It finds the skills your child has not mastered yet, teaches each one step by step, and sets the week's practice: 20 questions at a time on those skills, then a timed mock every Saturday that shows what was gained and what still needs work.
A$39 a month per childor A$349 a year · every program of their year · 14 days free · cancel any time
ICAS Writing and Spelling Bee are not on the site.
No account · about 10 minutes
Try 10 real questions first
From your child's own year, easy to hard like the real paper, marked the moment you answer. Miss one and work it out step by step on the spot. Your score at the end, and nothing is kept.
Choose your child's year
How it works
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Try 10 questionsNo sign-up. Marked at once, every miss worked through.
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Diagnostic test12 questions that ramp like the real paper, about 40 minutes.
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ResultsWhich step went wrong on each miss, and the fix.
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Weekly plan20-question practice on the week’s skills, the Saturday mock, the Sunday report.
What you get
Everything included, one price per child
Every program open to your child’s year: AMC · ICAS · NAPLAN · Melbourne Grammar entry test
Start free12 questions, about 40 minutes, marked by code
Like the real paperSame answer formats, on screen, with scratch paper
Not just wrong. Which step.Every miss traced to the step that broke
Taught one step at a timeThen proved on a fresh question, unaided
Only what is not yet heldOne skill a week: foundation first, then the hard tail
A timed mock every weekAnd a report you read in a minute
Goal reachedHis own plan, in his own hours
Saturdays backNo driving, no hourly fee
No child is averageSo we never teach to one
For your child
Practice on their own gaps 20 questions at a time, chosen from what they missed
A mock every Saturday The real paper's length and clock, marked at once
Explanations they can follow Animated step by step, read aloud, answer shown last
Writing marked every week On the official rubric, for NAPLAN and the entry test
Games they earn Unlocked by finishing the week's practice
For you
A report every Sunday Every subject: what was done, and what was skipped
Your family page, any day This week's progress, in English or Chinese
You decide We suggest changes; nothing moves without your OK
A$39 a month orA$349 a year, save 25% · per child
Second child half price · 14 days free, card needed, cancel before day 14 and pay nothing
Every question is generated by code from a family checked against official material — past papers, official item descriptors, the exam’s own framework, marked scripts — and marked by code. The one thing an AI reads is the writing piece, to score it on the official rubric.
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AMC question families each modelled on an official past question and proved against the official answer
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official NAPLAN item descriptors with the national percentage correct for each, from the state reports
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official ICAS answer keys the categories and the answer formats of the real papers
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official marked writing scripts the ACARA exemplars the writing marker is calibrated on
The real thing
Four screens from the live site, made for the sample student.
The Australian Mathematics Competition, sat in August. Middle Primary for Years 3–4, Upper Primary for Years 5–6: three difficulty bands, figure questions and the real answer formats, where the award is decided in the hard final third.
Sat in April or May of Year 4. The school publishes no paper, so this trains what every Year 3–5 assessment tests — numeracy, spelling, grammar and punctuation, reading, thinking skills, reasoning and writing — pitched at the NAPLAN top band and the Year 4 scholarship papers.
Sat online in August: Paper B in Year 4, C in Year 5, D in Year 6. Choose the subject inside it — Mathematics and English, Science, or Digital Technologies — each with its own free diagnostic, ramping to the final third that decides Distinction and High Distinction.
Sat online in March. Numeracy, reading, spelling, and grammar and punctuation as papers, built from the official item-by-item descriptors, plus a weekly writing piece marked on the official rubric — trained to the top proficiency level, Exceeding.
One method — find the missing skill, teach it, prove it on a fresh question, fit the work to your week — and each subject opens only when every one of its answers has been verified. Want the email the day one opens? Write to wcandy@candyandfrank.com with your child's year and the subject.
No child is average. So we never teach to one.
Mastery is what counts — and it has to be shown: a skill is held only when your child answers a fresh question on it unaided, and again a week later. That is our promise.
The free test finds the gap. Membership closes it.
Free · always
The whole diagnostic — no paywall at the results.
Every miss explained — one step at a time, with a sketch.
A fresh question to prove it — same skill, new numbers, unaided.
Yes. Every question comes from a family modelled on a real question of that year's paper and is checked against the official answer before your child sees it. ICAS Science and Digital Technologies follow the tasks the official ICAS framework sets for each paper, with every answer computed by code from what the question shows. Years 3–4 sit AMC Middle Primary, Years 5–6 Upper Primary; the Melbourne Grammar track is for Year 4, when the school tests.
How is this different from ChatGPT or a general AI app?
A chatbot predicts the next word and can be confidently wrong. Here every question, answer and explanation was built and verified by code before it reached the page, and marking is code comparing answers. The one exception is the weekly writing piece on the Melbourne Grammar track: an AI marker scores it on the official NAPLAN writing scale, calibrated on official marked scripts. It scores; it never chats and never writes for your child.
Can my child do the test on screen?
Yes — on a tablet or laptop, with a timer and a scratch-paper drawer — or print it and type the answers in afterwards. The real competition allows a calculator in Middle and Upper Primary, and so do we.
Can you guarantee results?
It depends on how much it is used. A child who does the weekly papers and the explanations sees the gaps close, one skill at a time, and every results page shows the evidence: which skill was missing, and whether a fresh question on it was then solved unaided.
Where do the questions come from?
Not from an AI guessing at a syllabus. Every question family is modelled on a real past-paper question — AMC, NAPLAN, ICAS — and checked against the official answer before your child sees it. The NAPLAN families are tiered by the national percentage of children who got the original right. ICAS Science and Digital Technologies are built from the official ICAS framework's tasks instead, every answer computed by code from what the question shows. Nothing from a past paper is reproduced; every question is a fresh variation.
Is this only for Melbourne?
No. NAPLAN, ICAS and the AMC are sat in every state, the papers are the same everywhere, and everything here is online. The one program tied to a city is the Melbourne Grammar entry test.
Can we stop whenever we like?
Yes. Cancel on your child's page at any time: nothing more is charged, and the plan stays open to the end of the month or year already paid. Cancel during the free trial and nothing is charged at all.
Free · about 40 minutes
Start with the free diagnostic
Melbourne Grammar entry is a Year 4 test; the registration page checks the pair for you.
What parents tell us
Reviews are published as parents wrote or said them, shown in the language of this page. Before one appears we check that it comes from a current or past family; we do not edit the wording, and we publish critical reviews as well as kind ones.
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A Year 4 parent10 Oct 2026
Alvin told me this platform works better than the tutoring class he went to and the practice books I bought, because it keeps asking him the questions he can't do, and after a few rounds he really can do them. With the other tutoring classes and practice books, nobody asked again about what he couldn't do, so he forgot it quickly.
Reply from Candy · 14 Oct 2026
Thank you, and thank you to Alvin for keeping at it. Asking again, with a fresh question each time, until a skill really sticks is exactly why we built this. — Candy
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