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What your child gets — every week.
Three things that don't show up in generic online chemistry tutoring. Every weekly chemistry student at Legacy gets all three by default — not as a paid upgrade, not as a 'premium tier'.
A specialist chemistry tutor — not a general scientist.
GCSE chemistry is its own discipline. The tutor we match teaches it week in, week out — they know which calculation questions burn time at higher tier, which mechanism questions reliably surface in the organic section, and the recurring traps in each board's question style.
Mole calculations, drilled like maths.
Most students lose more marks on calculation questions than on recall ones. We treat the moles content with the same discipline a maths tutor would — moles equals mass over Mr, concentration equals moles over volume, percentage yield, atom economy — drilled until the algebra is automatic under exam pressure.
Required practicals as written-up methods.
Every AQA, Edexcel and OCR required practical is walked through as the exam asks about it: variables, source of error, the standard improvement, the expected results pattern. Schools often rush this. Online 1-to-1 is where it gets covered properly.
What we cover
Atomic structure, bonding, quantitative chemistry, energy changes, rates, organic chemistry.
GCSE chemistry sits between biology's recall load and physics' calculation load — and it's the subject that punishes the most for half-learnt content. We plan against the exact spec your child is sitting and the exact past papers from the exact board they'll see in May. Separate Sciences (Triple) adds organic chemistry depth, harder equilibria and trickier calculation content; Combined Science (Trilogy) keeps the same framework with a reduced topic list.
- Atomic structure and the periodic table.
- Bonding, structure and properties of matter — ionic, covalent, metallic, giant structures.
- Quantitative chemistry — relative formula mass, the mole, balancing equations, percentage yield, atom economy.
- Chemical changes — acids, bases, salts, electrolysis.
- Energy changes — exothermic vs endothermic, reaction profiles, bond energies.
- Rates and reversible reactions — collision theory, equilibria, Le Chatelier.
- Organic chemistry — alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, carboxylic acids, polymers.
- Chemical analysis, chemistry of the atmosphere, using resources.
A worked example
The misconception we see most often: students treating moles as 'a unit' instead of a count.
Mole calculations break down for students who think of moles as a strange chemistry-only unit, like grams or litres. They're not — a mole is a count, the same way a dozen is a count. One mole is 6.02 × 10²³ particles. That reframing changes how the calculations feel: 'moles equals mass over Mr' stops being a magic formula and becomes obvious — divide the mass you have by the mass of one of them and you get how many of them you have.
From there the rest of the moles content unlocks: concentration is moles per unit volume of solution; molar gas volume is the constant 24 dm³ at room temperature and pressure; the number of moles in a balanced equation tells you the ratio between substances. We rebuild it as a single coherent toolkit, drill it against past-paper calculation questions from the right board, and your child stops freezing on questions that used to feel impossible.
Past-paper-led revision
What revision actually looks like with us — and why it's not just past papers.
Past papers are the most reliable revision tool in GCSE chemistry — exact question style, realistic time pressure, gaps a textbook can hide. We use them seriously: board-matched, mark-scheme-aligned, walked through line by line in the lesson rather than left as 'do it at home and we'll mark it later'.
- Papers as a diagnostic, not the destination — the next two or three lessons are built around the topics each paper exposed.
- Exam-window weekly anchoring — every lesson runs against a past paper from the right board, tier and year.
- Mole-calculation fluency drilled explicitly — students stop freezing on questions that used to feel impossible.
- Standard organic mechanism questions and required-practical write-ups walked until the answer pattern is automatic.
GCSE chemistry tutoring — frequently asked.
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