Try a maths or English skills check for children in Years 3-6
Before you set anything up, your child can take a short maths or English skills check tailored to their year group, and you can see the results. No account is needed. We don’t store personal details or send emails or notifications.
To get started, choose your child’s year group (Years 3–6) and a subject. Maths is already selected, but you can switch to English.
Free to try, no account. It opens the app in this browser, so open it on the laptop, tablet or phone your child will use.
What the maths or English skills check asks
A skills 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.
When it ends, your child’s last screen has one button, “Show my results to an adult”. It asks for a grown-up before it opens, then shows what the check found and what the app would do about it.
The grown-up’s page lists the questions your child answered incorrectly or left unanswered, folded under “Show questions and answers”. Each shows the question, their answer, the correct answer, the skill it checks and, where there is one, an explanation. Printing the page prints them too.
No name or answer is saved or sent
The try holds the answers in the open page only: they are not saved on the device and not sent to us. To make the check’s questions, the page asks our server for them, which tells it the year group and subject you chose, with an anonymous device number and nothing else. Close the page and the answers are gone. No name is asked for, and none is shown.
- To keep the result, choose “Print or save as PDF” on the grown-up’s page. It is never emailed.
- If you want to carry on, “Save results and set up” adds your child on that device with the check already done, and the set-up continues from their name. It stays on that device. The app asks our server for each session’s questions, by topic, level and year group. It asks about schools too, with the words a grown-up types and the school chosen. It sends an anonymous device number with each request: never a name, never the child’s answers. Nothing else 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. So does the plan of a travel pack, if one is asked for. So does the list of questions the child got wrong, if a grown-up turns that on.
- If you do not, “Delete results” clears the try and goes back to the start.
Who should sit with your child during the check
A grown-up, for the whole check. Read the first question together if your child wants you to, then let them answer on their own, with no hints and no help, so the result shows where they really are. “I haven’t learnt this yet” is a good answer when it is true, and nothing is marked while it runs, so there is nothing to put right as they go.
Afterwards, read the grown-up’s page on your own first, then talk it through together if you like.
Ready to set up properly instead? The four steps to begin.
More about the check: How does it know where my child is?