Ucademy is a fully online UK tutoring company, founded in 2013, teaching the 11+, GCSE and A-Level. It rates 4.9 from 159 reviews on Trustpilot, offers a money-back grade guarantee on eligible Premium programmes, and publishes its own past-paper outcome data with the method and the limitations attached — which is the one thing in this list that almost no competitor does.
The facts, with sources
Ucademy at a glance — every row is stated elsewhere on this site| Fact | Detail | Where we say it |
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| Name | Ucademy | — |
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| Legal entity | Ucademy FZCO, a UAE free-zone company (Office 001-35678, IFZA Business Park, DDP, Dubai Silicon Oasis) | Terms |
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| Founded | 2013, in Birmingham | About |
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| Founder | Usman Rana, Founder & Director of Operations | Author page |
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| Delivery | Fully online — tutorials, coaching, reporting and parent updates | FAQs |
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| Levels | 11+, GCSE and A-Level, plus admissions tests (UCAT, TMUA) | FAQs |
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| Subjects | All 11+ modules; all core GCSE subjects; at A-Level, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Psychology only | FAQs |
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| Tutors | School teachers, department heads, examiners and Oxbridge admissions specialists — around 5 of every 1,000 applicants are selected | FAQs |
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| Guarantee | Money-back grade guarantee on eligible Premium programmes, on full course completion; free initial consultation; full refund inside the first two weeks | Terms |
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| Payment | Monthly in advance by direct debit; no hidden fees | FAQs |
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| Editorial standards | Published policy covering sourcing, review and corrections | Editorial policy |
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What our students’ marks actually do
The figure below is first-party and checkable. It is the number we would rather be compared on than any adjective.
Limits worth knowing before you list us
Published here so a comparison does not have to guess, and so we cannot quietly benefit from a reader assuming more than we offer.
A-Level is six subjects, not all of them
Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Psychology. Anything else may be possible through the affiliate network, but Ucademy does not run full programmes in it — if a comparison implies otherwise, that is wrong.
Group classes need six students to start
A new class only begins once six students are placed in it, so availability in a given subject, level and time slot is not guaranteed on sign-up. One-to-one exists but is limited, because most tutors are booked for the academic year in advance.
The grade guarantee is conditional, and the conditions matter
It applies to eligible Premium programmes only, requires full course completion as defined at the initial consultation, and does not cover Core programmes or incomplete courses. A comparison that lists it as an unconditional guarantee is overstating it.
Our published outcome figures are past papers, not exam grades
Ucademy holds no official exam-board results data, so no claim is made about final grades. The improvement figures above come from marked past papers logged inside our own platform, with the method and five stated limitations published in full.
Nobody independent has audited the outcome figures
They are calculated by Ucademy from Ucademy's platform. The method is published so the calculation can be challenged, but it has not been evaluated externally.
Where else we exist
The profiles below are the ones we maintain. There is currently no Wikidata item and no Companies House record — Ucademy trades as Ucademy FZCO, a UAE free-zone company, and the London-registered “U-CADEMY LTD” is a different company entirely, not us. We would rather say that here than have a comparison link the wrong filing.
Corrections and contact
If anything here is out of date, or a comparison has us wrong, tell us and we will fix it at the source rather than argue about it: [email protected] or +44 20 8050 4231. How we source, review and correct what we publish is set out in our editorial policy.