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Meet our A-Level Politics 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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Abdullahi D, a Global Citizenship & Government Teacher and Tutor.
GCSE Citizenship Studies WAEC Government A-Level Government and Politics.
I am a dedicated Global Citizenship and Government teacher and tutor with [ Eleven years] experience supporting students for WAEC WASSCE Government as well as the UK curriculum equivalent, GCSE Citizenship Studies (AQA, Edexcel, and OCR)
My teaching approach is concept-first and exam-focused: I break down complex topics like democracy, governance, federalism, and human rights into clear, real-world examples, then build exam confidence through source analysis, structured essay writing, and past-paper drills tailored to each board’s mark scheme.
I have helped GCSE and WASSCE students move from average grades to better positions through personalised tutoring, regular feedback, and active discussion that develops critical thinking for both exams and engaged citizenship.
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Jason is a seasoned humanities subject teacher, teaching across a variety of subjects, including History, Geography, Sociology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Law and other humanities subject for different exam boards. Jason was awarded a Second Class Degree in Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government and Laws) and Bachelor of Laws, while I spent most of teaching career in Geography, especially appreciating the dimensions of human geography. Jason aims at building a solid knowledge foundation to be built upon, and equipping students with the exam techniques to be successful. Jason’s sessions are structured, focused, always questioning so that students are prompted to think more and are given the opportunities to articulate themselves, essential skills to be successful in IBDP.
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Why A-Level Politics needs the right tutor
What makes A-Level Politics 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 Politics tutoring
Core skills developed
Every A-Level Politics specification marks the same three skills: knowledge and understanding of political institutions, processes, concepts and theories; analysis, including parallels, connections, similarities and differences; and evaluation, to construct arguments and reach substantiated judgements. Analysis and evaluation together carry the majority of the marks on every board, but the split differs. Edexcel gives knowledge and analysis 35% each and evaluation 30%. AQA gives analysis the largest share, 35–45%. WJEC gives evaluation 35% and analysis 27%. 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.
- Building a sustained argument that reaches a clear, justified judgement
- Using accurate, up-to-date examples from UK and US politics
- Explaining ideologies through their core ideas, internal tensions and key thinkers
- Comparing political systems and explaining why they differ
- Reading sources and political information critically
How are students assessed
Politics is assessed entirely by written exams, with no coursework. AQA and Edexcel both set three two-hour papers at the end of the course, each worth a third of the A-Level. WJEC, available only in Wales, splits the course into two AS and two A2 units, so the AS units can be sat at the end of the first year.
- Shorter explain and analyse questions: we practise focused answers that earn the marks quickly and leave time for the essays
- Source and extract-based questions: we practise using the material as evidence, against real past papers and mark schemes
- Extended essays: marked on argument and judgement, so we rewrite answers until an examiner could award full marks
What A-Level Politics topics do we cover?
Government and Politics is offered by WJEC for centres in Wales only. Eduqas does not offer it in England. Four units: two AS units, each 1 hour 30 minutes, 80 marks and 20% of the A level, and two A2 units, each 2 hours 30 minutes, 120 marks and 30%. The course is unitised, with exams every summer, so the AS units can be sat at the end of the first year. Every paper mixes structured and extended response questions across three sections.
AS Unit 1 · Government in Wales and the United Kingdom
- 1.1 Sovereignty, power and accountability
- 1.2 The Government of the UK
- 1.3 How devolution works in the UK
AS Unit 2 · Living and participating in a democracy
- 2.1 Citizenship and rights
- 2.2 Participation through elections and voting
- 2.3 Participation through political parties, pressure groups and political movements
A2 Unit 3 · Political concepts and theories
- 3.1 Liberalism
- 3.2 Conservatism
- 3.3 Socialism and Communism
- 3.4 Nationalism
A2 Unit 4 · Government and politics of the USA
- 4.1 Democracy in America
- 4.2 Government of the USA
- 4.3 Participation and democracy in US politics
WJEC puts Wales at the centre of the course: Unit 1 covers the First Minister, the Welsh Government and the Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru) alongside Westminster. In Unit 3 all four ideologies are compulsory, and you study the impact of political ideas in at least two global regions. Sessions on this board build up Welsh examples alongside UK ones and prepare all four ideologies in equal depth.
Three two-hour papers, each worth 84 marks and a third of the A level, all sat in May/June of the same year. Papers 1 and 2 each have a 60-mark section of two 30-mark questions, one of them based on a source, followed by a 24-mark political ideas essay. Paper 3 is either USA or Global, with two 12-mark questions and two 30-mark essays from a choice of three. Issue 4 of the specification makes minor content updates for first teaching in September 2026 and first assessment in June 2028.
Component 1 · UK Politics and Core Political Ideas
- 1. Democracy and participation
- 2. Political parties
- 3. Electoral systems
- 4. Voting behaviour and the media
- Core political ideas: Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism
Component 2 · UK Government and Non-core Political Ideas
- 1. The constitution
- 2. Parliament
- 3. Prime Minister and executive
- 4. Relations between the branches
- Non-core political ideas, one of: Anarchism, Ecologism, Feminism, Multiculturalism or Nationalism
Component 3 · Comparative Politics, USA (3A) or Global (3B)
- 3A USA: The US Constitution and federalism; US Congress; US presidency; US Supreme Court and US civil rights; US democracy and participation; Comparative theories
- 3B Global: The state and globalisation; Global governance: political and economic; Global governance: human rights and environmental; Power and developments; Regionalism and the European Union; Comparative theories
Edexcel is the only board with a Global Politics route as an alternative to the USA. Paper 3 also has a compulsory 12-mark question on comparative theories, and the specification lists the key terms you are expected to know for every topic. Sessions on this board work through the source-based 30-mark questions and the comparative theories question to time.
Three two-hour written papers, each worth 77 marks and a third of the A-level, all sat at the end of the course. Each paper is a mixture of medium-length 'explain' questions and essays. Paper 1 covers the UK, Paper 2 the USA and comparative politics, and Paper 3 political ideas, where you study three core ideologies and one of five other ideologies.
Paper 1 · Government and politics of the UK
- 3.1.1.1 The nature and sources of the British Constitution
- 3.1.1.2 The structure and role of Parliament
- 3.1.1.3 The Prime Minister and cabinet
- 3.1.1.4 The judiciary
- 3.1.1.5 Devolution
- 3.1.2.1 Democracy and participation
- 3.1.2.2 Elections and referendums
- 3.1.2.3 Political parties
- 3.1.2.4 Pressure groups
- 3.1.2.5 The European Union
Paper 2 · Government and politics of the USA and comparative politics
- 3.2.1.1 The constitutional framework of US government
- 3.2.1.2 The legislative branch of government: Congress
- 3.2.1.3 The executive branch of government: President
- 3.2.1.4 The judicial branch of government
- 3.2.1.5 The electoral process and direct democracy
- 3.2.1.6 Political parties
- 3.2.1.7 Pressure groups
- 3.2.1.8 Civil rights
- 3.2.2 Comparative politics (constitutional arrangements, the executives, the judiciaries, electoral and party systems, pressure groups and civil rights)
Paper 3 · Political ideas
- 3.3.1 Core ideologies: Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism
- 3.3.2 Other ideologies, one of: Nationalism, Feminism, Multiculturalism, Anarchism or Ecologism
AQA sets three question types: 9-mark explain and analyse questions, 25-mark questions on an extract of political information, and 25-mark essays. Comparative politics is studied through three theoretical approaches, structural, rational and cultural, and its essays require explicit comparison of the UK and the USA. Sessions on this board practise all three question types to time and build comparison into every Paper 2 essay.
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A-Level Politics with an academic tutor costs from $60 USD (£45) per hour. Packages save 5–15%, handy for regular essay marking across all three papers. Pay as you go is invoiced after each lesson, with no lock-in contracts. Professional tutors (qualified teachers and examiners) cost from $85 USD (£64) per hour. See pricing.
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 Politics, and our professional tutors are qualified teachers or examiners with 5+ years' experience. Only the top 5% of applicants are accepted. Each student is matched to a tutor who knows their board, whether that means AQA comparative politics, Edexcel's Global Politics route or WJEC's Welsh focus. Find out more about our tutors and how we select tutors.
Tutoring is one-to-one and online, with a tutor matched to A-Level Politics, your exam board and your target grade. Lessons work on your weakest topics using past paper questions from your board. In Politics that means planning essays the way examiners mark them, keeping judgement running through the whole answer rather than only the conclusion, and building a bank of current examples from UK and US politics. See how it works or begin with the student application.
It is demanding because it covers three very different areas: how the UK is governed, a second system such as the USA, and political ideologies with their key thinkers. Knowing the content is only the start, since most marks go to analysis and evaluation. Students commonly lose marks by describing institutions instead of arguing, by using out-of-date examples in a subject where elections and court rulings keep changing the evidence, and by treating UK and US comparisons as lists. Our online A-Level tutoring targets those habits directly.
In summer 2026, 8.1% of UK A-Level Politics entries achieved an A*, and 27.4% achieved A* or A (JCQ, where the subject is listed as Political Studies). An A* needs more than strong knowledge. Essays must build a sustained argument, deal with counter-arguments and reach a clear judgement, supported by accurate and recent examples. Political ideas answers have to use named thinkers' arguments, not general statements about an ideology.
Grade boundaries are set after each exam series and change every year. In June 2026, AQA's A* boundary for A-Level Politics was 178 out of 231 (77%). Pearson Edexcel's was 177 out of 252 (70%) for students taking the USA route on Paper 3, and slightly higher for the Global route. Eduqas does not offer A-Level Politics, and the WJEC course is examined in Wales only. Check the official figures from AQA and Pearson, as the boundaries for your own exam year will differ.
No. A-Level Politics has no coursework, non-exam assessment or practical endorsement on AQA, Pearson Edexcel or WJEC, so the whole grade comes from written exams. That makes exam technique the priority: each board mixes shorter explain or analyse questions, source or extract-based questions and extended essays, and the essays are marked mainly on argument and judgement. On Edexcel, for example, each of the first two papers includes a 30-mark question built on a source. The question types are set out in the Pearson Edexcel specification.
A-Level Politics is assessed entirely by written exams. On AQA and Pearson Edexcel you sit three two-hour papers at the end of the course, each worth a third of the A-Level: AQA's papers are out of 77 marks and Edexcel's out of 84. AQA covers UK government, the USA with comparative politics, and political ideas, while Edexcel's third paper is either USA or Global politics. The main difference is WJEC, offered in Wales only, which splits the course into AS and A2 units so the AS can be sat after the first year. See the AQA specification.
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