A-Level Maths / Further Maths
Live online tutoring for AQA, Edexcel and OCR students, run as a monthly subscription rather than ad-hoc hourly lessons. Every maths tutor on our team is a subject specialist who has taught A-Level for at least five years, so sessions are built around the actual mark schemes your child will be sitting, not general maths help.
We start with a free 20-minute diagnostic call to work out where the marks are being lost, then match the student with a tutor and a weekly pace that fits the exam timetable. Parents get regular progress reports so you can see what has changed between one report and the next.
Most students who come to us are not weak at maths. They are losing marks in a small number of predictable places, usually where a topic asks them to choose a method rather than follow one. These are the ones that come up again and again in diagnostic calls.
Differentiation is drilled to death in Year 12 and integration never quite catches up. Substitution, by parts, partial fractions and knowing which one a question is actually asking for is where the six-mark questions get abandoned halfway.
Connected particles, inclined planes, friction and projectiles. The maths is rarely the problem. Drawing a correct force diagram and resolving in the right direction is, and that is a teachable habit.
Proof by contradiction, proof by induction in Further Maths, and disproof by counter-example. Students often know the answer is true but cannot write the argument in a way that scores the structure marks.
Stating hypotheses properly, choosing between binomial and normal models, interpreting the critical region and writing a conclusion in context. The last sentence is worth a mark and gets skipped constantly.
Argand diagrams, modulus-argument form, loci and De Moivre's theorem. The moment questions move from algebra to geometry, confidence drops, so we teach the two views side by side.
Invariant lines and points, determinants, and solving systems of three equations. Marks go missing on interpretation rather than arithmetic, so we work through what each answer means geometrically.
If your child recognises three or more of these, the diagnostic call will tell us which ones are worth the first month of sessions and which will sort themselves out.
A-Level Maths content is largely common across the boards, but the paper structure, the formula booklet and the way questions are worded are not. Tutors work from the specification your child is actually entered for, and revision material is filed by board so nothing you download is for the wrong paper.
| Content area | AQA | Edexcel | OCR (A and MEI) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pure | Papers 1 and 2, pure mixed with applied | Papers 1 and 2, pure only | Pure across Papers 1 and 3 (OCR A) |
| Mechanics | Shared with statistics in Papers 2 and 3 | Paper 3, Section B | Paper 2 (OCR A), problem-solving flavour in MEI |
| Statistics | Papers 2 and 3, large data set | Paper 3, Section A, large data set | Paper 3 (OCR A), pre-release data |
| Further Pure | Compulsory core | Core Pure 1 and 2 | Core Pure, plus MEI structure |
| Further options | Mechanics, statistics, discrete | Further Pure, Further Mechanics, Further Statistics, Decision | Additional pure, mechanics, statistics, modelling with algorithms |
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Sessions run for an hour on a shared online whiteboard, so the tutor and student write together rather than one person talking at a screen. The shape below is the default. It flexes in the weeks before a mock or a real paper, when almost the whole hour goes to timed questions and marking.
Two or three short questions on last week's topic and one on something from earlier in the course. It tells the tutor immediately whether the previous session stuck or needs revisiting, and it keeps older content warm instead of letting it decay until study leave.
The tutor works through the new method with the student, not at them. The student writes each step, explains the choice of method out loud, and the tutor stops at the exact points examiners take marks off. This is where method selection is trained rather than just method execution.
Real questions from the student's own exam board, done under something close to exam pace. They are then marked against the actual mark scheme so the student can see the difference between a right answer and a full-mark answer, which is usually one line of working.
Set work for the week, sized to fit around school homework rather than doubling it. The tutor logs what was covered, what to review, and any recorded lessons or walkthroughs worth watching before the next session.
Further Maths
Plenty of tutors can teach A-Level Maths well and still be a poor fit for Further Maths. It is not just harder content, it is content that many maths graduates have not touched since their own second year, taught at roughly double the pace, often in fewer timetabled lessons at school than the students need.
So we match Further Maths students only with tutors who have actually taught the qualification to exam classes, including the option modules. That matters because the option modules differ so much by school. A student doing Decision needs someone fluent in algorithms and network problems. A student doing Further Mechanics needs momentum, impulse and elastic collisions taught properly, not improvised from a textbook the night before.
Further Maths is frequently taught alongside the main A-Level in compressed time. Sessions are planned against the school's scheme of work so tutoring runs slightly ahead, not two topics behind.
We ask which options the school has entered the student for at the diagnostic call, then match on that specifically rather than assuming the standard combination.
Induction, complex number geometry and matrix invariance reward students who can write a clean argument. We mark written proofs the way an examiner would, line by line.
If a student is sitting Further Maths AS only, or dropping it after Year 12, we plan around that decision honestly rather than pushing sessions that will not affect their grade.
Every subscription includes unlimited access to the on-demand maths library, so the work does not stop when the live session ends. It is filed by exam board and by topic, which means revision the night before a mock takes two minutes to find rather than twenty.
Whole papers worked through question by question by a maths tutor, with the mark scheme on screen. The commentary is about decisions: why this substitution, why this diagram first, where the method marks sit and what a student can still salvage when they cannot finish a part.
Short, self-contained lessons on single topics. Useful when a student misses school, or when a live session flagged a gap that needs re-teaching rather than a nudge.
Side-by-side comparisons of a typical student answer and a full-mark answer, with the missing lines highlighted. This is usually the fastest single source of extra marks.
AQA, Edexcel and OCR specific question sets and formula-booklet drills, so students practise with the same booklet they will be handed in the exam hall.
A written plan across the weeks to the exam, weighted towards the topics the diagnostic and progress reports show are weakest, and adjusted after each round of mocks.
Subject articles and exam technique posts are on the blog. Plan details are on pricing and how it works.
Individual maths tutor profiles are being written up and photographed now, so rather than put up placeholder names, here is what is true of every tutor who takes a maths or Further Maths student with us.
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Teaches the pure core plus mechanics across all three boards, and works with students who are strong on method but lose marks on setting problems up.
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Covers Core Pure plus option modules, including Further Mechanics and Decision, and supports students sitting Further Maths alongside a full A-Level timetable.
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Focuses on the large data set, hypothesis testing and writing conclusions in context, which is where applied marks are most often dropped.
On the free diagnostic call we tell you which tutor we would match your child with and why, before you pay anything.
The questions parents and students ask us most often on the diagnostic call. If yours is not here, send it over and we will answer it honestly, including if the answer is that tutoring is not what your child needs right now.
It depends on where the marks are being lost, but a realistic pattern is a full term of consistent weekly sessions to move a grade, assuming the student does the follow-up work. Students losing marks on exam technique and presentation often see movement in mocks faster than that, because the underlying understanding is already there. Students with genuine content gaps from Year 12 take longer, and we will say so on the diagnostic call rather than promise a term.
Yes. Retake students are one of the groups we work with most, whether they are resitting at school, at a college, or as a private candidate. We start by going through the actual paper breakdown where available, since a retake plan should be built on which papers and which question types went wrong rather than starting the whole course again from chapter one.
Year 12 is easier and usually cheaper overall, because you are preventing gaps rather than repairing them, and the jump from GCSE to A-Level catches out a lot of strong GCSE students in the first term. Year 13 starts are completely normal though, and most of our maths students begin then. If you are starting in Year 13, earlier in the autumn term is far better than after the January mocks.
Yes, where we have a tutor with relevant experience free, which is why we ask about it on the diagnostic call rather than after signup. STEP and MAT preparation is a different discipline from A-Level work: fewer, longer problems, no method handed to you, and a real emphasis on writing up an argument. We would usually run it alongside normal A-Level sessions, not instead of them.
Essentials at £129 a month, with two sessions a week, works for a student keeping on top of one subject. Accelerate at £219 a month, with four sessions a week, suits students taking both Maths and Further Maths, or maths plus a science. Exam Sprint at £349 a month gives unlimited sessions for the final eight weeks before exams. Full details are on the pricing page.
Both are available. One-to-one is the default where a student has specific gaps, since the whole hour is spent on their own work. Small groups of up to four suit students who are broadly on track and want structured weekly practice, and they work best when everyone is on the same exam board and roughly the same point in the course. We recommend one or the other after the diagnostic call.
Start with the free 20-minute diagnostic call. We talk to the student, ask a few questions about where the marks are going, check the exam board and the school's pace, and then tell you which tutor and which plan we would recommend. No payment is taken on the call, and if we do not think we can help we will say that instead.