A Star Equivalency Reviews 

great experience, Laura was a wonderful help

I recently passed my foundation maths exams to meet the conditions that came with my offer. Even though i sat twice before passing but it was all good experience. I will recommend A star to my friends.

I firstly bought the biology course and exam. I found the course to not be helpful as it is packed with too much detail in the videos that it can get confusing. After studying the course and doing an exam I failed the first attempt. The second time round I studied using physics and maths tutor, cognito which had much better videos that allowed you to understand the topic in an instant, MME and quizlet to make my own notes. This is when I actually passed and felt that I wasted my money with the course if I used the free materials to begin with I would’ve been likely to pass the first time.

I passed the English Equivalency Test on my first attempt, which was great news. However, I have to agree that this is quite a difficult exam to pass.

The reading texts/passages were quite complex and difficult to understand in the first place, and completing everything within the given time was a real challenge. It is very difficult to attempt all the questions comfortably under time pressure. I also felt that both texts were challenging rather than having one easy or medium-level passage.

In my opinion, a lot of preparation is needed before taking the actual test. Practising mock tests is definitely worth it and helps you understand the format and time pressure better.

I would also mention that the AI-generated marks/feedback were not always very clear. In addition, during the mocks, you cannot go back to previous questions, which makes the experience more challenging.

Overall, I would say this is a difficult exam, but with good preparation and enough practice, especially through mocks, it is definitely possible to pass.

I recently passed my foundation maths exam and couldn’t be more grateful for the course and exam results. I would recommend A star to all my friends who want to uphold their careers.

10/10

The 30mins free support session was to the point! We covered statistics and probability question, which was a bit challenging for me. Thanks!

Great Experience, completed as Exam only.

Excellent communication.

Thank you so much Laura Stott, you are such an amazing tutor. Super valuable. Star equivalency course is super helpful. Clear and understandable.

I did not receive any renewal reminder or payment confirmation emails regarding my monthly subscription of courses.

I only discovered the recurring charge after noticing the transaction through my bank account and contacting my bank directly. I later had to manually download the invoice from the platform itself because no payment notification email had been received.

I cancelled the subscription immediately after discovering the charge and did not use the renewed subscription period. However, my refund request was still declined.

From my perspective, I was never effectively notified before the payment was taken.

It was hard to pass English. Paper was too difficult. I passed it in second attempt. It is expensive also. If you really want to pass then you have to spend six month in serious study and do all the GCSE English language paper from PMT web site and A star course was also helpful but for Q6 which carry half of the marks of whole paper, about that nothing is given in A star equivalency course. I am talking about picture description question.
I passed in paper exam. I found it difficult to pass it in on line paper as insert and typing paper opens in a same screen. We get overwhelmed with information and scrolling up-down and typing is quite difficult. My suggestion is to do paper based exam.

Professional service, clear communications and a good base of free of charge revision materials.

My Experience with the support session with Laura was incredible I was able to relearn percentage which I was struggling with and she was very patient with every step of the session I would greatly recommend.

My experience overall with A Star Equivalency was alright and I passed my English test on the first try. Still, I need to be completely honest about certain things that I was not fully content with.
Firstly, I find the pricing for the preparation course too high. In January, a monthly subscription for the course was £49 and it increased to £99 after a couple of weeks, which is quite expensive. The course itself is really helpful with many different information on several topics. However, the AI grading of the past papers is not really reliable. I always scored around 85% in the mocks, and "only" achieved level 6 (61-67%) in the actual exam, which left me a little disappointed. I am aware that this can happen due to nervousness, but I always had excellent grades in school and university and I can handle stress fairly well. Hence, I find a 20% difference in grading quite a lot.
The actual exam, for me personally, was a little more difficult than the past papers, because I found the language devices much less obvious. Additionally, I faced technical difficulties during the exam. The texts were quite difficult to read, as they were relatively small compared to the writing boxes and when zooming in, one needed to always swipe left and right on the texts. The word count during the exam also did not work, because it started at a random number (something like 743).
I would find it helpful if it was communicated clearly on their website that results get available at 2am at night. If I had known this beforehand, I wouldn’t have checked my emails so often during the day.
The customer service was really good; they responded to my questions via email quite fast and were always friendly in the live chat.
All in all, I am glad that I passed my exam first try, though I would have expected my score to be a little higher. I can definitely recommend the customer service and wish everyone else good luck with their exams!

Astar course is broken up into manageable chunks and the website was so easy to use. Just before my exam I had a free 1:1 with a tutor which really helped.

The test was simply written with clear directives and questions. The website was easy accessible and the test observer was clear in his communication and polite. Would recommend to anyone who also wants to continue with studies.

No-nonsense efficiency.

The session was helpful and made me have more inside on how the solve some problem

My whole experience with A Star was excellent! The course materials use lots of different media so that your able to take in the information in different ways depending on how you learn. The exam itself although I was nervous was straight forward, the process was explained at every stage and the invigilator was lovely and reassuring. Couldn’t recommend them more !!

Worth it. Thanks!!