Skill evidence tracker

This tracker records what you can actually show, not just what you have read. It helps students who finish a topic, tick it off, and later find that the skill was never secure.

How do I use it?

1. Choose a skill list: Mathematics foundations, Scientific reasoning and checking, or Reading and writing foundations.
2. Work on a skill using the lesson linked from its name.
3. Open the Evidence box for that skill and add the date, the task you did and what it showed, in your own words.
4. Set the status: not started, practising, or demonstrated on this task.
5. Read the coverage counts and the skills to look at next.

How does it work?

Every skill has one of three states. Adding evidence moves a not-started skill to practising, which is a record that you have tried it.

The status demonstrated on this task is allowed only when at least one evidence entry exists. If you remove the last entry, the skill goes back to practising.

The coverage line always adds up to the number of skills in the list. The next-skills list puts practising skills first, then not-started skills whose earlier skills all have evidence.

What does a worked example look like?

A student chooses Mathematics foundations, which lists 14 skills. She works through the lesson on equivalent fractions and adds evidence: Exercise 2, questions 1 to 6, five right and one slip on a common denominator.

She sets the status to demonstrated on this task. The coverage line reads 13 not started, 0 practising, 1 demonstrated on a task, out of 14 skills listed.

The next-skills list now offers adding and multiplying fractions, which builds on equivalent fractions, together with adding and subtracting negatives and basic index rules.

What can it not tell you?

A skill shown on one task is not the same as mastery. The tool cannot check your evidence, so the honesty of the record is up to you.

The lists are short and follow this site’s foundation lessons. They do not cover the full official syllabus, and completing every line does not predict any result.

How does it connect to the lessons?

Each skill links to a repair lesson in the foundations section. Start with the prerequisite gap finder if you are not sure which skills to work on first.

Use the mistake log to find the skills that keep costing marks, and the spaced recall planner to revisit them. The SPM Mathematics revision page and the Additional Mathematics revision page show where these skills are needed.

To gather stronger evidence with a teacher, read about Mathematics tuition. The one-hour trial class (from RM50) is a real taught lesson, and the teacher starts from what you can already do.