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Don’t wait for the school report.

Your child climbs every school day — the report on where they stand comes twice a year. Alpenrise is a mountain they climb in the browser: ten questions a night give you a daily reading, and anything they miss comes back on its own at 2, 7 and 21 nights, until it stops being a mistake.

Find your child’s rung↗ The placement is free, on the mountain. No sign-up, and no account for your child. Or just walk the mountain →
A paper-cut mountain at night: a trail of lit lanterns winds from a small camp up to a beacon on the summit, and a climber is partway up.
↑ Daily

A reading every night, not twice a year

Ten questions is enough to keep a fix on where your child actually stands — while there is still time to act on it.

↑ Cause

Not just wrong — why it went wrong

Every miss is sorted: a number-fact slip, a working slip, a checking slip, or a concept that never landed. Each one calls for a different fix.

↑ 40 systems

One position, forty school systems

A rung that reads back in your school’s own words — Year 10, Grade 9, 3e, Klasse 9 — across 40 countries plus Cambridge and IB. Country not listed? It reads as an age instead.

↑ 16 strands

Sixteen strands, measured apart

Strong at number, weak at geometry? Taught as exactly that, not as an average.

↑ Patrol

Misses come back on patrol

What slipped returns at 2, 7 and 21 nights. Answered right on its return, it goes quiet; what is still dark stays on the list.

↑ Private

No account for your child. No ads. No tracking.

Your child climbs without signing in. A parent account is optional, and it holds your email and nothing else about you.

500 m — The mountain

The mountain

Each subject is a ridge — maths, science, English and humanities — and each ridge splits into four strands: number, algebra, geometry and statistics on the maths ridge, and so on. The lanterns along the trail are questions, set rung by rung. Answer one and it lights. Walking the mountain is free, and your child needs no account to do it.

The full mountain: base camp huts and a tent at the foot, eight lanterns on posts along the switchback trail, a cairn with a beacon on the snow-capped summit, a crescent moon above.

Sixteen camps, one hut for each strand

Four ridges × four strands
Maths
Number
Algebra
Geometry
Statistics
Science
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Earth & space
English
Reading
Vocabulary
Grammar
Spelling
Humanities
Sources
History
Geography
Society
1,200 m — Placement

Which rung, in your school’s words

About twenty-four questions per subject, adaptive: the ladder climbs when your child is right, and a question they are unsure of can be skipped rather than guessed. At the end you get a rung for the subject and one for each strand, read back as your own school system’s year — or as an age, if your country is not listed. It is free, and the lanterns below that rung clear on the mountain.

Which official syllabuses the questions follow, and a sample from every rung →

MathsRung 3 · Year 9
Number4
Algebra3
Geometry2
Statistics3
2,100 m — Nightly

Ten questions a night

Tonight’s climb is ten questions close to your child’s current rung, and then it closes. It is not a practice quota; it is a reading. A few minutes, and you know where they stood today — free, every night, for good.

Tonight7 of 10 lit · closed
3,000 m — Patrol

Night patrol

Every miss is kept, with its cause. The patrol brings it back two, seven and twenty-one nights later. When it is answered right on its return it goes quiet; the ones still dark stay on the list, so nothing slips away unnoticed.

One missWorking slip
  1. Night 0Missed
  2. +2Right
  3. +7Right
  4. +21Right — quiet
3,200 m — Exam routes

The climb to the exam

The mountain shows where your child stands. When an exam is coming, a route is the climb to that exam: the syllabus’s own topics and papers, with a calculator or without as the paper says, marked the way the paper marks them. There are routes for Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics 0580, Core and Extended, and for IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches SL. Each starts from the rung where that exam is sat — rung 4 for IGCSE, rung 6 for the IB Diploma — so the placement tells you how far there is to go.

Topic sets are short. A summit day is a full mock paper against the clock, marked once; sit both papers of a set and the summit-day patch goes on the wall. Every question is original, written to the published topic lists and never copied from a past paper. The score is a floor, not a forecast: each answer is marked right or wrong, and a real paper would also give method marks.

RouteIGCSE 0580 · Extended
  1. E1Number · 24/30
  2. E2Algebra · 18/24
  3. E5Geometry
  4. SummitPaper 2 · 61/100

Exam routes are part of Pro, and the free trial opens them; anyone can look at what each route holds. IB® and International Baccalaureate® are registered trademarks of the International Baccalaureate Organization; Cambridge and IGCSE are trademarks of Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Neither endorses or sponsors Alpenrise.

Base camp — For the parent

For the parent

A parent account is optional and for adults only. You sign in with your email and a six-digit code — no password. Tap Parent on the mountain to link your child’s climb to it; then each child’s week is on one page, with where the marks went and one thing worth doing next, and a short report can come every Sunday. The account holds your email and nothing else about you, and you can delete it yourself at any time.

The parent’s side →

Free, and Pro

Free, for everyoneFree
  • The whole mountain to walk, and the placement in every subject
  • One climb a night in one subject: ten questions, and the night patrol that brings misses back at 2, 7 and 21 nights
  • The parent account, the Sunday page and the Mountain Report

No account is needed to climb, and nothing moves from the free side to the paid side later.

See why, not just whether.Pro · every child
  • Where the marks went. Every miss sorted into four kinds — number facts, working, checking, the concept — and followed week by week, with the accuracy trend. Free tells you which rung your child is on; Pro tells you why it is not moving up.
  • Every subject, every night. Free is one climb a night in one subject. Pro opens all four, with extra rounds, so the strand that needs it gets its turn.
  • Exam season. A route for the exam itself — Cambridge IGCSE Maths 0580, Core or Extended, or IB Maths AA SL: topic sets and full mock papers, marked once. Plus practice sets, trap hunts, sprints and the kit, drawn from the whole question bank. Set the exam date in the account and the last four weeks of Sunday pages turn into sprint pages.

One plan covers every child linked to a parent’s account. Each child gets fourteen nights of Pro once, free, with no card.

The words we use

3,500 m — Glossary
Rung
One step on the trail, R1 to R8 — from the first year of secondary school to the top of school. Wherever we show a rung to a parent, we show it in your own school’s words beside it: R6 reads as Year 12 in New Zealand, Grade 11 in the US, Sec 4 in Singapore.
Ridge
A subject. Four ridges on this mountain: maths, science, English, humanities.
Strand
One part of a subject — number, algebra, geometry and statistics on the maths ridge. Each strand is measured on its own, so a strong number and a weak geometry never average out.
Camp
The hut where a strand’s trail begins. Sixteen camps, one per strand.
Lantern
One rung of one strand. Lit means the child has shown they can do it; three questions, two right, and it lights.
Placement
About twenty-four adaptive questions in a subject that find the rung. Free, once per subject, redo it whenever you like.
Night patrol
Every miss coming back at 2, 7 and 21 nights, with its cause, until it is answered right on its return.
Lumens
What a child earns by climbing, spent on the camp and on dressing the climber. Decoration only; nothing about learning depends on them.
Route
The climb to one exam — its own topics and papers, starting from the rung where that exam is sat. The mountain’s paths are trails; a route is an exam.
Summit day
A full mock paper on a route, against the clock and marked once. Both papers of a set earn the summit-day patch.
Summit

A school report is a snapshot. Alpenrise is daylight — find out where your child actually stands, tonight, free.