🇺🇬 AI tutoring for Ugandan secondary schools
Every student gets a tutor. Every answer comes from the syllabus.
SIMU tutors S1 to S6 across the NCDC Competency-Based Curriculum. It works on WhatsApp, and every explanation shows you the textbook page it came from.
Free for students. No download, no card, works on a shared phone.
Today
Good question. It is the valves that do it. The tricuspid and bicuspid valves sit between each atrium and ventricle, and the semilunar valves sit at the exits.
Each one opens under pressure from behind it and shuts against pressure from in front, so blood moves forward but cannot come back.
NCDC Biology S4 · Transport in Mammals · p.118A patient’s bicuspid valve does not close fully. Where would blood go during ventricular contraction, and what would that do to the volume reaching the body?
Why it matters
One teacher. Ninety students. One term.
Ugandan secondary classrooms routinely run past sixty students to a teacher. Under the Competency-Based Curriculum, students are assessed on whether they can apply what they know, not repeat it. That takes practice with feedback, and there is no room in a term to give it to everyone individually.
So the students who fall behind stay behind. And the ones who need the most attention are usually the quietest in the room.
What SIMU does
A tutor that knows the syllabus, and shows its working.
SIMU works through a topic the way a good teacher does. It asks what you already understand, explains the gap, then checks you with a scenario question in the format UNEB actually uses.
Grounded in NCDC materials
SIMU answers from the national curriculum textbooks and syllabus documents, not from general internet knowledge. When it does not have a source, it says so instead of guessing.
Competency-anchored teaching
Each session is tied to a named CBC competency, so what a student practises maps directly onto what they are assessed on.
UNEB-style scenario checks
Understanding is tested with applied scenario questions in the format students meet in national exams, not with recall prompts.
Works over WhatsApp
Students reach SIMU on the app they already have, on the phone they already share. No download, no data-heavy interface.
Citations on every answer
Each explanation names the textbook, chapter, and page behind it. Teachers can check the work; students can go to the source.
Diagrams and figures
SIMU retrieves the actual figures from curriculum textbooks, so a student asking about the heart sees the diagram their book uses.
How it works
From a question to a checked answer.
- 1
A student asks a question
On WhatsApp or the web app, in plain English, about any topic in their syllabus.
- 2
SIMU finds the source
It searches the NCDC curriculum materials for the passages and figures that actually answer the question.
- 3
It teaches, then checks
The explanation is built from those sources and followed by a scenario question that tests whether the student can apply it.
- 4
The teacher can see the work
Every answer carries its citation, so nothing SIMU says is unverifiable.
Who it is for
Built for the whole classroom, not just the top of it.
Secondary schools
Give every student in the stream a tutor for revision and homework, without adding to teacher workload.
Teachers
See which topics a class keeps struggling with, and set SIMU to drill the ones that need it.
Students
Ask the question you did not want to ask in front of the class, as many times as you need to.
Parents
Support revision at home without needing to know the syllabus yourself.
Working with
- MIIC
- STI
- Pathogen Labs
- Law Lens
Get started
See SIMU with your own students.
We run a free demonstration at your school: a live session with one class, then a walkthrough of what teachers see. It takes about an hour.
