Hungarian startup to revolutionise exam preparation

Prepaired helps students to prepare for their exams together by sharing their problems and answering their questions. 

Currently, if a university student gets stuck, they have three options to choose from:

• search with the help of Google, but that needs a lot of time and is hard to personalise
• ask a private tutor, but that is very expensive for the parents
• ask their fellow students, but it is hard to find those who can help them.

Three Hungarian university students, András Geiszl, Bálint Jakabos, and Márton Kosdi-Kovács, recognised this problem and decided to help their colleagues, Szeretlek Magyarorszag reported. Therefore, they created Prepaired where students can find professional help easily and for free. 

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The system works very simply. If you have a problem, you have to register for free and then you can write your post,

a so-called study request

in which you can choose the subject that caused obstacles and write your question. Only those users will see the post who chose to be proficient in that field of study. Furthermore, they can also launch a video call.

Those users who help their colleagues can receive points and badges for which they can receive discounts from the price of different e-learning packages. The method is not only simple and cheap but also efficient. The three young Hungarians who created the platform highlighted that students learn only 5 pc of what they hear during a university lecture, but when they explain the solution of a problem to somebody else,

they will later remember 90 pc of that.

The idea was born last year, and they did some surveys and interviews to check whether there was a demand in the market for it. They made the beta version by May and will publish the app on September 14. 

Moreover, they are trying to acquire some capital by community financing to be able to enter the market with their product. Those who would like to take part in that can do it on the Seedrs crowdfunding site.

They need 50 thousand pounds

to do so; you can join the campaign from 10.8 pounds, and they already collected 32 thousand.

The platform can become very helpful in situations such as this one when most of the universities had to introduce hybrid or blended learning solutions. As a result, the student communities in which they could ask for help temporarily ceased, so many cannot ask for help from anybody. Prepaired tries to fill this deficiency, and that is why it will be accessible for free for everybody studying at a university.

Source: szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu