Targeted practice for AMC, ICAS and NAPLAN
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.
ICAS Writing and Spelling Bee are not on the site.
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.
How it works
Use the plan, and the gains show
One method for every exam: find the skill your child has not held yet, teach it, prove it on a fresh question. One subject at a time, sat as the real test sits it. Not a promised score — mastery you can see.
- Papers that ramp like the real one, one subject per paper, on the real clock.
- Every miss worked through, step by step, then a fresh question to prove it.
- A game earned by finishing, with the week’s skill inside it — never for marks.
- A report every Sunday: what was learned, what is held, what next week is for.
- Marked by code — nothing to mark, nothing to chase, nothing guessed.
- One fixed fee per child for every program of their year. No hourly lessons.
What every question rests on
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.
each modelled on an official past question and proved against the official answer
with the national percentage correct for each, from the state reports
the categories and the answer formats of the real papers
the ACARA exemplars the writing marker is calibrated on
The real thing
Four screens from the live site, made for the sample student.
The testRamps like the real paper, with scratch paper
The resultsWhere it broke, in one line
The explanationA sketch, a question, a check
The rewardFor members: a game earned by the week's work, with its skill insideWhat is open
AMC
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.
Start the free diagnosticMelbourne Grammar Year 7 Entry Test
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.
Start the free MGS diagnosticICAS
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.
Mathematics and EnglishScienceDigital TechnologiesNAPLAN · Years 3, 5 and 7
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.
Start the free diagnosticOne 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.
- 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.
- A plan cut to your week — your study days, rebuilt as results come in.
- 20 questions at a time on the week's skills, with every miss taught step by step; more practice any day there is time.
- A timed mock every Saturday, on the real paper’s clock: what was gained, what still needs work.
- A report every Sunday: the week's practice and mock, mastery by area, next week's plan. In English, with the Chinese version under it.
- A game earned by effort — it opens once the work is done and every miss is worked through, with the week's skill inside it. Never for marks.
Questions parents ask
Is this really built for my child's year?
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 week and nothing is charged at all.
Start with the free diagnostic
Melbourne Grammar entry is a Year 4 test; the registration page checks the pair for you.