The four subjects

Every subject, taught first and then practised.

Each subject has short lessons that teach the topic with pictures and a worked example, and thousands of exam-style questions to practise it. Below is a lesson and a question from each, straight from the app, and the full list of what each subject covers. Your child only practises the subjects their target schools test.

Maths

30 lessons and 5,100+ questions, from quick arithmetic to full word problems

Lessons cover the topics children most often get stuck on: fractions of amounts, percentages, place value, time, perimeter and area, the mean, working backwards and two-step problems. In practice every answer is marked instantly and explained step by step, difficulty adapts topic by topic, and a full-screen squared-paper notepad gives them somewhere to do their working out.

Covers: number & place value, addition & subtraction, multiplication & division, fractions, decimals & percentages, money, time, measurement, geometry, number sequences, data & charts, and word problems.

English

22 lessons and 2,600+ questions built around 196 original reading passages

Lessons teach the skills behind the paper: finding the evidence, reading between the lines, fact or opinion, homophones, apostrophes, commas, speech marks and filling the gaps. Comprehension practice works the way the exam does: read a full passage, then answer retrieval, inference and deduction questions on it, with the passage one tap away.

Covers: reading comprehension, inference & deduction, grammar, punctuation, spelling, synonyms & antonyms, vocabulary in context, cloze passages, sentence completion, literary devices, and summarising.

Verbal Reasoning

15 lessons and 2,100+ questions across 15 exam question types

VR is the paper most children have never seen before, so there's a lesson for each question type: letter sequences, alphabet codes, number and letter codes, hidden words, compound words, word analogies, sentence logic and more. Each explanation in practice shows the pattern behind the question, and Taco can offer a nudge (or stay silent — you choose).

Covers: letter & number codes, letter sequences, word analogies, hidden words, compound words, odd one out, synonyms & antonyms, missing letters, sentence logic, and ordering.

Non-Verbal Reasoning

18 lessons and 2,100+ questions across 18 spatial question types

Every NVR question type has its own lesson with drawn examples: turning shapes, mirror images, matrices, nets of cubes, folding and unfolding, punched holes, hidden shapes and views of block stacks. Practice uses crisp, zoomable diagrams, and every answer comes with a visual explanation of why.

Covers: nets & cubes, paper folding, hole punching, rotations, reflections, symmetry, matrices, shape sequences, shape codes, embedded shapes, block patterns, and 3-D views.

How the lessons fit in.

A lesson takes about five minutes. It starts with a warm-up question, teaches the idea with a picture and a worked example, lets your child try a couple with help, and ends with a quick check. The next day it comes back as a short revisit, so it sticks.

You'll find lessons on the Home screen, before a mission on a topic your child hasn't met, inside Master a Skill, and in the lesson library, which suggests what to learn next. In Parent Mode you can see which lessons they've finished and how the recap checks went.

Every subject also has timed mock tests with every answer explained afterwards, a mistakes bank that rebuilds practice around what your child got wrong, and a daily plan that mixes it all together. Every question has been audited, and 5,000+ were rewritten or rebuilt to 11+ standard.

Try the whole app tonight. Everything is open for 24 hours, then Taco's Daily 5 stays free: five questions a day. No card, nothing to cancel.

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