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Academic Tutors
from $60 USD/hr
Top performing graduates who achieved A*/A grades in the subject they teach.
- We accept only the top 5% of tutor applicants.
- Each tutor is chosen for their academic results, teaching ability, and connection with students.
Relatable role model: work with a tutor who is similar in age and can be a peer
Affordability: academic tutors are more cost-effective than professional tutors
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from $85 USD/hr
Current or past qualified teachers and examiners with 5+ years professional teaching experience.
- We only select highly experienced, qualified A-Level teachers.
- Every teacher is assessed on their teaching expertise, subject knowledge, and ability to engage students.
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Academic Tutors
from £47 GBP/hr
Top performing graduates who achieved A*/A grades in the subject they teach.
Relatable role model: work with a tutor who is similar in age and can be a peer
Affordability: academic tutors are more cost-effective than professional tutors
First-hand experience: they sat these papers recently and know what worked
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from £67 GBP/hr
Current or past qualified teachers and examiners with 5+ years professional teaching experience.
Quality assurance: trained and accredited teaching qualifications
Guaranteed track record: years of experience helping students succeed
Subject expertise: deep understanding of content and exam board requirements
Meet our A-Level Accounting tutors
Our team is a combination of A-Level graduates who sat these exams recently and qualified teachers with years of classroom and examining experience.
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I'm an A-Level and GCSE tutor in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Accounting, with many years of experience teaching students one-to-one on platforms including Varsity Tutors and Wyzant, and privately. I hold a degree in Management Information Systems and an MBA with a specialization in Project Management, and I'm currently pursuing a PhD in Information Systems Management. I also studied English Literature and History at an advanced level, achieving top marks, which helps me teach students to write clear, well-structured exam answers.
Over the years I've worked with students from beginners through to exam preparation, and I tailor each lesson to the specification and exam style they are working toward, whether that's AQA, Edexcel, OCR or another board. My approach is simple and personal. I explain difficult topics in plain language with everyday examples, such as using a car journey to teach velocity, acceleration and graphs, so students understand why the methods work and not just how to use them. I teach step-by-step methods for calculations and exam questions, with past-paper-style practice and time management. Every lesson is built around the student's needs and learning style, so they understand the material and enjoy learning it.
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I'm a Business, Economics and Accounting teacher with over six years' experience preparing students for A Level, IGCSE and O Level exams. I teach to the Cambridge (CIE) and Pearson Edexcel specifications, so lessons are built around what each mark scheme rewards: precise definitions, application to the case, and well-supported evaluation.
At A Level, I focus on the skills that lift grades: structuring extended essay answers, applying theory to case-study data, and handling calculation-heavy Accounting questions. At IGCSE and O Level, I build secure foundations so students go into their exams confident.
My lessons are interactive and exam-focused. We work through past papers, examiner reports and mark schemes, and I connect every concept to real business examples so it sticks. Students leave with better grades and the confidence to think analytically and apply their knowledge independently.
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Dr. Mirela Z is an experienced international educator and curriculum specialist with a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction and extensive teaching experience across the United Kingdom, United States, Europe, and Asia. She has taught secondary and university-level students and specializes in English language development, academic writing, literacy, reading comprehension, and preparation for advanced academic study.
Dr. Z supports students working at GCSE/GCE and A-Level English standards, with particular emphasis on the skills assessed within major UK and international examination frameworks, including Cambridge International, Pearson Edexcel, and AQA. Her instruction focuses on the core competencies students need for these examinations: close reading, text and language analysis, interpretation, comparative analysis, essay planning, evidence-based argument, vocabulary, grammar, and accurate written expression.
Her secondary-level teaching experience includes working with students from diverse linguistic and academic backgrounds and preparing learners for increasingly demanding academic coursework. She provides targeted support with examination-style reading and writing tasks, analytical responses, structured essays, revision strategies, and timed practice. For A-Level students, she places particular emphasis on developing sophisticated analysis, independent interpretation, well-supported arguments, and the academic writing skills required for progression to university.
Dr. Z has also designed and taught university-level courses in English for Academic Purposes, academic and business communication, and content-based English instruction. This experience enables her to help GCSE and A-Level students bridge the gap between examination preparation and the independent reading, writing, and critical-thinking expectations of higher education.
Her tutoring is individualized and data-informed. She identifies each student's strengths and areas for improvement and uses targeted practice, clear explanations, constructive feedback, and measurable learning goals. Her approach is particularly effective for multilingual and international students who may understand academic content well but need additional support expressing complex ideas confidently and accurately in English.
Dr. Z's goal is not simply to help students prepare for an examination, but to develop confident, independent learners with strong analytical and communication skills. She creates a supportive and engaging learning environment in which GCSE/GCE and A-Level students can strengthen their examination performance while developing skills that will serve them throughout university and beyond.
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Why A-Level Accounting needs the right tutor
What makes A-Level Accounting hard
A-Levels move faster and go deeper than anything students have done before, and they are studied alongside two or three other subjects at the same level. Classes are taught to the middle of the room, so gaps are easy to carry forward unnoticed until the exam.
- A sharp step up in difficulty from GCSE
- Marks decided by technique, not recall
- Grades that determine university options
How tutoring changes the outcome
One-to-one tutoring targets the two things a classroom cannot: exam technique and the specific topics a student keeps getting wrong. A tutor marks work the way an examiner would, shows where the marks went, and then drills those areas until they hold. Confidence follows from that, not the other way round.
- Exam technique built on real past papers
- Targeted work on areas of weakness
- Confidence going into the exam
What you'll learn in A-Level Accounting tutoring
Core skills developed
Every A-Level Accounting specification marks the same progression: knowing the principles, applying them to prepare accounts, analysing the results, and evaluating them to reach a decision. How those marks are weighted differs sharply by board. On AQA, analysis and evaluation carry the largest share. On Cambridge, knowledge and application carry over half. We work through past-paper questions objective by objective, so you can see which skill is costing you marks rather than just seeing a lower total.
- Preparing financial statements in international format, from trial balances and from incomplete records
- Year-end adjustments: accruals, prepayments, depreciation and irrecoverable debts
- Calculating and interpreting ratios using the exact formulae your board specifies
- Costing and decision-making: marginal and absorption costing, break-even, budgets, variances and investment appraisal
- Writing evaluations that weigh financial against non-financial factors and reach a justified recommendation
How are students assessed
Accounting is assessed entirely by written exams, with no coursework, and a calculator is used throughout. How the exams are spread depends on the board. AQA sets two three-hour papers at the end of the course. Cambridge, Edexcel International and OxfordAQA let you sit the AS papers first and bank the result towards the full A-Level.
- Preparing accounts and statements from given data: we drill layouts and adjustments against real past papers and mark schemes
- Calculations: ratios, costing, variances and investment appraisal, where showing workings protects marks if an earlier figure is wrong
- Extended evaluation: marked on balanced, justified reasoning, so we rewrite answers until an examiner could award full marks
What A-Level Accounting topics do we cover?
Four papers. AS Papers 1 and 2 make up the International AS, each worth 20% of the A-level, and A-level Papers 1 and 2 complete it, each worth 30%. You can sit the AS papers in the first year and the A-level papers in the second, or take all four in the same exam series.
International AS
- Paper 1: Introduction to Financial Accounting (double entry, verification of records, accounting concepts and sole trader statements)
- Paper 2: Financial and Management Accounting (limited company accounts, budgeting and marginal costing)
International A-level
- Paper 1: Financial Accounting (incomplete records, partnerships, limited companies, manufacturing accounts, and clubs and non-profit organisations)
- Paper 2: Accounting for Analysis and Decision Making (standard costing and variances, absorption and activity based costing, and capital investment appraisal)
OxfordAQA follows the same topic structure as AQA's UK A-level but adds manufacturing accounts and clubs and non-profit organisations, and splits the course into four modular papers. As in its other subjects, the AS is worth 40% of the A-level rather than 50%, so the two A-level papers decide most of the grade. Sessions on this board treat manufacturing and club accounts as core content, not extras.
Two units, each a three-hour, 200-mark paper worth 50% of the IAL, sat in January, June or October. Unit 1 on its own is the International AS, and Unit 2 completes the full IAL. Either unit can be resat to improve the grade.
Unit 1 · The Accounting System and Costing (AS)
- Principles of accounting and double entry bookkeeping
- Control procedures
- Financial statements of organisations
- Introduction to costing
- Analysis of accounting statements
- Social and ethical accounting
Unit 2 · Corporate and Management Accounting (A2)
- Limited companies
- Investment ratios
- Statement of cash flows
- Budgeting
- Standard costing
- Project appraisal
- Break-even analysis
- Marginal costing and absorption costing
- Information and communication technology (ICT) in accounting
Edexcel IAL gives you a choice of questions: Section B of each paper sets four 30-mark questions and you answer three. The A* also depends on Unit 2 specifically, where you need 90% of the available marks on top of an overall A. Sessions on this board build a strategy for choosing Section B questions and push Unit 2 performance in particular.
Eighteen sections examined in two three-hour, 120-mark papers, each worth 50% of the A-Level. Both papers are sat in the same summer series at the end of the course, so nothing is banked along the way. Paper 1 (Financial accounting) covers Sections 1–8 and 14–18. Paper 2 (Accounting for analysis and decision-making) covers Sections 1–3, 8–13 and 17–18, so the foundations and analysis topics appear on both papers.
- Section 1: An introduction to the role of the accountant in business
- Section 2: Types of business organisation
- Section 3: The double entry model
- Section 4: Verification of accounting records
- Section 5: Accounting concepts used in the preparation of accounting records
- Section 6: Preparation of financial statements of sole traders
- Section 7: Limited company accounts
- Section 8: Analysis and evaluation of financial information
- Section 9: Budgeting
- Section 10: Marginal costing
- Section 11: Standard costing and variance analysis
- Section 12: Absorption and activity based costing
- Section 13: Capital investment appraisal
- Section 14: Accounting for organisations with incomplete records
- Section 15: Partnership accounts
- Section 16: Accounting for limited companies
- Section 17: Interpretation, analysis and communication of accounting information
- Section 18: The impact of ethical considerations
Analysis and evaluation carry the largest share of AQA's marks, around 40%, and each paper ends with two 25-mark extended answers. AQA is also the most UK-specific board: ethics questions draw on UK regulators and professional bodies. Sessions on this board give dedicated time to the 25-mark questions and to the ethics section.
Seventeen topics in two strands: financial accounting and cost and management accounting. AS candidates study Topics 1.1 to 2.2 and sit Papers 1 and 2. Full A Level candidates study every topic and sit all four papers, with AS content assumed knowledge in Papers 3 and 4. You can sit the AS first and carry the result forward, or take all four papers in one series. Exams run in June and November.
AS Level · Financial accounting
- 1.1 Types of business entity
- 1.2 The accounting system
- 1.3 Accounting for non-current assets
- 1.4 Reconciliation and verification
- 1.5 Preparation of financial statements
- 1.6 Analysis and communication of accounting information
AS Level · Cost and management accounting
- 2.1 Costs and cost behaviour
- 2.2 Traditional costing methods
A Level · Financial accounting
- 3.1 Preparation of financial statements
- 3.2 Regulatory and ethical considerations
- 3.3 Business acquisition and merger
- 3.4 Computerised accounting systems
- 3.5 Analysis and communication of accounting information
A Level · Cost and management accounting
- 4.1 Activity based costing
- 4.2 Standard costing
- 4.3 Budgeting and budgetary control
- 4.4 Investment appraisal
Cambridge accepts only the ratio formulae printed in its syllabus. A ratio calculated with any other version of the formula earns no credit, and the formulae are not given in the exam. Papers 3 and 4 also put the source material on a separate insert, so you work across two documents against the clock. Sessions on this board drill the syllabus formulae until they are automatic and practise insert-based questions to time.
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A-Level Accounting tutoring with an academic tutor starts from $60 USD (£45) per hour. Packages save 5–15%, or pay as you go, invoiced after each lesson. No lock-in contracts, so you can book extra exam practice. Professional tutors (qualified teachers and examiners) cost from $85 USD (£64) per hour.
Late cancellations and no-shows are charged at half the lesson fee. That applies if you cancel less than one hour before the start time, or don't turn up. You can still change a session time whenever you need to, as long as you give your tutor notice.
Our academic tutors achieved an A* or A in A-Level Accounting, and our professional tutors are qualified teachers or examiners with 5+ years' experience. We accept the top 5% of applicants and match you to a tutor who knows your board's layouts, terminology and ratio formulae, whether you sit AQA, Cambridge, Edexcel International or OxfordAQA. Meet our tutors.
Lessons are one-to-one and online, with a tutor matched to your subject, exam board and target grade, using past paper questions from your board on your weakest topics. For Accounting that means adjustments posted in the right place, ratios calculated with the correct formula, incomplete records practised to time, and evaluations backed by the figures. See how it works or apply.
Yes, because it tests two different skills at once. Accuracy matters, since one misplaced adjustment carries through every figure that follows. Judgement matters too, because a large share of the marks goes to written analysis and recommendations. Strong mathematicians often lose marks on the writing, and strong writers lose them on layout and arithmetic. Financial and management accounting are also examined as separate skill sets. Online A-Level tutoring can help.
Very few students reach it. In summer 2026, 1.4% of UK A-Level Accounting entries achieved an A*, and 12.2% achieved A* or A (JCQ), from 2,820 entries. Top marks need accuracy and judgement together: statements with every adjustment in the right place, ratios using the exact formulae your board specifies, and recommendations that weigh financial and non-financial factors.
Grade boundaries are set after each exam series and change every year. In June 2026, AQA's A* boundary for A-level Accounting was 179 out of 240 (75%). Cambridge's June 2026 A* threshold was 192 out of 250 (77%) for one standard paper combination. Edexcel International uses uniform marks instead: an A* needs an overall A plus at least 90% of the uniform marks on the A2 unit. Sources: AQA and Cambridge.
No. A-Level Accounting has no coursework, non-exam assessment or practical endorsement on any of the boards we cover, so your grade comes from exams alone. The practical side of the subject, preparing accounts from given data, is tested in the papers. On AQA, each paper ends with two 25-mark extended answers, so written evaluation counts as much as accurate figures. See the AQA specification for the full scheme of assessment.
A-Level Accounting is assessed entirely by written exams, with no coursework. AQA sets two 3-hour, 120-mark papers, each worth 50%, both sat at the end of the course. Edexcel International also uses two 3-hour papers, of 200 marks each, but you can sit them in different series. Cambridge sets four papers and lets you take AS first, from a 1-hour multiple-choice paper to a 1 hour 45 minute, 90-mark structured paper. See AQA's A-level Accounting specification.
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