A series of tapes on geography, sport and general knowledge - and arguably the worst I've ever seen.

Sterile questions are presented in a boring; get them wrong and the first letter of the answer appears. Get them wrong again and half the answer appears. This is supposed to motivate your child to learn. There's more bad news. Type "common market" instead of "the common market" and you're wrong again. To cap it all, at least one of the answers in Geography is incorrect.

What do you get? Each tape holds the same master program, separately loaded character arrays of questions dependent on subject, and a program to allow you to set your own questions and answers. In other words, having bought one program, it you buy a second, all you get is flashy packaging and three character arrays. Everything else is the same as on the first tape.

You could write this yourself. I could recommend buying just one. Then you'd have the master programs. But, to be honest, my sons found it so boring and difficult to read that I can't even suggest that.

D.M.