Question 1

Is there a free trial, and what does a subscription cost?

Accepted Answer

Three days without a card, with up to 5 AI explanations a day. After that it is a subscription: a family plan paid monthly or cheaper annually, per-seat terms for tutors, schools and education centres, and a free tier that keeps practice and marking but stops the AI explanations. Current plans and prices are on the Pricing page, and a subscription can be cancelled at any time.

Question 2

How is this different from ChatGPT or a video course?

Accepted Answer

A chatbot answers the question in front of it and forgets the child by tomorrow; a video course plays the same lesson to everyone. Brainschool keeps the whole picture: it knows which topics are solid and which are shaky, checks the answer instead of just discussing it, returns to a mistake days later to make sure it stuck, and shows the parent the progress without anyone having to ask.

Question 3

Does a parent need to sit next to the child? And what if they are a year behind?

Accepted Answer

No. The child works on their own — the platform explains the step, checks the answer and decides what comes next; the parent gets a weekly summary. If there are gaps from previous years, the diagnostic finds them and puts them first in the plan: the topic everything else depends on is fixed before the current one.

Question 4

Which subjects and grades are covered?

Accepted Answer

Grades 5 to 11. Mathematics (grades 5-11) and physics (grades 7-11) are live today — 320 topics with explanations and practice behind them — together with exam preparation for ZNO, NMT and DTM in both subjects. Chemistry, biology, computer science, geography, history and languages have their topic lists mapped and their exercises being written; until a topic has them it is shown as "coming soon" rather than quietly padded out.

Question 5

How is an answer actually checked?

Accepted Answer

By the same engine that graded the exercise before it was ever published. Every exercise in the catalogue is generated, answered and marked at import time by the checker a pupil’s answer goes through, and one that will not accept its own answer is rejected. So a correct answer written a different way — a fraction instead of a decimal, the terms in another order — is accepted as correct, rather than marked wrong by a string comparison.

Question 6

What happens to my child’s data, and who can see it?

Accepted Answer

Learning data is used to personalise your child’s programme and for nothing else: it is not sold and not shared with third parties. A parent linked to the account sees their own child’s progress; a teacher sees the pupils in their own classrooms; no pupil ever sees another pupil’s answers. Under 16, the features that send a child’s writing outside the platform need a parent’s agreement, recorded against the account. Data can be exported or deleted on request — the Privacy Policy sets out how.

Question 7

Does it work on a phone?

Accepted Answer

Yes — it runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, with nothing to install and the same account everywhere. Practice, the AI tutor, homework and exam papers all work on a small screen. For an exam paper a larger screen is easier simply because the questions are longer.

Question 8

How much time a day does it take?

Accepted Answer

Fifteen to twenty minutes of real practice does more than an hour of rereading — the review queue is built for short, regular sessions rather than long ones. The daily goal is set per child and can be changed; the streak counts days worked, not hours spent, precisely so that the number cannot be gamed by leaving a tab open.

Question 9

Can it prepare a child for ZNO, NMT or DTM?

Accepted Answer

Yes, in mathematics and physics — eight formats in all. A paper is drawn at random from a bank rather than being one fixed set of questions, so a child can sit several without meeting the same question twice. What comes back is not only a score: the paper is marked into a list of topics that cost marks, and those topics go into the practice plan.

Question 10

My child says they already understand it. Can they skip ahead?

Accepted Answer

That is what the diagnostic is for. A topic that holds is marked mastered and unlocks the ones that depend on it — nobody is made to grind through work they can already do. The reverse is also true: a topic will not unlock the ones built on top of it until it holds, which is what stops "fractions I don’t get" from becoming "equations I don’t get" a year later.

A learning path built for one child, not for a class of thirty.

What is actually in it

Three ideas the platform is built on

Mastery before moving on

Spaced repetition

Retrieval practice

Every exercise has already been solved — by the same checker that will mark yours

Written from a textbook, one topic at a time

Executed at import

The catalogue is the source of truth

Which subjects — the honest answer

Who is Brainschool for?

Brainschool for teachers and private tutors: a reinforcement, not a replacement

Any questions? We’ll be happy to help

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