Reading a report with your child
What the report itself explains, and how to talk about it.
A report is most useful when your child reads it with you rather than for you. This chapter uses only what the report itself says, so that you and your child are reading the same words.
Start where the report starts
Read What this attempt shows together first. It is written in plain sentences. For example, Aarav’s report says his score is 50%, but that when you did answer, you got 70% right. So this is more about choosing which questions to answer than about knowledge. That is a very different conversation from “you scored half”.
No ranks, no comparisons
EduPeak never ranks your child against others. The report says so at the top: Only your own numbers — no ranks, no comparisons, and never compared with other children here — only with their own earlier attempts. The most helpful comparison you can make is the same one: this report against your child’s last one.
The seven groups in “How you answered”
Every question has a guide time, worked out from its difficulty and subject — for example, Easy Chemistry 1 min 12 s, Tough Maths 3 min 36 s, with 30 seconds more for a numerical question. The guide times add up to about 90% of the paper’s time. Your child’s time on the question and the result put each question in one group. The report gives each group its own advice:
| Group | What the report says |
|---|---|
| ✓ Right, within guide time | The target for every question. |
| ✓ Right, took longer | Well done — you know it. Practise to get faster. |
| ✗ Wrong, answered quickly (a guess or a slip) | Under 40% of the guide time. Slow down on the last step; if it was a guess, leave it next time. |
| ✗ Wrong after some thought | Usually a concept gap. Read the worked solution, then practise the chapter. |
| ‖ Time spent, left blank | Over 40% of the guide time, no answer. Decide sooner to skip. |
| » Skipped quickly | A good call when unsure — read the solution later. |
| ○ Not opened | Skipped past or never reached. Do one quick first pass through every question. |
Notice that two of these groups are praise, and one — skipping quickly when unsure — is called a good call. Not every blank or every wrong answer means the same thing.
Easy, Moderate and Tough
The Difficulty part shows right answers out of those asked at each level, and reminds you that marks are won first on Easy and Moderate questions. If your child missed several Easy questions, the report says how many marks those were worth.
Marks within reach — not a prediction
This part shows what the score would have been with one habit changed — for example, leaving quick guesses blank. The report is careful to say it is not a prediction — just arithmetic on this paper, and that the rows overlap; don’t add them up. Use it to choose one habit to work on, not to promise a number.
Chapters: enough questions to judge?
In a full paper, most chapters have only one or two questions. The report colours only chapters with 3 or more questions and lists the rest as too few to judge. The chapter colours on the dashboard come from your child’s last 3 Chapter Tests of that chapter — a steadier picture than one mock paper.
Some gentle ways to talk about it
- Ask your child to walk you through the report. They know what each question felt like; the report only knows the clock and the answer.
- Begin with what went right — the Right, within guide time group and any Strong chapters.
- Pick one thing from Next steps or Marks within reach, and let your child choose it.
- Open one worked solution together for a question in Wrong after some thought. That group usually points to an idea worth revisiting.
- Compare with their own last report, never with a friend, a cousin or a sibling.
- Keep numbers in proportion. EduPeak reports show where your child stands today and whether that is changing; they do not promise a rank or an admission.