OTC Free English Check:
Understanding Learning Needs and Connecting Students with Tutors

Understand your starting point before choosing support

When preparing to study abroad, restarting English or looking for IELTS or TOEFL tuition, it can be difficult to explain what support you need. An old result or a general description of your English may leave important gaps.

OTC English Four-Skills Check brings introductory listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks into one browser-based tool. It helps you collect a starting sample of your work before discussing further review or tuition. Start the free check.

What does the check cover?

Listening: 12 questions across three English audio clips. Reading: 12 questions across three short texts. These give an initial view of understanding main ideas and details, with answer checking and explanations after an attempt.

Speaking: two tasks with recording and download. Writing: a 60–90-word email and a 120–180-word opinion response. The app preserves work without immediate grading; a full system diagnostic is produced through a separate workflow. Human review is not currently offered.

Who is it for, and how should results be used?

It is suitable for learners without recent English results, those exploring differences across the four skills, and students preparing to discuss tuition or study-abroad language preparation. Existing formal results can be considered alongside the new work samples.

For example, a learner who reads comfortably but struggles to explain reasons aloud may discuss organising spoken answers with a teacher. A learner who misses key listening details may need listening and note-taking practice. These are possible discussion points, subject to review of the actual work.

This is an introductory learning check, not a validated standardised examination. Results cannot be converted into IELTS, TOEFL or CEFR levels or used as admission or language-certification evidence.

How to use it: complete, save and discuss

1. Open the tool and allow around 35–45 minutes, or complete it in stages. You may use a nickname. 2. Find a quiet place and prepare headphones and a recording-capable device. Allow microphone access when prompted, or use the audio upload option.

3. Work independently, without translation tools, AI or someone answering for you. Leave an answer blank if needed. 4. Download your TXT or JSON report from My Report, or print to PDF. Download speaking audio separately before closing or refreshing the page.

5. Download JSON, TXT and each audio file. OTC’s separate system workflow organises original evidence, initial analysis, cross-checking and quotation validation before report export. This is not an instant automated website service. Read the guide.

Student matching: from learning needs to teaching arrangements

OTC welcomes student and family enquiries about tuition matching. We consider work samples alongside goals, current learning needs, school stage, teaching language, location and time zone, online or in-person preferences, availability and budget.

Please share your goal and intended exam date, location and time zone, preferred lesson format, weekly availability, budget with currency and lesson duration, and priority skills. Include check results if available; you can enquire before completing it. Arrangements and data sharing for minors need to be coordinated with a parent or guardian.

System diagnosis helps organise learning needs; it does not automatically assign tuition. Human review is not currently offered. Tutor collaboration, trials and lessons depend on actual availability and separate agreement.

Tutor recruitment and collaboration enquiries

OTC welcomes expressions of interest from teachers supporting English learning, IELTS or TOEFL preparation and academic English. Please explain which learners, skills and stages you can support through concrete teaching experience. Exam results provide background; teaching examples help us understand how you work.

Please send a CV, subjects and levels taught, teaching languages, relevant qualifications and experience, location and time zone, online or in-person coverage, availability, rates with currency and lesson duration, and an anonymised teaching or feedback example. State the test and date for any exam results. Unnecessary identity numbers can be redacted from evidence requested later. Do not include identifiable student work, recordings or contact details.

A useful example shows how you listen to a complete response, identify specific needs, guide the learner to add reasons or detail, and check a second attempt. Discussions also cover review scope, trial teaching, rescheduling and cancellation, and qualifications and applicable safeguarding requirements for the teaching context. Submitting details is an expression of interest; engagement, terms, student matching and teaching hours require separate confirmation.

Free access and saving your work

The introductory app and access pack are free. Self-service tasks, listening and reading checks, original-work exports and the guide are included. A full system report requires a separate workflow; instant automatic generation and human marking are not offered. Teaching arrangements are agreed separately.

The app does not automatically submit your answers to OTC. Text and choices use local browser storage; recordings need separate downloads. Clearing browser data or changing devices may make local work unavailable. On a shared device, save what you need and then clear your work. Confirm the recipient and purpose before sharing reports or audio.

Detailed system report sample and workflow

DEMO-01 is fictional: listening 8/12 with 11 answered, reading 10/12 with 12 answered, writing samples of 69 and 132 words, and no speaking audio. Read the detailed report sample (Chinese-led; print-to-PDF available).

The report includes evidence completeness, original writing with quoted feedback, missing speaking evidence, priorities, a two-week plan, matching questions and actual processing records. Download original JSON · Download TXT.

The system diagnostic workbench prepares files for initial analysis and cross-checking in ChatGPT, validates imported quotations and exports HTML/JSON reports. File handover is required; this is not unattended website generation.

Functional tests cover input consistency, quotation checks, missing evidence and safe rendering; they do not establish examination validity. The fictional sample does not claim actual API or human review.

Start here: students and tutors

Students and families: start the free check or email office@overseasuk.com with the subject “English Tuition Matching”. Include your goal, time zone, availability and budget.

Tutors: email office@overseasuk.com with the subject “English Tutor Collaboration”, including your background, teaching scope, availability and rates.

Explore the OTC Learning Platform, Apps & Tools or free Payhip access pack. Clear needs and concrete work samples make the next teaching conversation more useful.