How ASCEND works

ASCEND works out your GPA and CGPA with your school's grading rules, shows what you need to reach your target, and helps you study: a focus timer, your timetable, study partners and study rooms with practice quizzes.

1. Create your account, then fill in your profile: your school, level, target CGPA and the total units in your programme.
2. Go to Grades → Calculate and save each semester you have finished, with your courses, units and grades.
3. Open Today: it shows your CGPA, your target, and your next step.

It then opens like an app, with one tap.

• Android (Chrome): open ASCEND, tap the menu (the three dots at the top right), then Add to Home screen or Install app.
• iPhone (Safari): open ASCEND, tap the Share button (the square with an arrow), then Add to Home Screen.
• Other browsers have a similar option in their menu.

Each course gives quality points = grade point × units. Your GPA is all the quality points of the semester divided by all its units.

Example: CSC 301 (3 units, A = 5 points) gives 15. MTH 302 (2 units, B = 4 points) gives 8. GPA = (15 + 8) ÷ (3 + 2) = 23 ÷ 5 = 4.60.

The same, over every semester: all your quality points divided by all your units. It is not the average of your GPAs, because a semester with more units counts more.

It is the average GPA you need in all your remaining units to finish with your target CGPA. If it is higher than the best possible grade, the target can't be reached any more, and ASCEND shows the highest CGPA you can still reach.

No. ASCEND helps you plan. The result from your school is always the official one. If a number looks different, check the grades and units you saved.

In Grades → Goals, add the courses you are taking this semester and your tests and exams, with the marks you are aiming for. After each one, record your score. ASCEND compares it with your target and shows which courses need more work.

Write your timetable once in Timetable. Every day, ASCEND suggests reviewing each course you had a class in (25 minutes) and preparing for your next day's classes (15 minutes). An item is done once you study that course for that long.

Once a class starts, press Attended, Missed or Cancelled under it. You can mark classes from the last 7 days in the Attendance tab. Your attendance for a course is the classes you attended out of the classes held. Cancelled classes don't count.

Many universities ask for at least 75% attendance before you can sit a course's exam, so ASCEND warns you below that. Check your own department's rule. Your school's register is the official record.

Pick a course and a length, then press Start. Keep ASCEND open: your screen stays on and an alarm rings at the end. If your internet drops, the session is saved when it comes back. Sessions shorter than 5 minutes are not saved.

Your streak is the number of days in a row you studied. One missed day in any 7 is a rest day: it doesn't break your streak, as long as you studied the day before it.

Your first name, your streak, your study time this week, whether you studied today, your pair streak, and whether you're online. Never your grades, results, courses or notes. In Study, then Partners, you can stop sharing or remove a partner at any time.

The days in a row that you and a partner both studied. The flame grows from Spark (1 day) to Flame (3), Blaze (7), Inferno (14) and Blue flame (30). It stays pale until you have both studied today.

Start a room for 2 to 10 people, or practise alone. You focus together on one timer, then take a quiz of objective, fill-the-gap and theory questions on your topic, written by ASCEND AI. Theory answers get a practice mark with comments. It is not an official grade.

Until ASCEND AI is switched on, rooms use sample questions about study skills.

To keep your account safe, ASCEND logs you out after 30 minutes without activity, after 12 hours in any case, and when you close your browser. A running focus timer keeps you logged in.

On the login page, press Forgot password. ASCEND emails you a code to set a new one.

Only you. Not your partners, not your coursemates, not your school. Read the privacy notice.

Yes. In Me, press Download my data for a copy of everything, or delete your account and all your data for good.