Questions parents actually ask.

They are built for children aged 8–11 — Years 4 to 6 — preparing for the toughest UK entrance exams. The paper mixes questions a confident Year 4 child can manage with some calibrated for the very top end, so a younger child can get real value from it — just treat the hardest ones as a preview rather than a target. Every mistake is asked more than once, so even a child who finds the hard version tough will show you clearly whether the easy version is solid.

You do not have to be sitting an entrance exam to use them. An older child — Year 7, say — who came up with gaps from primary is working on exactly the same maths, and a younger one who simply wants to keep up will find plenty here. The papers are built around primary maths, so anyone still shaky on it is in the right place.

A paper your child sits on screen, in three parts. Every skill in the topic is asked more than once, in a different form each time — because which of them goes wrong is what separates a rushed slip from a real gap in what they know.

It marks itself the moment they finish. You get the analysis: every question they got wrong, the right answer, the mistake behind it, and a line you can say at the kitchen table. Then practice sheets aimed at whatever it found.

Nothing is printed, downloaded or posted.

Genuinely super-selective. Some questions are written to the standard of the hardest entrance papers, and a strong child getting those wrong is normal — it is partly the point, because it shows precisely where confidence runs out. The last part of the paper is the opposite: short, easier questions against a clock, which is where a rushed child makes silly slips. The same mistakes appear in both, and comparing them is what tells you which is which.

It does not have to be one go. The paper comes in three parts, so a child who would rather do one, break, and come back to the next can. Start and finish it within a day though: once your child begins, the paper stays open to them for 24 hours. And that is the right window anyway — a paper is a check-up, not a course, and spreading it over a week blurs the very pattern it exists to find. Only the last part is timed — the rest is unhurried on purpose, and the clock comes on at the end, which is where a rushed slip actually shows itself.

Yes. Every answer is a single number, word, symbol or fraction, and nobody marks anything by hand. Your child answers on screen and we mark it the instant they finish — no waiting for results, no judgement calls, no arguments over half-marks. You see the score, what went wrong, why, and what to do about it straight away.

Nearly always your VPN, your network, or a link that has already been used. There is a short page of ten-second fixes: If something isn’t working.

No. We find what is going wrong inside a topic your child is already learning.

Your child sits a paper. Every skill is asked more than once, in a different form each time.

When something goes wrong we tell you exactly what: the mistake behind the answer, how many marks it has cost, the words to say to your child, and practice sheets built from that exact mistake.

There are no lessons or tutorials here. If a whole topic is new to your child, cover it first — then we will uncover which parts your child has kept, and which have been lost or never fully learned.

There is nothing else — the dashboard IS the product. Your child sits the paper there, it marks itself there, and the analysis appears there. It is also the only place that can show the pattern across topics and across months, which is the part a single paper can never give you.

A silly name you pick from two wheels, the month and year they were born, and tick-marks — right or wrong, per question. We never learn your child’s real name, because there is nowhere on the site to type one. No birthday, no school. You can export or delete it at any time from the dashboard; the detail is in our privacy policy.

No. Your child’s answer data is never shared and never sold, to anyone. We only ever publish overall patterns from large groups — such as which mistakes are most common across the country — with every name removed, because those patterns are useful to parents. Nothing we publish could be traced back to your child.

Instantly. Everything appears in your dashboard the moment payment clears, and the link to open it goes to your inbox too. Start whenever suits — nothing is posted.

Everything opens the moment you pay, ready for your child to sit. That cannot be undone, so please choose carefully before buying. If something is genuinely wrong — a paper that will not open, an answer that looks incorrect — email hello@sillymaths.com and we’ll fix it or replace it. Our terms set out the full position.

Only the monthly one. You can cancel it any time from your dashboard and it stops at the end of the month you have paid for. The 6-month and 12-month plans are single payments that do not renew — they simply end. Whichever you choose, every result your child has recorded stays yours to read afterwards.

Yes. Both children sit on the same account and you switch between them at the top of every page — each has their own papers, their own results and their own reports.

Each child is the same price. Email hello@sillymaths.com and we’ll set the second one up and put them both on your dashboard.

An account holds one child as standard for a reason worth knowing: two children’s answers recorded under one name would read as one child with a very strange pattern, and the whole point of this is naming the mistake that keeps costing marks. Kept apart, each child gets their own honest reading.