GCSE History Tutors
A specialist History tutor teaching the AQA course, with lessons built from past papers and real mark scheme feedback.
Six things a subject specialist does differently.
History is two subjects in one exam: knowing the period, and handling sources and essays under time pressure. Most lost marks come from the second.
GCSE History at a Glance
GCSE History is graded 9 to 1. There are no tiers, so every student sits the same paper and the whole grade range is open.
AQA sets two written papers. Each lasts two hours, carries 84 marks, and is worth half the grade. There is no coursework.
Paper 1 covers understanding the modern world. Paper 2 covers shaping the nation. Schools choose which units within each.
What the History Papers Ask For
The units differ by school, but the skills the mark scheme rewards do not. These six are what lessons build.
Practice From Real History Papers
Lessons work through genuine past papers and their mark schemes, not imitation questions written to look like them.
Paper 1
A period study and a wider world depth study, in a written paper of two hours carrying 84 marks.
Paper 2
A thematic study and a British depth study with the historic environment, with the same length and mark total.
Marked as an examiner would
Answers come back against the real criteria, so we catch a source answer that only describes the content.
Provenance first
Source questions from several years of papers, worked in the same order each time until the method is automatic.
Exam technique
Decoding command words, structuring 6-mark answers, and timing, the marks students leave on the table.
An hour pointed at the lost marks.
We start from the mark scheme, not the next chapter
Your tutor marks a recent paper first and finds whether the problem is knowledge, source technique or timing. We build the lesson from that.
Written live, then marked
Students write an answer in the lesson and watch it marked against the bands, so the gap between knowing and scoring closes.
A new source every week
Each lesson uses a source the student has not seen, because that is exactly what the exam will do.
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Where History Marks Are Really Lost
Most lost marks come from sources described rather than judged, essays without an argument, and papers where the last question was never finished.
Sources described, not judged
Saying what a source shows is the first mark only. The credit comes from who made it, when, and why that matters.
Essays without an argument
Writing everything known about a topic sits mid band. A clear judgement, held across the answer, is what lifts it.
Detail left out
Specific dates, names and figures separate the top bands from the middle. General narrative rarely gets there.
The clock
Two hour papers reward pacing. A strong opening answer and an unfinished final one is the most expensive mistake on the paper.
You See Every History Lesson
A single essay grade says little on its own. These four reports show which unit is secure and which still needs work.
- Notes after every lesson
- Topic checklist, red to green
- Monthly progress report
- A recording of each lesson
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GCSE History Questions
Which board does your History tutor teach?
The AQA course. We have one History specialist, so availability is limited and we will tell you honestly what we can offer.
Do you teach the units our school chose?
Tell us the period study and the depth studies and we will confirm before you commit to anything.
My child knows the content but the grade is stuck.
That is almost always technique. Source and essay questions reward a method, and the method can be taught directly.
There are no tiers, so what decides the grade?
Every student sits the same paper and the full 9 to 1 range is open. The grade comes from the band each answer reaches.
How often should lessons run?
One 60-minute lesson weekly suits most students. Two is common in the term before the exam, or after a weak mock.
Is there any coursework?
No. The whole grade comes from the two written papers, which is why exam technique carries so much weight.
Subjects Beyond This One
Thirteen GCSE subjects, each taught by a specialist who works to your own exam board course.
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