A-Level tutoring
Online A-Level tutoring
Maths, Biology and Chemistry, taught by medical and dental students who sat the same specifications recently and then used the grades to get in.
The subjects we teach
- A-Level Chemistry. required by almost every medical and dental school, and the subject that costs the most students their offer.
- A-Level Biology. the most commonly taken second science, and a content volume problem as much as a difficulty problem.
- A-Level Maths. the usual third subject, and the one that keeps engineering and the physical sciences open as a fifth UCAS choice.
Three subjects, deliberately. We teach what our tutors sat and use daily rather than spreading thin across a timetable we cannot cover properly.
What medicine asks for
Typical offers run from AAA to A*AA, with Chemistry almost always required and a second science or Maths alongside it. The practical endorsement has to be a pass, and it is reported separately from the grade. Requirements differ at every school, and the published set for all of them is collected by the Medical Schools Council.
Two things follow from that. The grades have to be predicted before they are achieved, which makes the mocks the real gate: see mocks and predicted grades. And the schools you apply to should be chosen around the profile you will actually have: see choosing medical schools.
Why A-Level breaks students who were fine at GCSE
The jump is not mainly about content volume, although there is more of it. It is that GCSE rewards recall and A-Level rewards application, and a student who got a 9 by learning everything will meet a question in Year 12 that asks them to use something they know in a situation they have not seen. The technique that produced the 9 stops working, usually around the first set of Year 12 mocks, and the response that works is a change in method rather than more hours.
That is most visible in Chemistry, where the first term adds moles calculations, mechanisms and a step up in mathematical demand all at once.
How lessons run
- Small group, £30 an hour. Maximum five students, one subject. The cheapest way to get taught properly, and for most students it is enough.
- One-to-one, from £140 a month. Four 60-minute sessions, from £35 an hour, with the same tutor, work set and marked between lessons, and a full paper under exam conditions every four weeks.
- Application support, £30 an hour. For medicine and dentistry applicants: personal statement, university choice and interview practice, in a small group, alongside the subject hours or on its own. We do not coach admissions tests.
- The diagnostic is free. One hour, one-to-one, a marked past paper and a written assessment you keep.
Full rates are on the pricing page.
Before A-Level
If you are still in Years 9 to 11, the GCSE side covers Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and it is worth starting there: medical schools look at the GCSE profile too, and that one cannot be re-sat into shape later.
How we teach it
- Timed questions from the first lesson. Students who only ever work untimed are practising a different skill from the one being examined.
- Work set between lessons, and marked. An hour a week changes very little on its own. The work in between is where the grade moves.
- A full paper under exam conditions every four weeks. Same timing, same silence, no notes. The score is recorded so progress is a number.
- Written progress to parents every month. What was covered, what the scores were, what we are working on next.
- Groups capped at five, or one-to-one if that suits better.
Start with the free diagnostic
Every student begins the same way: one full hour under exam conditions, marked against the real mark scheme, followed by a written summary of where the marks are going and what we would do about it. It costs nothing, and the assessment is yours to keep whether or not you carry on.