About Untutored

Exam preparation for families who can't afford a tutor.

Untutored makes practice apps for the 11+, GCSE and A-Level. It is built by one person, in Winchester, for families who would otherwise go without a tutor.

Mission

Learning by doing.

Untutored isn't a tutor or a teacher, and doesn't try to be one. It gives a child good questions, marks them straight away and shows the working for each one. The learning happens by doing the questions, and a wrong answer costs nothing but the mark.

It is designed for children with ADHD and autism first: one thing on screen at a time, no timers, no streaks to lose. In practice that makes it easier for every child.

Story

Where it started

Before exam leave in my final year of A-Levels I was predicted Ds and Cs. I have combined-type ADHD, and almost every revision tool I tried was either too dull to keep going with or too much to look at. The ones that did work cost more than was reasonable.

So I did what any sensible student would do and skipped my lectures! I spent that time training a locally hosted AI to mark essays the way an examiner would. I used it for the week before my first paper. I came out with an A, a B and a C.

That is where the idea for Untutored came from. I hadn't been taught anything new that week. I had just done a lot of practice, got it marked straight away, and seen where the marks went. That works, and it shouldn't cost anything.

Untutored 11+ comes first because it doesn't need AI marking, which makes it the simplest to build well. It is also how I learn to build these tools properly and how people come to hear about them. Donations from 11+ families will fund the GCSE and A-Level apps.

Theo Fletcher

Founder. Designer and developer.

I'm a student from Winchester on a gap year before studying Environmental Science. My dad taught me to code; Computer Science GCSE and a lot of Minecraft mods did the rest. I design and build Untutored on my own, with families who test each release.

Untutored is independent and self-funded. There are no investors and no advertising, and children's data stays on the device.