FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about Mentiva AI tutoring.
Is Mentiva just a chatbot?
No. Mentiva is designed as a tutor. It guides students through learning, checks understanding, gives feedback and helps students practise. Its purpose is to build confidence and independence, not simply provide answers.
What year levels does Mentiva support?
Mentiva supports Australian students from Years 5 to 12.
Is Mentiva aligned to the Australian Curriculum?
Yes. Mentiva is designed around the Australian Curriculum and State curriculum expectations. It can also support senior students studying VCE, HSC and IB pathways.
Does Mentiva support English tutoring?
Yes. Mentiva can support English tutoring skills such as reading comprehension, essay planning, paragraph structure, vocabulary, written expression and feedback on drafts while protecting student authorship.
Does Mentiva support maths tutoring?
Yes. Mentiva can support maths tutoring by slowing down concepts, working through examples, checking understanding and helping students practise problem-solving across high school maths topics.
Does Mentiva support science tutoring?
Yes. Mentiva can help students revise science concepts, understand diagrams and explanations, practise questions and prepare for assessment-style tasks in a learning-focused way.
Can Mentiva help with VCE and HSC?
Yes. Mentiva can support senior students with revision, practice questions, assessment-style preparation and exam-style support aligned to VCE, HSC and IB pathways.
Which Australian senior curricula can Mentiva support?
Mentiva is designed to support Australian senior pathways including VCE, HSC, QCE, SACE, WACE, TCE, NTCET, ACT Senior Secondary pathways and IB, while recognising that schools and state authorities set official assessment requirements.
Can Mentiva help students who are behind?
Yes. Mentiva can slow down, explain concepts clearly, identify misunderstandings and guide students step by step.
Can Mentiva help high-achieving students?
Yes. Mentiva can provide more challenging work, deeper explanations and exam-style preparation for students who want to excel.
Can students upload handwritten work?
Yes. Mentiva can support uploaded handwritten work, diagrams, worksheets, paragraphs and screenshots where relevant.
Will Mentiva do my child's homework for them?
Mentiva is designed to support learning, not replace student effort. It helps students understand, practise, improve and build independence.
Is Mentiva affordable?
Mentiva is designed to make tutoring more accessible for Australian families through a subscription model that is more flexible than traditional hourly tutoring.
Does Mentiva replace teachers or parents?
No. Mentiva is designed to support students, families and teachers. It does not replace the role of parents, schools or classroom teachers.