Tutoring
Business tuition,
GCSE and A Level
One-to-one, online or in person, with a teacher who knows the specification line by line and the exam mark scheme better still.
Who I work with
- A Level Business, Years 12 and 13, including retakes
- GCSE Business, Years 10 and 11
- Students aiming for a specific grade jump, not just general support
- Students who are quietly capable but keep dropping marks on evaluation
- Students who have lost confidence in the subject and need to get it back
Exam boards
I teach the current specifications for AQA, Pearson Edexcel and OCR at both levels. Tell me your board and I will work to it exactly — including the assessment-objective weightings, the command words and the mark-scheme wording your examiner will be using.
[AQA 7132 / 8132 · EDEXCEL 9BS0 / 1BS0 · OCR H431 / J204 — confirm codes]
The hour
What a lesson looks like
An hour, structured the same way every time, because predictability is what lets a student relax enough to think.
1
Retrieval
10 minutes. Questions on last time, and on something from a month ago. No notes. This is where I find out what genuinely stuck.
2
Teaching
20 minutes. The new content, always anchored to a real firm — often one I have worked with or competed against.
3
Application
20 minutes. Exam-style questions under conditions, marked live so your child sees where the examiner would stop awarding marks.
4
Set-up
10 minutes. We agree what happens before the next lesson, and I load it into Cycla so it actually happens.
Between lessons
The part most tutoring gets wrong
Rather than “have a look over chapter four,” your child gets short sets of questions on their phone, drawn from their exam board’s specification, delivered on a spaced schedule. They answer by typing or speaking. Everything is marked immediately, and anything shaky comes back sooner and more often than anything secure.
It takes about ten minutes a day, and it means our hour together is spent on the hard thinking rather than on re-teaching what was forgotten on the bus home.
This runs on Cycla, the spaced-repetition app I built for exactly this problem.
Getting started
How we start
1
A free call
Twenty minutes. You tell me what is going on; I ask a lot of questions. If I am not the right fit, I will say so and try to point you somewhere better.
2
A diagnostic lesson
I set a short piece of written work and mark it properly, so we start from evidence rather than a hunch about “essay technique”.
3
A plan
In writing: the target grade, the specific weaknesses, the order we will tackle them in, and roughly how long it should take.
4
Reviews
A written update after every six lessons, and an honest conversation if the plan needs to change.
Practical
The details
| Format | Online via [Zoom / Teams / Google Meet], or in person in [area] for students within reach of [town]. |
| Length | 60 minutes as standard. 90 minutes available in the run-up to exams. |
| Fees | £70 per hour, GCSE and A Level. Blocks of 12 lessons at £60 per hour — £720, paid in advance. |
| Availability | Weekday evenings and [Saturday mornings] during term time. [Intensive revision blocks at Easter.] |
| Safeguarding | Enhanced DBS certificate, [date], available on request. Online lessons can be recorded on request; parents are welcome in the room at any point. |
| Cancellations | [24 / 48] hours’ notice and we simply rearrange. |
Not sure where to start?
Bring a recent piece of written work to the first call. I will tell you exactly where the marks are going, and what it would take to move the grade.
Questions
Frequently asked
My child is predicted a C. Is it too late?
Almost never, and Business is one of the more retrievable subjects because so much of the lost mark is technique rather than knowledge. What matters is how many weeks we have and how much your child is willing to do between lessons. I will give you a straight answer on the first call.
Do you teach the whole specification, or fill gaps?
Either. Most families start with gaps and specific weaknesses. Some students — retakes, illness, a difficult year with staffing — want the full course taught properly, and I do that too.
Is online as good as in person?
For this subject, yes. Everything I do is on a shared screen with live marking, and it saves everyone the travelling. In-person is available locally if your child works better in the same room.
What do you need from us?
Your exam board and specification, your most recent mock paper with the marks on it, and a realistic sense of how much time your child can give between lessons. Ten honest minutes a day beats a promised two hours that never happens.
Do you offer group sessions?
[Yes — small groups of up to four for revision blocks at £[00] per student. / Not at present. One-to-one is where I add most value.]
Can you help with coursework or the NEA?
I can teach the skills, discuss approach and explain the assessment criteria, but I will not write or edit any part of work submitted for assessment — that would be malpractice and it would put your child’s grade at risk.