Looking for a biology tutor for your child? Richmond Tutoring gives students in the UK at GCSE and A-Level 1-to-1 online lessons with a biology specialist — the ideas behind the facts, the longer written answers and the practical and data questions, on your child’s own exam board. £36 a lesson, no contract, and the first 45-minute lesson is free.
Two different courses, two different jobs. Pick the one your child is on to see exactly how we teach it.
GCSE Biology looks like the science you can revise your way through, and that is exactly the trap. There is a great deal to know, but the marks go to students who can explain a process in order and apply it to an unfamiliar experiment, not to those who can recite it.
In lessons, we focus on helping students to:
15%of GCSE Biology marks, at least, test practical skills
GCSE biology tutoring
A-Level Biology is a step up in depth and in writing. The content goes down to the molecules — DNA, proteins, respiration and photosynthesis — and the papers increasingly ask students to apply it to experiments and data they have never met before, often in long written answers.
In lessons, we focus on helping students to:
10%of A-Level Biology marks, at least, use maths — including statistics
A-Level biology tutoringTaking Combined Science rather than GCSE Biology? GCSE science tutoring covers all three sciences with one tutor.
Biology is examined on explanation, not memory. We find where your child’s marks are actually going, and build the lessons around it.
Your child is taught by someone who teaches biology every week, on their own specification — not a general science tutor working a page ahead of the syllabus.
Facts learned without the process underneath are the first thing to go under exam pressure. We teach what is actually happening in the cell, the body or the ecosystem, so the facts have something to hang on.
Biology marks are given for precise, ordered explanations. Every week we practise the longer written answers and the data questions against the board’s own mark schemes.
The first lesson is a real 45-minute class and you can sit in. A short note follows every lesson after that, there is no contract, and if we do not think we can help, we will say so.
9s and A*sacross our GCSE and A-Level students
Our GCSE students have earned 11 grade 9s since 2024 — 2 in 2024, 6 in 2025 and 3 in 2026.
At A-Level, our published results include an A*.
Every grade we publish is checked against a results slip first.
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One rate for GCSE and A-Level, and for every exam board. No placement fee, no contract, and the first lesson is free.
£36per hour
One 60-minute 1-to-1 biology lesson, GCSE or A-Level
Richmond Tutoring charges £36 for a 60-minute one-to-one online biology lesson, at GCSE or A-Level, with no contract or placement fee. The first 45-minute lesson is free.
Usually when one of these is true: they know the content but the marks do not follow, longer written answers keep coming back half-marked, the data and practical questions cause panic, or a good GCSE grade has turned into a disappointing Year 12 one. If you are not sure, book the free demo class. If we do not think your child needs lessons, we will tell you.
Usually because biology is revised as facts and examined as reasoning. Mark schemes reward a precise explanation, in the right order, with the right terms — and more and more of the marks go on applying the biology to an experiment or a situation the student has never seen. We teach the idea behind each fact, then practise writing it the way the mark scheme wants it.
Less than in chemistry or physics, but it is fixed: at least 10% of the marks in both GCSE Biology and A-Level Biology use maths, a floor set by Ofqual. That is percentages and rates, magnification, graphs and, at A-Level, statistical tests such as chi-squared. Students who are otherwise strong at biology often lose these marks, so we practise them in context.
Yes, because the part that is examined is on paper. Students carry out the practicals in school, and the written papers then ask about the method, the variables and the data. Diagrams, processes and data analysis all work very well on a shared whiteboard, and every lesson is recorded so revision is just watching it back.
GCSE Biology on Pearson Edexcel (1BI0), AQA (8461) and OCR Gateway (J247), and A-Level Biology on AQA (7402), OCR Biology A (H420), OCR Biology B: Advancing Biology (H422) and Pearson Edexcel Biology A: Salters-Nuffield (9BN0) and Biology B (9BI0). Our focus is the UK specifications, but we teach International GCSE too. We don’t teach International A-Level or IB.
A real lesson, one to one, with a biology specialist — free, before you decide anything. Tell us the year group, the exam board and whether it is the content or the written answers that are going wrong.