Most 11+ tutoring happens in one hour a week. The other six days are where the marks are actually won or lost, and they are the part a tutor has least control over: a worksheet goes home, it may or may not come back, and marking it eats the first ten minutes of the next lesson. Puzzitron was built so that the homework sets itself, marks itself, and hands you a page you can teach from. This is the loop, step by step.
1. Add the pupil yourself
You do not need the parent to sign up. From your tutor page, add a pupil with a first name or nickname, a year group and a four-digit PIN, and tick that the parent has agreed. That is the whole form. The pupil signs in at the player door with their sign-in name and PIN, the same way every child does. Pupils live on your tutor page, not on a family dashboard, and there is no limit on how many you add during the beta.
2. Choose what they should practise
Every pupil has a focus: up to 6 of the 37 skill types in the bank. Set it after the lesson, while the gaps are fresh. On the pupil’s side the focus skills are pinned to the top of their practice screen under the label TUTOR PICK, they come up more often in the free-play mode, and their home screen names them, so “what am I supposed to be doing?” never comes up. Change the focus whenever the lesson moves on.
3. Let the ladder do the pacing
Each skill has ten rungs. Rung 1 is the gentlest step, rung 8 is the standard a real GL-style paper sets, and rungs 9 and 10 are deliberately harder than the exam, so that exam day feels like a step down. A pupil climbs when they get things right and drops back when they do not, one rung at a time, without you setting anything. Questions print five options where the paper prints five, and ask for two answers where the paper asks for two.
4. Read the report before the lesson
Open the pupil’s page and you get readiness by paper (verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, maths and English), the weakest skills named, attempts and pass rates per skill, and the trend over time. It is the same report the parent sees, which saves a conversation. It is labelled as practice, not as a prediction, because it is one.
5. Hand over when the course ends
When the family wants the account in their own name, send them a handover link. Their own sign-in becomes the owner, nothing is copied or reset, the pupil keeps their sign-in name and history, and you stay linked so you can still set the focus until the parent removes you from the child’s settings. A pupil nobody has played as for a year is archived automatically.
If you would like to help with the questions
A small number of working tutors review the bank with us. They read a skill type rung by rung, fix a word, move a question up or down the ladder, and add questions where a rung is thin. Their changes go live at once, every change is recorded, and any change can be undone. If that appeals, mention it when you ask for tutor access.
Puzzitron is free for tutors during the beta. Ask for the tutor tools on the tutors page, and we will switch them on for your account, usually the same day. Puzzitron is not affiliated with GL Assessment, CEM or any exam board; its questions are 11+ and CAT4 style, not the real papers.