About Kobak Felvételi Előkészítő

Who we are

Kobak is a Budapest preparation course for the Hungarian central written entrance exam, taught in small groups in person and online.

The company behind the courses is Kobak Edu Kft. Everything it does points at one exam, sat on one Saturday morning in January by children across the whole country at the same hour. There is no wider tutoring menu, no language school attached, no other product line.

It was started by Domonkos and Marcell, two former gimnázium students who sat that paper themselves not long ago and who now handle mentoring, parent contact and the online platform. Neither of them teaches the exam subjects. The Hungarian and maths lessons are given by practising secondary school teachers, several of whom teach at the very schools families are aiming for.

If you have arrived in Hungary from another school system, the useful thing to know early is that this exam is unusually knowable. The Education Authority publishes every paper it has ever set, going back to 2001, together with the marking scheme. The task types move very little from year to year. So preparation is less a question of covering unknown material and more a question of volume, timing and nerve — which is what our year is built around.

What our students scored

In the 2025/26 cycle, 585 Kobak students averaged 74.09 points out of 100, against a national average of 53.17 points.

That is our headline number, and it comes with small print we publish every time we quote it, because the small print is the difference between a statistic and an advertisement.

The 585 figure covers everyone who took part in a Kobak programme during the 2025/26 school year. The average was calculated only from scores that students or their legal guardians chose to share with us; disclosure was voluntary and accuracy rests with whoever reported the number. We reserve the right to exclude students who withdrew, did not finish the programme, or missed a substantial part of it. The 53.17 comparison figure is Oktatási Hivatal’s published national average at the 90% processing stage. In the previous cycle, students who completed the full programme averaged 75 points.

What that number is not: a controlled trial. Families who pay for exam preparation are not a random sample of the country. They are, more or less by definition, households already putting time into this exam, and some of that 20-point gap belongs to them rather than to us. We publish the method so you can discount the figure as you see fit.

How the teaching works

One session per subject each week from September, two 55-minute lessons back to back, plus two full mock exams under real conditions.

The long course runs from September to January in 11 teaching sessions plus 2 mock exams. A session is two 55-minute lessons in the same subject, back to back, which is enough to introduce a task type and then actually practise it rather than set it as homework and hope. Families choose a weekday slot in the late afternoon or a Saturday morning at 10:00.

Children work from our own workbooks rather than a general textbook. They are organised by the task types that recur in the real papers — the reading comprehension formats, the spelling and grammar items, the word problems, the geometry constructions — because that is how the exam is organised. Written work is marked by the teacher and handed back with comments, and every family also gets the online platform: video lessons, interactive drills and a teacher chat that stays open until the exam.

Alongside the subject teaching there is a mental preparation strand of 13 short modules. That sounds soft, and it is the part parents are most sceptical about until January.

The two mock exams matter more than they look

Both mock exams are held in a building the child has never been in, on a Saturday, starting at 10:00, invigilated by an adult they have never met. That is deliberate. Most children who lose points on the day do not lose them on content; they lose them because an unfamiliar room, a stranger reading out instructions and a clock on the wall arrive all at once. Doing it twice beforehand converts the exam morning from an event into a repeat.

Who teaches

Practising Hungarian and maths teachers from ELTE Radnóti and II. Rákóczi Ferenc Gimnázium in Budapest, plus the two founders as mentors.

We use first names publicly, as Hungarian schools tend to. Full profiles, with what each of them teaches and why, are on the teachers page.

Where we teach

Two Budapest venues — ELTE Radnóti in District XIV and II. Rákóczi Ferenc Gimnázium in District II — and live online groups.

The in-person groups run at ELTE Radnóti in District XIV and at II. Rákóczi Ferenc Gimnázium in District II. The online groups are live and scheduled, not a video library with a login: the same teachers, the same weekly rhythm, the same marked work. For families in Buda who would otherwise cross the city at 16:00 on a Tuesday, or families outside Budapest entirely, that is usually the better trade. The formats and prices are set out on our courses page.

What we do not do

We are not a school and not a tutoring agency, and we do not teach the exam subjects in English — the papers are Hungarian.

The lessons run in Hungarian, at the pace of a Hungarian classroom, because the exam is in Hungarian and there is no English version of it. If your child follows lessons at school in Hungarian without strain, a group course will work. If Hungarian is still the harder of their two languages, a group of twelve moving fast is the wrong first step, and we would rather say so on this page than in week three. Call us and we will talk it through honestly, including the possibility that the answer is one-to-one work with a Hungarian teacher first.

We also do not promise places. No preparation course can, and any course that implies it is selling something else. What we can influence is the score, and the score is roughly half of most schools’ admission decision.

How to reach us

Call +36 70 857 9549 on weekdays between 9:00 and 19:30, or use the contact form on the Hungarian site. English is fine.

Write or call in English — you will get an answer in English, even though the teaching itself is Hungarian. If you are still working out whether your child has to sit this exam at all, start with the exam explained in English, and there is a separate page of questions that English-speaking parents ask us most often. The full Hungarian site, with current prices and enrolment, is at kobakfelveteli.hu.

Frequently asked questions

Are the lessons taught in English?

No. Teaching is in Hungarian, because the exam is in Hungarian and no English version of the paper exists. Administration, enquiries and parent conversations can be handled in English.

Is Kobak a school?

No. Kobak Edu Kft. runs preparation courses for the central written entrance exam. Your child stays at their own primary school throughout and sits the exam at a state-designated exam school, not with us.

How was the 74.09 point average calculated?

From scores voluntarily reported by students or their guardians among the 585 people who took part in a Kobak programme in 2025/26, excluding those who withdrew or did not complete the course. The 53.17 national comparison figure is published by Oktatási Hivatal.

Do you offer one-to-one teaching?

The standard courses are small-group. The top-tier package adds unlimited one-to-one video consultations, unlimited essay marking and unlimited parent consultations on top of the group course. Ask us on the phone which makes sense for your child.

Can we get a refund if the course turns out to be wrong for us?

You can withdraw from an in-person course at any point up to the day of the first lesson and receive a refund. The precise terms are in the Hungarian terms and conditions (ÁSZF) on the main site.