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GCSE Science is taken either as Combined Science, worth two GCSEs, or as three separate sciences, and the content differs between them. Tutors here list which they teach and on which board, and the first 15 minutes with any of them is free.
We also build cookie, the revision app, and every student and every tutor here gets it at no extra cost. This is what it has for GCSE Science to use between lessons.
Combined Science covers less of each subject and is graded on a nine-point double scale; the separate sciences go further, particularly in Physics. A tutor working from the wrong specification will cover material a student does not need and miss material they do.
If you are not sure which your school entered, the specification code on a past paper settles it, and a tutor can read it off in the introduction.
A large share of the marks lost in Physics and Chemistry are maths marks: rearranging a formula, standard form, unit conversion, reading a gradient. Students who describe themselves as bad at science are often specifically stuck on those.
It is worth checking before booking a subject specialist, because the fix is usually a few lessons on the arithmetic rather than a term on the science.
Every board examines a set list of required practicals (the method, the variables, the sources of error) and the questions come up every year. They are among the most reliably learnable marks on the paper, and among the most commonly skipped in revision.
For Combined Science, usually yes. For separate sciences at the top end, a specialist per subject is often better, particularly Physics, where the maths is heaviest.
Yes, and they are worth asking for by name. They are examined every year and are among the most predictable marks on the paper.
What is examined is the method, the variables, the errors and the interpretation of results rather than the manipulation itself, and all of that works on a shared whiteboard with a real set of data.
Very. It is usually the maths rather than the physics, which is why it is worth diagnosing before choosing a tutor.
AQA, Edexcel, OCR (both Gateway and Twenty First Century), WJEC/Eduqas and CCEA, plus the international IGCSE specifications.
From £30 an hour, set by each tutor. 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.