Every skill in Pip has its own score from 0 to 100. It goes up and down with each answer, and it looks at more than right or wrong: how hard the question was, how your child has been doing lately and whether they get it right again and again.
The Pip Score is Pip's own mastery score. Your child does not get one score for "maths". They get a separate score for each skill, like fractions of amounts, hidden words or cube nets, so a strong skill never hides a weak one.
A right answer moves the score up and a wrong answer moves it down. How far depends on where the score already is, so the same mistake matters more once a skill is nearly mastered.
New skills are treated gently: the first few answers on a skill cost less if they are wrong, while Pip is still getting to know your child.
Pip uses each skill's score to choose how hard the next question is. As the score climbs, questions get harder and start to look like real exam questions. If it falls, questions ease off.
So the score is not just a number to look at. It is what keeps practice at the right level for your child.
The score behaves differently as it rises. Early on it rewards progress quickly. Near the top it asks your child to prove the skill is secure.
Getting going. The aim here is confidence.
Harder questions and steadier progress.
Mastered. Now it has to be kept.
Illustrative example. 84 means this child knows the skill well and is on harder questions. Mastered is 90.
A falling score can mean different things. Pip looks at how the answers went wrong before it decides what to do next.
When your child gets several wrong in a row, Pip eases the next few questions and offers the building block underneath, such as equivalent fractions before adding fractions.
Once they have a solid run on the building block, Pip brings them back to the original skill. With Pip Pro, a short Pip Teaches lesson is offered too.
A child who answers very fast and slips is not the same as a child who is stuck. When Pip sees quick, careless mistakes, it says slow down and check, and keeps the questions at the same level.
Children who take their time are never marked down for being careful.
After a skill reaches 90, Pip brings it back for short review checks over the following days and weeks. Each passed check pushes the next one further away.
If a check is missed, the skill goes back into everyday practice until it is secure again. Review checks sit inside Today's 10, so they never crowd out new learning.
Children who have mastered a skill and want more can try Extreme mode: harder questions above the normal top level, against the clock, for extra coins.
It is a stretch, not a test. Missing an Extreme question costs very little and cannot knock a skill out of mastered on its own.
"8 out of 10" sounds good. But it does not say how hard those questions were, whether the two mistakes came at the end, or whether your child could do it again tomorrow.
Counts right answers. Ten easy questions right looks the same as ten hard ones. One lucky streak can look like mastery, and a skill learned months ago still shows its old score.
Weighs how hard each question was, leans on recent answers, and asks for a run of right answers before calling a skill mastered. Review checks make sure a mastered skill is still mastered weeks later.
In the app's progress screens and in your parent reports, each skill shows its Pip Score, so you can see at a glance what is mastered (90 and above), what is building and what needs another look. You also see an average Pip Score across topics, which shows how the whole picture is moving.
The Pip Score is an in-app practice measure, not an exam prediction. It tells you how secure each skill is in Pip's practice today, so you know what to work on next. It does not forecast an 11+ or SATs result.
The Pip Score is Pip's own mastery score. Every skill has a score from 0 to 100 that goes up and down with each answer. It weighs right and wrong answers, how hard the questions were, the child's recent answers and how consistent they are.
90. A score of 80 means your child knows the skill well. Reaching 90 needs a run of right answers in a row, so one lucky answer cannot tip a skill into mastered.
Near the top of the scale, in the Challenge zone from 90 to 100, gains are small and drops are bigger. A high score has to be earned and kept. Lower down, in the Learning zone, mistakes cost much less so children can build confidence.
No. A percentage only counts how many answers were right. The Pip Score also looks at question difficulty, recent answers and consistency, so it shows how secure a skill is now.
No. The Pip Score is an in-app practice measure, not an exam prediction. It shows how secure each skill is in Pip's practice so you and your child know what to work on next.
Pip does not just push the level down. It goes back to the building block underneath, such as equivalent fractions before adding fractions. Once your child has a solid run on the building block, Pip brings them back to the original skill.
Yes. Mastered skills come back for short review checks over the following days and weeks. A passed check pushes the next one further out. A missed check brings the skill back into everyday practice.
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