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The first question in A-Level tutoring is which board you are on. AQA, Edexcel, OCR and CIE set different papers against different specifications, and a past paper from the wrong one teaches the wrong thing: the content overlaps, the question style and the mark scheme do not. Lessons start from your board's specification and your school's teaching order, and the offer you are holding decides where the effort goes, because a conditional on A*AA is a different problem from a conditional on BBB.
Exam format
What the A-Level actually looks like
The structure, the timing and the scoring, stated plainly — before anything about a course.
- Length
- Two years, examined at the end
- Questions
- Set by your exam board, not by a single national paper
- Scored
- A* to E per subject
Your exam board decides the paper
AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Cambridge International each publish their own specification and set their own papers. The content overlaps heavily; the question style, the paper structure and the mark scheme do not. A past paper from the wrong board teaches the wrong habits.
Specification, not syllabus in general
Every board publishes a specification with a code — the document that states exactly what is examinable and how it is weighted. It is the thing to prepare from, and knowing your code is the first question in a first lesson.
Papers and their weightings
Most subjects have two or three papers with different emphases, and some carry practical or coursework components. Which paper carries the topic you are weak in decides how much that weakness actually costs.
- University offers are usually conditional on specific grades in specific subjects, so the useful target is not 'better' but the exact combination your offer names.
- Grade boundaries move year to year and are published after the fact, which is why preparing to a comfortable margin above a boundary is worth more than aiming at it exactly.
Before you start
Is A-Level preparation right for you?
Who it suits. Students needing help with a particular A-Level subject and exam board, including focused revision or a retake.
When to check another option. Assuming one board's paper matches another. Confirm the syllabus code and assessment components before selecting materials.
Why it matters
What a A-Level score is for
A-Levels are the currency of UK admissions and are read widely beyond it, and unlike a broader diploma they let a student go deep in three or four subjects — which is exactly what a UK degree application is assessed on. That depth is also the risk: with so few subjects, one that goes wrong is a large fraction of the application, and a conditional offer naming A*AA leaves no room to average it out.
Coverage
What the preparation covers
The ground a course goes over. A group course takes it in its published order; for one-to-one lessons, how much of it you need and in what order is what the diagnostic decides.
- Your board's specification, unit by unit, in your school's teaching order
- Mathematics and Further Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology
- Economics, Business, Psychology, History and the essay subjects
- Past papers from your board, marked against its own mark scheme
- The grade boundaries your offer actually turns on
Where marks go
Where candidates lose marks on the A-Level
Not a list of study tips. These are the specific ways this particular test takes marks off people who know the material.
Practising on another board's past papers
The most common and most avoidable error in A-Level preparation. Content overlaps, so the papers look usable; question phrasing and mark schemes differ enough that the technique learned is the wrong one.
Revising content without the mark scheme
Marks come from specific statements. A student who knows the topic and does not know what the examiner is looking for writes a good answer that scores in the middle, repeatedly.
Neglecting the paper that carries your weak topic
Topics are not spread evenly across papers. A weakness that sits in a paper worth forty per cent of the subject is a different problem from the same weakness in a paper worth twenty.
Aiming at the grade boundary rather than above it
Boundaries move between years and are published after the exam. Preparing to land exactly on last year's boundary is preparing to miss by a mark in a year the paper was easier.
Treating Year 12 as a rehearsal
A-Level content is cumulative and the second year assumes the first. A term lost early is repaid at a much worse exchange rate in Year 13.
Ignoring the practical or coursework component
Where a subject has one, it is marks that are available in advance and under far less pressure than the written papers. Students who leave it late convert an easy component into a hard one.
Lesson format
One-to-one, or a private group
Private group · 30 hours per subject
There is no open A-Level group course, but three or more students preparing together can have a group of their own, with the lesson days and times agreed with them. What it covers and what it costs are in the prices below.
One-to-one
One-to-one is the usual route. A-Level help is subject-specific and board-specific: two students on the same subject can be sitting different papers, so lessons follow your own board's specification.
How it runs
How the teaching works
A diagnostic before one-to-one lessons are planned
One-to-one lessons start by finding out where the marks are actually going. That is not a formality: on most of these tests the gap a student describes and the gap the diagnostic shows are different, and hours spent on the described one are hours wasted.
Teaching in the order your deadline allows
One-to-one lessons follow your order, not a syllabus's. We start with whatever is costing you most and work outwards rather than marching through material you have already half covered.
Timed work from early, not saved for the end
Untimed accuracy is a poor predictor of a timed score, and finding that out three weeks before the test is too late. Timed sections start in the first fortnight, short at first.
Review and progress checks
Review looks beyond the mark: which errors recur, whether the reasoning is clearer and how accuracy holds under time pressure. Bring earlier attempts to the discussion so the next practice has a specific purpose.
All of it runs in the browser, live, with a teacher on the other end. There are no recordings sold as a course and no premises to travel to.
Timeline
How long A-Level preparation takes
A rough shape rather than a promise. People arrive at different starting points and the plan is built around yours, but this is what a full run usually looks like.
- 1
First lesson — board, specification code, and the offer
Which board, which specification code, which papers, and what your conditional offer actually says. Everything after this is shaped by those four answers, and getting them wrong wastes months.
- 2
Through the year — alongside the school course
Lessons in your school's teaching order, so support lands while the topic is live. A prepaid package can move between subjects as the year changes which one needs it.
- 3
Spring of the exam year — past papers, marked properly
Your board's papers, marked against its own mark scheme, with the feedback focused on where marks were available and not taken rather than on what was wrong.
- 4
Final weeks — the topics still costing marks
Narrow and specific, weighted by which paper each topic sits in. No new content.
FAQ
A-Level questions we get asked
- Do you teach my exam board?
- AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Cambridge International. Tell us the board and the specification code when you enquire and we will confirm the teacher before you book anything.
- Is A-Level tutoring group or one-to-one?
- Usually one-to-one, because two students nominally in the same subject can be sitting genuinely different papers. When three or more students taking the same subject with the same board come together, we can open a private group for them, priced per subject.
- Can one package cover two subjects?
- Yes. A prepaid package of ten or twenty lessons is not tied to a subject, which suits A-Level students who usually need help in two rather than one.
- Is it too late to start in the final term?
- Not too late, but the work becomes triage: past papers, mark scheme technique and the topics weighted heaviest in the papers you still have. Starting earlier buys teaching; starting late buys targeting.
- Can you help with A-Level and university applications together?
- We teach the subjects. Where an admissions test sits alongside them — UCAT for medicine, LNAT for law — we teach those too, and it is worth planning the two timetables against each other rather than in sequence.
- What if my school teaches a different order?
- We follow your school. Support that arrives while a topic is being taught is worth several times the same support in a revision block.
Pricing
What A-Level preparation costs
Shown in US dollars. Charged in US dollars — there is no conversion at checkout to be surprised by.
One-to-one lessons
One-to-one is the usual route. A-Level help is subject-specific and board-specific: two students on the same subject can be sitting different papers, so lessons follow your own board's specification.
Single lesson
One 90-minute lesson, to see how it goes.
$100Book10 lessons
Prepaid, usable across subjects where the exam has them.
20 lessons
The usual choice for a full preparation run.
Private group · 30 hours per subject
There is no open A-Level group course. When three or more of you are preparing together, we open a group of your own.
- Each class is one subject with one exam board, so everyone in it sits the same papers
- Priced by the number of subjects, as our IB Revision groups are
- Opens once three or more students come together
- Lesson days and times agreed with the group
- Every lesson recorded, to rewatch for 14 days
- One payment, no instalments
- 1 subject · 30 hours$1,150
- 2 subjects · 60 hours$2,150
- 3 subjects · 90 hours$3,000
- 4 subjects · 120 hours$3,900
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Where this comes from
Everything above about the format of the A-Level is taken from Cambridge International, the body that sets it. Last checked against that source on . If you find something here that no longer matches it, tell us and we will correct it.