Do you need an account? No
There is nothing to sign up for - what identifies you instead, what is stored, and what is not.
There is no account to create. No password to choose, nothing to sign into afterwards, and no profile sitting half-finished waiting for you. If you came here looking for the sign-up page, that is the whole answer - and it is worth a minute to say what happens instead.
What identifies you
An email address, and only when you ask for something. Download a paper and you verify an address once with a short code; that is what the file is sent to. How to download your first paper walks through it.
A verified address is a row in our database and not a user. It creates no login, grants no session, and unlocks no area of the site. There is no second step you have forgotten.
Why it is built this way
Most of what this site does - the papers, the analyses, this whole knowledge base - is reading, and reading should not require registering. An account is a thing a company holds about you, so it should exist when it does something for you and not before.
It also keeps the answer to “what do you have about me” short. What is kept, why, and how to have it erased are in the privacy notice, and you do not have to ask twice.
When that changes
Having a child's paper evaluated needs more than an email address - a seat, a consent record, a place for the report to live. That work is a parent-facing account in everything but name, and when it exists this page will say how to create one.
Until then, nothing here is gated behind a login, and if a page ever asks you for one before this article changes, treat it as suspicious rather than as progress.
Sources
Facts last checked against these sources on 17 September 2026.
- Our privacy notice - what is collected, why, and how to have it erased · TRUpreBoards
- The paper library, which needs no account · TRUpreBoards
About the author
Founder Member & Director
An MBA (Finance and Strategy) with over 16 years across strategy, technology and operations. At TRUtesting he makes sure the platform is built to serve schools reliably and at scale.
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