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What you can do now — and what's next

Your Ladder Level shows your overall stage. Your Rungs show the individual skills you've built. Both together tell the whole story.

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Your Ladder Level

Developing

Putting the core GCSE skills together

Your Ladder Level shows your overall stage of development.

Your Rungs

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Your Rungs show the individual skills you've successfully built along the way.

Practice level

Foundation

Target: Grade 6

This is an approximate practice level based on your LADDER activities. It is not a guaranteed GCSE result and not an official examiner grade.

Your Rungs

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A rung is a step on a ladder. Every time you develop a new skill or reach an important milestone, you climb another rung. Your rungs show what you've achieved so far — and how far you've climbed.

No rungs yet — and that's fine

Rungs are only given for real learning, never for opening a page. Complete one activity and your First Rung is yours.

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Progress history

Your history will appear here as soon as you complete your first activity.

Your skills

Strengths and next steps are always written out, never shown by colour alone.

Reading

  • Retrieval

    You haven't tried this one yet.

  • Inference

    You haven't tried this one yet.

  • Language analysis

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  • Structure

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  • Evaluation

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  • Summary & synthesis

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Writing

  • Descriptive writing

    You haven't tried this one yet.

  • Narrative writing

    You haven't tried this one yet.

  • Transactional writing

    You haven't tried this one yet.

  • Spelling, punctuation & grammar

    You haven't tried this one yet.

  • Punctuation effects

    You haven't tried this one yet.

  • Word classes

    You haven't tried this one yet.

Literature

  • Comparing viewpoints

    You haven't tried this one yet.

Your subjects

English Language

English Literature

How grades grow

You don't suddenly become a Grade 9 student. You build the skills one rung at a time.

  • Grade 4 → Grade 5

    Develop your explanation.

  • Grade 5 → Grade 6

    Analyse the writer's choices in more detail.

  • Grade 6 → Grade 7

    Develop interpretations and connections.

  • Grade 7 → Grade 8

    Develop more conceptual arguments.

  • Grade 8 → Grade 9

    Sustain sophisticated arguments and explore alternative interpretations.

This is an approximate practice level based on your LADDER activities. It is not a guaranteed GCSE result and not an official examiner grade.

Rungs still ahead

  • Not yet climbed · Milestone

    First Rung

    You've taken your first step up the LADDER.

  • Not yet climbed · Reading

    Foundation Builder

    You can spot how words are working in a sentence.

  • Not yet climbed · Literature

    Evidence Builder

    You can select and use a short, precise quotation.

  • Not yet climbed · Literature

    Analysis Builder

    You can develop an explanation of a quotation.

  • Not yet climbed · Writing

    PRTEE Practitioner

    You can build a whole paragraph with all five parts of PRTEE.

  • Not yet climbed · Milestone

    Paper 1 Builder

    You've worked through the whole Paper 1 ladder.

  • Not yet climbed · Milestone

    Paper 2 Builder

    You've worked through the whole Paper 2 ladder.

  • Not yet climbed · Milestone

    Literature Builder

    You've completed a Literature ladder for one of your texts.

  • Not yet climbed · Milestone

    Mastery Builder

    You've taken on Mastery-level challenges and pushed your writing further.

  • Not yet climbed · Writing

    Point Builder

    You can write a point that answers the question.

  • Not yet climbed · Writing

    Explanation Builder

    You can explain the effect of a writer's choice in your own words.

  • Not yet climbed · Writing

    Grade Climber

    You can improve your own writing by one step.