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A-Level · Science

A-Level science tuition, online and one to one.

Science is three subjects taught as one, and a child who is comfortable in two of them can still be stuck in the third. Worth saying which when you tell us what is going wrong, because “science” on its own does not narrow it much.

Tell us what your child is working on and we will find them an A-Level science tutor. Every tutor holds an enhanced DBS check, has been interviewed by our school staffing team, and teaches in a recorded session in your browser.

  • Enhanced DBS checked
  • Interviewed by our school staffing team
  • Every session recorded

The syllabus, in plain English

What science covers

Depth and emphasis differ between levels and between exam boards, and your child's school decides both. If you are not sure which part is going wrong, this is the shortlist to read down before you tell us.

  • Combined or separate

    In England, GCSE science is sat either as combined science, which counts as two GCSEs, or as three separate GCSEs in biology, chemistry and physics. The school decides which, and it changes how much content there is.

  • Biology

    Cells, organisation, infection and response, bioenergetics, homeostasis, inheritance and ecology.

  • Chemistry

    Atomic structure and the periodic table, bonding, quantitative chemistry, chemical and energy changes, rates, organic chemistry and analysis.

  • Physics

    Energy, electricity, particle model, atomic structure, forces, waves and magnetism.

  • Working scientifically

    Required practicals, planning and variables, handling data, error and uncertainty, and writing a conclusion the evidence actually supports. Examined on the written papers rather than in a lab.

  • The maths in it

    Rearranging formulae, units and standard form, percentages and graphs. A surprising share of lost marks in science are arithmetic ones.

What A-Level asks for in science

A-Levels are usually taken over two years, in Year 12 and Year 13, and they go a long way past GCSE in both depth and in how much reading and independent work is expected outside lessons.

A-Levels are graded A* to E.

Tell us where your child is now and what they are working towards when you tell us about them. Both are optional — plenty of families have never been given a target, and a guess is no help to a tutor — and whatever you say goes to the tutor with everything else.

Wherever you are in the United Kingdom

Every session runs online, in our own video room in your browser. There is nothing to download and nothing to install, nobody comes to your house, and nobody has to be driven anywhere on a school night. It does not matter where in the United Kingdom you live: the tutors on this page are the tutors available to you.

Tutor and child work on the same whiteboard, which updates for both of them as they write, and whatever is on it at the end is saved to the session. The lesson is recorded, and you can watch your own child’s sessions back from your account.

How it works, start to finish

A science tutor is still an adult alone with your child.

Tuition means somebody your family has never met spending an hour a week with your child, unsupervised. That is the problem this platform was built around, and it is why the vetting is not a page in the small print.

Read our full safeguarding policy
  • Enhanced DBS, every tutor

    Every tutor on the platform holds an enhanced DBS check. We do not make exceptions and we do not allow grace periods.

  • Interviewed before they teach

    Our school staffing team interviews every tutor before they take a single session. They are the same people who vet and place staff in UK schools.

  • Every session recorded

    Sessions are recorded and retained for safeguarding review, so there is always a record of what happened in a lesson. You can watch your own child's sessions back from your account. The tutor cannot.

  • Continuously monitored

    Vetting is not a one-off. If a tutor's clearance lapses they come off the platform automatically, and they cannot teach again until it is back in place and verified by us.

  • Nothing happens off the platform

    Every session runs in our own video room in the browser, and personal contact details are never exchanged between a tutor and a family.

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