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A Level Maths Tutors, Online or In Person

AQA, Pearson Edexcel and OCR – Pure, Statistics and Mechanics, plus Further Maths – taught on the paper structure your child is actually sitting.

Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.

Math Wizard teaches A Level maths across the United Kingdom for AQA (7357), Pearson Edexcel (9MA0) and OCR Mathematics A (H240). All three are assessed by three papers of two hours and 100 marks each, taken at the end of the course, with a calculator permitted on every paper. 1-to-1 lessons cost £60–£80 per hour and small groups of five or six cost £40 per student per hour, online anywhere in the UK or in person in 17 cities.

Why Do Students Who Got a 9 at GCSE Struggle at A Level?

It sounds like a contradiction to parents, and it is the single most common story behind an A Level maths enquiry.

GCSE maths rewards recognising a method and applying it. The question usually tells you, in effect, which technique it wants. A strong student can score highly by knowing a set of procedures very well.

A Level rewards something different: choosing between methods, and justifying the choice. A question no longer announces its topic. Integration by parts or by substitution? Is this a trigonometry problem or a calculus one? Nothing on the page says.

So the student who was best at memorising is often the one who hits the wall first, usually around November of Year 12. More practice of the same kind does not fix it. Changing how they approach an unseen question does.

Is this your son or daughter?

The first lesson is spent finding out whether the gap is content, method selection, or exam technique - because the answer changes everything that follows. It is half price, with nothing to commit to afterwards.

Trial lessons are 50% off the normal rate.

How Is A Level Maths Assessed?

A Level maths content is prescribed by the Department for Education and is common to every board – there is no such thing as an easier syllabus. What differs is how the three papers are arranged, and that changes how a student should revise.

Specification Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3
AQA 7357 Pure only Pure + Mechanics Pure + Statistics
Pearson Edexcel 9MA0 Pure Mathematics 1 Pure Mathematics 2 Statistics and Mechanics
OCR A H240 Pure only Pure + Statistics Pure + Mechanics

Why it matters in the exam hall. An Edexcel student meets Statistics and Mechanics together in one paper and has to switch between them. An AQA student meets Mechanics on Paper 2 and Statistics on Paper 3; an OCR student meets them the other way round. A student revising from generic “A Level maths” material is preparing for a paper nobody actually sits.

A Level Further Maths

Further Maths is where the boards genuinely diverge, because unlike A Level Maths it has optional content – two students on the same board can be sitting different papers.

AQA 7367

Three papers of two hours and 100 marks. Papers 1 and 2 are compulsory core; Paper 3 carries the options, and students take two of Mechanics, Statistics and Discrete.

Edexcel 9FM0

Four papers of 1h30 and 75 marks. Core Pure 1 and 2 are compulsory, then two optional papers chosen from eight – Further Pure, Further Statistics, Further Mechanics and Decision.

OCR H245

Four papers of 1h30 and 75 marks. Pure Core 1 and 2 are mandatory, plus any two of Statistics, Mechanics, Discrete and Additional Pure.

The first thing worth establishing in a Further Maths enquiry is which optional papers the school has entered the student for – it is surprisingly often the one thing nobody at home knows.

Free A Level Maths Worksheets

Practice questions written to the A Level specifications, with full worked solutions and the mistakes students actually make. Free, with no account and no email address.

Who teaches your lessons

A maths specialist – someone who teaches maths and no other subject, works from the same worksheets you can read on this site, and follows the same method with every student.

You are told exactly who your tutor is before the first lesson, never after. That lesson is half price, with no contract, so if the match is not right you have lost one half-price hour and nothing else.

How Much Does an A Level Maths Tutor Cost?

1-to-1 A Level maths tuition costs £60–£80 per hour, and small group classes £40 per student per hour for groups of five or six. A Level and Further Maths sit at the upper end of the 1-to-1 range.

1-to-1, in person or online £60–£80 per hour
Small group (5–6 students) £40 per student per hour
Trial lesson 50% off the normal rate

The rate depends on level – A Level and Advanced Higher sit at the upper end. There is no registration fee, no minimum package, and no charge for the worksheets or materials.

Most UK tutoring agencies quote you privately. Ours are above.

A Level Maths Tutoring – Common Questions

Math Wizard charges £60 to £80 per hour for 1-to-1 A Level maths tuition, and £40 per student per hour in groups of five or six. A Level sits at the upper end of that range. Across the UK market, A Level maths tuition averages around £42 an hour.
AQA (7357), Pearson Edexcel (9MA0) and OCR Mathematics A (H240), plus A Level Further Maths on all three. The content is identical across boards because it is prescribed by the Department for Education, but the papers are arranged differently, and lessons follow the arrangement a student is actually sitting.
Three papers, each two hours and 100 marks, taken at the end of the course, with a calculator permitted on every paper. All three boards use that same shape; what differs is which paper carries Mechanics and which carries Statistics.
The AS is a separate qualification, assessed on its own papers, and the full A Level grade comes from the A Level papers taken at the end of the course. If a student has sat an AS it is useful evidence of where they are, but it does not carry marks forward.
This is the most common reason students arrive here. GCSE rewards recognising a method and applying it; A Level rewards choosing between methods and justifying the choice. A student who succeeded at GCSE by memorising procedures often hits the wall in the first term of Year 12, and the fix is a change in how they work rather than more practice of the same kind.
Yes, anywhere in the UK, at the same price as in person. Lessons are worked through on iPad with shared digital notes over Zoom or Google Meet, which suits A Level particularly well because long multi-step solutions stay readable and are sent to the student afterwards.

Start with one A Level lesson, at half price

Tell us the board, the year, and which paper is causing the trouble. We will tell you honestly whether we can help – no contract and no minimum package either way.

Where these facts come from

Every paper structure, mark total, timing and grade scale on this page was checked against the awarding body’s own published specification. Those documents are free, and they are the only source that is definitive – if anything here ever disagrees with one of them, the specification is right and this page is wrong.

Specifications are revised from time to time. Where a course has changed – the 2023 revision to National 5 and Higher, for example – this site follows the current version, which a good deal of older revision material still does not.