What the Free 7-Day Trial Includes

Most free trials are designed to be forgotten about. Card details up front, a quiet conversion on day eight, and a subscription that takes three emails to cancel.

Ours takes no card. Seven days, full access, and nothing happens at the end unless you decide it should. That is partly a matter of principle and mostly a matter of confidence, because a week is enough to tell whether the teaching suits your child, and we would rather you found out.

What the seven days include

Everything. There is no cut-down trial tier.

Live lessons. Whatever falls in your week for your cycle: two lessons for Junior Cycle, Leaving Cert Higher and Leaving Cert Ordinary; one for Pre-Junior Cycle. Your child sits in as a normal member of the group.

The full recorded library, indexed by topic across the whole syllabus for that cycle, with the notes that go with each topic. Not a sample, but the actual library.

The discussion board. Post a question, get an answer from a tutor.

Past paper material, worked through part by part with the marks attached.

The one thing not included is mock paper grading, which belongs to the Platinum tier and runs in scheduled windows across the year rather than on demand.

No card, and what that means

You do not enter payment details to start. Nothing charges automatically on day eight. If you do nothing at the end of the week, the trial simply ends.

That also means there is nothing to cancel, which is the part most parents are actually asking about when they ask how the trial works.

If you do subscribe afterwards, plans are €89 a month or €690 for the academic year for Academy, and €129 a month or €990 for Platinum, at both Junior Cycle and Leaving Cert. There is a recordings-only Library option at €39 a month or €290 a year for students whose timetable does not suit live lessons, and Pre-Junior Cycle is priced lower. Payments are handled by Stripe and you can cancel at any point.

How to actually use the week

A trial spent browsing tells you very little. A trial spent doing four specific things tells you almost everything.

1. Attend a live lesson, properly. Not with the camera off and a phone in the other hand. The question you are trying to answer is whether your child follows the teaching and whether they will ask when they do not. That is the thing that decides whether any grind service works, and you cannot learn it from a recording.

2. Look up a topic they already find hard. Go into the library, find the topic that has been causing trouble since Christmas, and watch how it is taught. This is the most informative twenty minutes of the week. If the explanation lands where previous ones have not, you have your answer.

3. Post a real question on the discussion board. Something they are genuinely stuck on, with a photo of their working. See what comes back and how quickly. The gap between lessons is where most students actually lose momentum, and this is how we cover it.

4. Try a past paper question with the walkthrough. Attempt it first, then read our breakdown with the marks attached. Students are routinely surprised by where the marks actually sit inside a question.

If you get through those four, you will know by about day four.

What you cannot find out in a week

Some honesty, because a trial oversold is a subscription cancelled in October.

You will not see a grade improve. Maths moves over terms, not days. Anyone promising a visible jump inside a week is selling something other than teaching.

You will not fix a foundational gap. If a sixth year is struggling because second-year algebra never landed, that is weeks of work. What the trial can tell you is whether the material to fix it is there and whether the teaching suits, which is the actual question.

You will not see the mock grading, which is the part Platinum members most often name as the most valuable thing we do. It runs in windows during the year.

What to look for by day seven

Concrete signals, rather than a general feeling:

• Did your child actually attend the live lesson, and would they attend next week without being pushed?
• Did they ask a question, in the lesson or on the board? This is the strongest single predictor we see of whether a student improves.
• Did they find the library on their own for something they needed?
• After the lesson, could they explain one thing they now understand that they did not before?

If the answer to most of those is yes, it will probably work. If your child would not attend without being made to, that is worth knowing before you pay for a year, and it is a different problem, which more tuition does not solve.

Where we are not the right fit

Worth saying plainly.

A student who needs one-to-one attention on a specific personal difficulty is better served by a private tutor than by any group, including ours. A student who is very far behind the level of their group needs something built around them rather than around the level. And if the real issue is that no work is being done at all, another hour a week will not change it.

We would rather tell you that during a free week than after a direct debit.

Getting started

Sign up, pick the cycle, and you are in. The onboarding asks the school year and level so your child lands in the right group. Our parents' guide to the curriculum covers how cycles and levels map if you are unsure.

The lesson times are fixed: Junior Cycle Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:30pm, Leaving Cert Higher Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30pm, Leaving Cert Ordinary Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7pm, Pre-Junior Cycle Mondays at 7pm. Worth checking one falls inside your week before you start, so the trial includes a live lesson.

Start the free trial. Seven days, no card.