about you. For each child it holds the first name and year group you type, and what their linked devices send. Sign-in is Remelia’s own service, and no service based in the United States processes your data. Everything the account holds.

Yes. Maths and English, Years 3 to 6. English is grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary most days; a weekly reading day from Year 5 when a chosen exam tests English; and short timed writing pieces a grown-up marks with ticks, when a chosen exam includes writing. It does not teach verbal or non-verbal reasoning.

Two: the reading day and the writing pieces. Whatever the school, English has grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary questions most days, and from the spring of Year 4 a passage each week to read with a grown-up, with questions for you to ask.

The weekly reading day, from the autumn of Year 5, comes with a chosen exam that tests English: one unseen passage and 9 questions on it (123 of the 127 exams with a plan test English). The short timed writing pieces, which a grown-up marks with ticks, come with an exam that includes writing (55 of them do): one a fortnight from the spring of Year 4, one a week from the autumn of Year 5.

Years 3 to 6, for children aged about 7 to 11. The year group is set when a child is added, and it moves up by itself each September.

Maths has 199 objectives: the Key Stage 2 ones for those years, and problem-solving strategies and puzzles that go beyond them. English has 90. What it teaches, in full.

As closely as it can. New maths topics come in the order of your child’s school’s scheme: White Rose Maths, Power Maths or Maths — No Problem! It follows White Rose Maths unless a grown-up chooses another.

The School page shows this half-term’s topics, with an email you can send the teacher to check them, and the plan can be changed to match. New topics run up to a term ahead of school by default; in the final months before a chosen exam, further.

No. Remelia teaches maths and English only. It does not teach verbal reasoning or non-verbal reasoning.

116 of the 127 exams it plans for include non-verbal reasoning. Your child would need to practise that elsewhere. Each exam guide says what the exam covers that Remelia does not: find your school’s.

133 schools, across 127 entrance exams: most of the schools we have researched whose test is set by Quest Assessments or the ISEB Common Pre-Test and sat in Year 6, and the Trafford test and King’s Chester’s, whose guides are written by hand:

• Trafford grammar schools (FSCE): maths and English, Years 3 to 5. For five schools: Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Sale Grammar School, Stretford Grammar School and Urmston Grammar School.
• The King’s School, Chester (Quest): maths and English, Years 3 to 6.

A child can prepare for more than one; the nearest exam comes first. Every exam has a guide that keeps to what the schools have published, with its sources. All the schools, A to Z.

Each exam plan is dated from your child’s year group: Remelia works to the sitting for the September they start Year 7. For a school without a plan, choose “Not sure yet” and Remelia teaches the Key Stage 2 curriculum with no exam date. No school is chosen for your child: when you set them up you tick the schools they might apply for, as many as you like, or “Not sure yet”. Until you choose, they learn the Key Stage 2 curriculum with no exam date; the schools can be changed at any time in Controls.

Yes. Without a chosen exam, Remelia follows the Key Stage 2 maths and English curriculum in school order, with no exam date: in English, grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary most days, and from Year 4 spring a passage each week to read with a grown-up. The exam plans (the date, what is in scope, a lighter last fortnight) are only for the schools listed. Tell us which school you are preparing for at info@remelia.co.uk.

It gets lighter. In the last 14 days before a chosen exam, a session is at most 8 minutes, whatever the usual setting, and nothing new is introduced: only reviews of topics your child has already met.

The aim is to arrive rested, with what is known fresh, rather than to cram.

About 12 minutes. A grown-up can set a session anywhere from 8 to 20 minutes. Each week asks for four sessions on different days; once the week’s work is done, more practice that week moves nothing on, and a missed week costs nothing.

There are three breaks a year (Christmas, Easter and August), which follow your child’s school holidays unless you set them yourself. On a break there is only a puzzle, and topics that come due simply wait.

A starting check in each subject: up to 24 questions in maths and 16 in English, pitched at your child’s year and term. Nothing is marked while it runs, “I haven’t learnt this yet” is always an answer, and three wrong in a row takes it back a year rather than carry on. The plan starts from what it finds.

Every six weeks, a re-check of 10 questions asks again about the topics standing highest. A miss brings that topic back for review sooner; a re-check never takes progress away.

Remembered, not just done. Each topic comes back for review after a gap: 1, 3, 8 and 20 days, each gap about 2.5 times the one before when the review goes well, and shorter when it does not.

A topic is secure once it has been answered correctly after a gap of about 20 days. Right answers on the same day as the last review never count towards it. After the 50-day review it is “Mastered”. Progress towards an exam is always counted in secure topics. How it works.

No. Nobody can know that in advance, and Remelia does not try.

The parents’ app shows how many of the exam’s topics are secure now and, as a range with its assumptions written beside it, how many are likely to be secure by the exam. That is an estimate of preparation, never a prediction of a result: a place also depends on the day itself, on how other children do, and on each school’s own admissions rules.

Yes. One account holds several children, each with their own record, plan, schools and weekly letter. Children can share a device too: one device keeps up to six children, each with a separate record.

In the parents’ app, ask for a link code for your child: eight letters and numbers, shown for 10 minutes. Type it into the app on your child’s device. Your child never signs in.

Every linked device then shares one record, so what was practised on the laptop on Monday is there on the tablet on Tuesday. A device that is unlinked stops sending, and what is already on it stays there.

Nothing about the child leaves the device unless a grown-up links it to an account. Then only the child’s answers, the grown-ups’ settings and the device’s name go, and only to that account.

What your child types about their world (their friends, pet, team and hobbies) never leaves the device. Everything that is and is not sent.

No. No adverts in the app and no marketing trackers in it. No leaderboards, no comparisons with other children, and no percentages shown to your child.

This website sets no cookies and runs no scripts or analytics. The sign-in pages and the apps keep only what signing in and practising need: cookies and storage on the device.

Yes. In the parents’ app you can delete a child, or your whole account. A deleted child or account is kept for 30 days in case of a change of mind, then deleted for good; the service’s own backups are overwritten within 35 days after that.

A device that was never linked has sent nothing: its record is only on that device.

You can also download a copy of everything the account holds, for one child or all of them, from the parents’ app.

No. Remelia is not affiliated with any school, consortium or exam board, and does not speak for any of them. Each exam guide is written from the schools’ own published pages, with the sources listed and the date they were checked.

Misheli Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales; Remelia is its trading name. It started as one family’s practice: two sisters preparing for the 11+, and their mum learning alongside them. The name is made from theirs. About Remelia.

Email info@remelia.co.uk. It is the one address for everything: a question, a school you would like a plan for, or a privacy request. If a question in the app looks wrong, tap “Something wrong with this question?” on it.