Richmond Tutoring provides 1-to-1 online A-Level maths tutoring for students in Years 12 and 13 across the UK. Lessons follow your child’s exam board — AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR A or OCR B (MEI) — across pure maths, statistics and mechanics, and focus on the papers and question types costing them marks. Every lesson is taught by a specialist maths teacher and worked from real past papers. Send us the target grade and start with a free 45-minute A-Level maths lesson before committing to anything.
Richmond Tutoring offers 1-to-1 online A-Level maths tutoring for Years 12–13 across the UK, covering AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR A and OCR B (MEI) across pure, statistics and mechanics.
Three things we do differently across Year 12 and Year 13.
We begin with your child’s exam board, year group and the papers they are sitting. Then we look at where they are actually struggling — the topics, question types and gaps left from GCSE that are holding them back — and shape their A-Level maths tuition around that. It is never a one-size-fits-all approach.
From calculus and proof to vectors, trigonometric identities, statistics and mechanics, we make difficult A-Level maths topics easier to understand and remember. Students learn why methods work, then practise using them in exam questions.
Once the maths makes sense, we take it into real A-Level exam questions. Your child learns how to set out their working, pick up method marks and handle unfamiliar questions, so their understanding shows in their results.
Most parents do not arrive looking for an A-Level maths tutor. They arrive with a sentence about their child. These are the ones we hear most.
He was good at GCSE maths but is struggling at A-Level.
A-Level assumes GCSE algebra is automatic and then builds on it immediately. A student who got there by working hard at methods, rather than by understanding them, hits that wall in the first term. We go back to the algebra underneath and build it into the A-Level work rather than starting the course again.
She understands the maths but loses marks in the exam.
A-Level papers pay for working. Marks go on unshown method, on a misread command word, and on the last question left unattempted. We work from your child’s own board’s past papers and mark schemes, so the technique is practised against the thing that will actually mark it.
He cannot get calculus to click.
Calculus is where a lot of students stop being able to picture what they are doing. We teach what a derivative and an integral actually represent before drilling the rules, because a student who can see it can still handle a question set in an unfamiliar context.
Mechanics makes no sense to her at all.
Mechanics is maths, not physics, and most of the difficulty is in the modelling: deciding what to ignore, drawing the force diagram, and choosing the equation. We work on that step, which is the one the textbook tends to skip.
Statistics is definitely his weakest component.
Statistics is the component students most often leave alone until the spring. Distributions, hypothesis testing and your board’s large data set all reward familiarity, so we start early and keep coming back to it.
Her predicted grade is below the offer she wants.
Predictions come from the work in front of the school, so the way to move one is to change that work. We find what is costing the marks, target it, and time the effort around when the prediction is actually made.
He needs an A or an A* and is not there yet.
The top grades are not won on the topics a student already finds hard. They are won on accuracy under time, on the long multi-step questions, and on not dropping the marks that are there for the taking. That is a different plan from catching up, and we build it differently.
We teach four major UK A-Level maths specifications: AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR A and OCR B (MEI). Lessons work from your child’s own board’s past papers.
Edexcel A-Level Maths tutoring for specification 9MA0
We provide Edexcel A-Level maths tutor online, 1:1, for Year 12 and Year 13 UK students.
What your child is taught
Pearson Edexcel’s specification 9MA0 keeps Papers 1 and 2 on pure maths, and puts statistics and mechanics together in Paper 3 — fifty marks each, in a single two-hour exam. Its statistics questions are built on a large data set of Met Office weather data.
Which of those needs the time is the question we answer first. For some students it is the pure papers; for others it is Paper 3, where the clock does as much damage as the content. Your Edexcel A-Level maths tutor plans around the answer, working from Edexcel’s own past papers.
Paper 3 is two half-papers in one sitting, so we usually rehearse it whole and against the clock — and open the large data set properly, because it is the part most often skipped.
AQA A-Level Maths tutoring for specification 7357
We provide AQA A-Level maths tutor online, 1:1, for Year 12 and Year 13 UK students.
What your child is taught
AQA sets three two-hour papers on specification 7357. Pure maths runs through all three of them; mechanics is examined on Paper 2 and statistics on Paper 3.
What your child needs from that depends entirely on your child. Some arrive strong on pure and shaky on mechanics. Some know the content and lose marks on method. Your AQA A-Level maths tutor works out which it is, then builds the lessons around it — from AQA’s own past papers and mark schemes, so the practice matches the real exam.
Mechanics and statistics are each only part of one paper, so they are the easiest things to let slide. Together they are a third of the A-Level, which is why we check early whether either is drifting.
OCR A A-Level Maths tutoring for specification H240
We provide OCR A A-Level maths tutor online, 1:1, for Year 12 and Year 13 UK students.
What your child is taught
OCR A, specification H240, sets three two-hour papers of 100 marks each. Pure maths is assessed on all three; statistics sits on Paper 2 and mechanics on Paper 3.
The first thing worth checking is that it is this OCR course your child is on and not MEI, because the two sets of past papers are not interchangeable. After that your OCR A-Level maths tutor plans around what your child actually needs, working from OCR’s own papers and mark schemes.
Each applied strand appears on one paper only, which makes a weak one easy to leave alone until the spring. Together statistics and mechanics are a third of the A-Level, so we check early whether either is drifting.
OCR B (MEI) A-Level Maths tutoring for specification H640
We provide OCR B (MEI) A-Level maths tutor online, 1:1, for Year 12 and Year 13 UK students.
What your child is taught
OCR B, MEI, is specification H640. It pairs pure with mechanics on Paper 1 and pure with statistics on Paper 2, then finishes with a shorter 75-mark paper, Pure and Comprehension, whose comprehension passage is previously unseen and drawn from the pure maths specification.
MEI is a different qualification from OCR A, so the first thing we establish is which one your child is entered for — the past papers are not interchangeable. After that an OCR MEI A-Level maths tutor builds the plan around what your child actually needs.
The MEI comprehension is unlike anything else at A-Level. The passage is unseen, so what is learnable is the technique for reading one under time, and if your child is on MEI we start that early rather than in the spring.
A*the top grade available, and our students have taken it
Every grade we publish is checked against a results slip first. We do not count predicted grades, mock grades, or grades a student was on course for.
Between school assessments we mark the work ourselves, so a student and their parents can see the trajectory rather than wait for the next set of mocks.
Year 12 and Year 13 are different jobs. What a tutor works on changes between them.
Year 12 is where that gap shows. We identify the algebra, functions or trigonometry underneath the problem and build those skills into the A-Level work, rather than starting the whole course again.
It also has to keep pace with school, because this year’s work is what the predicted grade will be built from, and the predicted grade is what university offers are made against.
Year 13 adds the harder pure, the second statistics and mechanics content, and a synoptic exam that can ask about anything from either year. Most of the marks lost here are not lost through not knowing.
So A-Level maths exam preparation is the job: past papers on your child’s own specification, marked against the real mark scheme, with the pattern in the losses fed straight back into the next lesson.
Sometimes a parent comes to us about one component in particular. If that is you, your search ends here.
A-Level pure maths tuition takes most of the lesson time, because pure is about two thirds of the A-Level and is assessed on every paper. The focus is on:
An A-Level maths statistics tutor starts with your board’s large data set, because familiarity with it is worth marks on its own. The focus is on:
A-Level mechanics tuition treats it as maths rather than physics, because most of the difficulty is in the modelling. The focus is on:
Many students use A-Level maths tuition to work towards university course requirements in subjects such as mathematics, engineering, economics, computer science and physics.
We plan preparation around the grades required by the student’s target universities. If you already have an offer, send us the grade requirements and we will build the preparation around them.
At Richmond Tutoring we have kept this deliberately simple: you get to test your A-Level maths tutor on a real lesson before you decide anything.
Fill in the form or send us a WhatsApp message. We arrange the free demo class and match your child with a specialist A-Level maths 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 A-Level maths lessons if you are convinced.
Lessons begin, weekly. Your child starts learning the A-Level maths they were stuck on, and that is what turns into marks on the A-Level maths papers.
At Richmond Tutoring, the price for each 60-minute lesson of maths for A-Level is as follows:
£36per hour
Six things worth checking, whoever you choose:
Then ask for a trial lesson before you pay for anything. Whether your child will engage with a particular tutor is the one thing no website can tell you.
Richmond Tutoring charges £36 for a 60-minute 1-to-1 A-Level maths lesson — the same as every other level we teach. The first 45-minute lesson is free. There is no package to buy, no placement fee and no minimum term.
The first term of Year 12 is when most families call, and it is a good time. The cheapest option is a few lessons in the summer before Year 12 on the GCSE algebra the course takes for granted — that is the only point where the work is preventative rather than remedial.
Because A-Level assumes GCSE algebra is automatic rather than merely correct, then builds proof, calculus and trigonometric identities on top of it at twice the pace. A student who got a 7 by being careful can do every step right and still run out of time. The fix is fluency, not re-teaching GCSE.
No exam board should be treated as simply easier. AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR A and OCR B (MEI) have different specifications and assessment structures, while all lead to an A-Level qualification. The question that matters for tutoring is which specification your child is studying. On AQA, for instance, mechanics sits on Paper 2 and statistics on Paper 3.
No, it does not have to be memorised. The Edexcel large data set is Met Office weather data that students work with during the course, and the exam assumes familiarity with it rather than recall - what the columns mean, what a plausible value looks like, and why a station might have missing data.
They are two different qualifications. OCR A (H240) has three two-hour papers of 100 marks, with statistics on Paper 2 and mechanics on Paper 3. OCR B, MEI (H640), has Paper 1 on pure and mechanics, Paper 2 on pure and statistics, and a Paper 3 of 75 marks, Pure and Comprehension, whose comprehension passage is previously unseen and based on the pure maths specification.
Yes, all three, on whichever paper your board puts them. Mechanics is taught as maths rather than as physics, which is what most students find hard about it — the physical intuition is optional, the modelling assumptions are not.
Sometimes, and the timing matters more than the number of lessons. Predictions are set from Year 12 work and school mocks, so the lessons that move them are the ones before those mocks, not after. If you come to us in October of Year 13 we will be honest about what is still reachable.
Yes. Every lesson is online and 1-to-1, so A-Level maths tuition 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 Fulwell, Feltham, Stamford Brook, Fulham, East Sheen, Strawberry Hill, West Twickenham, Syon, Grove Park, Ravenscourt Park, Mortlake, Twickenham, Richmond Hill, Osterley, Kew Bridge, Ealing Common, Ham, Tolworth, Hampton Wick, Hounslow, Chiswick, South Acton, Brook Green, Surbiton, Hampton, Heathfield, Sunbury, Bedford Park, Parsons Green, Barnes, Whitton, North Twickenham, Hanworth, Turnham Green, Barons Court, North Sheen, St Margarets, East Twickenham, Brentford, Kew, Hammersmith, Petersham, Wimbledon, Richmond, Hounslow West, Gunnersbury, Ealing, West Kensington, Hampton Court, Hampton Hill, Isleworth, Ashford, Acton, Shepherd’s Bush, Kingston upon Thames, Teddington.
A real 45-minute lesson, one to one, with a specialist A-Level maths tutor — free, before you decide anything. Tell us the year group and the exam board, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.