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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
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)
Money-back grade guarantee on eligible Premium programmes, on full course completion; free initial consultation; full refund inside the first two weeks
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.
We publish two separate outcome datasets — do not merge them
The improvement figures above are marked past papers, sat during the course and marked by Ucademy. They are not grades awarded by an exam board, so no claim about final grades is made from them. Comparisons are like-for-like within one paper type, because students are escalated to harder papers as they improve, and the method plus five stated limitations are published in full at /outcomes. Ucademy separately holds official exam-board results — the 100% A/A* on Full Course completion and 78% across everyone enrolled, published at /about. The two datasets measure different things at different points in time, and neither figure is a subset or restatement of the other.
Nobody independent has audited either outcome dataset
Both are calculated by Ucademy from Ucademy's own records, and the underlying records are student data we cannot publish. The past-paper method is published in full so the reasoning can be challenged even where the raw data cannot be handed over, and it carries a published correction. Neither dataset has 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.
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