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Online GCSE Tutoring in Brentford
One-to-one lessons for Year 10, Year 11 and resit students, £30 per lesson
Online GCSE tutoring in Brentford across every subject we teach, matched to your child’s exam board and tier. Brentford has changed more than almost anywhere else in the borough over the past decade, and a good share of our enquiries here come from families who have arrived recently.
Lessons run one-to-one over video, from home, at times that fit around school and work. Nothing depends on getting across the High Street at rush hour.
The first session is free and it is a real lesson. You see the tutor teach before you decide anything.
What Brentford parents ask for
- Catch-up after changing school mid-GCSE.
- Maths and English before the Year 11 mocks.
- Triple Science taught by three specialists.
- Resit support after a grade 3.
- Lessons that survive a move across boroughs.
Why does moving school mid-GCSE hurt so much?
Because GCSEs are not a single national syllabus. Two schools two miles apart can sit different specifications, and a student who moves between them loses work they had already done properly.
A student who has covered a term of Chemistry on one board arrives at a school teaching another and finds the required practicals are different, the equation sheet is different, and the topics are sequenced differently. Nothing they learned was wrong. It just does not line up.
Schools handle this with varying degrees of grace. Some run a proper audit of what a new student has covered. Others assume the class has been taught the same things and carry on.
Brentford sits in Hounslow, and the borough figures are on our Hounslow page. The number that matters after a move is not a borough average anyway. It is how much of the new specification your child has already been taught.
Term dates are the other thing to check after a move. Hounslow publishes a calendar for community schools and warns that academies, foundation and voluntary aided schools set their own dates, so a family arriving mid-year can find the new school breaking up a week out of step with the old one.
The fix is not complicated once somebody sits down and maps it. A tutor works through the new specification against what the student has actually covered, lists the genuine gaps, and clears them in order. That is a handful of lessons, not a term of them.
Brentford’s state secondaries include Brentford School for Girls on Boston Manor Road, with several more within a short journey in Chiswick, Isleworth and Hounslow. They do not all sit the same boards, which is exactly the point.
After a school move, check these
- The exam board for every GCSE subject, old and new.
- Foundation or Higher tier in Maths and Science.
- Combined or Triple Science, which schools set differently.
- Which set texts the English department has chosen.
- Whether any coursework or NEA has already been submitted.
The last one catches people out. Non-exam assessment does not always transfer, and finding out in March is too late. Term dates are worth checking at the same time, because the new school need not break up in the same week as the old one: the government term dates finder lists them individually.
Which GCSE subjects can your child get help with?
Everything below runs from this single page. One URL, all subjects, because a family dealing with two weak subjects should not have to read two pages saying the same thing.
Maths
Foundation and Higher tier, with algebra, ratio and multi-step problem solving doing most of the damage. See GCSE Maths tutoring.
English Language and Literature
Reading questions, structured writing and set texts, which vary by school. See GCSE English tutoring.
Combined and Triple Science
Three separate strands, taught by specialists, with required practicals handled directly. See GCSE Science tutoring.
Computer Science
Programming and algorithms, plus the written paper where the marks quietly disappear. See GCSE Computer Science tutoring.
Business Studies
Case studies, calculations and evaluation answers. See GCSE Business Studies tutoring.
Humanities
History, Geography and Religious Studies, depending on who is free when you get in touch.
What is the difference between Year 10 and Year 11 support?
Year 10 is about closing gaps while closing them is still cheap. Year 11 is about turning what a student knows into marks. Treating them the same wastes both.
Year 10
One lesson clears a topic that went wrong in October. Four lessons clear the same topic in March of Year 11, because by then it has taken everything built on top of it down with it.
For students who have changed school, Year 10 is also when a specification audit costs almost nothing. Leave it and it becomes an emergency.
Our guide on when to start GCSE tutoring has the detail.
Year 11
Content is largely taught by now. Grades move on technique: command words, showing method, and not sinking eleven minutes into a four-mark question.
Mocks are the raw material. The tutor marks them the way an examiner would and works backwards from where the marks went.
Past papers belong in the autumn, not April. Our revision timetable guide covers how to pace it.
What happens if a grade 4 is missed?
The subject continues. Government rules make it a condition of funding rather than a school choice, and it applies right across the borough.
The 16 to 19 maths and English condition of funding, updated in July 2026, requires students aged 16 to 19 on a study programme without grade 4 or above in maths and English to keep studying. A grade 3 puts the student on a GCSE route specifically; below that, Functional Skills level 2 becomes an alternative.
For adults, the nearest classroom route is West Thames College in Isleworth, which runs free GCSE Maths and English courses for learners aged 19 and over with the right to remain in the UK.
| Series | Subjects available | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| November | Maths and English Language only | Students who were close in the summer and want the grade settled before the year gets going. |
| Following summer | All GCSE subjects | Students who need more than ten weeks, or who are resitting anything other than Maths and English Language. |
November is tight. Ten weeks from results day is enough to move a near miss, and it is not enough to rebuild a subject from the ground up. Our GCSE resit tutoring page is honest about which is which, and deadlines are on the exam dates page.
How does an online lesson actually work?
A video call and a shared whiteboard, with the student working on paper rather than typing. The paper part matters more than the software does.
Tell us what is wrong
Subject, year group, exam board, and the specific thing that keeps going wrong. Mention a recent school move if there was one.
Free one-to-one session
A tutor teaches your child and reports back on what they found. No card details needed.
Match and schedule
Tutor confirmed, weekly slot agreed around school and work.
Weekly lessons with a plan
Target topic each week, practice afterwards, past papers early rather than late.
Feedback you can use
What improved, what did not, and what to do next. Wrong match, we change the tutor.
Full detail on how it works, and a straight comparison in our online versus in-person guide.
How much does a GCSE tutor in Brentford cost?
£30 per lesson, one-to-one. The same price as every other town on this site, with no registration fee and nothing to buy up front.
West London rates climb fast, especially where an agency is taking a margin from the family and the tutor at the same time. We publish one number so a parent comparing options can do it quickly rather than filling in four forms to get four quotes.
Ask us to confirm lesson length when you enquire, so you can compare fairly against an hourly rate elsewhere. Our guide to GCSE tutoring costs covers the market.
What is included
- A full one-to-one lesson with a subject specialist.
- Planning against your child’s specification and tier.
- Past paper work marked to the real mark scheme.
- Feedback to the parent, not only the student.
- A tutor change if the match is not right.
Tell us what your child needs
The more precise you are, the better the free session goes.
- Year group and subject.
- Exam board and tier, if you know them.
- Whether your child has changed school recently.
- Current grade and target grade.
- Days and times that work at home.
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Frequently asked questions
We are moving to Brentford mid-way through Year 10. How much does that set my child back?
Usually more than the school will admit, and the damage is specific rather than general. Different schools sit different exam boards, so a term of Chemistry taught on one specification does not map cleanly onto another. That is a fixable gap once somebody identifies it.
How do I find out which exam board my child’s new school uses?
Ask the exams officer, or look at the front page of any past paper handed out in class. It takes one email and it changes what a tutor teaches from the first lesson onward.
Which subjects do you cover?
The core three, Maths, English and Science, plus Biology, Chemistry and Physics separately, Computer Science and Business Studies. Humanities depend on who is available at the time.
Do you have tutors based in Brentford?
No, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise. Lessons are online, the business is registered in Feltham, and tutors are matched on subject and specification rather than distance.
What does it cost?
£30 per lesson, one to one, with no registration fee and no block booking to pay for in advance.
Can you help with GCSE resits?
Yes. Only Maths and English Language run in November; the rest of the subjects return the following summer. A 16 to 19 year old holding a grade 3 has to keep studying that subject either way.
Are evening lessons available?
Yes. Slots between four and six go first, so tell us if anything later or at the weekend would work for you.
How quickly can we start?
Usually within a few days of the free session, once we know the subject, tier and board. Minority subjects can take a little longer to match.
Book a free GCSE session for your child in Brentford
One free one-to-one session, no card details and no obligation to book a second. If your child has changed school recently, bring their old exercise books to it.