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IGCSE First Language English

Your child's own
IGCSE First Language English tutor

Pioneered by Stanford AI researchers and learning scientists, Aristotle is the world's first voice-based AI tutor. Built for the IGCSE First Language English syllabus and exams.

Trusted by families at

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Fits your child's IGCSE First Language English class

Aligned to the IGCSE syllabus

IGCSE syllabus

Every IGCSE First Language English skill maps to a topic in the syllabus, so sessions cover what the exams test.

Your child's school

Share your teacher's syllabus, textbook, or pacing guide and sessions follow your child's actual class.

Your exam goal

Aiming for an A*? Aristotle plans review back from your child's target grade and exam date.

Exam prep

How does Aristotle help with IGCSE First Language English exam prep?

Aristotle tracks 87 IGCSE First Language English skills, finds the ones costing your child points, and plans review back from exam day.

Unit-by-unit review

Follows the syllabus, unit by unit.

Exam-style practice

Your child talks it through. Aristotle coaches from the step that went wrong.

Help on demand

Any time before the exam. No booking.

A parent view

See what's mastered and what's left.

Features

All the tools of a great tutor.

Talk things through, work side by side, and come back next time to a tutor who remembers where you left off.

Learn out loud

Ask questions out loud, hear explanations in Aristotle’s voice, and interrupt whenever you need to.

An interactive whiteboard

Aristotle draws steps, diagrams, and images to help you learn visually.

Practice built for you

Get practice problems tailored to the exact topics you’re struggling with.

65 subjects and counting

From middle-school math to AP exams to SAT/ACT prep. We also build custom plans matched to state standards and specific courses.

Review with ease

Revisit session summaries, session whiteboards, and uploads in one place.

Upload your own materials

Aristotle can read and navigate any PDFs and images with the learner. That includes textbooks with hundreds of pages!

Personalized tracking

We break all subjects down into granular skills, then track mistakes and mastery on each one. Parents can see the whole picture at a glance.

A tutor that knows you

Aristotle remembers every session: what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, how you like things explained. It picks up right where you left off.

The curriculum

87 IGCSE First Language English skills, personalized to your child

Aristotle is designed to always know what to teach at exactly the right time.

Sample curriculum

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Reading

Writing

Directed writing and text types

Assessment components

Speaking and listening

IGCSE First Language English tutoring curriculum87 skills across 5 units

Reading

Half the qualification, and 80% of Paper 1. Topics: Understanding explicit and implicit meaning, Summary and selection, How writers achieve effects, Developing and evaluating ideas and opinions.

Writing

The other half. Topics: Composition: description and narrative, Organising and structuring writing, Vocabulary and sentence craft, Spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Directed writing and text types

Writing to a brief: someone else's text, a specified audience, a specified form. Topics: Audience, purpose and form, The seven text types.

Assessment components

What each paper actually asks for, question by question, with its word counts and mark splits. Topics: Paper 1: Reading, Paper 2: Directed Writing and Composition, Component 3: Coursework Portfolio.

Speaking and listening

The optional, separately endorsed test: a 3-4 minute individual talk on a topic the candidate chooses, then a conversation about it, roughly 10-12 minutes and 40 marks in total. Topics: The individual talk, The conversation.

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Common questions about online IGCSE First Language English tutoring

A few things you might wonder before getting started.

What does Aristotle's IGCSE First Language English course cover?

Aristotle's IGCSE First Language English course tracks 87 skills across 5 units, mapped to the IGCSE syllabus, including Reading, Writing, and Directed writing and text types. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of IGCSE First Language English your child has mastered and what to teach next.

Does Aristotle follow the IGCSE First Language English syllabus?

What does a IGCSE First Language English tutoring session look like?

Does Aristotle follow my child's IGCSE First Language English class?

Can Aristotle help if my child is struggling with IGCSE First Language English?

How much does IGCSE First Language English tutoring with Aristotle cost?

How is Aristotle different from ChatGPT for IGCSE First Language English help?

Can parents see how the tutoring is going?

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This could be you

A little help. A lot to learn.

For homework, supporting your child, or anything you’ve always wanted to know more about, Aristotle makes it easy for anyone to learn out loud.