Frequently Asked Questions

• One‑to‑one with Sam:

  • Single 1 Hour Session: £200

    5 Hour Pack: £160/hr

  • 10 Hour Pack: £140/hr

• One-to-one with Parissa: £100-£120

• Small‑group tuition with Sam (max  5 students): £60/week.

Part 1: Learning about you

We discuss current challenges, wider academic circumstances and goals for the current year.

Part 2: Mini lesson

We cover a recently studied concept from school to give you taste of high impact tuition.

Part 3: Next steps

We discuss the options available going forward and our tuition process. No pressure, just a potential path to your goals.

• AQA

• Edexcel (A and IAL)

• Eduqas

• OCR

Yes. Reschedule up to 24  hours before the scheduled start time inside the booking portal—no email tennis required. Rescheduling within 24 hours of the lesson is not possible.

• The links in our ‘Book Now’ section (above) enable you access to book both groups and one-to-one sessions.

• Pick any open slot that works best for you.

• Pay securely by card and you’re locked in. Confirmation + Zoom link arrive instantly.

Our style of tuition works well for those who are committed to weekly tuition, complete all homework assignments by their respective deadlines, reflect on feedback and want to improve!

Absolutely. Many students combine both one‑to‑one, and group sessions in the build up to exams. However, we do require that students stick with any group tuition booked for that half term - the groups are courses of approximately 8 weeks, designed to ensure a consistent group environment lesson-to-lesson.

• Zoom - for all online calls.

• Bitpaper - our online whiteboard.

• Google sheets - for progress tracking.

• Email automation - to keep everyone in the loop.

Essays & Papers completed for HW are externally marked by an examiner and typically returned within 72 hours.

Students and parents received an annotated PDF and feedback summary via email.

Yes. Sam is a Cambridge economics graduate, familiar with the common entrance exams (TSA, TMUA etc.), personal statement and interviews.

75% of university applicants do not achieve their predicted grades according to a 2020 study. Final grades are typically lower, as teachers predict optimistically to avoid disadvantaging their students in the application process. So even if school are predicting top grades, it’s sensible to take predictions with caution.

Nonetheless, even the best students can benefit from tuition. We aim to push marks well above the A* boundary and teach essay & study principles that can be used at university and beyond.

Yes, subject to availability we offer intensive one-to-one sessions, with some students taking up to 5 hours tuition per week in the build-up to exams.

Students typically improve between 1 and 3% on assignment scores per session - these are primarily based on past paper questions. A bump of 10% equates roughly to one grade boundary. As a result, an improvement around 1-2 grades is typical per 10 lessons (assuming assignments are completed).

Early in the academic year, an essay or series of multiple choice questions is typical ~ 1 hour of work. As exams approach, we will progressively move towards full past papers. The official time constraint on these is ~ 1.5 hours, though early attempts are expected to take longer.

Yes, though we would recommend one-to-one sessions on a case-by-case basis. Our notes are available 24/7 for students to work through at their own pace.

Several current students with ADHD have moved up two grade boundaries since we began working together.

We cover micro and macroeconomics in both Year 12 and 13 - consistent with the design of the A Level course.

A select number of schools prefer to tackle one or the other first in Year 12, though we are not keen on this approach as it requires students to revise content they might not have touched in over a year for Year 13 exams.

Yes. We’ll be starting from the basics! For those who are keen to get ahead, we recommend a summer reading list to those booked on for September.

Results are recorded within a Google sheet for reference at any time to enabling progress tracking.

See our booking page above for thorough explanation.

Yes. Though not our primary offering, Sam does take students for both A Level Maths and Further Maths - In practice both are often needed for university applications (especially Oxbridge Economics or courses such as Economics and Maths).

Sam studied Economics at King’s College, Cambridge.