I’m a tutor, and I built the thing that competes with me

Most of what I actually do in a session isn’t teaching. It’s being there at the moment a student decides whether to keep going or shut the book. That moment doesn’t happen at four on a Wednesday when I’m booked. It happens at nine at night, alone, on question fourteen.

Getting someone into the room for that moment costs about eighty dollars an hour, which quietly decides which kids get to keep trying. Two hours a week across a school year is six thousand dollars — per child, per subject. Further out than Northam it doesn’t buy you anything at all, because there’s nobody to hire at any price.

So I wrote the syllabus out instead. Years 7 to 12, matched to the SCSA course your child is actually enrolled in rather than adapted from something American. Free, and staying free — no ads, no upgrade, nothing held back behind a paid tier.

I’m still writing. Year 11 Chemistry is done and Year 12 is about a third of the way through. Physics is next — Year 11 first, then Year 12. Founding members tell me what to write first, and I write it.

— Harry

Harshit (Harry) Malhotra

Tutor · Perth, WA · writes every lesson on this site

What this is

Free lessons and worksheets for Western Australian students in Years 7 to 12.
Years 7 to 10 follow the ACARA v9 curriculum. Years 11 and 12 are organised by SCSA course and unit — the same structure as the syllabus document.
No ads, no tracking pixels, and nothing about a student sold to anyone.
Written and run from Perth.

Not finished yet: senior Humanities hasn’t been started, Physics hasn’t been started, and Chemistry is partway through Year 12. Everything else — all of Years 7 to 10, all senior Maths, all senior English, Biology and Human Biology — is written and live.

The questions I get asked

How is it free?: I tutor privately, and that pays for my time. The lessons and worksheets cost nothing to serve once they’re written, so there’s no per-student cost to recover. If that changes I’ll say so here before it changes anywhere else.
What’s the catch?: There are no ads and I don’t sell anything about your child to anyone. The trade is that this is new and unfinished, and you’re using it while it’s still being written.
Who writes it?: I do. Every lesson and every worksheet on this site, against the SCSA syllabus documents, one topic at a time. Not scraped, not licensed, not reused from another state.