Looking for a chemistry tutor for your child? Richmond Tutoring gives students in the UK at GCSE and A-Level 1-to-1 online lessons with a chemistry specialist — moles and calculations, equations, organic chemistry and the practical questions, on your child’s own exam board. £36 a lesson, no contract, and the first 45-minute lesson is free.
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GCSE Chemistry asks students to think on two scales at once: what they can see in a flask, and what the particles are doing to cause it. Most marks go missing where those two meet — in moles, in equations, and in the explanations that link them.
In lessons, we focus on helping students to:
20%of GCSE Chemistry marks, at least, use maths
GCSE chemistry tutoring
A-Level Chemistry takes the GCSE ideas and asks why, and how much. Physical, inorganic and organic chemistry each have their own way of thinking, the calculations get longer, and the papers expect students to connect all three in a single question.
In lessons, we focus on helping students to:
20%of A-Level Chemistry marks, at least, use maths
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Chemistry is a subject built in layers, and one weak layer brings down everything above it. We find that layer, and build the lessons around it.
Your child is taught by someone who teaches chemistry every week, on their own specification — not a general science tutor working a page ahead of the syllabus.
Chemistry goes wrong when students learn rules without the particles underneath. We teach what is actually happening, so equations, mechanisms and trends make sense instead of needing to be memorised.
Moles, concentrations and yields are where most chemistry marks are lost. We practise them step by step against the board’s own mark schemes, until the method is automatic.
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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£36per hour
One 60-minute 1-to-1 chemistry lesson, GCSE or A-Level
Richmond Tutoring charges £36 for a 60-minute one-to-one online chemistry 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: moles and calculations have stopped making sense, equations cannot be balanced or written from a description, organic chemistry has become a list of reactions to memorise, 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.
Because moles are often taught as a formula to learn rather than as a way of counting particles. The method then collapses as soon as a question takes two steps or is worded differently. We teach what a mole actually is first, and build reacting masses, concentrations, titrations and yield on top of it. At A-Level the same idea runs through equilibria, rates and energetics, so it has to be secure.
At least 20% of the marks in both GCSE Chemistry and A-Level Chemistry use maths, a floor set by Ofqual. That is moles and reacting masses, percentages and yield, standard form and significant figures, and at A-Level, logarithms for pH and the rearranging in rate and equilibrium expressions. We teach it in its chemistry context. If the maths itself is the problem, maths tutoring can run alongside.
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 observations and the results. Equations, mechanisms and calculations all work very well on a shared whiteboard, and every lesson is recorded so revision is just watching it back.
GCSE Chemistry on Pearson Edexcel (1CH0), AQA (8462) and OCR Gateway (J248), and A-Level Chemistry on AQA (7405), OCR Chemistry A (H432), OCR Chemistry B: Salters (H433) and Pearson Edexcel (9CH0). 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 chemistry specialist — free, before you decide anything. Tell us the year group, the exam board and which topic your child is stuck on.