GCSE Sciences · Years 9–11 · Online or in person
GCSE science tutor — a specialist for each subject, not one generalist.
Biology, chemistry and physics each have their own habits — recall, calculation, reasoning under symbols. We match a different specialist tutor per subject because that's what actually moves grades. One trial, one honest read on where your child stands.
Free 30-minute trial · No card needed · AQA, Edexcel & OCR · Combined and Separate Sciences
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What your child gets — every week, for every science.
Three things that don't show up in generic online tutoring. Every weekly science student at Legacy gets all three by default — not as a paid upgrade, not as a 'premium tier'.
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'.
Six-weekly written progress reviews — per subject.
Every six weeks the tutor for each subject sends a short written report: what's been covered, what's improved, what's still wobbly, the recommended focus for the next half-term. You see the trajectory in writing for each science independently, not blurred into a single 'sciences' line.
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.
Biology is usually the most-requested single subject, partly because content volume is the highest of the three and partly because the exam rewards structured written answers in a way the other two don't. Chemistry is the subject most parents flag as 'they used to be fine and then it fell off' — that almost always traces back to mole calculations or the way the school glossed over balancing equations. Physics is the subject where confidence collapses most quickly, and it's almost always equation rearrangement, not the underlying ideas, that's the actual culprit.
Each child page below covers what your child will actually sit, the recurring weak points we see week to week, and the boards we cover. Open the one that matches the priority and the trial lesson will be in that subject specifically.
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.
Most online tutoring platforms will happily match you with one 'science tutor' for all three subjects. It's cheaper to staff and easier to schedule. We don't, and the reason is unglamorous: the three sciences ask for different teaching habits, and a tutor who's brilliant at one of them is usually only competent at the other two.
A physics specialist who has spent a decade on equation rearrangement and the standard model will reliably get a wobbly Year 11 from a 5 to a 7 on the physics paper. Hand the same tutor a biology revision schedule and they'll do a perfectly adequate job — but the rote-recall structure, the discipline of writing six-mark answers against the mark scheme, the way the genetics topic is really tested — that's a biology specialist's bread and butter, not a physics specialist's. Pretending otherwise is how families end up paying for a year of tutoring and getting a half-grade movement instead of a full one.
It's a slightly harder operational model for us to run. We run it because that's where the grade movement actually comes from.
Required practicals — without a lab
How we cover the practicals when the lesson is on a screen, not at a bench.
This is the question parents ask most often, and it's the right question to ask. The honest answer: we don't pretend the lesson is a lab. We do the thing the exam actually asks for, which isn't 'perform this practical' — it's 'describe this method, identify the independent and dependent variables, explain why the result was anomalous, suggest one improvement to the procedure'.
Every required practical on the AQA, Edexcel and OCR specifications is walked through with the tutor as a written-up method. Your child learns to identify variables, spot the source of error the exam tends to ask about, and write the standard improvement that earns the mark. We then drill those skills against past-paper practical questions from the right board, year by year, until the answer pattern is automatic. Schools often rush this content — they have to, because lab time is finite. Online 1-to-1 is, paradoxically, where this content gets covered properly.
Pricing snapshot
What it costs — straight numbers, no 'request a quote'.
The free trial lesson is exactly that — free, no card needed. The optional Legacy Diagnostic is £97 and covers a written cross-subject audit plus a 60-minute specialist deep-dive. Weekly 1-to-1 science tuition starts from £100 per month for one weekly lesson with the same specialist tutor — per subject. A second subject is added on a separate slot with its own specialist; pricing is per slot, not per package.
There are no hidden onboarding fees, no platform charges, no minimum-term contracts. You can pause or cancel weekly lessons with one week's notice. If progress stalls in the first month, the conversation is with our founder directly.
- Free 30-minute trial lesson — no card, no commitment.
- £97 optional diagnostic — written report + 60-minute specialist session + 30-minute parent call.
- Weekly tutoring — from £100/month per subject, same specialist every week.
- Add a second science as a separate weekly slot when (and only when) you need to.
GCSE sciences tutoring — frequently asked.
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Pick the science that matters most right now. Thirty minutes, 1-to-1, online. No card needed. You'll know within one lesson whether this is the kind of tutoring that's going to move the grade.
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