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GCSE English is two separate qualifications, Language and Literature, assessed in very different ways, and a tutor should know which one a student is losing marks in. Lessons are one-to-one and online, and the first 15 minutes with any tutor is free.
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Language rewards analysing an unseen text and writing to a brief under time pressure; nothing can be learnt in advance except the technique. Literature rewards knowing set texts closely enough to quote them from memory and build an argument.
A student can be comfortable in one and lost in the other. Naming which is happening is usually the first useful thing a tutor does.
Marks go to a line of argument sustained across an answer rather than to spotting the most techniques. A paragraph that names a metaphor and stops scores far less than one that says what the metaphor does to a reader and why the writer wanted that.
The other reliable gain is timing. Most students who run out of time do so because they over-plan question one, and a tutor with past papers can fix that in a fortnight.
Which Shakespeare, which nineteenth-century novel and which poetry anthology all vary between AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas and CCEA. A tutor who knows the wrong anthology is of limited use, so every profile lists the boards they teach.
Whichever the marks are being lost in, since they are separate qualifications with separate skills. Most tutors teach both, and the free introduction is a good place to work out which needs the time.
By marking real essays against the real mark scheme and rewriting paragraphs together, rather than teaching a formula. Structures help a student who is stuck, but marks come from argument.
Yes, though it is separately endorsed and does not count towards the GCSE grade. Most of the useful work is preparation and practice under something like real conditions.
Say so at the introduction. Reading it is not optional, but a tutor can run alongside it rather than waiting, and the first lessons look different if that is the starting point.
One-to-one online often suits it well, because the pace is set by the student and everything written on the whiteboard stays there. Tell the tutor at the introduction so lessons are planned around it.
From £30 an hour, set by each tutor and shown on their profile. The first 15 minutes is free.
We are selective about who teaches here: we look for tutors at top universities, everybody is interviewed by us, and nobody is listed without a criminal record check on file. Lessons run in the browser with live video and a shared whiteboard.Rates start at £30 an hour, the first 15 minutes with any tutor is free, and every student gets cookie's study software at no extra cost.