Your child needs help with English. You want them to do well in the 7+, 9+ or 11+. You’ve looked at tutors, compared prices, and perhaps wondered whether another app is really what they need. So, what is the best approach?
Let’s be honest: you can find cheap tutors, but finding one who is genuinely good, understands the exam and can help with both composition and comprehension is another matter. In any case, no matter how good the tutor, research shows that students need practice in between lessons.
Apps offer plenty of practice, but are they aligned to your child’s specific lessons? Apps today are independent, designed for a specific purpose, but not tailored to your student’s learning journey.
And with a busy family life, who has time to become their child’s unpaid English teacher every evening?
InkGenius was designed to bring these pieces together: live teaching and a dedicated learning platform, working as one programme.
The tutor dilemma
A good tutor can make a real difference. They can explain difficult ideas, spot weaknesses and give a child individual attention. We’re certainly not going to pretend otherwise.
But there is a practical problem: a lesson ends. Your child closes their notebook, packs away their pencil, and gets on with the rest of the week.
What happens to the skills they’ve just learnt?
If they only practise when the tutor is there, opportunities to consolidate those skills may be limited. English is not simply a collection of facts to memorise the night before an exam. Children need to practise expressing ideas, constructing sentences, choosing vocabulary and understanding what they read.
One weekly lesson can be valuable, but it cannot do all the work on its own. Regular practice matters too.
What about educational apps?
Apps can provide convenient practice, and many offer useful exercises and mock tests. But an app on its own may not provide the teaching, guidance and feedback a child needs.
There’s also the familiar problem of motivation. You download the app with the best intentions. Your child completes a few exercises enthusiastically. Then, mysteriously, the tablet becomes fascinating for everything except English.
The missing ingredient is often a structured learning routine, with teaching and practice reinforcing one another.
Enter InkGenius: the combination
InkGenius brings together **live online lessons and a dedicated learning app**. Rather than choosing between a tutor and an app, your child gets a programme that uses both.
The principle is straightforward:
Teach. Practise. Get feedback. Repeat.
Children learn skills during their live lessons, then have opportunities to practise them on the platform between sessions. They can revisit concepts, work through exercises and build familiarity with the skills they need.
InkGenius uses proprietary tools, unavailable elsewhere, to cover both Composition and Comprehension, providing a more complete English-learning programme for children preparing for the 7+, 8+ or 11+.
That matters because English is more than writing a wonderful story about a mysterious castle. Children also need to understand texts, interpret information, recognise meaning and explain their answers clearly.
Our aim is to help children develop both sides of English within one structured programme.
More practice, without more hours of tuition
InkGenius includes two 20-minute live lessons each week, alongside access to the platform for further practice.
Short sessions can make it easier to establish a regular routine. Instead of expecting a child to concentrate for a long stretch, the programme gives them opportunities to work in manageable blocks throughout the week.
Regular practice can help children consolidate skills, particularly when they receive useful feedback and revisit material over time. Of course, every child is different, and progress depends on factors such as their starting point, engagement and the quality of their practice.
The goal is not to fill every spare minute with schoolwork. It is to make the time spent learning more purposeful.
But will it work for my child?
That is the sensible question. You shouldn’t have to take our word for it.
Perhaps your child needs to build confidence in writing. Perhaps comprehension is the weaker area. Perhaps they are doing reasonably well but need a more consistent approach to their exam preparation.
The best way to understand whether InkGenius suits your child is to try the programme and see how they respond.
During the trial, you can explore the lessons and platform, see which activities your child engages with, and assess whether the approach fits your family. Over time, reviewing examples of their work can help you understand what is improving and what still needs attention.
We want parents to feel informed about their child’s learning, without having to become the English teacher themselves.
What does it cost?
InkGenius costs £15.50 per week after the free trial. That includes two live lessons each week and access to the platform for additional practice.
The system is flexible, and once inducted, you have a choice of subscriptions from £11.50 per week up to £27.50 per week depending on the amount of support you wish to have.
There is no long-term commitment, and you can pause or cancel when needed.
We know families have to think carefully about the cost of education. The point is not that every tutor is expensive or every app is inadequate. It is that InkGenius combines live teaching and ongoing practice in one programme, covering both Composition and Comprehension.
Try it for two weeks
Preparing for the 11+ can feel like a lot to organise: schoolwork, practice papers, tuition, family life and the occasional reminder that everyone needs to go to bed.
InkGenius offers another way to bring English preparation together. Live lessons provide guidance; the app creates opportunities to practise; and the combination is designed to help children build their skills more consistently.
You don’t need to decide that InkGenius is the answer before you’ve seen it in action.
Try InkGenius free for two weeks and see whether it works for your child - Click here.
InkGenius — live teaching and structured practice for 7+, 8+ or 11+ English.