General Math Practice Test: The Whole Bank, One Grade at a Time
General Math on My Path is not a named exam you sit the way a school-leaving paper runs. It is a saved query over the whole maths subject: every approved item in the bank that matches the grade band (and, if you choose one, the topic) you pick on the card. There is no exam-family pin. That is the entire product. If an item is maths, in the bank, and in your band, it can show up — including Math Kangaroo items when the grade and topic match.
That sounds like a small distinction. It is the reason the card forces a grade, the reason a 20-question sitting can feel unlike last week's 20 questions, and the reason you should not treat General Math as a substitute for a Kangaroo paper. Same bank, different query.
What "the whole bank" actually means
The Education hub at /education has two shelves. Practice is first: drill the bank at your own pace. General Math sits on that shelf next to the four language drills and Math Kangaroo. Exams is the second shelf — real past papers sat the way the exam runs. As of now that shelf has no live named qualifications. General Math is practice, not a mock of a retired paper.
A Kangaroo-shaped sitting pins the pool to Kangaroo provenance and, when you want it, to a year and a paper size. General Math does not. It asks the bank for maths at a grade. The filter is subject plus grade, optionally plus topic and complexity. Kangaroo items live in that same maths subject. When their grade band and topic match what you ticked, they are eligible. You will see contest-style puzzles mixed with more ordinary school stems. That is not a bug in the card. That is the query doing what it says.
If you want only Kangaroo, start the Kangaroo card instead. If you want the subject as a subject — algebra this week, a mixed set next week, a short 10 before homework — General Math is the card.
We are not affiliated with official Math Kangaroo / Kangourou sans Frontières. Kangaroo items in the bank are practice material on My Path, not the official contest.
Why the card will not start without a grade
Complexity in this bank is not "easy for a twelve-year-old." For Kangaroo-shaped items it is the task-number band of the paper: the first third, the middle third, the last third. Those thirds exist in every grade. An "easy" item at grade 3–4 and an "easy" item at grade 11–12 are not the same problem. Mixing bands would hand a nine-year-old a school-leaver's puzzle, or the reverse, and then call the sitting a score.
So the session refuses a multi-grade pool. The API returns grade_required if you try to start without a band. On the card, picking several grades does not mean "serve them all." It means "roll one of these at start." You still sit one band. The other ticks are a shortlist of bands you are willing to land in, not a blended paper.
That rule is the same for General Math and for Kangaroo. It is also why online math practice by grade band is not a cosmetic filter. One sitting, one band. Why grade bands matter in practice is the longer version of the same constraint.
The five bands are 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, and 11–12. They are school-year bands, not CEFR levels. Language tests on the same hub label the axis Level. Maths labels it Grade. Do not look for A2 on this card.
What the card opens on
The card does not open on "everything." A bank that spans grade 3–4 through 11–12 has no useful all-grades sitting, and most learners are not at the ends. The default is the middle three bands — 5–6, 7–8, 9–10 — with Medium complexity only, and 20 questions. Grade 3–4 and 11–12 stay one click away. You add them if that is who is sitting.
Medium alone is deliberate. A mixed-difficulty first sitting is unreadable as a signal. You cannot tell whether a messy score means the band is wrong, the topic is thin, or you simply hit a hard tail. Start medium. Add easy or hard when you know what you are measuring.
Size is 10, 20, or 60. Default 20: long enough to mean something, short enough to finish. Ten is a drill. Sixty is a long practice block, not a hidden exam. The card will not offer a length it cannot deliver for whichever band gets rolled. If the smallest candidate pool cannot fill 60, 60 disables rather than starting and then padding with the wrong grade.
Timer: off, relaxed, or exam mode. Feedback: immediate, or review at the end. Navigation: free, or forward-only. Skip ("I don't know") and flag for review are both there. None of these change the pool. They change how you move through it.
There is no Random control. Selection is explicit. You see the grade ticks, the complexity ticks, the topic picker, and the length. What you start is what you asked for — minus the one-band roll if you left several grades on.
Topics are a closed list, not a search box
You can narrow by topic. The vocabulary is closed: algebra, geometry, statistics, number, fractions, and Mixed Problems. That is the filter. School courses also talk about ratios, percentages, coordinate geometry, probability as its own strand, and a dozen other labels. Learners look for those, and that is reasonable. The card does not invent a new taxonomy to match every textbook heading. If an item does not fit a keyword cleanly, it is not dumped into a junk drawer called Unclassified. It shows as Mixed Problems.
Many of those are Kangaroo puzzles. Some need the picture before you would dare to tag them. Guessing "geometry" from a one-line stem is how you serve the wrong question. The math practice by topic article is the place for that, and math word problems practice is the place for why stem and figure travel together.
Topic is optional. Grade is not. A sitting of "just algebra" still sits inside one band. Algebra at 5–6 is not algebra at 11–12.
Kangaroo items will appear. That is the point.
Because General Math has no exam-family pin, a matching Kangaroo item is in play. You might get a 3-point warm-up from a past paper, a 4-point middle-third task, or a 5-point end-of-paper puzzle, as long as the grade matches. My Path weights a Kangaroo-shaped session by the points on the item. General Math is not trying to recreate a 24- or 30-task paper with a start-on-N scoring floor. It is drawing from the subject. If you need the contest shape — thirds, paper size, the way a real sitting feels — use the Kangaroo card and read Math Kangaroo grade levels.
Do not treat a General Math score as a Kangaroo result. Do not treat a Kangaroo result as a curriculum grade. They share items. They do not share a query.
Pictures matter either way. Maths renders as maths: KaTeX in the session, not a screenshot of a formula if the stem can be set in type. When the item has a figure, the figure is part of the question. Skip the picture and you are not practising the item.
Who this is for
School students who want online math practice without pretending they are sitting a named qualification we do not offer. Parents setting a 10- or 20-question block at the right band. People preparing for Kangaroo who also want mixed fluency, not only contest papers. Anyone who wants the subject, one grade at a time.
It is not IQ. IQ lives under For Me, with cognitive tests. Education is exam preparation: study, practise, pass. General Math is the practise half of that sentence for maths.
It is not a personality test. You will not get a type, a profile, or a shareable trait chart at the end. You get a score, correct / wrong / skipped, and a way to retry.
What happens when you finish
Session review shows score, correct, wrong, and skipped. You can retry wrong, retry flagged, or take a full retake. AI gap analysis is available if you have the token balance and an Education entitlement — it is not a separate product you buy per sitting.
Mastery lives on the hub: a per-topic bar, complexity levels 1–5, streaks. A topic master badge sits at 80% mastery. There are other badges (first lesson, perfect score, 7-day streak, exam ready, polyglot). They are there. They are not the reason to practise. The reason is the next sitting at the same band.
If a topic bar is low, drill that topic at the same grade. Do not "fix" a weak 7–8 algebra bar by starting 5–6 and calling it progress. The band is the measurement.
Student and Monthly. Not For Me. Not Around Me.
Education is subscription-only. Unlimited Education sits on two plans:
| Plan | Price | Tokens / month | Trial | Education |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For Me | €4.99 | 100 | 3 days, €0 | none |
| Student | €9.99 | 250 | none | unlimited |
| Around Me | €9.99 | 250 | 3 days, €0 | none |
| Premium (Monthly) | €19.99 | 2000 | 7 days, €1.99 | unlimited |
GBP mirrors EUR (£4.99 / £9.99 / £19.99). PLN is zł24.99 / 49.99 / 99.99.
Student and Around Me are alternatives, not a ladder. Same price. Student trades Around Me (people you track, environment and persona tests) for Education. Student is For Me personality tests plus unlimited Education. No People or child profiles on Student. No priority support — that is Monthly.
The Student call to action is Get Student — €9.99/month. There is no trial wording because there is no trial. Signup grace days do not open Education. Results of personality tests can be free; AI on those is metered in tokens. Education sittings themselves are the Student or Monthly entitlement. You do not buy General Math per test.
For Me and Around Me get zero Education. If you are on For Me and you open /education, you are looking at a catalogue you cannot sit. Switch at /premium. The Student plan write-up is the honest comparison.
How to run a useful week of General Math
Pick the band the learner is actually in, not the band you wish they were in. Leave the default middle three only if you are genuinely willing to land in any of them; otherwise tick one. Medium, 20 questions, review at the end if you want a clean sitting, immediate feedback if you are teaching and want to stop on the first mistake.
Do one topic sitting and one mixed sitting, not six mixed sittings in a row that you cannot interpret. Mixed Problems is a real topic, not leftover. If a child lives in Mixed Problems, that is information: the bank is serving puzzles that resist a keyword, often with a figure. Practise those as themselves.
Keep Kangaroo on its own card when the goal is contest pacing. Use General Math when the goal is the subject. They will overlap in items. Your notes should not overlap in meaning.
A 10-question block before school is a warm-up. A 60-question block is a long practice, and it still sits in one band. Do not stack 60s across bands in one evening and average the scores. The scores are not on the same scale.
What this is not
It is not SAT, GCSE, Abitur, or a Polish eighth-grade exam product. Those named qualifications are not live. Do not start General Math expecting a past paper from a retired family. Polish items can exist in the bank from a retired exam; they are not a live product you sit under that exam's name. Language on the card, when it appears, constrains which grades have items. English spans the five bands. That is a language filter, not a second subject.
It is not a promise that practice will get anyone into a particular school. It is a bank, a grade rule, and a sitting. Use it that way.
Education on My Path is the map of the whole Education product — languages included. This page is only General Math.
Start with one band
Open /education, find General Math on the Practice shelf, leave or set the grade, pick 10, 20, or 60, and start. If you need Education and you do not have it, Get Student — €9.99/month — on /premium, or Monthly if you already know you want the rest of the platform too.
One grade at a time. The whole bank, on purpose.