How BOFA Works
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Planet BOFA is the only online Maths tutoring system that builds a unique learning experience around each child. Our unique formative learning approach: test, teach and retest, identifies areas needing improvement and plugs any gaps in knowledge.
ASSESSING A CHILD’S CURRENT ABILITY
First, children take an initial test. This determines which question types they can answer correctly, and lets us know which are proving challenging. Tests are organised by the 6 main syllabus strands and are given a star rating to show the test’s difficulty
PLENTY OF PRACTICE AND EXPLANATION
After the initial test, your child moves to the practice stage. Here, they’ll see any incorrectly answered questions from the initial test alongside an explanation of how the correct answer was found. We then give a practice question designed to test the same concept to check they know where they went wrong.
CHECKING KNOWLEDGE IS EMBEDDED LONG-TERM
The BOFA AI algorithm will schedule your retest, the wait-time with varies from pupil to pupil. This will check for improvement since the initial test. We delay the retest to ensure knowledge is embedded in the long-term memory. Any errors made at this stage are put into a personalised report with correct answers available to view.
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Quick Start Guide
Try a demo, do get some questions wrong on purpose so you can experience the complete formative learning cycle.
Register as a parent.
Choose a subscription from our shop.
Create an account for your child choosing a username and password.
Select their syllabus, current level and target grade along with their date of the exam.
Their tests will be scheduled ready to begin once they log in.
Adaptive testing makes revision easy
Our adaptive testing is ideal for long-term revision of the whole syllabus. We use your child’s target grade and exam date to plan a bespoke learning schedule that can be worked into a revision timetable.
We’ll automatically move them up and down difficulty levels to keep them on track for their target grade and ensure all topics are covered before the exam.
Tests are sorted by syllabus strand, for example: Number, Algebra, Ratio, Geometry, Probability and Statistics.