Rachel
A Level Philosophy and Religious Studies Principal Examiner and Tutor
About
Highly experienced qualified teacher, assessment specialist, and examiner, with over 15 years’ experience across secondary, post-16, private tuition, and national exam boards. I have held senior assessment roles including Principal Examiner, Exam Paper Author, Team Leader, CPD Trainer, and Assessment Specialist. I specialise in A Level Philosophy and Religious Studies, with expertise in assessment design, standardisation, examiner training, and improving student outcomes.
Subjects & pricing
Languages
- English Native
Qualifications
Higher education
- BA (Hons) Philosophy · University of Leeds · 2:1 (Upper second) · 2008 University of Leeds · 2:1 (Upper second) · 2008
Teaching qualification (PGCE / QTS / QTLS)
- PGCE · University of Brighton · 2016 University of Brighton · 2016
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Gemma
Rachel has been most helpful with my daughter's AS Philosophy, providing her with some intensive revision sessions to help her with her exam technique. I would have no hesitation in recommending her. She has an enthusiastic approach and clearly knows her subject matter.
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Ruth
Very happy to recommend Rachel, who has been tutoring my son in AS RS. She is brimming with enthusiasm about her subject, my son is definitely responding to this and looks forward to her teaching every week. Rachel is super organised and very well prepared for lessons. She is also a lovely polite person, and a gifted communicator . We are so pleased we selected her . Highly recommend .
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Nicola
Really impressed great rapport with my daughter. Listens well, very enthusiastic and encouraging.
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Suzannah
Rachel is a very good tutor. She is very approachable, and is happy to explain concepts etc. as many times as is needed, to help my son understand the subject better. She is very patient, and my son is gaining confidence in his abilities, through her tutoring. As Rachel is young, I think my son finds her very easy to talk to. Rachel also understands the problems concerning my son's dyspraxia, and this is very helpful to him. I would highly recommend Rachel as a tutor.
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Hasmita
Very response and professional
Rachel replied
Thank you Hasmita.
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Belinda
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Tara
Very pleased,would recommend
Rachel replied
Thank you!
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Ollie
Catherine has been the most motivating professional I have ever met. She is incredibly knowledgable in her subject, and through her enthusiasm my son can not get enough!! She is always on time, professional and has an excellent technique with the pupil. She is inspiring and motivating helping him to achieve his goal. Thank you for all your hard work!
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Andrea
My son has just started tutoring with Catherine. He feels she explains the subject well (A Level Politics) and is benefitting from the sessions. She was accommodating with the days we were available for sessions.
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Joy
Bethany was really happy with her first lesson with Catherine! She felt Catherine really new the subject so well & is certainly looking forward to her next lesson & feels very confident that the lessonx are going to really help her!
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Claire
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Jessica
Excellent tuition, with a strong knowledge of the topic within history that in studying. Provided me with a whole range of resources including timelines, history books and particular websites that have been a great help to me for my research.
Rachel replied
Thank you, Jessica.
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Alex
Catherine is an excellent tutor; she definitely knows the facts and has been a great help to me with my A level History exam by increasing my knowledge of the subject and improving my exam technique. I am incredibly grateful for all the help Catherine gave and i would highly recommended.
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Samantha
Catherine is an excellent tutor; she definitely knows her stuff and has been of enormous help in assisting me with my A level History exam by significantly enhancing my knowledge, improving my exam technique and restoring my enthusiasm in History as a subject. I am incredibly grateful for all the help and felt confident coming out of the exam so fingers crossed for results day! Exactly what I needed; highly recommended.
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Frauke
Thank you very much for managing to develop some interest in Jenny for history. She has improved vastly since you are tutoring her and is thoroughly enjoying your lessons!
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Rebecca
Catherine has been great helping me with my A level Politics (edexcel) particularly with marking essays she sets each week and the notes that she sends me. She was very flexible in finding a time slot to suite me, is always on time and emails me the things we are going to cover before the lessons. Her knowledge of the subject is broad and up to date, However I have found that some of the examples she uses require quite a lot of historical background knowledge that I don't have. We have had a few technical hitches with using skype but I seems to be working all right now. I think that with the extra support from Catherine I should be capable of achieving the top grades.
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Martin
Catherine has been a patient, conscientious and well-informed tutor to date. She gets on well with my son and seems to have greatly assisted both his learning and his revision programme in both politics and history. We await recent AS results with more hope than would otherwise have been the case had Catherine not been working with my son.
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Amanda
My son is a reluctant student at times , but is very happy to have catherine as a tutor he finds her lessons and support very useful and seems to be much more confident in his studies now and much less stressed and focused . Thank you Catherine ,I would definitely recommend her .
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Kieron
Catherine has been a brilliant tutor! I doubt her dedication or her knowledge could be surpassed by anyone else. Catherine has been brilliant and I thoroughly recommend her to anyone in need of an A Level tutor.
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Louise
Catherine was a fantastic tutor to my daughter who has just sat History A2 and I would highly recommend her. Thanks very much Catherine for your hardwork over the intensive revision hours you spent with Georgina. I will let you know how she gets on on Results Day! Fingers crossed! Thank you. Louise
Rachel replied
Hi - sorry about the delay. I enjoyed the challenge actually - and will look forward to hearing from you in a few weeks time. Best wishes .