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 and stops at question three. Steady finds the exact skills that broke and rebuilds them in fifteen minutes a day — then tells your child to close the app and go live their life. Fifteen minutes. That’s the ask.
S$149 a year, or S$19 month-to-month. Joining the list costs nothing.
Mathematics
Weighted Assessment 2
Steady reads the marked paper and finds the skills that lost marks. Then it rebuilds them, one comeback at a time.
No screenshots
Try one — this is the actual app
The question below is generated live on this page, by the same engine your child would practise on tonight. 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, so there’s nothing to memorise and no answer key floating around a group chat. Get it wrong and you see worked steps instead of 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 down to the exact skill: “loses the sign when there’s a minus before the bracket”, never anything as vague as “Chapter 4: weak”. Every lost mark goes 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 takes, timed from real sessions. Spaced repetition brings each weak skill back just before it fades. And every question is generated fresh, so there’s no answer key to pass around.
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Comebacks are the score
A comeback is a skill that was wrong and is now right. That’s the only number Steady celebrates; streaks and XP don’t get a look in. Three comebacks this week means three broken things fixed, and the weekly parent report leads with exactly that.
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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, theirs outright, rather than 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 doesn’t need an app where they lose too.
- ✗No leaderboards. Your child isn’t competing with ten thousand strangers.
- ✗No hearts or lives, and 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. Your child’s data is never for sale. It costs S$19 a month, and that’s 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. We’d rather your child pass math and get their evenings back than spend one extra minute in here.
The whole idea
The least studying that works
Singapore's answer to a failing grade is usually more: more tuition, more worksheets, more assessment books, 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 in your child's actual marked papers, then drills those exact skills and brings each one back just before it fades. That's the whole trick. The minimum effective dose, aimed well, daily.
Fifteen minutes, then the app tells your child to stop. Nobody passes math for the sake of math; the point was always the rest of their life. CCA, friends, drawing, football, dinner with you. The evenings belong to the child — Steady exists to hand them back.
A fair objection
“Study less”? We know exactly how that sounds.
In Singapore, “study less, score more” is what scams say. You’re 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 ever done. 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, nobody here is promising 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. What we’re against is wasted effort. 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.
The gap that travels
Math compounds. So do the gaps.
History lets you flunk the Cold War and still ace the French Revolution. Math is crueller. Every chapter stands on the ones before it.
Watch one gap travel. A student never quite gets fractions in Sec 1, and nobody panics — it was one bad question in one WA. Then algebra arrives, and fractions turn up inside half the expressions. Then equations, which can’t be solved without moving those fractions across the equals sign. By the time simultaneous equations show up, that “one bad question” from March is sinking half the paper. It wears a new hat every term, so it gets marked as a brand-new mistake every term. It isn’t one.
Which is why re-teaching this term’s chapter so often changes nothing. This term’s chapter was never the problem.
Steady’s queue is built for exactly this. When a skill keeps failing, the app walks back down the chain and practises the skill underneath it — the root of the struggle, often from two chapters ago — then climbs back up to today’s work. And this is the real reason we count comebacks so stubbornly. A comeback is debt cleared before the interest lands: the gap fixed in March, instead of paid for again in September.
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 gets you to the door, though not always through it — 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. Most tutors genuinely care; the arithmetic doesn't. When revenue is sold by the hour, the industry that grows is the one that fills more hours. So families here now spend about S$1.8 billion a year on tuition, and the number keeps climbing. Most primary-age kids are still at their books at 9pm. One in three young people reports struggling with stress or anxiety, and even MOE has been pulling the other way — it scrapped 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. We measured.
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, so nothing in this product wants their time. No engagement loops, no streak-shaming. After ten questions the app says "you're done" and means it. When the practice time of Steady students falls, we brag about it.
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 whole product, nothing cut down. 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, and Geniebook is about S$154 a month for one subject. Steady is the daily practice between those hours, and it’s 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: practice done, 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 whole 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. School teaches and a tutor re-explains; Steady is what makes it stick. If your child already has a tutor, tell them about the Coach plan — it 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 raw material here: the only number we celebrate 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. That means retrieval work on the skills that are actually broken, spaced over days so nothing fades. It’s hard, 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. The evidence is linked in the “Study less?” section — and the next WA is the referee that matters.
Shouldn’t we just practise this term’s topics?
That’s often the trap. Math compounds — each chapter stands on earlier ones, so a fraction gap from March resurfaces inside algebra in July, then inside simultaneous equations next year, and gets marked as a fresh mistake each time. When a skill keeps failing, Steady walks back down the chain and practises the skill underneath it, the actual root, then climbs back up to this term’s work. Fixing the root is what a comeback records.
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); re-reading and cramming rate among the lowest. The papers are linked in the “Study less?” section. And MOE scrapped mid-year exams across the board, which points the same way.
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 needed, no watermark, no lite version, no trial that quietly starts charging. 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’s visible to your child and to you — and to their coach, if they have one. Nobody else. No ads. We never sell data. 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. It opens level by level. Sec 2 first — that’s the year subject levels get decided. Join the list with your child’s level and we’ll message you the moment their seats open.
Steady lah.
Fifteen minutes a day, on the exact skills that lost marks, scored in units 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