Help your child through CSEC, one evening at a time.
A study hub built by the Ricky Rampersad Branch for the families we look after. It follows the real CSEC syllabus from Form 1 to Form 5, sets ten minutes of work a night aimed at whatever is weakest, and shows you honestly how it is going. It costs nothing and there is nothing to install.
Setting up takes about three minutes
Make your own profile first
Open Sign in, choose Parent, and put in a name. There is no password to invent and nothing to write down. Add your e-mail if you would like a six-digit code to sign in with — and put your address on your child’s profile, so you are told every time they sign in.
Create a family group
In Settings → Sync across devices, create a group. You get a code like ABCD-EFGH. Enter that same code on your phone, your child's tablet and the teacher's laptop, and they all show the same progress.
Add your child and pick their form
Choose Student, enter their first name only, and tap the year they are in now. That one choice decides the syllabus, the milestones and the countdown, so get it right. You move them up a year each year in Settings.
Check the subjects
Settings → Subjects starts with a common list of fourteen. Tick their real timetable — everything the hub does follows from it.
Ten questions tonight
That is the whole routine. The hub picks what to work on. Ten a night beats three hours on a Sunday, and the streak square on your Progress page is the number to watch.
📊 Where the marks are leaking
Not "Maths 62%" but "Consumer Arithmetic 45%, Algebra 81%". You get the three topics worth asking about tonight, which is a far better conversation than "is your homework done".
🔥 Whether the habit is real
Twenty-eight squares, one per day, gold when they practised. Gaps in that grid explain most falling marks, and you will see them long before a report card does.
🎯 An honest readiness band
Built from accuracy, syllabus coverage, whether they still remember it a week later, and timed tests. It is a direction of travel, not a predicted CSEC grade, and the hub says so above the number.
🧭 What this year is actually for
Form 3 is the subject-choice year. Form 4 is when the SBA starts and half the syllabus gets covered. The Journey page lays out each term so nothing arrives as a surprise.
1. This does not replace school, a teacher, or real CXC past papers. It builds the nightly habit and finds the weak topics. Buy the real past papers from CXC for Forms 4 and 5.
2. The readiness band is our own indicator from practice inside the hub. Nobody has checked it against a real CSEC result yet, because there has not been one. Treat school reports as the truth.
3. The group code is the only lock on your family's data. Anyone who has it can see the names and scores in your group. Share it with family and your child's teacher, and nobody else.
Setting up a class
Create a teacher profile and a class group
Sign in as Teacher, then in Settings → Sync across devices create a group of type Class. Give the code to the students who want to join, or enter it on their devices yourself.
Students join with the code
Each student creates their own profile on their own device and enters the class code in Settings. Their practice then appears on your roster. Ask them to use a first name or initials — there is no need for full names.
Read the class weak strands
Your Class page ranks the syllabus strands the whole group is weakest on. Anything with several students behind it is a lesson, not a worksheet.
Set one focus topic at a time
A focus topic appears at the top of that student's desk with your note attached, until they clear it. One thing, not five.
Roster with real numbers
Questions answered, accuracy, streak, last active and weakest topic for every student who has joined the group — refreshed whenever they sync.
Class-wide weak strands
Combined accuracy per syllabus strand across the whole class, so you can see what to reteach rather than guessing from marked books.
Five-year record
Term-by-term accuracy and syllabus coverage from Form 1 onwards, with the form changes marked. Useful at parents' evening and at subject-choice time.
Timed tests at CSEC pace
Ninety seconds a question, no feedback until submission, a full review afterwards. The results feed the readiness index, weighted more heavily than untimed practice.
Does it cost anything?+
No. It is free for branch families and there is nothing to install — it runs in any browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. There is no advertising and nothing is sold.
What is the password?+
There isn’t one. Choose your name and you are in. A child should not be locked out of their own homework by something they cannot remember.
If you would rather have a check, put an e-mail address on the profile and the hub will send a six-digit code instead. On a child’s profile use a parent’s address: the code lands with the parent, so a parent hears about every sign-in without having to ask. The code lasts ten minutes and asking for a new one cancels the old.
Codes need the sync service to be deployed. Until it is, signing in is by name only, and Settings → Who signed in still records every one.
Can I see who has been signing in?+
Yes — Settings → Who signed in: who, when, and which door. Refused attempts are listed too. It is kept on the device, so it works with no internet; with sync set up, one list covers every phone and laptop in the group.
My child got a new phone. Do we lose everything?+
Not if you are in a sync group. Install nothing — just open the hub on the new phone, create a profile, and enter the group code in Settings. Everything comes down. If you are not using sync, use Settings → Export backup on the old device and restore the file on the new one.
Is my child's data safe?+
Be clear-eyed about this. If you use a sync group, the names and practice scores in that group are stored on a Google Sheet owned by the branch, and anyone holding the group code can read and change them — the code is the only lock. There is no password. Share it with family and your child's teacher and nobody else, and if it ever gets out, delete the group in Settings and make a new one. If you would rather nothing left the device at all, simply do not create a group: the hub works fully without one.
Why not just give us the past papers?+
CSEC past papers are copyright CXC, who sell them, so we do not copy them. What CXC gives away free is more useful anyway — the full syllabus for every subject, plus specimen papers and mark schemes. The Resources page links all of it, along with the Ministry's own worked solutions and twelve free international sites. The practice questions in the hub are our own, written to CSEC format.
Does the readiness band predict a CSEC grade?+
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. It is built from practice inside this hub, which flatters — multiple choice, no time pressure, an answer after every question. It weights retention and timed tests precisely because of that, and it shows nothing at all until there is enough evidence. Treat it as a direction of travel. School reports and real past papers are the truth.
My child does different subjects.+
Go to Settings → Subjects. Twenty-three are available, fourteen are ticked by default. Set their real timetable and the daily plan, the mastery rings and the syllabus browser all follow it.
How much should they actually do?+
Ten questions a night, every night. That is it. A twenty-five minute timer is built into the desk. In Forms 4 and 5 add one timed test a week and real past papers. Consistency beats intensity by a distance, which is why the streak is on the front page.
Can a teacher see my child without me knowing?+
Only if they have your group code. Nothing is shared by default and there is no directory — a group is invisible to anyone without its code. You can remove your child from a group at any time in Settings, which deletes their record from it immediately.
Something is wrong or missing. Who do I tell?+
Tell the branch. The question bank, the worked methods and the subject list all grow, and a specific report — "the Form 3 Chemistry questions run out" — is exactly what makes the next version better.