Math practice · Sec 1–4 · G2 and G3
Built for the student who got 12/40.
Not the one topping the class. The one who opens the paper, sees question three, and stops. Steady finds the exact skills that broke — and rebuilds them in fifteen minutes a day. Then it tells your child to close the app and go live their life.
S$149 a year, or S$19 month-to-month. Joining the list costs nothing.
Mathematics
Weighted Assessment 2
Steady reads the marked paper, finds the skills that lost marks, and rebuilds them — one comeback at a time.
No screenshots
Try one — this is the actual app
The question below comes from the same engine your child would practise on tonight — generated live on this page, not pasted in. Have a go.
Expansion · single brackets
Live from the question engine
Worked steps
This is the whole product, one bite of it
Every Steady question is generated fresh — nothing to memorise, no answer keys floating around a group chat. Wrong answers get worked steps, not a buzzer. This one is the exact skill from the hero card above: a minus in front of the bracket, the classic mark-loser.
In the app, your child gets ten of these a day, chosen from the skills their own marked papers say are broken. Then the app says “you’re done” and means it.
The mechanics
How it works
No magic, no mascot. Five moving parts.
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It starts from the marked paper
Upload a photo of the WA or class test. Steady reads the marking — not “Chapter 4: weak”, but “loses the sign when there’s a minus before the bracket”. Every lost mark becomes a skill on the fix list.
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Fifteen minutes a day, measured honestly
The queue says “about 14 minutes” because that’s what it actually takes — timed from real sessions, not invented to sound easy. Spaced repetition brings each weak skill back just before it fades. Questions are generated fresh every time, so there’s nothing to memorise and no answer keys floating around a group chat.
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Comebacks are the score
A comeback is a skill that was wrong and is now right. That’s Steady’s headline number — not streaks, not speed, not XP. Three comebacks this week means three broken things fixed. That’s what the weekly parent report leads with.
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The Dress Rehearsal
Before the real thing: a mock WA, sat in one go and marked out of 40, exactly the way school marks it. A rehearsal score can stand next to a real 12/40 and mean something. No “You’re 87% exam-ready!”.
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Their own app, at their own address
Each student gets their own corner of the internet — meiling.steady.sg — not an account inside someone else’s app. It installs from the browser and works offline, MRT tunnel included.
On purpose
What Steady refuses to do
A student who has been losing at math all year does not need an app where they lose too.
- ✗No leaderboards. Your child is not competing with ten thousand strangers.
- ✗No hearts, no lives, no lockouts. Wrong answers are the raw material. Comebacks are made of them.
- ✗No points for speed. Rushing is how careless mistakes get trained in. Steady never rewards fast.
- ✗No streak-shaming. Miss a day and the queue simply waits. No guilt screen, nothing dies.
- ✗No gem shop, no ads, no data sold. It costs S$19 a month. That is the whole business model.
- ✗No fake encouragement. Time estimates are measured. Scores are out of 40. Praise, when it comes, is earned.
- ✗No endless grinding. Ten questions and the day is done — the app says so and means it. More time in the app is not the goal. Passing math and getting your evenings back is.
The whole idea
The least studying that works
Singapore's answer to a failing grade is usually more — more tuition, more worksheets, more Sunday afternoons at a desk. Steady goes the other way.
A small share of skills causes most of the lost marks. Steady finds that share from your child's actual marked papers, drills exactly those skills, and brings each one back only at the moment it's about to fade. That's the whole trick: the minimum effective dose, aimed precisely, every day, briefly.
Fifteen minutes, then the app tells your child to stop. The point of passing math was never math. It was the rest of their life — CCA, friends, drawing, football, dinner with you. Steady exists to hand those hours back.
A fair objection
“Study less”? We know exactly how that sounds.
In Singapore, “study less, score more” is what scams say. You are right to be skeptical — so don’t take the promise. Take the mechanism, and check it.
The research on how practice sticks is unusually one-sided, and it has been for years:
- Practice testing and spaced practice are the two highest-rated techniques in the largest review of study methods — while re-reading, the backbone of the Sunday marathon, rates among the lowest. Dunlosky et al., 2013 →
- The same minutes, spread out, beat the same minutes crammed. A meta-analysis of 317 experiments found spaced practice reliably out-lasts massed practice. Cepeda et al., 2006 →
- Being tested beats re-studying. Students quizzed on material remembered substantially more a week later than students who spent the same time reading it again. Roediger & Karpicke, 2006 →
Steady is those findings wrapped in an app: retrieval, spaced, daily, aimed at the skills your child’s own papers say are broken.
And to be clear: this is not less effort. Fifteen minutes of pulling methods out of your own head, on exactly the skills you keep getting wrong, is harder work than two passive hours of copying worked examples. We are not against effort. We are against wasted effort — and re-doing sums your child already knows feels productive precisely because it’s easy. That feeling is the trap.
You don’t have to take a startup’s word on the direction, either: MOE removed mid-year exams for every primary and secondary level by 2023, to wind back over-assessment and hand curriculum time back to learning. The system’s own experts are pulling the same way →
Best of all, you can referee this yourself, on your own child, without believing a word above: try the live question, upload last term’s marked paper, watch the comeback count for a few weeks — then let the next WA settle it. Steady keeps score in the school’s own units, marks out of 40, not “87% exam-ready”.
The number that decides poly
Will the grades make PFP?
Five G2 grades decide it: English + Math + best three others. The bar is an ELMAB3 of 12 or less, with English and Math both at Grade 3 or better.
Set the grades — the aggregate updates as you go. Lower is better; Grade 1 is the best.
Eligibility is the entry ticket, not a guaranteed place — popular courses fill, and some set extra requirements. Checked July 2026 against MOE’s published rules.
Want the rules spelled out, with what to do if the numbers don’t land? The full PFP / ELMAB3 calculator → · PFP requirements, plainly →
Why it got this way
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
Charlie Munger said that about business. It explains Singapore tuition perfectly.
A tuition centre earns more when your child attends more. That's not an accusation — most tutors genuinely care — it's arithmetic. When revenue is sold by the hour, the industry that grows is the one that fills more hours. The outcome: families now spend about S$1.8 billion a year on tuition and rising, most primary-age kids are still at their books at 9pm, and one in three young people here reports struggling with stress or anxiety. Even MOE has been pulling the other way — scrapping mid-year exams to lower the temperature.
What does tuition really cost? Count both currencies.
Steady’s ninety-ish hours: fifteen minutes a day, most days of the year — measured from real sessions, not invented.
Steady's pricing removes the hour from the equation. S$149 a year, flat — we earn exactly the same whether your child needs ten minutes a day or twenty. There is no incentive anywhere in this product for your child to spend more time in it: no streak-shaming, no engagement loops, and an app that says "you're done" after ten questions and means it. When the practice time of Steady students falls, we consider that a result worth bragging about.
Sponsored seats
Some of the students who need daily practice most can’t add another subscription, so every paid seat quietly funds a free one. If your household is on MOE FAS, or a teacher or tutor refers your child, Steady is free — the full product, not a lite version. Inside the app, nobody can tell who is sponsored. Ask for a sponsored seat →
Pricing
One flat price. No hours to sell you.
For scale: group tuition runs S$200–400 a month. Geniebook is about S$154 a month for one subject. Steady is not tuition — it is the daily practice in between — and it is priced like it.
Standard
S$149 /year
Works out to S$12.42 a month — or S$19 month-to-month if you'd rather not commit.
- Daily 15-minute queue, tuned to their marked papers
- Comebacks, and Dress Rehearsals marked out of 40
- Weekly parent report — what got fixed, what’s next
- Own address: name.steady.sg — works offline, any phone
Coach
S$39 /month
For tutors and micro-centres. Up to 10 students.
- Upload marked papers — they become each student’s queue
- Per-student dashboard: comebacks, stuck skills, rehearsal scores
- Walk into every session already knowing the week
- First ten coaches: free
Prices in SGD. Cancel anytime — no term contracts, no “packages”. On MOE FAS, or referred by a teacher or tutor? Steady is free — the full product. Ask for a sponsored seat.
Fair questions
Things parents ask
Is this tuition?
No. Steady is the fifteen minutes a day between school and tuition. A tutor explains; school teaches; Steady makes it stick. If your child already has a tutor, tell them about the Coach plan — Steady makes their hour worth more.
My kid hates math apps.
So does ours — that’s why Steady has no leaderboards, no hearts, no timer pressure, no cartoon guilt. Mistakes are the point: the only celebrated number is a comeback, a skill that was wrong and is now right. For a student who has been losing at math all year, this is the first math thing that keeps score in their favour.
Isn’t more practice always better?
More of the right practice — retrieval, spaced over days, aimed at the skills that are actually broken. That’s hard work, which is why fifteen focused minutes beats two comfortable hours of re-doing sums your child already knows. Past the day’s queue, extra hours mostly buy fatigue, not marks. The evidence is linked in the “Study less?” section — and the next WA is the referee that matters.
Says who? Where’s the evidence?
Not ours — the field’s. Practice testing and spaced practice are the two highest-rated study techniques in the largest review of the learning literature (Dunlosky et al., 2013), while re-reading and cramming rate among the lowest. The papers are linked in the “Study less?” section — and MOE’s own removal of mid-year exams points the same direction.
What is “G2”?
Under Full Subject-Based Banding, secondary students take each subject at G1, G2 or G3 — G3 is the most demanding (roughly the old Express), G2 sits in the middle (roughly the old N(A)). Steady covers Sec 1–4 math at G2 and G3. More in the guide →
What is PFP, and why does everyone talk about Grade 3?
The Polytechnic Foundation Programme is a route into poly straight after Sec 4 — a one-year foundation instead of Sec 5. Entry needs an ELMAB3 of 12 or less, with both English and Math at Grade 3 or better. For many students, math is the grade that decides it. The full requirements, plainly → · Check your numbers →
We’re on FAS. Is it really free?
Yes. The full product, paid for by Standard and Coach seats. No card, no trial that quietly starts charging, no watermark. Tick the sponsored box when you sign up — or ask your child’s teacher or tutor to refer them, which also counts.
What about my child’s data? (PDPA)
Steady stores practice history and the schoolwork you upload, and uses them for exactly one thing: deciding what your child should practise next. Data is stored in Singapore. It is visible to your child, to you, and to their coach if they have one — nobody else. No ads, no selling data, ever. Want it gone? One email and we delete everything.
What device does my child need?
Any phone. Steady runs in the browser and installs to the home screen — nothing from an app store, no laptop needed. Practice works offline; progress syncs when they’re back on WiFi.
My child is in Sec 1 / Sec 3 / Sec 4, not Sec 2.
Steady covers Sec 1–4 math at G2 and G3, opening level by level — Sec 2 first, because that’s the year subject levels get decided. Join the list with your child’s level and we’ll message you when their seats open.
Steady lah.
Fifteen minutes a day. The exact skills that lost marks. A score you can trust. If your child came home with a 12, this was built for them.
S$149 a year · cancel anytime · built in Singapore