“its a good revision source and its good for finding tutors in general, but the prices are incredibly high and the fact that everything in chats gets flagged is annoying.”
Hi Lama, thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. We're sorry to hear that you've found tutor rates on the platform to be high. Our tutors set their own rates based on their specific experience and qualifications. We aim to offer a variety of tutors on the platform to suit different needs. We also keep our platform fee for tutors as low as we can, in comparison to other tutoring platforms.
Sorry that you’ve found our chat moderation system too sensitive, we’ll share your feedback with our developers. This system is in place to help maintain a safe environment for all students, which is our top priority.
If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, please don't hesitate to contact us and we'll be more than happy to help! - Hannah
“Course should have been split into 6 sessions, say 3 hrs a day or so. Sessions were long and tiring to keep focus on.
Great that these were recorded though so students can go back to revise .”
Hi Anju, thanks for attending our courses. It would be really useful if you could give us more detailed feedback on how you feel our courses could be improved and be made great. We read through all feedback - both in the anonymous feedback form which our tutors share at the end of each course and in reviews - to help improve all our courses for future students. Please email courses@pmt.education if you have any feedback which would help us do this. - Michelle
“I felt my son should have been sent a paper copy of all material.
I would still like this to happen.
In the pre-course information it was not made clear that he would require the handbooks to complete the course successfully.
I also get the topics should of been edited in light of the advanced information.”
Hi Katherine,
Thanks for your feedback. I’ve responded to your comments about the handouts in your other review. Our Easter GCSE course timetables were adapted to take into consideration the advanced information. We added a purple box on the course page on our website which explained how we had adapted the timetable and also linked to a PDF where we colour-coded topics - using a traffic light system - according to the advanced information so it was clear how we had decided to adapt the timetables.
For GCSE sciences, AQA categorised topics into:
- Major focus of exam (green)
- Not assessed (red)
- May come up in the exam (amber)
Our tutors didn’t teach any topics which were 'not assessed'. They then taught topics which were either a major focus or could otherwise come up in the exam as AQA said: “Topics not explicitly given in any list may appear in low tariff questions or via ‘linked’ questions. Linked questions are those that bring together knowledge, skills and understanding from across the specification”. For Biology, a lot of content was removed. For Chemistry, there were only two subtopics which were taken out (2.4 Bulk and Surface Properties of Matter including Nanoparticles and 9.2 Carbon Dioxide and Methane as Greenhouse Gases) so our timetable remained largely unchanged.
Just in case this information was missed before booking, we also added an A4 PDF to the Google Classroom explaining how we had adapted the timetable. And, we added a PDF where we mapped out the advanced information with links to our free revision resources on physicsandmathstutor.com so students could streamline their revision. We are sorry you missed all this information but I’m not sure what more we could have done.
Our handouts included resources for the whole specification as AQA said in their advanced information “It is advised that teaching and learning should still cover the entire subject content in the specification so that students are as well prepared as possible for progression to the next stage of their education.‘ We wanted to give students resources to help them revise the full specification in case they decided to pursue their GCSE subjects at A Level. We hope this clears up any confusion. We hope your son enjoyed the courses and found them useful. - Michelle
“The information was useful but 6 hours was too long to try and maintain my attention. Shorter days for a longer period would have been more effective”
Hi Abbie, thanks for attending our 4-day pure course. We're sorry you struggled to concentrate for the whole thing. Our crash courses are intense and aim to cover a lot - we want to give students an overview of the whole specification, fill in gaps in knowledge and practice exam technique. Alongside an hour's lunch, our tutors give lots of short breaks in the morning and afternoon to help aid student concentration.
In terms of lengthening the course, we have looked into this but feel that most students wouldn't want to dedicate more than 4 days of their Easter holidays to revising one subject. Other course providers tend to have 4-day courses too. We are glad you found the course useful. We hope your exams went well. Good luck on results day! - Michelle
