What happens in the hour
It runs like a marking session, not a lesson. The students do the maths; the teacher shows where the marks are.
The paper for tonight
The first five minutes: which real paper it is, which questions the class will work, and what the examiner is giving marks for on each.
Try it, against the clock
Each question gets a few minutes, the way it would in the exam. Students work on their own paper. Cameras on if they are happy to.
Marked live, line by line
The teacher works the question on the whiteboard exactly as the mark scheme does: the method marks, the accuracy mark, and the line where most students lose it.
Mark your own
Students mark their own attempt and write the correction next to it. Seeing the gap between the two is where the grade moves.
The pattern
The last five minutes: the three mistakes the class kept making tonight, and the one thing to practise before next Monday.
Sixty minutes is not long enough for a whole paper, so the class works the questions that decide the grade: the middle and the end of the paper, where Higher tier marks are won and lost.
Who it is for
- Year 11, Higher tier Any exam board. The questions come from real AQA, Edexcel and OCR papers, and the Higher content is the same across them.
- A mock coming, or the real thing Most schools sit mocks in November and December, then again in the spring. The class works the way those papers are marked.
- Around a grade 4 to 7 now, wanting the next grade The marks that move a 5 to a 6, or a 6 to a 7, are nearly always method marks on questions the student half knew. That is what the hour is about.
- Not Foundation tier Foundation papers are a different exam. For a Foundation student, start with the free one-to-one induction instead.Book the free induction
Why a past paper and not a topic
By Year 11 most students have met every topic. What separates a 5 from a 7 is what happens on the paper: reading the question properly, showing the method so the marks are there even when the final answer is wrong, and not running out of time on the last four questions.
That is learnt by doing papers and being shown the marking, which is what a teacher does in this class and what revision videos cannot. The students the teacher works with one-to-one move an average of two grades between their mocks and the real exam; the past paper work is the biggest part of that.
What it costs, and what you get
| Price | £15 a place |
|---|---|
| Class size | 10 students at most |
| Length | 60 minutes |
| When | Mondays, 7pm UK time |
| Where | Zoom. The link comes by email the day before |
| Paying | Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, one class at a time. No subscription |
| For comparison | A one-to-one GCSE lesson with the same teacher is £40 |
Book one Monday, or the next few while there are places. If your child cannot make a class after all, tell us before it starts and the place moves to another Monday.
What to have ready
- A laptop or tablet with a camera and somewhere quiet for the hour. Nothing to install; the class runs from the Zoom link.
- Pen and paper Real paper, not a tablet: that is what they will have in the exam.
- A scientific calculator on calculator weeks The confirmation email says which paper the class is working, so you know whether to put it on the desk.
- Nothing to print The questions are shared on screen.
Results quoted are from the teacher’s own one-to-one students, confirmed in September 2026. A group class is not the same as weekly one-to-one lessons; it is the past paper work from those lessons, opened up to ten students at once.