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Top performing graduates who achieved A*/A grades in the subject they teach.
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Top performing graduates who achieved A*/A grades in the subject they teach.
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Affordability: academic tutors are more cost-effective than professional tutors
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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
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Why A-Level Physical Education needs the right tutor
What makes A-Level Physical Education 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 Physical Education tutoring
Core skills developed
Every A-Level Physical Education specification uses four assessment objectives: knowledge and understanding of the factors that underpin performance and involvement in physical activity and sport (AO1), applying that knowledge (AO2), analysing and evaluating it (AO3), and practical performance and the analysis of performance (AO4). The written papers assess AO1 to AO3, and AO4 is assessed through non-exam assessment. On AQA, OCR and Eduqas, AO4 is worth 30% of the A-Level. On WJEC's Welsh A level it rises to 40%. 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.
- Applied anatomy and physiology: the body systems and energy systems during exercise
- Biomechanics: Newton's laws, levers, motion and fluid mechanics, with calculations and graphs
- Skill acquisition and sport psychology theories applied to coaching and performance
- Sport and society: the development of sport, equal opportunities, commercialisation, ethics and technology
- Analysing and evaluating a performance and planning how to improve it
How are students assessed
Physical Education combines written exams with non-exam assessment. Every board assesses practical performance in one activity, as a performer or coach, alongside an analysis of performance. On AQA, OCR and Eduqas the non-exam assessment is 30% of the A-Level. On WJEC's Welsh A level it is 40% and officiating is also accepted. The analysis task differs too: OCR's is an oral analysis of a peer's performance, while Edexcel sets a written performance analysis and performance development programme of up to 3,500 words.
- Short-answer, multiple-choice and data questions: we drill these against real past papers and mark schemes
- Calculations and graphs in biomechanics and physiology: we practise them until the method is automatic
- Extended answers and the theory behind the analysis task: marked on applied, evaluated reasoning, so we rewrite answers until an examiner could award full marks, within each board's rules on support for non-exam assessment
What A-Level Physical Education topics do we cover?
Both boards offer this subject. Eduqas offers a linear A level in England, and WJEC offers a unitised AS/A level in Wales with a larger share of non-exam assessment.
Eduqas A level · A550QS
Two 2-hour, 105-mark written exams, each worth 35%, and a non-exam assessment worth 30%, all completed in the May/June series at the end of the course. Both written papers can assess any of the five content areas.
- Component 1: Exploring concepts in physical education
- Component 2: Evaluating physical education
- Component 3: Improving Personal Performance in physical education (performance or coaching in one activity, 45 marks, and analysis and evaluation of personal performance, 45 marks)
Content areas: 1. Exercise physiology, training and performance; 2. Movement analysis, technology and biomechanics; 3. Sport psychology; 4. Skill acquisition; 5. Sport and society.
WJEC AS/A level (Wales)
- AS Unit 1: Exploring physical education (1¾ hours, 72 marks, 24%)
- AS Unit 2: Improving personal performance in physical education (non-exam assessment, 48 marks, 16%)
- A2 Unit 3: Evaluating physical education (2 hours, 90 marks, 36%)
- A2 Unit 4: Refining personal performance in physical education (non-exam assessment, 60 marks, 24%)
Eduqas does not split topics between papers, and Component 2 is weighted towards evaluation. WJEC puts 40% of the A level into non-exam assessment, accepts officiating as a role, and adds a Personal Performance Profile at AS and Investigative Research at A2. Sessions on this board prepare every topic for both papers and build the theory the analysis tasks depend on.
Four components. Component 1 is a 2 hour 30 minute, 140-mark written paper and Component 2 is a 2-hour, 100-mark written paper, both sat in May/June at the end of the course. Components 3 and 4 are non-examined assessment, marked by the centre and moderated by Pearson.
Component 1 · Scientific Principles of Physical Education
- Topic 1: Applied anatomy and physiology
- Topic 2: Exercise physiology and applied movement analysis
Component 2 · Psychological and Social Principles of Physical Education
- Topic 3: Skill acquisition
- Topic 4: Sport psychology
- Topic 5: Sport and society
Non-examined assessment
- Component 3: Practical Performance, as a performer or coach
- Component 4: Performance Analysis and Performance Development Programme, a written submission of up to 3,500 words
Component 1 is the longest written PE paper of the UK boards, with a 70-mark section on each of its two topics, and a calculator is required. Component 4 goes beyond analysing a performance: you design a performance development programme and evaluate it. Sessions on this board build stamina for the two-and-a-half-hour paper and tie the development programme closely to specification theory.
Five components. Three written papers are sat at the end of the course: Physiological factors affecting performance (2 hours, 90 marks, 30%), Psychological factors affecting performance (1 hour, 60 marks, 20%) and Socio-cultural issues in physical activity and sport (1 hour, 60 marks, 20%). Two non-exam components make up the remaining 30%, at 15% each.
H555/01 · Physiological factors affecting performance
- 1.1 Applied anatomy and physiology
- 1.2 Exercise physiology
- 1.3 Biomechanics
H555/02 · Psychological factors affecting performance
- 2.1 Skill acquisition
- 2.2 Sports psychology
H555/03 · Socio-cultural issues in physical activity and sport
- 3.1 Sport and society
- 3.2 Contemporary issues in physical activity and sport
Non-exam assessment
- H555/05 Practical Performances: performing or coaching one activity from the approved list
- H555/06 Evaluating and Analysing Performance for Improvement: an oral analysis and critical evaluation of a peer's live or recorded performance
OCR's analysis component is spoken, not written, and it analyses a peer's performance rather than your own. The physiology paper alone carries 30% of the A Level, as much as the other two papers combined. Sessions on this board rehearse the oral analysis and give physiology and biomechanics the largest share of time.
Seven topics examined in two two-hour, 105-mark papers, each worth 35% of the A-level, plus non-exam assessment worth 30%. The qualification is linear, so the exams are sat and the NEA submitted at the end of the course. Each paper has three 35-mark sections.
Paper 1 · Factors affecting participation in physical activity and sport
- 3.1.1 Applied anatomy and physiology
- 3.1.2 Skill acquisition
- 3.1.3 Sport and society
Paper 2 · Factors affecting optimal performance in physical activity and sport
- 3.2.1 Exercise physiology
- 3.2.2 Biomechanical movement
- 3.2.3 Sport psychology
- 3.2.4 Sport and society and the role of technology in physical activity and sport
Non-exam assessment · Practical performance in physical activity and sport
- Performance as a player/performer or coach in the full context of one activity (45 marks)
- Written or verbal analysis and evaluation of performance (45 marks)
Synoptic questions worth 8 or 15 marks can draw on any topic and do not appear in the same sections of the same papers every series, so no topic can be left behind. The NEA analysis asks you to identify and explain two weaknesses in a performance and evaluate them using theory from the specification. Sessions on this board practise the 8- and 15-mark synoptic answers and the theory the NEA analysis depends on.
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An academic tutor for A-Level Physical Education costs from $60 USD (£45) per hour. Packages save 5 to 15%, or pay as you go, invoiced after each lesson, with no lock-in contracts. Theory and NEA prep included. 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 Physical Education, and our professional tutors are qualified teachers or examiners with 5+ years' experience. We accept only the top 5% of applicants. You are matched to a tutor who knows your board, whether AQA, OCR, Edexcel or WJEC/Eduqas, including how its NEA analysis is marked. Meet our tutors or see how we select tutors.
Lessons are one-to-one and online, with a tutor matched to your exam board, your target grade and the topics you find hardest. Each session uses past paper questions from your own board. In PE that usually means drilling biomechanics and physiology calculations, rewriting extended answers until they apply theory to a sporting example, and building the theory your NEA analysis depends on, within your board's rules. Read how it works or apply for a tutor.
It is harder than many students expect, because it works like three subjects at once: a science (anatomy, physiology and biomechanics), a social science (skill acquisition and sport psychology) and a humanities subject (sport and society). Marks tend to go in three places: everyday wording where the mark scheme demands precise terminology, biomechanics calculations and graphs, and long answers that explain theory without applying it to a sporting example. Our online A-Level tutoring focuses on exactly those gaps.
In summer 2026, 5.8% of UK A-Level Physical Education entries achieved an A*, and 20.2% achieved A* or A (JCQ). So the top grade is reachable but not common. A* students use exact technical terms, apply anatomy, biomechanics and psychology to real sporting examples, and evaluate rather than describe in extended answers. They also pick up strong NEA marks by tying their analysis of performance directly to theory from the specification.
Grade boundaries are set after each exam series and change every year, so past figures are a guide rather than a target. In June 2026, AQA's A* boundary for A-Level Physical Education was 231 out of 300 (77%), and its A boundary was 211. OCR's A* boundary was 220 out of 300 (73%). These are overall boundaries covering both the written papers and the non-exam assessment. See AQA's grade boundaries and OCR's grade boundaries.
Yes, but it is non-exam assessment (NEA) rather than a science-style Practical Endorsement, and it counts towards your grade. You are assessed in one activity as a performer or coach, and you analyse and evaluate performance using theory from the course. It is worth 30% on AQA, OCR and Eduqas, and 40% on WJEC's Welsh A level, which also accepts officiating. OCR's analysis is spoken, on a peer's live or recorded performance. The work is marked by your school and moderated by the board. See OCR's specification.
A-Level Physical Education combines written theory exams with non-exam assessment of practical performance and the analysis of performance. On AQA, two 2-hour, 105-mark papers are worth 35% each, and the non-exam assessment 30%. OCR splits the theory into a 2-hour, 90-mark physiology paper (30%) and two 1-hour, 60-mark papers (20% each), plus two non-exam components at 15% each. The biggest difference is WJEC's unitised Welsh A level, which puts 40% into non-exam assessment. See the official AQA specification.
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