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GCSE Maths tutoring
Two families wrote publicly last summer about their sons going from a Grade 4 to a Grade 7 in Maths. Both worked one to one, weekly, on past paper questions.
Fifteen of our tutors teach Maths, including three qualified secondary teachers and a Master's in Mathematics. Lessons are live on Zoom, one to one, £30 each, and the first 30 minutes are free.
No card details for the trial. Change tutor at any time, at no cost.
Same rate whichever tutor you are matched with. There is no premium for Higher tier or for more experienced tutors.
4.9
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Teaching UK students since 2020.
What parents wrote
Two separate families reported a Grade 4 moving to a Grade 7 in Maths, one from mocks to results day and one across a single autumn term. Both are individual results rather than averages, and both are quoted below with a link to the original review.
"Excellent tuition. Resulting in my son going from a 4 in mocks to 7 today!"
"My son started in the autumn GCSE term on a Grade 4. The RS tutor made him practice past-paper and short homework with proper explaination of everything. On results day he got a 7."
"Excellent 1-2-1 sessions. We have been having Maths lessons for months now and we cannot fault the commitment and dedication. My sons confidence in Maths has increased significantly."
"Brilliant teaching from RS Remote Tutoring. My son has got a lot better at Maths and you can see it in his confidence."
Worth saying plainly: these are individual results that particular parents chose to write about, not an average and not a promise. How far a grade moves depends on the starting point, how long lessons run and how much work happens between them.
Maths specialists
One of fifteen Maths tutors, matched to the tier, exam board and the specific problem. Three hold qualified teacher status, one holds a Master's in Mathematics, and one sat the exams himself two years ago. You meet them in the free trial before booking.
Maths, KS3 and GCSE
A career in secondary and further education, so the whole route from Year 7 arithmetic to the Higher tier paper is familiar ground rather than a stretch. Teaches to the specification and marks as he goes.
Best for families who want a qualified classroom teacher
Maths, KS3 and GCSE
Holds QTS as well as a PGCE, which means mainstream classroom teaching rather than tutoring alone. Particularly good on the misconceptions that quietly derail a Foundation student long before the exam does.
Best for Foundation tier, and GCSE Further Maths
Maths and Statistics
Has taught at secondary and undergraduate level, so the hardest end of the Higher paper sits well inside her range rather than at the edge of it. Strongest on the topics students most often give up on: algebraic manipulation, graphs and statistics.
Best for Higher tier students aiming at 7 to 9
Maths, Foundation and Higher
Over a decade teaching Maths, and one of the few tutors who regularly teaches during the day rather than in the evening. Useful for home educated students and anyone on a college timetable.
Best for daytime lessons and home educated students
Maths, KS3 and GCSE
A qualified secondary maths teacher who came to it through a numerate degree rather than a maths one, which tends to make the reasoning behind a method easier to explain. Modelling and guided practice first, past papers once the method holds.
Best for students who can follow a method but not explain it
Maths, trigonometry and statistics
Specialises in the back end of the Higher paper, where trigonometry, statistics and multi step reasoning questions decide whether a student lands a 6 or an 8. Teaches reasoning rather than memorised method.
Best for Higher tier students chasing the top grades
Maths, algebra and geometry
Works almost entirely through past papers and mock questions, marking as he goes. If your child knows the content but keeps dropping marks on the paper itself, that is the gap he is built for.
Best for students losing marks on technique rather than content
Maths, KS3 and GCSE
Went from failing grades in his own Maths exams to an A*, which is a useful thing for a tutor to have done. More than a thousand lessons taught since, mostly with students who had decided they were simply bad at the subject.
Best for students who think they are not a maths person
GCSE Maths and Physics
Sat Maths and Further Maths recently and did well in them, which is its own kind of qualification. Students who have shut down with adult tutors often work better with somebody close enough in age to remember which bits were confusing.
Best for students who find adult tutors intimidating
The specification
The five areas every board assesses: number, algebra, ratio and proportion, geometry and measures, and probability and statistics. Lessons start with whichever of those is losing the most marks rather than working through the syllabus front to back.
Most students do not need all of it. A Grade 4 student chasing a 5 usually needs number, ratio and basic algebra secured rather than circle theorems. Working out which is which is what the first lesson is for.
Foundation or Higher
Foundation covers grades 1 to 5, Higher covers grades 4 to 9. A student capable of a 5 is often safer and calmer on Foundation than scraping the bottom of Higher, and the decision is worth making on evidence rather than ambition.
| Tier | Grades available | Suits | The trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 1 to 5 | Students working around a 3 or 4 who need a secure pass | A 5 is the ceiling, which closes off carrying Maths on afterwards |
| Higher | 4 to 9 | Students working at 5 or above, or planning to carry on with Maths | A weak Higher candidate can drop below a 4 entirely |
The tutor works through recent papers at both tiers in the first few lessons and tells you honestly what the marks suggest. Schools usually decide the entry, but a tutor who has seen the working can give you something concrete to take to them.
If your child is already entered for the wrong tier, that is worth raising early. Moving is far easier in October than in March.
Higher tier is not charged at a premium. A Grade 9 push costs the same £30 an hour as a Foundation Grade 4 rescue, and the same tutors teach both.
Specifications
Yours. We cover AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, and WJEC with Eduqas, and lessons follow the student's own specification. An Edexcel Higher student should not be practising OCR Foundation questions.
Not sure which board the school uses? Send the course name or the specification code from the front of a past paper or exercise book and we will identify it before lessons start. Most parents do not know, and it takes us a minute to check.
Inside a lesson
Sixty minutes live on Zoom with a digital whiteboard. The student works through problems while the tutor watches the working, not just the answer, and mistakes get corrected at the moment they happen rather than in a report afterwards.
Cost
£30 for a 60-minute one to one lesson, falling to £27.50 on a three-month term plan and £25 on an annual plan. Published UK averages for one to one tutoring sit at roughly £37 to £38 an hour, so our standard rate is below the typical market rate.
£30
per 60-minute lesson£27.50
per 60-minute lesson£25
per 60-minute lessonNo sign-up fee, no matching fee, and no premium for Higher tier or for a more experienced tutor. The 30-minute trial is free and takes no card details.
Beyond GCSE
The same tutors teach either side of GCSE, so a student does not have to change person when they move up a year, carry Maths on after GCSE, or come back for a resit.
Years 7 to 9. Rebuilding number and algebra before GCSE content starts, which is far easier than repairing it in Year 11.
KS3 tutoringThe Level 2 Further Maths qualification some schools run alongside Higher tier. Covered by tutors who already teach it, not treated as an add-on.
Ask about Further MathsNovember and summer retakes. A resit is a different problem from a first sitting and needs a different plan, not the same year repeated.
Resit tutoringFor students carrying Maths on after GCSE. Taught by tutors with degree level maths behind them rather than GCSE specialists stretching upwards.
A-Level tutoringFor adults and apprentices who need a Maths qualification for a job or a college place rather than a GCSE grade.
Functional SkillsCommon questions
Anything not answered here, message us and we will tell you straight. We usually reply within minutes.
Two families wrote publicly about a Grade 4 becoming a Grade 7, one from mocks to results day and one across a single autumn term. Both quotes are on this page with a link to the original review. They are individual results rather than an average, and we will not promise the same.
Almost always, because fifteen of our tutors teach Maths. Availability tightens from January and again in the run up to summer exams, and the good evening slots go first. Tell us the days and times you need when you enquire and we will confirm before anything is booked.
Someone reads your enquiry and matches on tier, exam board, current grade, target grade, any learning needs and the times you are free. You get one name and the reason for it, not a shortlist to compare. A Higher tier Edexcel student is not put with a tutor whose experience is Foundation AQA.
Yes. Tell us the name when you enquire and we will check their availability. Most families let us suggest instead, because we can judge the match on tier and teaching style better from the outside than a profile can show.
Yes, at a fixed weekly slot. A tutor who has watched a student work for two months knows exactly which topics collapse under pressure, and a rota would throw that away every week.
£30 for a 60-minute one to one lesson, £27.50 each on a three-month term plan and £25 each on a twelve-month annual plan. Four lessons a month works out at £120, £110 or £100. No sign-up fee, no matching fee, and no premium for Higher tier or for a more experienced tutor.
Yes. Thirty minutes with the tutor we have matched, live on Zoom, with no card details taken and no obligation to book afterwards. If the match is wrong you owe us nothing and we will look again.
The tutor works through questions with your child rather than asking what the problem is, because students rarely know. By the end you will have a view on which topics are actually losing marks and what to fix first.
We cover AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, and WJEC with Eduqas, at both Foundation and Higher tier, and the board is part of the match. If you are not sure which one the school uses, send the course name or the specification code and we will identify it before lessons start.
Tell us and we will rematch at no cost. You do not lose lessons, restart a plan or pay a fee. With fifteen Maths tutors there is genuine room to find somebody better suited.
Yes. Plenty of families run Maths with one tutor and Science or English with another, and a few of our tutors cover two subjects themselves. It is the same £30 a lesson either way.
Yes, and it is deliberately short. A focused set of past paper questions on the topic just covered does more than an hour of unfocused revision. Parents are told what was set and whether it came back done.
Free 30-minute trial
Tell us the year group, the tier and what is going wrong. We will put forward one Maths tutor who fits and set up a free 30-minute session. No card details, no obligation.
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