GCSE Sciences · Years 9–11 · Online today, UK-wide
GCSE Science tutoring.
Online 1-to-1 GCSE Sciences tutoring, UK-wide and for international English-curriculum students. Free 45-minute online trial, no card or commitment. After booking, an advisor calls and emails the Microsoft Teams session details.
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How online science tutoring can support your child.
Tutoring is one-to-one and can be planned around your child's subject needs.
A different specialist per subject.
If your child needs both chemistry and physics, that's two tutors, not one tutor stretched across both. Each specialist teaches GCSE in their subject week in, week out — they know the recurring traps in their board's question style and which topics burn time at higher tier.
A plan that respects how the sciences differ.
Biology rewards structured recall and clean exam technique. Chemistry rewards calculation fluency and the discipline of the moles triangle. Physics rewards rearranging equations under pressure. We plan each subject the way that subject actually works — not as one undifferentiated 'science'.
A written trial report and feedback call.
After the free trial, you receive a report and a feedback call to discuss your child's learning needs and possible next steps.
Combined Science vs Separate Sciences
Trilogy or Triple — what's the difference and which one is your child sitting?
Most state schools default to Combined Science (Trilogy) — two GCSEs covering biology, chemistry and physics together. Selective and many independent schools default to Separate Sciences (Triple) — three full GCSEs, one per subject, with extra content per subject and a heavier exam load. Both are perfectly respectable routes. The choice matters for two reasons: A level eligibility, and how the GCSE grade reads to a sixth-form admissions tutor.
If your child is aiming for A level chemistry, physics or biology at a competitive sixth form, Separate Sciences is usually expected. For most other paths Combined Science is fine — and importantly, a strong 7-7 on Combined often reads better on a transcript than a stretched 6-6-5 on Separate. If you don't know which route the school is entering them for, ask the head of science directly. It's the single most useful question you can put to the school before Year 10 begins.
Either way, the trial lesson is the same shape: pick the subject that matters most right now and we'll match a specialist to your child for that one science.
The three subject pages
Pick the subject you want to start with — the trial covers exactly that one.
Open the page below that matches the priority and the trial lesson will be in that subject specifically. Each child page covers what your child will actually sit, the recurring weak points we see week to week, and the boards we cover.
- Biology — the most-requested single subject; highest content volume and an exam that rewards structured written answers.
- Chemistry — the 'used to be fine and then it fell off' subject, almost always tracing back to moles or balancing equations.
- Physics — the subject where confidence collapses fastest, almost always due to equation rearrangement rather than the underlying ideas.
Single subject
GCSE biology tutor
Cells, organisation, infection and response, bioenergetics, homeostasis, inheritance and ecology — taught against the exact spec your child is sitting. Heaviest content load of the three; rewards structured recall and disciplined six-mark answers.
Open the biology page →Single subject
GCSE chemistry tutor
Atomic structure, bonding, quantitative chemistry, energy changes, rates and equilibria, organic chemistry. The subject most parents flag as 'they used to be fine and then it fell off' — almost always traceable to mole calculations or balancing equations.
Open the chemistry page →Single subject
GCSE physics tutor
Forces, energy, waves, electricity, magnetism, particle model, atomic structure, space (separate sciences). The subject where confidence collapses fastest — and it's almost always equation rearrangement, not the underlying physics, that's the culprit.
Open the physics page →Why we use a specialist per subject
A founder note on why we don't bundle the three sciences under one tutor.
The trial and feedback call can help discuss the subject or subjects your child wants to focus on.
- Biology — rote-recall structure, six-mark answers against the mark scheme, the way genetics is really tested. A biology specialist's bread and butter.
- Chemistry — moles, balancing equations, organic mechanisms, the discipline of the calculation triangle.
- Physics — equation rearrangement, the standard model, force-and-motion problems under symbols.
- Subject-specific tuition allows the tutor to focus on the concepts, methods and exam questions relevant to that science.
Required practicals — without a lab
How we cover the practicals when the lesson is on a screen, not at a bench.
We don't pretend the lesson is a lab. We do what the exam asks for — describe the method, identify the variables, explain the source of error, suggest the standard improvement — and that's where the marks actually live.
- Every required practical across AQA, Edexcel and OCR walked through as a written-up method.
- Variable identification, common sources of error and the standard improvement drilled until the answer pattern is automatic.
- Past-paper practical questions from the right board, year by year, in the lesson — not 'do it at home and we'll mark it later'.
- Schools rush this content because lab time is finite; online 1-to-1 is paradoxically where it gets covered properly.
Pricing snapshot
What it costs — straight numbers, no 'request a quote'.
The free 45-minute online trial has no card or commitment. After the trial, you receive a report and a feedback call. A personalised quote is discussed after the trial and feedback call. For current terms, please refer to the terms of service.
A personalised quote is discussed after the trial and feedback call. For current terms, please refer to the terms of service.
- Free 45-minute trial lesson — no card, no commitment.
- £97 optional diagnostic — written report + 60-minute specialist session + 30-minute parent call.
- Ongoing tutoring — personalised recommendations and a quote are discussed after the trial and feedback call.
- Ask the education advisor about options if your child needs support in more than one science.
GCSE sciences tutoring — frequently asked.
It depends on what they want to do at A level and how much science teaching time the school has actually given them. Combined Science covers all three subjects across two GCSEs — it's the default route in most state schools. Separate Sciences is three full GCSEs, more content per subject, and is typically what's expected if your child is aiming for A level chemistry, physics or biology at a competitive sixth form. If you don't know which the school is entering them for, ask — it's the single most important question you can put to a head of science before Year 10.
Yes — all three of the major exam boards across all three sciences. The shared content overlaps a lot; the differences sit in question style, the required practicals each board emphasises, and how the papers are structured. Once we know your child's school, board and tier, we plan against past papers from that exact board so the practice they're doing actually mirrors what they'll sit in May.
They can, technically. Most don't, well. GCSE biology, chemistry and physics each have their own conceptual habits — biology is about systems and recall, chemistry is calculations and mechanisms, physics is equations and reasoning under symbols. A specialist who teaches one of those week-in-week-out at GCSE knows the recurring traps for that subject; a generalist is competent across all three and excellent in none. We match per subject for that reason, not as a sales pitch.
We don't pretend the lesson is a lab — it isn't. We do the next-best, and arguably the more exam-relevant thing: we walk the required practicals as written-up procedures the way the exam asks about them. The exam doesn't ask your child to perform the practical in May; it asks them to describe the method, identify the variables, explain the source of error, and interpret a results table. Those are the skills we drill, against past-paper practical questions from the right board, until they're automatic.
Same logic as maths: a confident foundation grade is more valuable than a stretched higher one. We look at where your child sits on the harder content (mole calculations in chemistry, the physics equations sheet, the genetics and evolution units in biology) and tell you honestly whether higher tier is realistic. The school's prediction is one input. The trial lesson, plus a written diagnostic if you take it, is the other — and tends to be the more candid one.
The trial and feedback call can help identify which science subject or subjects may need attention. If more than one subject is being considered, discuss the subject-specific tuition options with the education advisor.
Progress varies by student, starting point and time available. The trial report and feedback call give you an opportunity to discuss your child's needs and possible next steps; specific grade outcomes are not guaranteed.
The free trial is 45 minutes, online and one-to-one. After booking, an education advisor calls to discuss your child's needs; tutor and Microsoft Teams session details are then sent by email. There is no card or commitment. After the trial, you receive a report and a feedback call.
Also covered: GCSE Maths, GCSE English, GCSE Biology, GCSE Chemistry, GCSE Physics · Legacy Diagnostic · Pricing.
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