Built by a dad of three.
Tested at our kitchen table.

Our story

The name says it: AceTheirTest — a parent's site, helping every child ace (do really well in) their test.

I'm a dad of three in Sydney. I'm not a teacher and I don't run a tutoring company. Instead of paying a tutor, I teach my own children myself — in the evenings and on weekends, at the kitchen table, maths and English.

The practice we found online kept doing the same thing: show a question, say "wrong", show the right answer, move on. My children learned almost nothing from that. The learning happened when I sat beside them and explained why their answer didn't work — and why the other answers didn't either.

I can't sit beside them for every question. So I started building practice that does what I do at the kitchen table: explain every answer, the right one and every wrong one, in plain words a child can read. That became AceTheirTest.

By training I'm not an educator. I hold two master's degrees, in International Relations and in Information Systems, and neither is in teaching — the second is what lets me build the website itself. What I know about teaching I learned by teaching my own three. What keeps me careful about the content is simpler: my own children use it. When a question is confusing, unfair or wrong, they tell me, and I fix it.

Not instead of a tutor — alongside one

I'm not against tutoring. Good tutors do great work, and many children do better with one.

But I believe every parent should know their own child's strengths and weaknesses — not just hear about them once a term. That's what this site gives you: after every test, a clear report of what your child got right, what they got wrong and why, and which skills to work on next.

That helps whether your child has a tutor or not. And for families who can't afford a private tutor, it means you can still see exactly where your child is and help them move forward.

AceTheirTest is from one parent, to help other parents.

How the questions are made and checked

Being honest about this matters to me, so here is exactly how it works.

Written to the Australian Curriculum. Every test follows ACARA's Australian Curriculum for its year, and every lesson shows its curriculum code, with the NSW and Victorian equivalents, so you can match it to your child's school report.

Drafted with help, checked thoroughly. I use modern tools, including AI, to help draft questions and explanations — that is how one parent can cover Kindergarten to Year 10. Nothing goes on the site on trust: automated checks re-work every maths answer, look for options a child could guess without reading, and make sure each explanation matches its answer. Then my own children sit the tests.

Reviewed by two teachers. Two practising teachers went through the site, sat practice tests the way a student would, and advised on what would make it more student-friendly. Their advice is built in. Spelling is Australian throughout, never American. In reading tests the full passage stays on screen beside every question about it, so a child is never asked about a text they can no longer see. They are not named here, and that is deliberate: their employers' rules do not allow them to lend their name to a commercial product, so what you get is their advice, not an endorsement. If you teach and would like to look at a year level, the teacher feedback page is for you.

Fixed when a parent finds a mistake. If you spot something wrong, email hello@acetheirtest.com. It comes to me, and I fix it as quickly as I can.

What I promise every parent

No ads, ever. Your family's details are never sold. Leaderboards show a made-up nickname, never your child's name, and there is no chat anywhere. You can cancel in two clicks from My Account. And when you email, a real person answers — me.

— The founder, a Sydney dad of three