How it works

A nightly habit. A real human, when stuck.

Every evening your child opens PolyLearn for an hour. Most of it is independent practice. When they hit a wall, a tutor appears. Here's the loop, step by step.

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Calculus
1Understanding Gradients
2Limits
3First principles
4Power rule
5Equations of tangents
6Cubic graphs
7Optimisation problems
14 days
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Question 4 of 8
Calculus: Power rule
Find the maximum value of g(x) = −2x⁴ + 8x² + 1
g(x) = −2x⁴ + 8x² + 1
Your working
g'(x) = −8x³ + 16x
−8x(x² − 2) = 0
x = 0, x = ±√2
g(√2) = −2(4) + 8(2) + 1 = 9
Answer
maximum value = 9
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Daily set
Tonight's questions are chosen by what your child got wrong, what's due for review, and what comes next in the syllabus.
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Try first
No solutions shown until they've attempted. Productive failure: the brain only learns from where it actually struggled.
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Raise hand
Stuck? One tap. A vetted tutor — distinction-holding, trained on our method — joins in under 30 seconds.
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Tomorrow
Whatever caused the struggle returns the next day. Then the following week. Then a month from now. Spaced repetition, automatic.
The hand-raise

A human, on screen, in under 30 seconds.

Not a chatbot. Not an AI. A real tutor — distinction-holding, vetted, trained on our method — who sees what your child sees and walks them through the moment they're stuck.

Help arrives at the moment of stuckness, not three days later when motivation is gone. That's the whole magic of it.

Every weekday from 3pm to 7pm we keep professional tutors online and on call. Whenever your child requests help within that window, a qualified tutor is guaranteed to be ready — so they can fit maths around sport, music and every other commitment, practising at whatever hour suits them while always having real help close by.

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Sarah M.
UCT B.Sc Hons · 100% matric
JOINED 0:22
Nice setup! Your u-substitution looks right. One thing — when you write df/du, double-check the exponent on u. What does d/du of u⁴ give you?
Notice: she's not giving the answer. She's asking the question that makes the answer obvious. That's the method.
Questions & progress

Every question earns its place. Every day, progress moves.

Behind the nightly hour sits a question bank built from real past exam papers and a tracking engine that quietly learns your child as they work.

Designed from past papers

Every question is drawn from and modelled on real past exam papers, then mapped to the specific concept it tests — from the very foundations of a topic all the way up to the hardest multi-step problems. Each section of the syllabus is covered deliberately, so nothing is left to chance.

Matched to their level

Students are given questions pitched just above where they currently sit — close enough to stay achievable, hard enough to keep them stretching. That constant, manageable challenge is what turns practice into real improvement night after night.

Mistakes become the map

We track exactly where each child slips up. Those weak spots feed straight back into what they see next, while the difficulty adjusts automatically — leaning into the areas that need attention and easing off the ones already mastered, so they're always moving forward.

Progress, updated daily

Every day their progress is recalculated from how they actually performed in the sections they worked through — a live, honest picture of where they stand. Parents get access to the very same view, so you can check in on your child whenever you like and stay in the loop without waiting for a report card.

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