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Product 5 min readMar 19, 2026

What Your Progress Page Actually Tells You

Your Progress page isn't just a log — it turns your mock and practice data into a topic heatmap, risk buckets, and concrete daily and weekly actions. Here's how to read it.

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pscprep.ai team·Mar 19, 2026· 5 min read

A lot of apps show you "how many questions you did" and leave it there. On pscprep.ai, your Progress page turns mock and practice data into something you can act on: a topic heatmap, risk buckets, and a clear daily and weekly mission. Here's what each part means and how to use it.

Coach guidance

One summary, from your mocks only

Once you've taken at least one full mock, we run your answers through an analytics layer that looks at topic and subtopic, not just overall score. The result is a short coach summary: where you're weak, where you're on track, and what to do next. That summary is based only on your mock attempts — so it's exam-style pressure, not casual practice.

Risk buckets

Topic × subtopic × trend

We slice your mock performance into buckets: e.g. "Polity — Fundamental Rights — recent years" or "Economy — Budget — older papers." Each bucket gets a risk level (high / medium / low / on track) and an accuracy gap vs a target. So instead of "I'm bad at Polity," you see "Fundamental Rights in recent PYQs: 35% — needs focus." That's what we use to build your daily and weekly missions.

Daily and weekly missions are just curated question sets: "Do these 15 questions in Polity (Fundamental Rights)" or "This week, aim for 60% in these Economy buckets." One click takes you to Practice with the right topic and filters so you don't have to hunt.

Strength / weakness heatmap

See the full grid

Below the coach block, you can expand a heatmap: rows are subjects or subtopics, and the grid shows where you're strong (green) vs weak (red) from your mocks. It's the same data that drives risk buckets, in visual form. Use it to spot patterns — e.g. "I'm fine in older PYQs but slip in recent years" — and to double-check that your daily mission matches what you see.

7-day activity and topic performance

Practice and mocks, side by side

The Progress page also shows your last 7 days of practice (questions per day, accuracy) and all-time topic performance from practice sessions. So you have one place for: (1) what to do today and this week (missions), (2) where you're at risk (buckets + heatmap), and (3) how consistently you're practising (activity + topic bars).

Unlock the full view with mocks. Coach guidance, risk buckets, and heatmap need mock attempts. If you haven't taken a mock yet, you'll still see focus areas from your last mock and your practice stats — but the full Phase4 analytics appear after you submit at least one full-length or topic mock.

Key takeaways

  • 1Coach summary, risk buckets, and heatmap are built from your mock data — topic and subtopic level.
  • 2Daily and weekly missions are one-click practice sets tied to your weakest buckets.
  • 3Use the heatmap to see strength/weakness at a glance; use missions to act on it.
  • 4Take mocks to unlock the full Progress analytics; practice stats are always visible.

See your Progress

Take a mock, then open Progress to get your heatmap, risk buckets, and daily mission.

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