The Team
Meet the founders
Two people who lived the test preparation journey firsthand — and built MockMaster to make it better for everyone who comes after them.
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Bharati Babbar
CEO & Co-founder
Bharati moved from New Delhi to Sydney in 2018 and spent months navigating the PTE Academic and NAATI CCL requirements for her Australian PR application. The experience — juggling study, work and immigration paperwork with limited access to quality preparation tools — became the founding insight for MockMaster. With a background in education technology and a deep belief that great test preparation should be accessible to every migrant regardless of budget, she built MockMaster from the ground up in 2022. Bharati leads product vision, student experience and the company's partnerships with migration agents across Australia.
"I know exactly what it feels like to sit in front of a computer on exam day knowing your visa depends on the next two hours. MockMaster exists so that feeling is backed by real preparation — not hope."
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Malcolm Kalwachwala
CTO & Co-founder
Malcolm is a software engineer and AI specialist who relocated from Mumbai to Melbourne and went through his own NAATI CCL and IELTS preparation while building his career in Australia's tech industry. His frustration with static, one-size-fits-all preparation resources led him to explore what AI-powered personalised scoring could look like — and that exploration became the technical foundation of MockMaster. Malcolm architected the platform's AI scoring engine, trained on millions of annotated English test responses, and leads all engineering across the web platform, mobile apps and AI infrastructure.
"The technology to give every student a world-class personalised tutor already existed. We just had to point it at the right problem. MockMaster is that solution."
Our Journey
From a shared idea to 42 countries
2022 — Q1
The founding idea
Bharati and Malcolm, both having navigated Australia's English test system personally, decide to build the platform they wished had existed when they were preparing. First prototype: an AI scorer for PTE Read Aloud, built over a single weekend.
2022 — Q3
First students onboarded
MockMaster opens to an initial cohort of 340 students across Australia and India. Real student data shapes the AI scoring model across all 20 PTE task types. First students hit their target scores.
2023 — Q1
NAATI CCL added
Malcolm's deep knowledge of NAATI CCL from his own preparation drives the build of Australia's first AI-scored NAATI CCL mock platform covering all 5 marking criteria across both dialogue segments.
2023 — Q4
All 5 tests live
IELTS, CELPIP and LanguageCert Academic added to the platform. The AI Smart Study Plan engine launches. Students now prepare for Australian PR, Canadian immigration and UK visas in one place.
2024 — Q2
Mobile app launches
iOS and Android apps go live with offline mode. Students can now complete daily tasks on the train, during lunch breaks or anywhere without an internet connection. Expanded to Canada, the UK and New Zealand.
2025 — Today
14,200+ plans · 42 countries
The AI Scorecard Analyser launches — students upload their official scorecard and receive a personalised week-by-week plan in 30 seconds. 94% of students on the full programme hit their target score. 180+ migration agent partners across Australia, Canada and the UK.
What We Believe
Our values
Access is a right, not a privilege
World-class AI scoring and personalised study plans should cost $29, not $2,900. We price our product so that a student in Nepal has the same preparation advantage as one in Sydney.
Specificity over generality
Generic advice is noise. We tell you that your Oral Fluency is 68 and your Pronunciation is 71, and your Read Aloud pausing pattern is holding your Speaking score at 65. Not "practise more speaking."
We succeed when you succeed
Our score guarantee isn't a marketing line. If you complete our programme and still don't reach your target, we keep working with you for free until you do.
Evidence, always
Every feature we ship is tested on real student outcomes first. When we say a technique works, we have the data to prove it.