FAQ
What it costs, how your child practises, what the weekly report actually tells you, and exactly what we hold about them. If your question is not here, write to us and a person will answer.
What Mimi Hodari is, who it is for, and what happens before you pay anything.
Revision for Kenyan primary school children, built on the national curriculum — the one most people still call CBC. Your child answers questions; when one goes wrong we name the misunderstanding behind it rather than only marking it wrong, and tell you what to practise tonight.
There are 3,972 questions across 8 subjects, written by hand to the KICD designs rather than gathered from old papers.
Yes. Every family gets twenty questions free, and — this is the part most services do not do — the complete weekly report with them. Not a preview of it. The mistake named, the areas to work on ranked in order, the recommendation for tonight.
No card is asked for and nothing starts automatically. We would rather you decided having seen the thing you would be paying for.
Grade 1 to Grade 9, on the national curriculum. Grade 6 carries full KPSEA preparation.
We are honest about where each grade stands rather than promising everything at once — the home page shows which grades are ready today, and your plan covers whichever your child is in.
All eight papers: Mathematics, English Language, Kiswahili, Integrated Science, Social Studies, Creative Arts and Sports, Christian Religious Education and Agriculture and Nutrition.
Kiswahili questions are set in Kiswahili — the question, the choices and the explanation. Only the wrapper around them changes language, never the content.
A phone or a computer and an email address. You create the family account, add your child's first name and grade, choose a four-digit PIN, and hand the phone over.
No app to install. It runs in the browser and is built to work on a modest phone and a patchy connection, because that is what most families actually have.
What each plan covers, what it costs, and how paying works. Nothing renews by itself and no card is ever stored.
Every plan includes the complete weekly report. Paying per term costs less than three months — the plans page shows both.
M-Pesa. Choose a plan, enter your M-Pesa PIN on the prompt that arrives on your phone, and the plan opens within seconds.
We never store a card and there is no card field anywhere on this site.
No. Nothing on Mimi Hodari renews automatically and nothing is taken from you without you choosing it each time. When a plan is coming to an end we email you, and when it ends it simply stops.
There is no subscription to hunt for and cancel, because there is no subscription in the sense that catches people out.
Gold covers up to three children and Premium Hodari up to six, on one payment. In your account, open Add this child, type their first name and pick their grade.
Each child gets their own work, their own weekly report, and their own grades. A Gold family with children in Grades 3, 6 and 9 gets Grades 1–3, 1–6 and 1–9 respectively — each child's own grade and everything below it, from the single plan.
Bronze and Silver cover one child.
On Gold, yes — their grade and every grade below it, which is what makes it useful for going back and fixing gaps from last year.
On Premium Hodari, every grade from 1 to 9, including above their own — for a child working ahead or sitting an entrance paper.
Bronze and Silver cover the grade the child is in. When more than one grade is open to you, a grade menu appears beside the subject menu on the practice screen.
You can move up at any time and the new plan takes effect immediately. Because nothing auto-renews, moving down is simply a matter of choosing a different plan when the current one ends.
Our refund position is written out in full on the refunds page rather than summarised into something convenient here.
Practice stops and the reports you already have stay. Nothing your child did is deleted — every answer is still there if you come back, and their streak, their progress in each paper and their achievements are exactly where they were.
What a sitting looks like, what happens when an answer is wrong, and the things that keep a child coming back.
This is the whole point of the product. A paper can tell you an answer was wrong. It cannot tell you why.
Every wrong option in our question bank is attached to a specific misunderstanding — not "careless", but the actual thing the child believes that led them there. We name it straight away, in words a child can read, and the skill goes back into the rotation so it returns later rather than being forgotten.
Twenty questions, which most children finish in fifteen to twenty-five minutes. They can stop at any point — every answer is saved as it is given, so nothing is lost by closing the phone.
Yes. They can pick a paper, and then a topic within it — "Fractions" rather than the whole of Mathematics. If they choose nothing, the engine picks for them, weighted towards the skills they are weakest at and the ones falling due for review.
Ten questions, mixed across the papers you have, and the same ten all day — so finishing it means something and refreshing does not deal a new hand. A fresh ten arrives each day.
It is separate from the twenty-question sitting; doing one does not use up the other.
Each paper has its own ladder, climbed by answering questions in it: Mwanzo at 10, Imara at 30, Hodari at 100 and Bingwa at 250. It counts questions answered, so it only ever goes up — a rung can never be taken back off a child.
The streak is the number of days in a row they have answered at least one question, counted in Nairobi time. Practising twice in a day does not count twice; coming back tomorrow does.
That is your choice, and it is off by default. When it is off they are told why their answer was not right — which is the part that teaches — without being handed the answer to copy. You can switch it on for a child who is revising rather than being tested.
What the weekly report tells you, and why it is locked away from the child holding the phone.
Four things, in the order a parent actually needs them:
Because the phone is usually in the child's hands. The report is the most revealing thing we hold — their name, their grade and exactly what they are weak at — and a nine year old reading a ranked list of their own weaknesses is not what it is for.
The four-digit PIN you set at sign-up unlocks it. Their own streak, points and progress are not behind the PIN: that is their encouragement and they should see it.
Yes. The report is free, always. Twenty questions is enough to produce a complete one, and you get the whole thing.
What we hold, what we do not, and who can see it. The full statement is on the privacy page.
Their first name, their grade, and the answers they give. That is what is needed to tell you what they are finding hard, and we do not collect things we do not need.
No surname, no school, no date of birth, no photograph, no location.
No. We do not see or collect your phone number. M-Pesa payments are handled by Safaricom, and the number is hashed before it reaches us — so it never does.
No. It is not sold, not shared with schools, not used to advertise to you, and not used to train anything. It exists to produce your report.
Yes. Write to [email protected] and we remove the account and everything attached to it. We do not ask you to justify it and we do not make it difficult.
Signing in, adding children, and what to do when something is not working.
Use forgotten your password and we email you a link to choose a new one. If the email does not arrive, check the spam folder and then write to us — we will let you back in.
Sign in on your account page and set a new one. The PIN protects the report from the child holding the phone, not from you.
Yes. Sign in wherever you like — a phone, a tablet, a shared computer. Work is saved on our side as it happens, so a child can start on one device and carry on from another.
Write to [email protected] or call +254 182 637 022. There are no support tickets and no call centre — a real person answers, and it is usually the people who built it.
Telling us the child's first name and roughly when it happened is enough for us to find it.
If your question is not answered here, it is a fair question and we would like to hear it — it usually means this page needs improving.