Students can earn points for learning and revising Education Perfect (EP) content.

For Translation and Spelling Lists, students earn points by learning words, which means answering a word correctly three times in a row (or twice, if they don’t make a mistake). This earns them one star, which is equal to one point.

For Fact Lists, students only have to get a question right twice (or once, if they don’t make a mistake). This earns them a star, which is equal to one point.

The scoring system also rewards students for revising the words they have already learnt. The day after a student first learns a word/item, they can revise the same word/item to earn a second star. Each new star gives them another point. Stars can be earned after increasing periods of time, as illustrated in the following table:

Students can earn an additional star every six months after earning five stars. For Translation Lists, this applies in each of the four language learning modes. For example, in French, the four learning modes are:

Because of the self-marked nature of the exercises, students don’t receive any points for completing work on vocabulary lists in Speaking Mode.

When a new star is unlocked in a list a student has previously completed, their progress in that list will change, indicating that more stars are available to be earned. This shouldn’t impact progress in Tasks you’ve set. When new stars are available, they will be indicated by a dot in the Progress column of the list.

If a student has lost progress on a list that has all available stars unlocked, please get in touch so we can investigate.

Smart Lessons give students points for answering questions correctly; they only have to get a question right twice (or once, if they don’t make a mistake). Smart Lessons also give bonus points for completing sections of a lesson. Different sections are worth different amounts of bonus points, to ensure that students’ work on questions is rewarded.

Because of the self-marked nature of the exercises, students don’t receive any points for completing work in Long Answer sections.

Skill sections adapt to students’ individual needs; if students answer all the questions correctly, they’re able to move on to the next section more quickly than someone who struggles. Bonus points are allocated based on the number of repetitions needed to move to the next section. In this example, a student needs to answer five questions correctly and will get five bonus points for completing the section.

The scoring system also rewards students for revising the questions they have already learnt. Revision Points can be earned after increasing periods of time, as illustrated in the following table:

If Revision Points are available, students can earn them via Dash, a Task, or independent work. When earning Revision Points through Dash, each playthrough can earn a student up to ten points maximum. That means if a student has more than ten Revision Points available, they will have to play through Dash multiple times to earn all available Revision Points.

For more information on what Dash is, read our article What is Education Perfect Dash?

Bonus points can only be earned once. Students won’t earn them again when revising a Smart Lesson.

Within Competitions (such as the World Series), points are earned differently from how they’re earned on the rest of the system.

By default, students competing can complete content they have already learnt to earn points for the Competition. This is because Competitions are automatically in Revision mode.

If you’d prefer for students to only earn points for learning new content in a Competition you’ve created, you’ll want to click Learning mode.

If you’d like to see how many points your students have earned, read our article How do I see how many points my students have earned?