Richmond Tutoring provides 1-to-1 online GCSE Chemistry tutoring for students in Years 10 and 11 across the UK. Lessons follow your child’s exam board, including Pearson Edexcel, AQA and OCR, at Foundation and Higher tier, and focus on quantitative chemistry, the required practicals and exam technique. Every lesson is taught by a specialist chemistry teacher and worked from real past papers. Tell us which topic your child is stuck on and the first 45-minute GCSE Chemistry lesson is free.
Richmond Tutoring offers 1-to-1 online GCSE chemistry tutoring for Years 10–11 across the UK, covering Pearson Edexcel 1CH0, AQA 8462 and OCR Gateway J248 at Foundation and Higher tier.
What we do differently in chemistry, whether your child takes it separately or inside Combined Science.
Every student has a different sticking point. It might be balancing equations, understanding bonding, or getting lost in mole calculations. We start with your child’s exam board, Foundation or Higher tier and current gaps, then build lessons around what they actually need to improve.
There is a lot to remember in GCSE Chemistry, but your child should not have to learn everything by heart. We help them see what is happening in a reaction, why atoms bond and how ideas such as concentration, reactivity and the periodic table fit together. Once the chemistry makes sense, remembering it gets much easier.
Knowing the chemistry is only part of a GCSE question. Your child also needs to balance equations, calculate moles and concentrations, explain reactions, handle required practicals and write answers that contain the points the mark scheme rewards. We practise these skills using real exam questions, so their knowledge starts showing up in their marks.
Most parents do not arrive looking for a GCSE chemistry tutor. They arrive with a sentence about their child. These are the ones we hear most.
He cannot get moles to stick.
The most common sentence we hear about chemistry. Moles taught as a formula triangle collapse the moment a question is worded differently or asks for two steps. We teach what a mole is counting, then build concentration, yield and titration on top of it.
She cannot balance equations reliably.
Balancing sits underneath most of the quantitative work, so an unreliable method costs marks far beyond the question asking for it. We work on writing formulae correctly first, because most balancing errors start there.
His six-mark answers get two or three marks.
Six-mark chemistry questions are marked on whether the explanation is linked and complete. We work on structure: what the command word is asking, which points earn marks, and saying them in the order the scheme expects.
She is stuck around a grade 5 and wants a 7.
At grades 4 to 6 the understanding is usually there and the marks are going on technique and application. We work from a marked paper: which question types cost marks, and what a full-mark answer looks like. For grades 7 to 9 the work moves to precision, multi-step reasoning and the harder quantitative questions.
We teach the three chemistry specifications used in most UK schools. Lessons work from your child’s own board’s past papers and mark schemes.
Edexcel GCSE Chemistry tutoring for specification 1CH0
We provide Edexcel GCSE chemistry tutor online, 1:1, for Year 10 and Year 11 UK students.
What students face
AQA GCSE Chemistry tutoring for specification 8462
We provide AQA GCSE chemistry tutor online, 1:1, for Year 10 and Year 11 UK students.
What students face
OCR Gateway GCSE Chemistry tutoring for specification J248
We provide OCR Gateway GCSE chemistry tutor online, 1:1, for Year 10 and Year 11 UK students.
What students face
Two written papers, and no coursework. The topic split below is AQA’s; Edexcel and OCR divide the same content differently, which is why lessons follow your child’s own specification.
11grade 9s earned by our GCSE students since 2024
2 in 2024, 6 in 2025 and 3 in 2026. Every grade we publish is checked against a results slip first, and we publish the method alongside the numbers rather than the numbers alone.
Three steps, and you meet the tutor in a real lesson before deciding anything.
Fill in the form or send us a WhatsApp message. We arrange the free demo class and match your child with a specialist GCSE chemistry tutor.
Take the free 45-minute lesson, and sit in if you want to. See how the lesson goes, ask us everything you want to ask, and only go ahead with GCSE chemistry lessons if you are convinced.
Lessons begin, weekly. Your child starts learning the GCSE chemistry they were stuck on, and that is what turns into marks on both GCSE chemistry papers.
At Richmond Tutoring, the price for each 60-minute lesson of chemistry for GCSE is as follows:
£36per hour
Triple Science chemistry and the chemistry inside Combined Science cost the same. So does every other subject we teach.
Richmond Tutoring charges £36 for a 60-minute 1-to-1 GCSE Chemistry lesson. The first 45-minute demo lesson is free, with no placement fee and no contract. That is the same rate as every other subject and level we teach, and you pay lesson by lesson.
Usually because moles were taught as a formula to memorise rather than as a way of counting particles. The method then collapses when a question is worded differently or needs two steps. We teach what a mole represents first, then build reacting masses, concentration, yield and titrations on top of it. For many students, quantitative chemistry is where GCSE Chemistry starts to become difficult.
At least 20% of GCSE Chemistry assessment assesses mathematical skills, a floor set by Ofqual. That includes moles and reacting masses, percentages and yield, ratios, standard form and significant figures. If the maths underneath is the real problem, GCSE maths tutoring runs at the same rate.
Two written papers and no coursework. On Pearson Edexcel (1CH0) and AQA (8462) each paper is 1 hour 45 minutes and worth 100 marks; on OCR Gateway (J248) each is 1 hour 45 minutes and worth 90 marks. Practical work is examined inside those papers and is worth at least 15% of the marks.
Yes, and it is the most common place we start. The understanding is usually there and the marks are going on technique and application. We work from a marked paper to find which question types are costing marks, then practise those rather than revising everything again.
Yes. The top grades are won on precision and on the harder quantitative questions rather than on covering more content. Lessons move to multi-step problems, unfamiliar contexts and whole papers under time.
Triple Chemistry is a GCSE of its own, with more organic chemistry and chemical analysis than Combined Science covers, and more depth throughout. Combined Science covers the same core chemistry as part of a double award. We teach both, at the same rate.
It depends on the target grade. Foundation runs from grade 1 to grade 5; Higher runs from 4 to 9, with a narrow miss allowed at 3 and a U below that. The harder quantitative chemistry appears only on Higher papers. Schools make the entry decision, usually during Year 11.
Yes. The practical work is carried out at school; the exam tests students’ understanding of the methods, observations, variables, data and conclusions. AQA sets 8 required practicals for GCSE Chemistry, Edexcel calls its equivalents core practicals and OCR organises them into Practical Activity Groups. We work through each one as the exam asks about it.
Yes. Every lesson is online and 1-to-1, so an online GCSE chemistry tutor is available wherever you are in the UK — there is no travel and nothing depends on how far you live from us.
Most of the families we teach are in and around south-west London, and we also teach students across the rest of the UK. Places our students come from include West Twickenham, Ealing Common, Hampton, Turnham Green, Wimbledon, Ashford, East Sheen, Osterley, Brook Green, North Twickenham, Hammersmith, Hampton Hill, Stamford Brook, Twickenham, Chiswick, Barnes, Brentford, West Kensington, Fulwell, Ravenscourt Park, Hampton Wick, Bedford Park, St Margarets, Gunnersbury, Kingston upon Thames, Syon, Ham, Heathfield, Barons Court, Richmond, Acton, Strawberry Hill, Kew Bridge, Surbiton, Hanworth, Petersham, Isleworth, Fulham, Richmond Hill, South Acton, Whitton, Kew, Hampton Court, Feltham, Mortlake, Hounslow, Parsons Green, East Twickenham, Ealing, Teddington, Grove Park, Tolworth, Sunbury, North Sheen, Hounslow West, Shepherd’s Bush.
A real lesson, one to one, with a specialist GCSE chemistry tutor — free, before you decide anything. Tell us the exam board and whether it is Triple or Combined Science, and bring a marked mock if you have one.