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 AQA and Pearson Edexcel specifications 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.
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 exactly what happens before the next lesson — short, spaced retrieval, not “have a look over chapter four”.
Between lessons
The part most tutoring gets wrong
One hour a week is about 0.6% of your child’s week. Whatever we do in that hour, most of the forgetting happens in the six days afterwards. That is not a motivation problem — it is simply how memory works.
So I do not say “have a look over chapter four”. Your child leaves each lesson with a short, specific set of questions to answer from memory: ten minutes at a time, spread across the week, with the material they found hardest coming back most often.
Ebbinghaus mapped the forgetting curve in the 1880s and nobody has disproved him since. Revision that feels easy is usually revision that is not working.
The part that frightens people
The numbers are where most marks go missing
Almost every student who tells me they are “not a maths person” has met the numerical side of Business and quietly backed away from it. Break-even and margin of safety. Cash flow forecasts. Ratio analysis. Investment appraisal — payback, average rate of return, net present value. Capacity utilisation and labour productivity. Price and income elasticity. Variance analysis.
Knowing the formula is the easy half. The marks sit in choosing the right one for the scenario in front of you, working it through cleanly, and then saying what the answer actually means for that business — and it is that last step, the judgement, that is examined and most often skipped.
It is the single most common reason a confident student loses marks, and it is very fixable. That is exactly the sort of thing I can work on with your child.
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 map of the specification
Your child tells me which parts of the course they feel least secure in, and I look at their most recent exam answers if they have them. We start from evidence rather than a hunch.
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 Microsoft Teams, with OneNote as our shared workbook — every worked example, correction and set of questions builds into one book your child keeps and can revise from. In person in Wimborne and the surrounding area by arrangement. |
| 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, plus intensive revision blocks at Easter. |
| Safeguarding | I hold an enhanced DBS certificate including the children’s barred list check, issued May 2026, and I am happy to show it to any parent before we begin. Lessons are online via Microsoft Teams as standard. Parents are welcome to sit in on any session or to have it recorded on request, and I never message a student privately. |
| Cancellations | 48 hours’ notice and we simply rearrange. |
Not sure where to start?
Ask your child which parts of the specification they least enjoy, and bring their most recent exam answers if they have them. I will tell you 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 — and in one respect it is better. We work in Microsoft Teams with a shared OneNote, so everything I write during a lesson is saved into your child’s own workbook: the worked examples, the corrections, the model answers. Nothing is lost on a scrap of paper, and it is all there in May. 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, usually for revision blocks in the run-up to exams. Get in touch and I will quote for the group you have in mind.
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.