He is among online study influencers gaining popularity among stressed British teenagers in search of exam success.
Malik posts videos on TikTok and YouTube forecasting questions on classic English literature for the UK GCSE school exam taken at 16.
Malik, who says he is a former assistant head teacher, notes that he is just making an “educated guess”, but educators remain concerned.
After British pupils sat their exams in May, some complained that Malik’s predictions were wrong.
With GCSE results set to be released on August 21, one exam board, AQA, has warned of “increasing reliance on certain online revision channels”.
But the examiners want “your interpretation of the texts you have studied, not some stranger’s views on social media”.
Students are overloaded, school leaders say.
“And so it is unsurprising that young people are looking for anything to help them to cope.”
Brownsword praised TikTok, where she posts grammar videos for student teachers, saying: “You can learn about anything and watch videos about absolutely anything”.
“But I think there’s a real difference between doing that and doing it on such a scale, when you’ve got thousands or tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of followers online.”
“Those kind of videos were never to mislead,“ said Tilly Taylor, a university student posting TikTok videos with candid revision advice to 100,000 followers.
Other content creators sell predicted papers “all the time,“ Taylor said, but “I don’t think it’s right.”
“If you’re marketing it as a predicted paper, that’s completely fine... you just can’t say guaranteed paper,“ said Ishaan Bhimjiyani, 20, who has over 400,000 TikTok followers.
‘It took off’
Her site charges £4.99 for an English predicted paper and includes a video on phrasing to score top marks.
“And then it kind of took off.”
Influencers earn most from paid promotions -- for recruiters or beauty or technology brands --- which must be labelled as such, he said.
No one explained “how do you actually revise”, Taylor said of her school years. So she turned to YouTube for ideas.
“I wanted to help someone like myself,“ she said, “who couldn’t necessarily afford to go to private school or have private tuition.” - AFP
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