Comparing MyEdSpace and Studymind

Studymind and MyEdSpace both help students study for their GCSEs and A-levels and prepare for exams, but who does the teaching and how they go about it, is very different.

Studymind's main offering is 1-to-1 online tutoring, priced by the hour and delivered by tutors that are typically current university students or recent graduates with strong personal exam results. Alongside that, Studymind also runs live weekly group classes for a handful of core subjects, priced as a separate monthly subscription, plus a range of self-paced online courses sold individually.

MyEdSpace takes a different approach: every student learns live from qualified, experienced, specialist teachers, in structured group lessons twice a week, with courses covering everything from Year 5 all the way through to A-levels.

Here's how the two compare.

Comparing Studymind and MyEdSpace online courses

While those are the headlines, here's a detailed look at what Studymind and MyEdSpace offer.

What is Studymind?

Studymind's core product is 1-to-1 online tutoring, priced from £29 to £40 an hour depending on the number of hours included in the package.

Tutors are matched to students individually, and tend to be current university students or recent graduates, who scored strongly in their own GCSEs and A-levels. Sessions are delivered over Zoom and can cover a wide range of subjects, Studymind advertises over 400 in total, spanning core GCSE and A-level subjects, Common Entrance exams, and university admissions tests like the UCAT, BMAT and Oxbridge-specific papers such as the MAT and TMUA.

Studymind also runs live weekly group classes for a handful of core GCSE and A-level subjects, sold as part of their monthly subscription offering rather than bundled with tutoring. These run once a week at a fixed time, in small groups through the live chat, and are non-refundable.

Finally, Studymind sells self-paced online courses individually, covering video tutorials, question banks and revision books, aimed at students who'd rather work through material independently.

What is MyEdSpace?

MyEdSpace is built around live teaching delivered by qualified, experienced, subject-specialist teachers.

Courses span the entire school journey, from Year 5 through to Year 13, covering Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, GCSEs and A-levels. Beyond the core subjects, there's dedicated preparation for the 11+ and the UCAT, along with GCSE and A-level Exam Masterclasses, and school-holiday intensives through Summer School and Easter Revision.

Lessons (both daytime and evening timetables are available) run live but without cameras or microphones on, so students take part through chat instead. Doing it this way removes the self-consciousness of being on camera, while keeping all the benefits of collaborative learning, including mimicking the best bits of the interaction and pace of a real classroom.

Over 26,000 students have now been taught on MyEdSpace, and this summer's results back it up. MyEdSpace GCSE students achieved double the national rate of grade 9s (12% versus 5%), and more than twice as many hit grades 7-9 overall (45% versus 22% nationally). At A-level, three in four MyEdSpace students achieved a B or above (75%), compared with 61% nationally.

All of MyEdSpace's content, from the live lessons to the workbooks and video explanations, is created by qualified teachers and former examiners, never generated by an algorithm. Lessons are recorded as they happen, so a missed session or a topic that needs revisiting is never out of reach.

And the comprehensive library of exam-board-matched resources, revision notes, explanation videos and practice questions across GCSE and A-level is free to use, whether or not a family goes on to sign up for live lessons.

Which is better: Studymind or MyEdSpace?

The answer to that question depends on what kind of support your child is missing right now.

Studymind's strength is flexibility and range: if your child needs help in a subject well outside the usual GCSE and A-level core subjects then 1-to-1 tutoring booked by the hour can be matched closely to that need. The trade-off is that tutors are generally talented students rather than qualified teachers, and the weekly group classes, while more affordable, only run once a week per subject and incur an additional fee.

MyEdSpace is built around consistency: the same expert teacher, twice a week, every week, for the whole course, with workbooks and practice questions that build directly on what's covered in each lesson. There's no need to book individual sessions or manage a separate subscription for group classes and materials, it's all part of one structured course.

Some families find a combination works well too, using Studymind's 1-to-1 tutoring for a very specific gap or an admissions test, while relying on MyEdSpace's live courses for the steady, weekly teaching that keeps core subjects like Maths, English and Science on track across the year.

If your child does best with a qualified teacher they see regularly, rather than piecing together hourly sessions, MyEdSpace's structure is built for exactly that.

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