A-Level · Years 12 & 13 · AQA, Edexcel, OCR

A-Level maths tutoring,
method marks and all

One-to-one A-Level maths for Years 12 and 13, including Further Maths, taught to whichever board your school entered you for — AQA, Edexcel or OCR. Every lesson is 55 minutes with the same tutor each week, on a shared worksheet where they can see the working rather than only the answer.

Start with a free class 55 minutes · no card required

A-Level maths,
and all three boards

A-Level Mathematics is examined by AQA, Edexcel and OCR, and each of them uses three papers of 100 marks — 300 in total. All three cover the same three areas: Pure Mathematics, Statistics and Mechanics.

What differs is how those areas are distributed. AQA puts Pure in Paper 1, Pure and Mechanics in Paper 2, and Pure and Statistics in Paper 3. The other boards arrange it their own way. That is why the first thing we ask is which board your school entered you for — a student revising to the wrong paper structure is doing the right maths in the wrong order.

The formulae booklet, the calculator rules and the way large data sets are handled also vary by board. None of it is difficult once you know which set you are working to. All of it is confusing if nobody asks.

Same content, different arrangement. Knowing which arrangement you sit is not a detail — it is what revision is organised around.

Why we ask about the board first

A-Level Further Maths,
options included

Further Mathematics is a separate A-Level, not an extension of the first. Across all three boards it is four papers: a compulsory Core Pure component, plus applied option papers your school chooses.

The options are where schools differ most. Edexcel offers Further Pure, Further Mechanics, Further Statistics and Decision Mathematics. AQA's options are Discrete, Mechanics and Statistics. OCR's Further Mathematics A has a mandatory Pure Core alongside Statistics, Mechanics, Discrete and Additional Pure.

We teach Further Maths including the options, and we would rather know which two your school has picked before the first lesson than discover it in week three. Tell us when you book — Decision Maths and Further Mechanics are very different preparation.

Two students both doing Further Maths at the same school down the road can be sitting almost entirely different applied papers.

Why the option names matter

Three things that are different from GCSE.

i

Marks are for
method, not answers.

A-Level mark schemes award most of the credit for the working. A right answer with no justification loses marks that a wrong answer with sound reasoning keeps.

ii

The jump is
in the first term.

Most students who struggle at A-Level do so between September and Christmas of Year 12, when algebraic fluency that was adequate for GCSE stops being enough.

iii

Two years,
one exam.

Nothing is banked along the way. Year 12 content is examined at the end of Year 13, which is why we revisit it deliberately rather than assuming it stuck.

What an hour with us
actually contains

A-Level lessons look different from GCSE ones. Less explaining from the front, more working through questions with someone watching the method as it forms.

We are not marking the answer. We are watching the line where the reasoning goes wrong, which is the only place it can be fixed.

Why the shared worksheet matters more at A-Level
i
📝

Start on last week's work

The homework is reviewed before the lesson, so we open on whatever went wrong rather than spending ten minutes finding out.

ii
🧮

Work the question together

Both of you write on the same live worksheet. The tutor sees each line as it appears, which is how a slip in the second line gets caught before it reaches the fifth.

iii
🎯

Then the mark scheme

For exam questions we go through what the marks are actually awarded for. Students routinely lose method marks for working they did in their head.

iv
📚

Past papers, by board

Real papers from your board, in the format you will sit, with the timing that applies. Not a generic question bank.

What we cover

Everything in the specification, at whichever point in it your school currently is. We check that before each lesson rather than teaching our own sequence.

Four things that matter more
at this level.

Some of what makes a good tutor at Year 7 is irrelevant by Year 12. These are the parts that are not.

The tutor sees the working

Teacher and student write into one live worksheet at the same time. At A-Level, where marks live in the method, a tutor who only receives the finished answer is missing most of what they need.

The same tutor every week

Two years of content examined at the end of the second is a long arc to hold. Someone who remembers what you found hard in November is worth more than a marketplace of strangers.

Your board, your options

AQA, Edexcel or OCR, and for Further Maths the specific option papers your school picked. We ask before the first lesson rather than assuming.

A full 55 minutes

An A-Level question can take twenty minutes to work through properly. A lesson billed as an hour and taught as forty minutes does not fit enough of them in.

Choose your plan

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per class
8 classes · £104 total
  • 8 live 55-minute classes
  • KS1, KS2 & KS3 national curriculum
  • Weekly homework
  • Termly parent meeting
  • Same teacher every class
  • Free reschedule
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  • ~48 live 55-minute classes
  • KS1, KS2 & KS3 national curriculum
  • Weekly homework
  • Termly parent meeting
  • Same teacher every class
  • Free reschedule
  • 15% saved vs Starter
Best value

Prices in pounds. Every class is 55 minutes, one-to-one, with the same teacher. First class free, no card required.

Five markets,
one classroom

A-Level is the English, Welsh and Northern Irish route. Scotland has its own, and so do the other countries we teach in.

United States

Common Core and state standards, K–12

$13.50 a class
United Kingdom

National Curriculum, KS1–KS4 and GCSE

£11 a class
Canada

Your province's curriculum, grades 1–12

C$17.50 a class
Australia

Australian Curriculum v9.0 and your state's syllabus

A$16 a class
New Zealand

NZ Curriculum phases and NCEA, Years 1–13

NZ$19.50 a class

Pick your market for the qualifications and pricing that apply to your child.

Which exam boards do you cover?
AQA, Edexcel and OCR, for both Mathematics and Further Mathematics. Tell us which one your school entered you for when you book — all three examine Pure, Statistics and Mechanics across three papers of 100 marks, but they arrange the content across those papers differently, and revision is organised around that arrangement.
Do you teach Further Maths?
Yes, including the option papers. Further Maths is four papers across all three boards: a compulsory Core Pure component plus applied options your school chooses — Further Pure, Further Mechanics, Further Statistics, Decision or Discrete, and Additional Pure depending on the board. Tell us which two you are sitting.
My child got a good GCSE grade and is still struggling. Why?
This is the most common thing we see, and it is usually algebraic fluency rather than ability. GCSE rewards getting to an answer; A-Level assumes you can rearrange and manipulate quickly enough that the algebra is not what you are thinking about. The gap shows up in the first term of Year 12 and closes with practice on the specific manipulations, not with more topics.
Can you help with AS or with resits?
Yes. Tell us which paper, which board and when you are sitting it, and we will be straight about whether the time available is enough to do what you are hoping for.
Do you do past papers?
Yes, from your own board, in the format you will sit, with the real timing. We also go through the mark scheme — students routinely lose method marks for working they did in their head, and that is a habit worth breaking early rather than in May.
How many lessons a week for A-Level?
Two a week suits most students during the year, rising to three in the run-up to exams. One a week can work for a student who is coping and wants to stay ahead. We will tell you honestly if we think the frequency is too low for what you are aiming at.
Is the first class free for A-Level too?
Yes, and no card is required. It is a full 55-minute lesson with the tutor who would go on to teach you, spent finding out where you actually are — usually by starting on something slightly harder than your current topic and working back.
Can you help with university admissions tests like MAT or STEP?
Our focus is the A-Level and Further Maths specifications through to Year 13. Admissions tests are a different kind of preparation, and we would rather point that out than take a booking and improvise. Ask us and we will give you an honest answer for your particular case.

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