Three people who sat these exams themselves — running the small, honest tutor we wished existed.

Araliya came up through Haberdashers’ Girls’ School and knows the independent and selective world from the inside — the interviews, the writing tasks, the scholarship assessments and the unwritten expectations that catch families out.

By day she works as a broker in the City of London, where evidence-first, no-spin judgement is the whole job — the same discipline she brings to every lesson.

Trinabh came through Dr Challoner’s Grammar School in Amersham — one of the country’s most competitive selective grammars — and knows the reasoning-heavy grammar route from the inside: the timing pressure, the question styles and the standard a top place demands.

Away from the classroom, Trinabh works in finance in the City of London, where disciplined, evidence-led judgement is the whole job — the same standard that keeps our teaching measured and honest.

Disal won a 90% academic scholarship to Chigwell School — so he has lived the high-pressure selective route first-hand, and he is candid with families about which doors are realistically open to their child.

By day he works in wealth management in Mayfair, where being right with numbers is the whole job — the reason our teaching is measured, tracked and honest.