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Search by subject, level and exam board, and read their profile.
Every tutor offers a free 15-minute introduction, so you can ask your questions first.
Suggest a time in your messages. Nothing is booked or charged until you pay, and rates start at £30 an hour.
Lessons run over live video with a shared whiteboard, and cookie keeps you practising between them.
A sample conversation. You message a tutor about GCSE Maths, and they offer a free 15-minute introduction, which you agree to. Afterwards they suggest a 60-minute lesson, and you agree and pay £30.00, which books it.
Lessons run in your browser, with live video both ways and a whiteboard either of you can write on. A tutor can put a cookie question, flashcard or note on the board, and a student can keep the board in their cookie notes afterwards. The room stays open for 30 days after the lesson, so you can go back over the working.
A sample lesson. Your tutor writes a question on the shared whiteboard: solve x squared minus 5x plus 6 equals 0. You factorise it as (x − 2)(x − 3) = 0 and write x = 2 or x = 3, and your tutor ticks it. You can both see each other on video in the corner.
Homework set here is done on cookie, and all of it goes towards one record of what the student knows. Every answer that is marked, flashcard that is rated and past-paper question that is finished counts towards a score for its topic, and once a student shares their progress with a tutor, the tutor sees those topics weakest first.
Your tutor writes a short report, and what to keep working at can become homework straight away.
Flashcards, practice questions, a past paper or notes, done on cookie between lessons.
Every marked answer, flashcard rating and past-paper question counts towards a score for its topic.
With progress shared, your tutor sees each topic weakest first, so the next lesson can start where it is needed.
A sample week between lessons, as the tutor sees it. After a lesson on moles the tutor files a report and sets flashcards and a past paper on cookie. The student does both, the score for moles rises but stays the weakest, and the tutor plans to start the next lesson with it.
Your tutor can arrive already knowing what was weak.
We are selective about who teaches here: we look for tutors at top universities, we interview everybody ourselves, and nobody is listed without a criminal record check on file. Six things have to be true before a profile exists at all.
We look for tutors at top universities: Oxford, Cambridge and the Russell Group in the UK, and their equivalents elsewhere. It is what we look for rather than a rule we apply blindly, so a reviewer can say yes to somebody outstanding from a university not on our list, and can say no to somebody who is at one of them.
We send a code to it and they have to enter it, which is the quickest honest answer to "are you actually there", checked by software rather than taken on trust. It is a convenience rather than a requirement: somebody who has graduated, or whose university does not issue one, makes their case in writing instead and a person reads it.
Real grades in the subjects they want to teach, in writing, reviewed by a person. Not "strong A-levels": which ones, what they got, and when.
On the same video system lessons run on, so we have met them and seen them teach something rather than talk about teaching.
A photo of a passport or driving licence and a photo of their face, through Stripe. Stripe tells us the outcome and those photographs never reach us. A right-to-work check is separate, and a copy of the document from that check is kept on record, as the law requires.
Not before the first lesson: before anybody can see them at all. Outside the UK, their own country’s equivalent, read and decided on by a person. The software refuses to publish a profile without one.
Where somebody studied is a fact about them, not a claim of endorsement; Cookie Tutoring is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any university. How we vet tutors, in full.
We ask your age group once, never your date of birth. Everyone under 18 gets the same safeguards. Read how we keep students safe.
The teaching is yours, and cookie takes the parts around it. From a student's page you can set questions, flashcards, past papers and notes, cookie marks the questions, and you see the work and each topic's score without marking anything yourself.
Before a lesson you can ask for a draft plan. It reads the student's weakest topics, your recent reports and any past papers they have shared with you, and only you can see it. Change any line and your version is saved beside the original. Each plan uses credits from your cookie account.
Become a tutorA sample lesson plan. Before a lesson the tutor presses Plan this lesson, and a draft is put together from the student’s weakest topics, the tutor’s last report and a past paper the student shared. The tutor then rewrites one line and saves it, and the original suggestion is kept beside their version.
cookie makes a free revision plan from the exams you are sitting, and it sits in the same calendar as your lessons here.
Pick your exams and the times you can study, and cookie spreads past papers back from each exam date, with breaks and pomodoros if you like them. Sooner exams and weaker subjects get more time. Signed in, it adds your flashcards and practice questions and moves sessions out of the way when a lesson is booked, and you can ask the AI to plan it from how you are doing in each topic, which uses credits.
The plan works back from the real exam dates, so the week before an exam is not the first time a past paper comes up. Each paper gets its full time allowed, from the board's own timings where we have them, and a student can add the whole plan, lessons included, to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.
With an account, an assistant answers questions about lessons, homework and how Cookie Tutoring works. It reads the page you are on and knows a student's level and weakest topics, and teacher mode guides a student to an answer with hints rather than handing it over. A tutor can ask it about their own students, from what those students share with them. It is optional, and each answer uses credits.
Entrance exams, interviews and exams from around the world are subjects here in their own right, so you can book somebody who sat the same one.
UCAT, LNAT, TMUA, ESAT, STEP and TARA for university, and 11+ and the ISEB Common Pre-Test for school entrance.
Oxford and Cambridge, medicine and dentistry MMIs, law and US college admissions, with mock interviews from somebody who sat the same one.
The IB Diploma, AP, IGCSE, the SAT and ACT, and national exams such as the HKDSE, the Abitur and the Leaving Certificate. Every time is shown in your own timezone.
Cookie Tutoring is part of cookie, the study app built by a Cambridge Engineering student. It keeps a record of what you know, topic by topic, from the answers it marks, the flashcards you rate and the past papers you do, and uses it to decide when each topic comes back (spaced repetition), what your revision plan gives time to and what the assistant suggests. Every tutor and student here gets it free.
Visit cookie.educationA few examples, and we cover far more than this. The full list of subjects, exams and interviews is on the subjects page.
Each tutor sets their own hourly rate, which is at least £30 an hour, and you can see it on their profile before you contact them. We take 20% and the tutor keeps the rest. There are no membership fees, no minimum commitment and nothing to pay to get started.
Every tutor offers a free 15-minute introduction, with no card needed and no obligation afterwards, so you can find out whether you suit each other before anybody pays for anything.
We are selective, and six things have to be true before a tutor has a profile. We look for tutors at top universities (Oxford, Cambridge and the Russell Group in the UK, and their equivalents elsewhere), and applicants tell us what they studied, where and with what grades; a university email address, where they have one, is the quickest way to confirm it, and we send a code to it. We interview everyone ourselves on this platform, everyone completes an identity check, and a criminal record check has to be on file before a profile is listed at all, not just before the first lesson. Anyone can apply: where somebody studied is something we weigh rather than a rule, and it is a fact about them, not an endorsement by any university.
Every listed UK tutor has an Enhanced DBS check on file. A tutor based outside the UK gives us their own country’s equivalent (the check for working with children where there is one, and national police clearance where there is not), and a person reads each one and decides; we never call those a DBS, because they are not. Either way the code will not let a profile be marked verified without a check on file. Most countries have nothing like the DBS Update Service, so we ask overseas tutors for a fresh certificate every 12 months.
Say what you are studying, when the exam is and what is going wrong; three sentences is plenty. "GCSE maths, exam in June, algebra is fine but I lose marks on the long questions" tells a tutor more than a paragraph would, and you do not need to know what you need yet, because that is what the free introduction is for. Leave out your phone number, email address and where you live: everything stays on the platform so there is a record if a concern is ever raised.
Find a tutor on the marketplace and read their profile, then either answer a few questions about what you need or message them directly; you can also see when they are usually free. You agree a time with the tutor in your messages (either of you can suggest one), and nothing is booked or paid until you have both agreed. Lessons are paid for up front and we hold the money until the lesson has happened.
Lessons happen in a room in your browser with live video both ways, a shared whiteboard either of you can draw on (with proper maths notation) and screen sharing for going through a past paper. Nothing needs installing, and it works on a laptop, tablet or phone.
Yes, for 30 days: the room and its whiteboard stay open that long so you can go back over the working. After that the room closes, but nothing is deleted, and the lesson, your tutor's written report and any saved whiteboard snapshot stay on your lessons page.
Cancel more than 24 hours before a lesson and you get a full refund. Inside 24 hours the tutor is paid, because they kept the time free and can no longer fill it. If the tutor cancels, at any notice, you get a full refund. You also have a legal right to cancel within 14 days of booking, before the lesson takes place, and the terms explain how that works alongside this policy.
Yes. UCAT, LNAT, TMUA, ESAT, STEP, TARA and 11+ are subjects in their own right with their own tutors, and a profile says which ones the tutor sat themselves. The BMAT was discontinued in 2023, and Oxford’s MAT and PAT were last sat in October 2025: from 2027 entry Oxford uses the TMUA and the ESAT instead.
Yes. A tutor can list university interview preparation, including Oxford and Cambridge, medicine MMIs, law and US college admissions, and says which interviews they sat themselves. Cookie Tutoring is not affiliated with or endorsed by any university.
Yes. Lessons are online, tutors publish when they are really free, and every time is shown in your own local time. As well as UK qualifications we cover the IB, AP, IGCSE, SAT and a range of national school-leaving exams.
It depends on their age. Under 13, you create their account and set its password, and they do not sign up or agree to anything themselves. From 13 they can make their own account, and under 16 you book and pay for their lessons from a parent, guardian or sponsor account, which is a separate account of your own that you choose when you sign up with your own email address; add them from your sponsees page, or they can invite you. From 16 they can arrange and pay for their own lessons, or you can still look after them if you both prefer. When you look after a child’s lessons you have separate, linked accounts: you can see their lessons and read their messages with their tutor, but you cannot post in that conversation or join the lesson. A parent, guardian or sponsor must be 18 or over. Messages and lessons stay on the platform so there is a record if a concern is ever raised, and anyone can report a profile, a message or a review from the page it appears on.
No. Every lesson here is taught live by a person, who decides what to teach and what to set. The AI is in cookie, between lessons: it writes practice questions and marks them, and cookie keeps a record of what a student knows from that work, so a tutor can spend less time marking and more of the lesson on what is weak. The assistant’s teacher mode works the same way round, giving a student hints so that they do the thinking.
Your lessons, your messages with them and the homework they set you. Your practice on cookie is yours until you accept them as your tutor there; after that they can see your practice streak, your topic scores weakest first, the questions you have answered and how they were marked, your predicted grades and how your flashcards are going. Past papers and notes reach a tutor only when you share them, and a shared paper includes your written answers only if you choose to include them. A tutor can also keep a short learning profile about you, which you can read and turn off.
On cookie, at cookie.education/past-papers, which links free past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports straight to the exam boards’ own websites for GCSE, A-Level, the Scottish qualifications, IGCSE and university admissions tests. Each course there also has its grade boundaries for every year the board publishes them, in cookie’s own tables beside the papers, and many have a practice deck for when the papers run out, on the same account you use here. If you want to, you can also do a paper in cookie with a timer, mark it yourself against the mark scheme or, with an account, have the AI mark it, and keep your score; its questions then count towards your topic scores.
Yes. cookie, the study app that comes with Cookie Tutoring, makes a free revision plan at cookie.education/revision-plan. You pick the exams you are sitting from the boards’ published dates or add your own, say when you can study, and it spreads past papers back from each exam, each with its full time allowed, and fits in breaks. Signed in with the same account you use here, it adds your flashcards and practice questions, moves revision out of the way of your lessons, and puts the plan and the lessons in one calendar you can add to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. A student can also have the AI plan it from how they are doing in each topic, which uses credits.
Create an account, tell us what you studied and what you would teach, and complete an application with your grades, a university email address if you have one, an identity check and an interview with us. We take on a minority of applicants, so it is worth writing the application properly. If you pass, we guide you through getting an Enhanced DBS check, or your own country’s equivalent outside the UK. You set your own rate above the minimum and choose your own hours.
Strong grades in what you want to teach and the ability to explain it, which the application and interview are there to show. We look for applicants at top universities, but we weigh that rather than treat it as a rule, and anyone can apply wherever they studied. You do not need a teaching qualification, or a GCSE or A-Level in a subject to teach it; somebody who sat an entrance exam or interview themselves can coach it whether or not they were examined in it at school.
Students pay up front and we hold the money. Earnings become payable 24 hours after a lesson and are sent weekly to a Stripe account the tutor connects themselves. If a student cancels inside 24 hours, the tutor is still paid.
You can change tutor at any time without saying why. There is no membership and no minimum commitment: you only prepay the lessons you have booked, and if you cancel a block, the lessons that have not happened yet are refunded. If something has actually gone wrong, report it from the page it happened on or email us; safeguarding concerns are dealt with before anything else.
Yes. Cookie Tutoring is UK-run, a tutor can teach a student anywhere, and a tutor's availability is shown in your own timezone, dates included, so you never have to work out whose morning is whose. Lessons are priced in pounds, so if your card is in another currency your bank may add a conversion fee. In the EEA the age at which you can agree to this yourself varies by country, and if you are under it a parent or guardian needs to do the booking.
Join the waitlist on that subject’s page and we will email you once, and only once, when a suitable tutor has space. The email has a one-click unsubscribe link that needs no account. We do not have a mailing list and this is not one.
The privacy policy says exactly what we collect, why, who it is shared with and how long each kind of record is kept. Those retention periods are shown from the same settings the daily deletion job uses, so what we publish and what actually happens cannot drift apart.
Rates start at £30 an hour and every tutor offers a free 15-minute introduction, so you can meet someone before paying for anything.
Cookie Tutoring is UK-run and priced in pounds. Lessons are online and every time is shown in your own timezone, so it makes no difference where you are.