Online, offline, or hybrid tuition? One of my very first A-level students lived about fifteen kilometres away and wanted to have face-to-face tuition. She was underperforming significantly during her AS year, so much so that by March she was heading for a grade C, despite harbouring ambitions to study medicine at university. Back then, I travelled the hour-long round trip to her and tutored at the only time that vaguely worked for either of us; even then, it wasn’t a great time to tutor.

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I often get students telling me that they know the content but don’t do well on exam questions. If you are doing well on topic tests but not on your mock exams, it is likely that either the topic tests are missing some of the key details the examiners are looking for, or that you haven’t faced sufficiently challenging questions often enough. I have collated some of the more challenging exam questions from the recent OCR A A-level Chemistry exams, those from Paper 1 are listed below and I can send on those for Paper 2 if requested, please just get in touch.

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